Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-10-18
AMNY,s Is OBEnl EMCE r o G OF o--rHoaAs Jarrans

! her sister in housekeeping, according to
i good old custom which has been somewha
impaired by the progress Of the age, and til
develoPement Of the human mind; and til
: squire soon began to feel the mysterious in
5 fuences which the eye Of a prudent, carefu
mistress exercises over her own proper dc
) minion, the domestic Circle. Fanny ha,
never attended lectures on anatomy, physi
ology, nor any other of the numerous famil
j Of ofogies; nor had her head turned topsy
turvy by those pestiferous defamation q
) the rights OF woman, which in these, ou
days, draw such numerous ard -aeproyin
audiences. The town she resided In ba,
been indeed visited by one of these disciple
of insubordinatian, and Fanny was sorel
tempted by a Blue Stocking to attend one o
them; but she only laughed, and said in ;
voice as soft as an echo
GOOD gracious! what do we womei
want? Don't we rule the hearts of men
and don't the heart rule every thing else
For my part, | am satisfied with this bu
you may go if you please, and learn to gov
ern Kingdoms
The Blue Stocking gave her a look thai
turned all the cider in the cellar sour, and
Fanny skipped away with heart as ligh1
as a feather, humming blithesome song
She was sensible, sweet tempered girl land
if the squire would have known all he would
have stuck still closer to his old maxim OF
never doing to-day what can be put off till
tomorrow, for his salutary delay in writing
had saved him from the adaptation of Fam
ny's eldest sister, tumultuous sort CT Ia
| dy, who fortunately married in the interim.
The old gentleman fell i'll few months after
Fanny's arrival, ard it was then that he
congratulated himself On his happy selec-
ton. Most people are sufficiently irritable
and troublesome when sick: but a hale.
hearty old bachelor, who has never been
broke in, is the quintessence of refractory
patient. The squire's maxim did not apply
to his present case, and never man was SO
impatient to get rid Of his pain of-hand, in
stead of postponing it to another time.
"My dear father" so Fanny called him
my dear father, have a little patience-the
doctor says you will be better tomorrow.
"To-morroW - N to-morrow-and the
doctor, too. He's always insisting on nv
taking physic to-day, and putting off get
tim well till tomorrow. never saw such
a pedantic, pragmatical blockhead in my
life. OH this Internal pain. OH - upon
my word, Miss Fanny, you seem mighty
easy all this time! Why the ID don't YOU
get out ofpatience like me? You have no
more feeling than dead pig!"
What an odious comparison for the pret-
test girl III a hundred miles round. It was
enough to make saint angry. But Fanny
soon soothed the testy.squire into a better
frame of mind. The very manner in which
she smoothed his pillow, carried away with
it a mysterious influence over his fretted
mind; and her soft low voice giving utter
ance to words Of unaffected sympathy cool
ed him to acquiescence, if not repose There
was nothing officious or intrusive in her in
tentions, and the squire more than once tho't
to himself:
'sThere is nothing interested in Fanny
l can see that with half an eye. 1t is all
good, unaffected tenoerness of heart, with
out one single thought about herself. What
a lucky man was not to delay my letter
any longer: and how different she is from
that diabolical old nurse Mrs. Goggin, who
always used to keep up my spirits by rails
ing ghosts, and telling me of all the doctors
in fifty miles round. Pm determined to make
my will as soon as am well enough, and
leave her every shilling Pm worth.
The good squire recovered in time, but did
not make his will. He gathered himself to-
gether several times, but could not make up
his mind whether to begin in the good old
solemn style, '1n the name of God, Hercu-
lous Ninny, being of sound mind" &C., or
in the flippant sip-slop phrase which was
then becoming fashionable, and has in all
probability aided in producing the want cf
reverence to the will of the dead. now be-
come as common as it is disgraceful.
Let us now see what has become of Solo
mon, the wise. Though the last bout between
him and the squire ended in tie manner be-
fore related, it did not produce any perma-
nent rupture. They had been differing all
their lives, and the habit had sottened the
effect of contradiction in both. Solomon was
hastv, but not ill-natured; and when he
heard of Fanny's arrival, paid her visit, ac-
companied by his son, clever young tel-
low, about nineteen or twenty years DID,
He did not ask his wife to go with him,
partly because he knew she would not 60,
and partly because he thought her room ra-
ther betetter than her company. He took
Gideon, as he was called, there occasionally
afterwards to see the squire during his i'll
ness, and one day, on his return, opened his
battery upon him as follows: E..
"Thut seems nice girl the squire has
adopted"
Very" replied the SON.
"She'll have nice fortune, too. The
squire 10 my certain knowledge, is warm
felow-though how he made his money, |
can't conceive. in a man with such ridicu-
lous notions of putting off every thing
and he told me just now that he intended 10
leave her all his worth"
did he?" said Gideon.
"Why, Gid-are you asleep?"
| rNo, sir" . ...4.-.
"Then why don't you say someihing?"
"Because I've nothing TO say. sir.''
"Well, boy-I have made up my mind
in fact made it up as soon as ! heard
the girl was sent for-Gid. you must court
Fanny, and marry her-or rather. you
must marry and cour, her afterwards"
..What right off, sir?"
"Yes, right off the reel. You know
nv maxim. never put off till Tomorrow
what you can do 1o-day., You shall go this
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