Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-09


Tidd prepares to remain through the first in
teryiew; but is dismissed, though falteringly, by
my lady.
For some minutes this austere, proud-looking
woman sits regarding the young stranger with
out word Then she says abruptly, without
preface of any kind:
There are two things to which somewhat OBJ
iect with respect to you--your youth, and the re-
ligious opinions in which you have been reared.
What is the former forget exactly
Il was sixteen last month, madam
you look older--but that is well You viii
not object, hope, to attend the village church,
No, madam. l have already said SO. l have
been reared to care for the spirit and duties of
religion rather than particular formulas
Very well here you will be achurch-woman.
Do you read well ?
Your ladyship must Judge. / have been much
accustomed during the long illness of my father. ,
Ring the bell
She obeys, and the old butler appears.
AS the chaplain is from home, you or Tippins
can read prayers in the servants hall. Miss Cor
don reads to me tonight.
The books were brought, and Janet reads the
prayers III a low, sweetly modulated voice. For
months previously they had been drawled out by
Tidd, in a vicious, nasal twang OF parish school
boy and have fallen unfruitfully on the ears that
heard them; tonight, the peace, the charity, the
forgiveness asked for, seemed couched i'll other
words, and have significance they never had
before.
When she had risen, Janet awaits her lady
ships commands.
AS YOU read well, shall expect you to read
prayers in my room every morning at 3 O'Clock.
At nine breakfast, at which you will assist; af-
ter that walk on the southern terrace, and then
return to reading and needle-work. Now, as
dare say, you are tired, you may rctire@ good
night
Janet has a question to ask her; and she thinks
it will be best to do so at once.
Il am an early riser, madam You will not OBJ
iect, / presume, to my employing my time before
eight o'clock in exercise or other dutyl'
by no means. You look pale and delicate ;
and, as this is summer weather, get all the air
you can. The park and grounds are considered
to be amongst the loveliest in Herfordshre. The
gardener shall have my personal order to give
you every privilege
Janet now retires She likes her new mis-
tress much better than she expected she should ;
under a cold proud exterior, with many perver-
ted, bgoted and selfish notions, she perceives
that there is much which is sterling, and she re-
solves to bear and forbear
The tug of war will, as she pereeives, be with
Tidd, and she determines to let silence be an ct
fective weapon in the contest
1t begins without loss of time. Lady Chauncy
having received Janet so kindly, Tidd, to make
the counter-baance, orders in the driest scraps
of meat from the kitchen, says she is too tired
herself to eat, and, when the supper is over bids
the young girl to go to bed with the air of slave
driver. Janet finds the room-little more than
closet-;s such it has hitherto been used-with
sloping roof and small window, looking dis
maily forth ON the leads of gable. stump
bedstead, a dark counterpane, a cracked looking
glass a minute chest of drawers of remote age,
and one chair, constitute the decorations OF this
dog-hole for such it really is, compared to any
~. ,l,,. oil Nat
with all her extreme quietude of character, and
her youth, Janet is quick of perception and Judg-
ment, and reads things aright-thc act is Ildd' $
and not one arising from my lady's' orders; and
she prays that night for strength to endure.
She is up betimes in the morning, for, though
Tidd has had the ability to shut ont the sight OF
the grand old woods and glistcning pools which
lie around, it has not been hers to shut out the
sweet air of the summer morning, or the cawlng
of the young rocks in the rookery near; she goes
down stairs, and SO forth by little postern door
on to one of the fine old terraces. Early as 1t Is,
most of the servants and laborers are about the
scent Of hay-malling in the park comes upon the
wind; and the wocdman can be heard at work i'll
the copses. From terrace to terrace she wanders,
goes down the grassy slopes that lie between, and
wonders at the beauty and abundance OF the
towers. She so loves nature and its beauties,
that the place seems tairy-land. Aboutt the mid
die of sequestered terrace, which leads into the
and lichens that cover it, to be but little fire.
qucnted-and as it his such quaint old-iashion-
ed look, is overhungby trees, and shroudcd in by
brushwood, it pleases her extremely; and here
she resolves to bring her books and work, when
ever her leisure permits. 1t Will be as room to
her, formed by natures hand From this sweet
old place she wanders down the park itself; 1t is
full of fine old trees, and exquisitely shaded pools
of deep and crystal water, fringed with sedges
ard rrrtcl hos n u N
are at work, and where the sward has been left
untouched, and cattle Craze, the last cowsiips OF
the season give forth their scented breath. As
she returns through the garden, she meets Mr..
Mellow, kindly-ooking old man, who is too
polite and circumspect to wage war with Iidd
and Tippins but he likes them not. He is glad
of this opportunity of speaking to and making
bis judgment on the new spirit which may, or
may not, reign at Chauncy Manor he tells her
of my lady's commands the previous night,
and then shows her his greenhouses and hot
houses with great pride. He gathers her some
tiowers-some magnificent roses amongst the rest
and then she takes her leave, as 1t is time she
should return. The old man likes her bright grey
eve and kindly voice. God blesses her in his heart
wishes her patience to endure, and finds, soon
after AN opportunity for proceeding TO the village
to announce TO the landlord and others his opiI-
ion, that better days coming to the old place.
Precisely as the bcifrey clock strikes eight, ia
net enters Lady ChaunccyS room, adjacent 10
her bed-chamber The old gentlewomans demi
toilette is complete; but her manner is even more
frigid and naughty than the night before. With
out appearing to heed it, Janet inquiries after her
health, and then reads prayers better than even
On the previous night, for her timidity is less.
Il like your reading, vastly says lady Chaun-
ev, when prayers are at an end, and her manner
softening as she speaks, Sits great accomplish
mcnt in one so young, and an acquisition to me.
Now go to breakfast with the house-kceper, and
at nine o'clock attend mine.
The breakfast in the housckeeper's room is a
particularly excellent one-for Tidd and Tippins
themselves partake of it; but the housekecpers
humor is a very bad one. This increases in vi
ciousness when her questions and eounter-qucs-
tons as to what my lady said and did, elicit so
little in way of reply and the fact is set down
to cunning and duplicity.
Lady Chauncey's morning MEALS, rs we have
said, served with much formahty and state
Enough is set forth to feast twenty-and two
footnlen and the butler attend it. Learning from
the latter my lady's habits, and-fnding that,
most puctual in all her proceedings, Lady Chaun-
CIV likes to find the smallest item of her breakfast
ready-Janet caryes and chops modicum OF
meat, dresses an egg, denudes the bread and but
ter of crust and slices itinto slips and then, there
being a minute or two to spare ere the clock
strikes nne il suddenly occurs to her TO fetch
some OF the bounteous roses she has deposited III
! tine Watering up stairs, and put them ON the Ia
Bile near my lady's cup. She seems TO take a
purposed note of every thing, though she says but