The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-03-17

It is OF no use TO be kind to you A
soon as you have got into our littl.
ways, and begin to understand US, vol
leave US without gratitude or remorse
and we have all the trouble of teach
ing new servant over again. There
go along-do; try if you cannot spenc
half an hour in the day usefnlly; anc
go and trim my blue cap, and do it bet
ter than you did last time. | won'
have Robert Mayiin's love in my work
and | am sure since you have been mao
after that fellow you have done nothing
well, and scarcely done anything al
ALL"
And Miss Harrington, drawing her
easy chair closer to the fire, adjusted
her spectacles, and began on the po-
lice sheet of tie Times; feeling that
she had disburdened her conscience.
and performed her duty TO society.
Janet shut the drawing-room door
thon ghtfully: not because she believed
implicitly in all the forebodings of her
mistress; but they struck on her sadly
somehow, and she wished they had not
been said. But Robert Maylin, to whom
she told little-not all-that had pass
ed, called Miss Harrington "a stupid old
muff,n and told Janet so often that she
was fool TO listen to her. that at last
Janet believed him, and said, "Yes, she
was fool" too.
And then he swore eternal love for
the hundredth time that week. and
looked SO handsome while he did so,
that Janet, gazing at him with kind
of wondering speIl-bound admiration,
thought there was more truth in one of
his smiles, and more worth in one Of
his words, than in all Miss Harrington's
tancleS and trets put together.
Il am sure you will always be kind
to me, Robert" said she, suddenly lay-
ing her hand on his shoulder, and look
ing at him in her guileless way, right
into his eyes.
She was pretty girl, our Janet. with
an open, truthful forehead, and a loving
smile; and Robert thought he had
never seen her look so pretty as now.
kind, Janet! Am l a man, and
could be anything else but kind to
any woman in the world-stiIl less to
one | loVeda could not lift nv hand
against woman, if you paid me for
1t. | am not one of those brutes who
kick and cuff You about like dogs
Kind! no woman ever found me un-
KIND yet. love them all too we'll for
that-though, perhaps, precious sight
OF you have found me too much the
contrary" he added. with slight
laugh below his BREATH Janet did not
hear this last -is.~~7-5 i-.---5r~-
was quite as well, as matters Stood
Jenet was comlorted, crednlous, and
convinced. She knew nothing of
Young girl lying pale in her shroud in
d certain church yard because Robert
Mayliu had first loved and then de-
serted her. She had never heard
either Of Mary Williams, the wife of
young John Williams, the baker. who
took TO drinking about year after she
had known Robert Maylin, TO hide her
love and remose together, and who had
been willing to leave her three little
ones, if he would have taken her off
with him as he offered. She was ig-
norant of the history of the pretty
housemaid in Berkely Square, where
Robert was footman, who had lost her
situation-and more too-for love of
that handsome villain and who had
been afterwards taken up near Wa
terIoo Bridge, mad with despair and
des;itution. People did say he had
stolen her savings as well, though she
was so infatuated with him she would
not prosecute him; and only cried like
one distraught when he left her to the
workhouse or the streets. She knew
nothing of the life he had led since he
left home, a bold and beautiful boy Of
fifteen, to seek his fortune in the world;
and treated as ISLANDERS the faint ru-
mors every now and then flying about,
of the curse he had been 10 every pref
ty woman who had taken his fsney.-
She believed in his worth, because she
loved him for his good looks; and she
made, as all women do, the hero of her
heart the model of her morality also.
The wedding day came at last. Miss
Harrington, who had been dignified
and i'll used, sulky and snappish by
turns, gave the dinner-from charity
she said-gave the wedding clothes,
because country girls have no notion of
propriety, and she did not choose her
old servant to disgrace her house; and
she gave two-thirds Of the furniture
only to keep the poor wretch from the
workhouse at first; she will be sure TO
go there in the end"
1t is not because | approve Of the
match, or like the man." she said. II
do neither; it is only from the merest
charity that give anything to them.
It is SO shocking to imagine that per-
son who has been as long about one as
Janet has been about me, should go to
the union and live on the parishs after
she has made ones very caps, and
worn ones very gowns! 1t is horrible
and | cannot bear the thought of it
So I have done all this just TO keep her
out of the house for my own sake. As
far as she is concerned, she might go
tomorrow for anything | should mind.
Her folly in marrying that Robert
Maylin deserves some punishment"
Miss Harrington was one of those
old maids who, are determined that