The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-18

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side, and moment after light feet came
through the kitchen door, and May
Brooks aud / stood face to face She
had drawn a blue sack and checked
apron over her pink muslin dress, aud
her hair, whose golden hue the years
had softened to mellow brown. lay
still in heavy cuils about her face.
Have you seen Thorwaldsen's picture
OF Morning Then can you imagine
how May Brooks locked to me, at that
first momeut a. she glanc d up, and then
started back, while tho red b ood suffused
her whole face l extended my hand
and smiled. Do you not recogniz; rue =
l asked. Sha looked at me with a
blushing earnestncss moment, and
then with little cry Of joy she put out
both her hands
knew you would come some time,
she said, with all the sweet simplicity OF
her childhood
'Then if I am an expected, | am sure
! must be welcome guest, so | will
come right in, and sit with your mother
while you get those cakes ready for sup
per
She blushcd deeper than before, and
/ CLAN ced down at her dress, which, OF
course, | did not see. So We went to-
gether into the little parlor. Mrs.
Brook had been an invalid for several
years, aud her hair was grown quite
gay, and her face looked thinner aud
paer even than when had first seen it
She welcomed me with fearful cord
ialty, and when her daughter left the
room, she eagerly seized the opportunity
to thank me with touching carnestncss
for the gilt l had bestowed upon her
seven years before
Every dollar was spent as you re-
qucsted, Mr., Leonard continued Ms
Brooks, thinking this was my list name
May attended the academy four years,
and then. though she was only fifteen
taught school, aud studied French and
Latin, aud took drawing lessons at ode
intervals do not know what woul'
have become of me, if it had not be,
for her. She has fixed up the house
and furnished the parlor out Of her earn
ings -
Here Mays return put the period tc
her mothers loquacity. She had re-
moved the sack and apron, and now
could look at her more lrisurcly, and sec
how the pink dress harmonizcd with hel
pure complexion, and how the swcc,
mouth had retained all the nobility o
its childhood Her eyes had change,
somewhat, but only as May skies chang
to the richer, deeper beauty of Octo
Der. She was forest bud, Helen
sweet, pure and simple, with nothing c
the dazzling beauty Of Ada Fl"mn
about her, and yet there was softne.
and grace in her movement, Which onl
q delicate and cultivated mind coul
ssess She was cultivated too.
was ulprised, on entering into convcr
satipn with her, at the depth and vaiir'
Of her information. But | am gettin
into a vein of eulogy, so I'll stop i
once. Suffice it, my little wife is
genius, Helen Well, | stayed TO sup
per, sitting down at the very table whcr
seven years bef re, had eaten tn la>
of the plum preserves | returned t
Maple Grow, and that night drcamo
not of Ada Fleming The mex
morning was in the sitting room. Mrs
Fleming and Ada were in the pa, 10
with which it CON mlncat'd, but hat
entered unperccivcd, and just as ] wa'
about to address The ladies', Mrs. Flrm
ing spoke, gancing out of the window
Ada, there comes your drawing
teacher
Does she p answered the youn.
lady, rather eagerly. l wonder wher,
Leonard is y
'Leonard I! why, my child;'
Because it doesn't suit my fame,
that he should sec May Brooks, that
all wish Tom would tell her to O,
round to the back door for the future
It's the place for all hired people non,
of them ought to have the entr.e of tb,
front door It's so disagreeable y
But, my daughter answered tn,
indulgent parent, you must recolec
there is some dffercuce between re
fined, intelligent girl, like May Brooks
and an ordinary servant. She woul,
consider such request an insult
Let her, then. So long as she
poor, and We pay her for her work, it
our place, and not hers, to p escrib
when she shall come and CO. and
could see Ada's white fingers playin,
with the lAcings of her corsage. BE
side that, she's so poor, she can't afFor
to lose her place
At that moment | was on the poin
Of asking, And would you take advan
tage of the girls poverty to insult her
Ada'' But May entered the room
where sat the ladies', and softly mad
my exit. But the veil had been taker
from tho soul of Ada Elem;n, E,on