True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-09-19

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you to him. But you can make yourself |
useful in some way / sdareisay5 The SER
wants will be very busy and after the
company bave all arrived, 5ou can 60. into
the iressing.room, and arrange the cloaks
and hats, 50 that the owners need not have
50 much difficulty in identifying them la as
they did at our last party. IalwayA, look |
forward with dread to that Gnaleiof con
fusion, n x. s '
/ bowed my head, and left the room,
for the tears were coming and would
not. that they;should seeithen.t
s0h, aunt Hannah (! Aunt Hannah # |
you could see your little Alice now |
groaned in; the agony Of my heart as l |
laid my threbbing head on the arms
wrapped together on the table 4
And then Iresolved 4 would return re y n.
again to my village home, though 8all llt the
light had gone out Of it. Now my health,
which + had not gained when ! came to
my aunt 5, was restored, 4 thought ! could
establish an infant schoolin my old home,
and for aunt Hannah's sake the inhabi.
tants would aid me III this matter, 5
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It was evening All alone in my little
chamber at one corner Of the mansion, y
could hear the hurryings to and fro Of
many feet, and the rumbling Of the car
riage wheels, as they drew up before the
door. Below Inc, lBknew, the chandeliers
we're pouring their tides of sllyery light
through the magnificent drawing g-rooms,
and flowing over fair young brows, and
winding through the, ringiets thes a arAnPed
around them. II thought Of the light
hearted girls there Of my own age; and
enyied them not their happiness, nor Their
riches, but the love that was denied to me;
and sometimes, when aswell of rich, ca
ger laughter would come ripping up the the
/. winding stairs to my chamber, 1 would
bury my face in my hands and weep. And nd.
4 sometimes, I thought Of him for whomall
4 this beauty and chiyalry were assembled
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and then ! would wonder if, amid oil that
1 homage and adulation, his heart would not
grow mournful a moment, were he to know
j that, under that very same roof, q broken
hearted orphan girl was sitting, with INC 4 .
/. companions but her memories and hel tpel
4 tears ! n II.
4 At'last, I grew very uneasy, and sitting
4 there with my head leaning on my hands,
slIfell5 asleep, and dreamed ] was sitting
), with aunt Hannah by our old cottage-win
4 dow once more. 5.t
j It must have been very late when
: ,awoke, for I could hear the tide f:compa
! ny slowly setting up from the dining nal nal
Einto the parlors, and, remembering tn
/ task which my cousin had assigned me,
III seized alight and hurried down NJ the bacl
! stairs into the dressing room. s Z. [
. II presented to me q scene of almos lIle
yEhopeless confusion but 1 had asiast sue
8 ceeded in arranging the garments so Y the AltI
t|wopld readily be recognized by the own owl
o ers, when ! heard footsteps hastily aE
! preaching the door, and yainly locke
Z round to find some mode Of egress: 4
q aYou did well, Lee, to smuggle me op
,!lof the room as you did but necesslt
& knows not the law Of eonyeniionalisinl'
and / must hurry off without taking leay
y Of my hostess aud her daughters Hel
is are our hats lucky we've found them
&, Istood in one corner with the light
% my hand 50 the gentlemen did not obDseF'
a; Ene !; and I was internally congratplattiin
s. myself onithis, when the younger Of u
~ men, whothad previously spoken, tslrnf i II
W again, saying t Y "A
sd SWAT . moment put my cane ii in 2 th u
20 corner, and had well nigh forgotten
eel Madam Z he paused suddenly, for
n, had discovered me: .s}
ds sI liftod my eyes, and the light fell +
., ion his features, and stood there face
ID face. One glance yet another intents
il. bfeathless, into those brown, deep sy
atEthat were fastened eagerly; wondering
,le On nine and then, II knew him. Iii
1t had moulded ths contour Of the pale be
ay face into that Of early manhood, and 60
50 ened and deepened theGght Of those. W
se dtous eyes but ! knew they were = Har y
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