The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-12-30
Che familn Girflr.
a DIARY.
BY MARTHA RUSSELL.

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Nor. lih.-Scene A beautifully
furnished room, the chairs, tables. sofa.
uLat-not. &c, drawn up against the
wall with as much precision as COM
pany Of the great Frederick's soldiers
Miss Elizabeth Iyiton seated on m
ottoman, reading Mrs. Browninss no.
BILE poem, Casa Guidi Windows
enter aunt Sewal, who goes through
with critical review Of the furniture,
occasionally passing her delicate cam
brio handkerchief over it, to see il Mary
has left particle of dust, while she
keeps up kind OF miSerere over the
carecssncss of servants, and the troub-
les of housekeepers in general.
"Dear me, Mary hasn't half busted
the rooml 1t is too bad TO hire SER
wants and DO your work yonrselfl And
that Sophie, too, Elizabeth! Don't
you think that Sophie has completely
ruined my elegant coffee pot-melied
off the spout! ! do feel as if should
fly every time think Of it Such an
elegant one as it was J
Her old one was worth n dozen OF
them; she had used il two years, and
not dent in it. What did ! know
about coffee pots
saw my failure, and tried another
tack Sophie's sorrow over the acci-
dent but this was only adding fuel to
the fire.
Wen she might be sorry. To know
no better than set her urn down before
red-hot range after all she had done
for her, too and she tripped out of the
room to receive a morning call, and
pour her sorrows into more apprcia-
ting ear, ] trust.
A. for me, the steam from that un'
fortunate urn had completely dissolved
my dreams Of glorious future iol
Italy; so ! sat and wondered why aunt
servants were supposed TO be under
such infinite obligations TO her, unless
indeed, she looked at the matter philo
sophically, and considered herself in the
I lighi Of a Ileayen-sent trial, to exercise
l lhem IN the rare virtue Of patience.
Elizabeth is buried in this passage
/ .,'rhe dead ut.1n their awful faHtsre ground,
fiio .uu net 10 uisf faces, shall ahstraoi
Ne aiuFs nur stfsHrih ne wlu npi D. discfoN ned
Ta5o' irra-unng thfiE Crowns, not dcirn uansaf
4 baHsf forths present, in sonod
Fof whae Wa, coauicd god In iof1oue days
q. dead, 81 saall nn logger cling a. uhi
] We " 20 "a De- uhiiyisus
ofoar osu Iyos bcosnse go iiycd before,
- .f our AIS lssrHltss Sc aftad y rii
We lhaus ,e ihsi Sc hfa1 uhiarhrd tie anof
We via nai make il Inaccessible
y, ilsuilngs in the door way any Hia,e," &c'-
and looks up. with all the glorious hopr
It suggests warming her heart, and eK
claims
How beautiful,
yes. indeed. twice as handsome a
As. and COS, only the same. And &
think il should be- slnied
Elizabeth opens her great gray eye
ia a.loni.hmeui- 'lloW What, aunt
| don't quite understand .
No. dare say oi--no one eyc
does think Il worth while 10 uuicfsiau
me or nay troubies-your uncle ncfe
does. 4 long as everything 's oa 'iI
Table al we litfist thriH'"H "F "tf'
a.ks how Il has becn done, or ho
mach I have heen tried said il.
that cartlcss Sophie hai meliei Of ID
spout 90 my eohee.psi
T. wa evident hat auri's usual pa
icrn-like equauimiiy sas sorrly distur'
"a. ard lhai shc expected me Ca synr
thize ~iih her. bui hl,Ins never cap
nenred ihe lo,s u coffee urn sp.spi.
vac safneW hat a. ln.s ni1i 20 cay of Z
$50 merely suggested usai d ooo
be- mcnici
Meudrl, an oll iialerca, meui'
ih.us ou my lall,. Is . AoHt pnt
herself on settling ihe n.-ra table in Of
! nr.rhioflooij What eolil ihe Z
aaI ihe ~ itini
] ltentarfl aao,her suggestion. %
,he m.sl, purchase anaiher And
.be mielt. she Aopel. d0fea u d
. cAo.a hai th-y uoaii u0 Dc hsli
rasl a. beg all oa, ST. hs saa
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