Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-03-30

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Miller is going to see if she can find the widow.
is ssTndeed! That's another matter altogether
III promised to do something in the case, but shal
| now decline. L couldn't have believed such
! thing of Mrs. Harding! But so it is; you neve
know people until you find them OUT
1"No; indeed Mrs. Johns. You never spoke &
Etruer wordin your life, p replied Mrs. Little, EN-
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onaithea day following, after seeing the poor
widow, ministering to some of her immediate
wants, and encouraging her to expect more sub.
Estantial relief Mrs. Harding called, as she had
promised to do, on Mrs. Miller. A little to hel
surprise, that lady received her with unusual cold
mess; and yet, plainly, with an effort to seem
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fou have called about the poor widow you
lspokelof yesterday" said Mrs. Miller
Such IS theobject Of my present visit
a hat is her name! p ,s.s "a .zs7 ass,s-I
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aR Rt.Wherei did you say she 1iveda" ..
+ The answer was promptly given.
ssI'ye been thinking, 2 said Mrs. Miller slightly
eolorng and with some embarrassment, sssthat
would call in and see this poor woman myself.''
zs 81 wish you would" was the earnest reply Of
Mrs. Harding. 81 am sure, if you do SO, all, your
sympathies- will be excited in her favor n
E,sAs Mrs. Harding said this, she arose, and with
manner that showed her to be hurt, as well as
bod ~
and retired. Her next call was upon Mrs. Johns
Much to her surprise, her reception here quite
as cold; in fact so col that she did not even refer
sto the objectof her visit, and Mrs. Johns let her
go away without calling attention to it herself
So affected was she by the singular, and to her
unaccountable change in the manner of these
ladies, that Mrs. Hardingha no heart to call upon
two others, who had promised to do something
for the widow, but went home disappointed, and
suffering from troubled and depressed state OF
feeling. i.sfae ars.,z7 s..-re s-5Es
la4 So far as worldly goods are concerned Mrs.
Harding could not boast very large possessions.
Size. was herseIfa widow, and her income, while
it sufheed, with economy, to supply the moderate
wants of her family left her but little for luxures,
the qualification of TASTE or the pleasures of benev-
olence. Quick to feel the wants of the needy,
no instance of destitutien came under her obser-
xation, that she did not make some effort towards
procuring relief. - - -
What now was to be done. She had excited
the sick woman's hopes-had promised that h. r
immediate wants, and those of her children, sho'd
be supplied From her own means, without great
se1fdenial, this could not be effected. True, Mrs.
Miller and Mrs. Johns had both promised to call
upon the poor widow. and, in person, administer
relief. But Mrs. Harding did not place much re-
lance on this; for something in the manner of
both ladies impressed her with the idea, that their
promise merely covered a wish torecede from their
first benevolent Intentions. 57E .555 - g.
3 Something must be done, said she musingly.
And then she set herself earnestly to the work of
devising ways and means. Where there is will
there is d way. NJ say 'ng was ever truer than
this. @i'sti i-'} ss'2az2 ;.i2@'52s
5sl It Yves perhaps a week later, that Mrs. Little
called again upon Mrs. Miller.
@ What' of Mrs. Harding poor widow!' said the
former, after some ill-natured gossip about mu-
tual friend ia .s..5iha=5'. 'szs.
sVsaO, Il declare Eve never thought of the wo-
man since,s replied Mrs Miller in tone of self
condemnation. ssAnd promised Mrs. Harding
that would see her. Ireally blame myself"
a2ssNo great harm done, presume,'' said Mrs.
Little. sai 2 q s=sf fszf }a r.
i 81 don't know that. I'm hardly prepar ID to
think as meanly of Mrs. Harding as you do. At
any rate Pm going this day to redeem my prem
ise''- sHsttzss~ 80 -
= What promise!'' So
ssThe promise made Mrs Harding, that would
sec the woman she spoke of, and relieve her, if in
need'' .sf- .'t
"You'lI have all your trouble for nothing
'sNo matter, I'll clear my conscience, and that
is something. Come, wont you go with me?''
Mrs Little declined the invitation at first; but,
strongly urged by Mrs. Miller she finally consent
ed. So the two ladies forthwith took their way
towards the neighborhood in which Mrs Harding
had said the needy woman lived. They were
within few doors Of the house, which had been
very minutely described by Mrs. Harding, when
they met Mrs. Johns.
h!''said the latter with animation 'just the
person of all others, i most wished to see. How
could you, Mrs. Miller, 50 greatly wrong Mrs.
Hardingr'
sMe wrong her, Mrs. Johns! I don't under
stand you" And Mrs. Miller looked considera-
Bile astonished.
s.Mrs. Little informed me, that. you had good
reasons for believing all this story about poor
widow, to be a mere subterfuge, got up to cover
some. doings Of her own, that Mrs. Harding was
ashamed to bring to the light ..lz
sssMrs. Little!'' There was profound astonish-
ment in the tones Of Mrs. Miller, and her eyes had
in them such an indignant light, as she fixed them