Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-12

It's all settled, and Peggy Carson is going to
marty DR.. Brooks1 Mrs. Carson told Mrs.
Armstrong, as l Just heard Mrs. Armstrong tell
Miss Jewett on the cross walk, and they say
they're all nightly tickIed about it. Eh! therell
be more show than substance, he'll end guess,
when he gets her; and this is the reason, sup
pose, they've both quit here" Mrs. Howell IN
voluntarily turned her keen eye on her daughter
but was abundantly treasured, as, displaying two
snowy rows of pearls, Susan laughingly reproved
her brother, and told him twas the fashion, she
had heard, for lovers to be exclusive. "Ah,
Sue" reioined the urchin, "you needn't pretend
you don't know as much about that as Peg Gar
son. You've had more beaux already than you
could shake a stick atone to every ten OF
hern." %"IIernE' gravely repeated Susan
"Well, if it amt grammar, it's all truth, and not
all the truth either, for there isn't a man deserves
YOU any where; besides, | want you myself and
with a rough squeeze, which would have sadly
decomposed a fashionable lady, the rude but
loving boy covered her rosy face with Kisses
But it is time we look in at ncighbor Car
sons.
Holding up its head a little higher than any
of its fellows, with not quite the cool, shaded,
homelike appearance Of the farmers opposite,
stood the more pretending new white house Of
James Carson, and by its side, half hid by trees,
was "the %store,' next to the "meeting-house"
and %"tarern, - the most important edlllce in the
place, The house had d comfortable and lnvI-
ting appearance, or the hand Of taste could soon
have made it so; and to make it the biggest and
showiest in WoodhiII, had James Carson toIled
and drudged for more than twenty years, and
great indeed was the satisfaction Of both mother
aud daughter when, two years before its compile
ton, they emerged from the cold hole" DIS Mrs.
c. elegantly termed her late residence, to take
possession,
OF course, "the store was the omniam gath-
crum Of all the humber wants of life; but to
Miss Peggy's view, its greatest advantage was
that here she could have her first selection Of
chintzes and ribbons, for the adornment Of her
pretty person and the outrivalling of all her le-
male acQuaintances. Like Susan Howell, she
was an only daughter, and when she should have
been at school, sowing the seeds for q future
harvest of sense and virtue, or learning lessons
of domestic economy from her Woodworking bnt
mis- Judging mother, she might be seen by all the
village gossips, who daily congregated on the
bench before the door, rummaging the boxes and
drawers for something new and pretty to wear,
and not seldom placing herself before the little
mirror at the back of the shop, to see how they
became her; or examining herself with dried
fruits and sugar plums, to which she had always
free access, In due time, when her father
} gains had increased, he sent her for a year tC
a boarding school; at the expiration of which
e time, her education completed, he procured heI
r a second hand piano, on which she p~racticed thu
r little music she had learned at school. Thu
= prepared for the duties of life, the weak mothe
r already saw in perspective the "right sort of
J match" for her daughter, GA professional
e young man he must be-" she whispered wheI
the more common sense father was not by; "none
of your farmers or shopkeepers, but a gentle
man!' to which nothing 10th, the young lad,
a consented, but partially concealing, however, tc
J what extent she had acted on these suggestions
Y in a growing contempt for her father not only
+ but for her mother who had taught her to des
pise him. The month wore away, and Pegg,
= Carson congratulated herself she had not beer
to N. s.. in vain for the French hat and made
dress on the arrival of DR.. Brooks, although fo
some weeks mighty events wavered in thu
scale, as every effort to entice him across tn
street proved Intellectual. The day, however
which frowned adversely on farmer Howell
spoke hope to the Carsons, and the summe
wore away with the promise Of the enyied ii
dings they hoped to announce by early autumn
which announcement has already come before
our readers, In prospect Of the merry wedding
day, we leave the happy, because envied Car
sons, while we pass over the few succeeding
years and look in again upon our friends, the
~lloWelIs, once more in prosperous circumstances
! with losses, fully retrieved, and prospects nonC
the less Joyous for THEN past hopeful endurance
Of calamlties and privatlons. Five years of tot
and hardship, during part Of which time SusaI
, had undertaken the onerous charge Of a larg,
school in a neighborIng town, had given an al
r of deeper meaning to her fine countenancc, bu
had robbed it Of no youthful grace, or traceC
one wrinkle one her snowy brow. She was il
NlC iALl pa luIC VI tSl lONOilIIC9oj llIC IuOl VI q Il X
circle Of friends, and the next day to become the
wife of a man whose distinguished talents anC
2 ~estimable character have since ranked him among
the most influential of our western men.
A touching scene was that which the sof
burning lamp presented to us the evening Of oul
t return to the EIoweIls. Time had neither dimin.
, lshed or greatly changed the worthy group all
were assembled around the cheerful ingle, father
mother, the old grandmother, and brother, all
t enjoying together for the last time, in the spa.
a cious parlor of their new lrame-house, the salts.
faction of feeling it was their united e~xertions
which had afforded to their parents so pleasant
and comfortable a home, but all saddened by the
thought that the first separation was now to take
S place. 1t was almost too trying for poor Susan
e when her father drew her, as in childhood, tc
bless; and while big tears chased each other
= down his cheek, he said in a low tone, and strug.
7 Cling to compose himself, cts very, very HARD
Il to give up my Susan, nv only one" Then