Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1854-07-28

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worse and worse, bu, remarked that she nc
vcr seemed TO like to send for doctor till
one morning, Just a, day light she came into
nv room and shook me ihl ! awoke, and beg.
red me 10 dress Immediately, and go aud fetch
a physieian. who lived in the Bow Road
The physician came twice, and saw Miss
Fnrbcy each time count O1t ten and sxpenco
for him, and wrap that sum IN piece Of pa
per bu, his patient died on third Gay ailer ]
had fetched him.
Miss Furbey did no, seem To me 10 gricvc
dccply-whcihcr /, was tia, she had become
worn ou, with her watching. or iha, the stern
business tina, she had to 60 about, alone, made
hri determine to suppress her Grief, or whcih'
or, which suspect was the truth. = dcseas-
ed had been 80 gricvous a burden 10 her that,
in spite Of her sense Of duty aud affection ior
him, feeling Of rolief which she scarcely
recognized herself wa, minglins with her re-
gret.
Some mystery was attached to her father,
Of which never knew th, truth. Tunnlclll!s
last idea. bcCnrc she ran away, was that he
had forged to a large amount, and was there
hiding from Justice. There was arumor in
the ncighborhood that he had been bankrupt
many years before, and had, lor some reason,
neglected to give himsclfup as the law re-
ouired, but | do no, believe that any one,
save Miss Furbcy herself, kaow whence be
came, or What was his true history.
GA the morning Of his death Miss Furbcy
wrote a number Of letters on black edged pa
pcr. which she posted herself, and ,hink she
expected visitors in consequence, bu, none
cane. We two were the only Persons, oH'
cen, the uudcriakcrs, who attended the iuner-
al This undertaken also prolcsscd TO he
coal merchau, and an agent TO a FIRE and life
insurance, which he might have been, but
he MAS no more an undertaken than vas
Miss Furbcy learned that he gave the job TO
carpentcr and ioincr, who gave IL ltoarcal IN
dcrakcr AMI al that the original person did,
| believe, was to attend in rusty suit oiblack
and 10 use an underiaker's phrase, to see the
funeral performed" Miss Furbcy drove n
hard bargain with him for eight pounds, five
pounds down and the res, os be said, To be
made easy to her And 80, fur wear aud
half afterwards, she used to scraPc together
small sums of half crown, OF five shlllinrs,
with which | made many a journey TO the
coal and fire agent, who wrote each install
mea, down on the back Of a bin with sad en-
belli,hmcnts, which became WON To ,aiiers
before ,ha, everlasting debt was faid.
Miss Furbcv, | am sure, noycr, deliberate
Iy regarded the death other father in any 9Th.
or Ugh, than sc \ misfortune thai had belallon
her: bu, there was change 10 Aor now, and
/, seemed in the place too-irom gloom to a
certain degree of chceriulnoi'-wlr'ch my
youthful mind was quick to detect ! had
been nearly twelve months with Miss Furbey
when her f,ihcr died, and Tor Twelve months
more VIC took no rev apprentice, and there
was scarcely any change in our way Of life.
Bu;, one anernoon,l ramc in from little Jour.
ncy. and found 4 stranger in the shop, talking
with her. lie was a pale lite man. dressed
in black Goa, and rrovscrs, shoes fastened
with black rihand in large boNs aud white
neck cloth. whish had a yelowish lingc, and
was spotted, here and there, with what laun-
dresses call iron mould. lie was not exactly
shabby in other respects bu, hc locked as Il
he had been brushed and made mp to the
best advantage. lie was slightly bald, but
/ his hair was light, and not 50 grey as his
vhi,kcrs, and he might, perhaps, have been
M older than fNy did no, know then where
he came from, nor what VAS his excuse Tor
coming bn,hc talked very slowly and dellb-
oratcly about ,hc weather, and other 'riiles'
anl loiicrcd about and seemed very 10th TO 60
. lie came many times after that, and gossip
ped in the same way I'LL at last found him
sitting in the back plrlonr. lie took snull at
long intervals, and sat cross legged with his
handkerchief always on his knees, aud liked
to look at his broad shoes, which had bumps
all over them like the top Of a plumb pic lie
was rather slow aud prim in his ways but
he told anecdotes Of the volunteers, end OF old
actresses, and bucks Of long ago, which anus
ed ms very much. Miss Furbcy told INC he
was very old frichd the aiihfulcs, friend
.ha, ever was (shc said this With tears in her
cyes) although they had mo-, seen each other
Cor many years, and thar he was stock bro
kcr, and his frinds were highly respectable
and by degrees ! came 10 know that he
was couriing, and to find out, when he laugh
ed, a slight resemblance between his features
and those Of the porirai, in the caske'. Miss
Furbey used to drcss specially to receive him
for she had large store Of dresses OF Irish
poplin and brocaded silk rather out OF date
but. as she said, "vcry good" and scyera
times saw her arranging her two cork.sercw
curls in tho looking glass, aud picking out
grey hair with pair OF tweczers. She wal
rather fond Of talking about her lover. sh'
admitted 10 me that he was much change'
since she frs, knew him, but, she added, "s'
am. ], dare say" believe she sill like'
tho stock broker in a quiet way. Ii was ar
ranged, after awhile, that he should visit hcr
on three stated nights per week; but he drop
ped in accidcnlly one morning, just aAer Mis-
, Furbey had stepped out and waited TO sec he
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