Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-10-04
Hlisfellalleous.
ONLY A SEAMSTR ESS.
BY GEO. CLAIMING HILL.

! door teps of the elegant mansion of Mr.
Green The time was evening, and the
month was November
The weather was cold and very bra
cling, and the chill from the handle of the
| door bell instantly struck through the
delicate kid glove in which his hand was
encased
| A servant ushered him into the room.
where CHANGED at that moment to be sit
ting Mrs Green, her daughter, Mary, and
Miss Emeline May. The matron received
| him with grace that was strangely win
ming for her age and apparent dignity of
manner, and with an affectionateness of
manner that she could scarcely have exer-
cised towards son of her own
Mary, her daughter, rose up to receive
him likewise, with a presump ptiveness of
attachment that she had evidently been
drilled into by the assiduous teachings of
| her mother
Only Emeline May-the orphan girl
appeared for the time unnoticed. She
looked up with timid aud saddened air
as Mr.. Mowbray entered the room, and
quickly dropped her blue eyes again upon
her work.
Mr., Mowbray glanced with look of
expressive inquiry at the young girl, and
the glance was not unnoticed by Mrs.
Green, for 1T could not have been many
minutes before she made some frivolous
pretext for dismissing her from the room
All the time that the visitor had been in
the room, she had received no introduc-
tlon to him at the instance of Mrs Green
She is really splendid looking girl"
exclaimed the young gentleman, when she
had gathered up her work and passed out
before him. Some relative" added he,
lnquiringly.
- No-yes-that is, she is a sort of sec
ond cousin to Mary, answered Mrs Green,
hesitatingly, 4" and we suffer her to be here
merely out of charity. She is only q seam
stress, you know"
"Ah !" answered Mr. Mowbray, CLAN
cling hurriedly at Mary, to observe the
effect of this very cold remark upon her
Greatly to his astonishment, he saw that
she received this discontinue of Emeline
at the hands of her mother with the most
assured satisfaction.
g She is certainly beautiful" added he,
to see the effect of his remark more than
from any single desire to compliment the
poor girl. = wish you had introduced
me, Mrs Green"
Indeed, | should have done so. Mr.
Mowbray," replied she, with a simpering
laugh, " had thought her worthy of your
attention. But she is only seamstress
you see; and so poor and dependent, too
In fact, do not know what she would do
were it not for our charity She has no
home in the wide world to go to"
:" 1t certainly argues very much for your
goodness, Mrs Green" said he. - that you
have voluntarily befrended poor girl in
her situation. must be allowed to say,
Madam, that hold you much higher in
my esteem since you have told me this"
so. as for that. Mr. Now bray, [ do no
more than what | have considered duty
yet, L never could consent to carry my
kindness so far as to spoil her. / never
think of making her acquainted with Ma
rvs visitors She would soon be spoiled,
if | did that"
Mr.. Mowbray sat lost in his reflections
for moment What those reflections
were, Mrs. Green had no method os know
ing. Yet she was not by any means def
cient i'll that quickness that the female
mind generally possesses, which enables
1t to seize by tuition, as it were upon
thoughts almost as quick as upon words.
She did not mean, therefore, to have
him remain long lost in any thoughts of
Emellne but instantly changed the sub
lect, and ran on with her conversation as
gaily as if every heart beneath her high
roof was as happy as her own, and as if
she was as happy as she seemed
For some time she succeeded in appar
entity diverting the attention of the young
man. each moment artfully directing it
toward her own daughter, and congratula-
ting herself that she should succeed even
to the extent of her desires When. ia
king advantage of moment when they
were engaged in conversation together
she glided out of the room she thought
no artfulness could have been more sue
cessful in itself, and, at the same time, more
successfully concealed.
The balance of the evening was passed
BY the young gentleman very pleasantly,
aud Mary was nowise behind hand In the
practice of those trifng dcceptions she
had learned so thoroughly from her moth
err Mr. Mowbray tried to convince his
own heart that he was wonderfully salts
fed with his visit yet ever and anon a
glimpse of those blue eyes flashed across
his mental vision, and be confessed to
himself that he was at least uneasy. In
this frame of mind, he finally took his de-
parture. He saw no more of Mrs. Green
during the evening,
Perhaps it was a week after this, when
Mr. Mowbray determined to pass another
evening at the residence of Mrs Green.
Mr. Green himself was a merchant, and
it was very rarely that the young gentle
man met him in his own mansion. He
not unfrequently prot-acted his stay from
home till late in the evening.
On the evening in question, Mr. Now
bray rang at the door, and was shown IN
as usual by the servant. After salutlng
Mrs. Green with the cordiality which was
wont. he likewise greeted Miss Mary. and
afterwards Miss Emeline. Mary's mother
looked all astonishment of which her feat