Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-21
from the National Era
Our Minister'S Second Wife.
BY MARY IRVING.

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~ shall form no opinion of the second Mrs
Young" said Mrs. Ray, freezingly. al would
not wish to say anything to the prejudice of
minister's pife, whatever her faults may be-"
This speech was delivered with an air of
sublime impartiality, somewhat counteracted
by the sarcastic curl of the lips which uttered
it.
.Hem well, folks will make up their own
minds, and you can't help it must be jog
ging. Good day." and with shuttle of ell
bow, feet, and head, she took herself out of the
aWen, really!" soliloquized cheerful little
Miss Polly, after the door had banged dts
the queerest thing Pve heard this many day
wonder how old she isn
9You'n know soon enough" shortly replied
Mrs. Ray, who stood in no great awe of the
penetrating powers of her present company.
HAnd Southerner, too," went on Polly. ~
hope-may-be she won't bring her slaves will
she 2n she said, in tone of inquiry.
"Nobody knows!" returned Mrs. Ray,
stitching with tremendous vehemence at the
pillow-case she was making "We shall have
to put up with her, whatever she docs, that's
certain!o said she, biting her lip in suppressed
modification and vexation.
"Well, now that's the way reasonn said
You see, we must make allowance for her
bringing up, and her being used to all sorts of
outlandish ways Maybe she's no ways worse
than many another might be, after all hope
she's good, pious woman. You don't suppose
the minister would fetch us right dressy crea-
ture, like what they say Of the Southerners, do
you?"
Il cannot answer for any freak Mr.. Young
may have taken into his head He has changed
his views that is very certain she replied. en-
phatically. "Not that it concerns me in the
least, my dear; for you very well know med
die with nobody's business but my own. Live
and let live, is my motto. But when a man
once gets fighty there is no telling what he
may do; and Mr.. Young has sometimes been
called-well, won't say anything to his dis
advantage. | hope he has found suitable
help-meet!n said she, formally Strengthening
herself up in the consciousness that he might
have found one much more suitable, without
having journeyed SO far.
Aunt 'Lph, meanwhile, was going her
round, spinning out the news, and interspersinp
1t with various remarks upon the Widow Ray;s
vexstion in receiving it.
"And it's my mind y said she, "the Widder
Ray was dead in love with the parson, and
thought to catch him for herself; and she
halfa-dozen years older than he tool Well
well; If worst comes to worst I'd about as lief
be lorded over by a stranger, as by that proud
woman of a widder! But there amt nobod,,
going to tread upon me!n
The villagers listened, exclaimed. and won.
dered. Some blamed a few smiled annrov-
ingly. But most seemed to hold their tude.
ment suspended, in intense curiosity. Several
of the women, headed by Mrs Ray and Mrs.
Deacon Johnson, formed been to clean up
the house. Others brought substantials for the
brides pantry-bread, dough-nuts, butter,
cheese, and the like. Their husbands slowed
away barrels of beef pork, and -four in the
cellar. One, quiet, lady-like invalid person.
age, who seldom crossed her own threshold
ventured out on damp morning, too, to ar
range the brides chamber This had been
leit 10 her, by common consent for everybody,
except MRS. Ray was accustomed to think and
say Nobody has such tastu qgnus MS Mrs Sebo
Stephens" Really, the bride-chambar III
look tasty" in its drapery Of pure white foe.
tooned with evergreens from the woods ana
myrtle from Mrs. Stephens's house boyos c.
not flower was up in the gardens. a ,gb;ta
satin toilet-cusbion was laid on the whittier d,,
ity cover of the dressing table and wreath
of artificial orange howers--Mrs Stephens,s
own wedding wreath--fastened the blonde veil
OF the little mirror in its place. There seemed
to be general wish that the minister's new
wife should think well of everybody, whatever
everybody might choose to think Of her.
such were the preparations made in our vii
iage ior our minister's second wife,
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