Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-05-13

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all significance so much SO, that for ourselves,
we prize cordial grip of the hand, and smile
far more than lip service shared in common
with the merest acquaintance. ali -
Our friends have often spoken of this. and
tine conversation was renewed one morning
which they were passing together, each en-
ployed with the needle, in Mrs. Arnot's pretty
dressing room. 1t was just the time and place
for a confidential chat. 'One of Mrs. Max
wells days. Mrs. Arnot always said, for with
her country habit of exposure Mrs. Maxwell
did not mind little rain, aud liked to pass the
morning in Pine street best, where they were
thus secured from all intruders. The storm
increased, so that the thick mist had become a
heavy shower, that pattered against the win
dow near which their sewing chairs were
drawn, serving TO make the cheerful fire in the
CRATE, all the brighter by contrast. One loves
to draw close to the CRATE on snch day, if
solitary, and buried in lounging chair, muse
at the fantastic shapes of the glaring Goals, or
the brightness of the Pickering fame, while a
book lies half closed over the hand, and seems
at once suggestion and excuse for the reverie
Or better still, with a companion entirely
agreeable, home assumes its most homeike air,
and our ordinary comforts seem magnifed into
blessings. '' @
Something of this the friends had been say
ing, and then the subject turned from the dear
inner circle to the broader band of social rela-
tions, and how much, after all, there was in
pleasant acquaintance.
am just beginning to realize,' Mrs Max
well said, 'how much there is in the word
friend. From the time / was first sent to
school l had habit of making violent friend
shps-as my sister Mary used to call them
Yet l never conld define to my mother why
liked those intimates very satisfactorily, to her
at least. | was laughed at all one winter, for
saying, when once fairly cornered, Well / do
like Maggie Robinson-because-beca she
has brown hair, and wears such a beautiful
pink mousseline. F'1 s'-tt -i'
Mrs. Arnot sgiIed. Quite as sensible as
many reasons which grown up children give,'
said she, sand perfectly natural as remember
my own experience. But I was somewhat
different. did not care about being loved
or loving my school-mates particularly, only
| liked popularity. To be the head of every
thing, admired not loved-I did not cal how
many were afraid of me, SO I set at the
head of the class, and was praised by the
teachers
You are entirely candid, Angela -,.
Yes, for my fault has been one of life
time, and have learned from bitter experience
to be loved is better than all praise
| was going to tell you about my many
friendships, continued Mrs. Maxwell. 1t
was a rnle at our school that all the upper
classes should keep Journals, and have mine
from the time was eleven how you would
laugh over these poor little sentimental, ridic-
ulous entries. Sometimes, such day as this,
| get them out and look them over. But. with
all their folly, they often bring tears. There
are so many traces of those childish days au-
tographs of classmates have never seen since,
profles, half and half caricature, in pen and
ink. Why the very change in the hand writ
ing is sad, and it is so curious to trace all the
elements of character which now possess, to
that day Of small things .-'
| should like TO see those relics
.Ah, me-Im afraid they are like love let
ters, of use to no one but the owner, Angela ;
Mrs. Maxwell spoke half playful!y, half tear
fully, for her lips qnivered, though her eyes
still smiled. There could be nothing par
ticularly amusing to you in such an entry as
this. .. O.. -.. ~. ....... ---. 60
Walked up street with Anna Moore and
Susie Leslie, after school; Anna is such
dear girl, and brought me those worsteds to
fnish my lamp mat We met Willie Gibson,
whose facs.looked very red, when he stopped
to talk with us moment. He had pend lilly
in his hand, which he gave to Anna, but the
stem was almost twisted off. .if -a euro
1t was so natural and child like! Mrs. Max
we'll enjoyed it particularly. ID ''''i E''74 d
'As said, it cannot be very interesting to
you, but to me it recalls those little lovers, she
in sun-bonnet, and he in linen roundabout
and broad leaved straw hat, and then think
how it has all come to pass just like a story
book, and they are married now, and l often
laugh at them about those very walks.
Well; this journal, with all its scrib5lings,
and French phrases, spelled in most angli-
cised style, and little conceited entries of all
sorts, bears record to vast number Of friend
ships that did not last half as long as the jour
nal has. Sometimes we quarreled about things
as trivial as credit mark. Then would
find that had wasted all my pocket money
and kisses on really treacherous girl, bu,
somehow did not grow any wiser
don't believe you ever retaliated. Anna. .
~ expect did, and made faces, and saic
things with the best of them Or the wars,
rather. So in vacations often went aw,v .,
long visits, and always came home in an costa
cy with some one had met remember on,
return bounding into the room where Mar,
was and commencing my travels before / tool
!, my bonnet off, oh, Mary said, i've Ia,
, such an elegant time, and I've made so man
= friends i- hh ~ Fii .ssa ll af-fy ~ .
> Acquaintances,' said Mary, correcting m
in her. quiet way.
No, friends still insisted, for had ne
> yet learned that there is .. vast difference be
= tween the two i'''9a '' 17liH'-a
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