The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-10-17
From the Washington Commonwealth.
THE OLD HOUSE 8 YOUNG WIFE
TRUE coPr--nr RAPnAEl.

DIR. Lawrence Bell had a gripvous fault
he would 20 10 Boston every few months,
and be away from home week. And
somehow il was, in his absence, old chto.
mic diseases and rheumatic pains would
clinch the tighter. But what took him
there "Ahi there is The rub
As \ seI-off TO this public grief, how.
ever, Doctor Bell had many, very many
uisiocs. tie was Mind to tire puur. Tlit
needy had often cause to bless the bounty
Of his hand. Where sorrow and sick,
ness were, there was he, soothing the one
and robbing the other Of lis psngs. lie
was The good angel Of many a heavy
heart, and The feet Of infancy grew lighter
IN his presence. Indeed he was very
=" drrling Of mani" and il puzzled the
wits Of all to say Who loved him most,
the venerable mairons or the amiable
young misses Of his native Town.
His parents were long since dead; but
the doctor still lived in the quaint old
homestead.
II was an ancient pile, gloomy, d ngy
looking pile both out and in. lis dprmi.
tories, with lights Of seven BY nine ts
massive doors Of oak /; lis low broad chin.
neys; lis llaupned roof scarcely fifteen
feet from "moiher earih,' and other an
mislakeahle marks, evinred that il was 4
house Of tie olden time---a puritan struc,
ture--a monument Of uther and more 10.
nest DAYS. And the doctor really and
truly loved that homelv and dingy house,
The liille village of w arose from il
! breakfast table one morning, and fpund
itself in commolion. What could il
mean! Why painter WIS seen ut work
on that old building Of DR.. Lawrence
Bell: The carpets were stretched upon
the garden pAlings, and lie waiting maid
was busting, and washing aud cleansing
every thing before her. Conjecture
mounted her swift winged sized. and
flew from door Ia door: and that most
innocent Of all innocence, village gossip,
aaunted By in her many coored robes,
in exiatic rapiures. She knew all about
II; the Doctor was about 10 leave for
Boston for The ioriielh lime and desired
10 have his cottage renovated whilst
away, that he might avoid the annoyance
which necessarily attends such an opera.
! lion.
/ Well, the Doctor went 10 Boston. a
week rolled BY, and so did dainty little
carriage, and reincd up short at The doc
tors house. Many an eve followed it
until il stopped, eager 10 discover what it
might contain. The blacksmith poised
his hammer in his hand malron and
maid crowded the windows; the team.
sler halted his oxen; The merchant lefl
his counter and the clerk his quilI-all,
anxious 10 see what was TO be seen. The
Doctor alightetl, and the next hing that
presented was neat lille foot, in glossy
| little CATER, pressing the step of the neat
little carriage; then came a modest llle
hand, encased in lustrous lille glove,
Of which the Doctor took modest posses,
sion; next a rose colored bonnet. plumed
and as gay as a bird Of Paradise; then a
/ fashionable shawl, with as many hues as
! peacock's tail; and finally half web
of satin containing woman
! True, the Doctor had thus unceremo-
niousIy taken 10 himself wife. And a
very beauty she WAS loo, with roguish.