The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-04

WESTERLY, R. l., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1855.

dress and cape She was not allowed
to work at the quilt-not she-they all
wanted her to tell about what she had
seen in town, and what she had got, and
also all about what she was going to get;
and besides, she was not used to work
and must sit in the big rocking-chair and
rest, and be an ornament.
So Mrs Wolfe sat in the arm chair,
her founces and frilled petticoats filling
it quite full the rings glittering on her
white hands, which she locked indolent-
ly together, as she paid back the admi-
ration she received in genial and instruc-
tive talk for Mrs. Wolfe had more
newspapers in her house than Mrs. Fun
dy, aad read them all She had been
born and bred in city, and had seen
moro Of the world than most of the per-
sons with whom her lot was cast. No
one asked whether Mr.. Wolfe bad come,
or was coming for Mr.. Fundy had a
frolic as well as his wife, and the woods
we're noisy with the chopping. No one
expected him to come indeed, Mrs.
Fundy was quite sure, now that she
came to think of it, that Mr.. Wolfe had
not been invited-if any one thought of
him at all, it was to wonder what IN the
world Mrs Wolfe ever had him for.
"ssee happy, sunny hours, began tc
draw shadows after them as they wen
down !, aud the blood mounted red into
Anne's cheeks as she lifted her blue
eyes from the quilt, not so much because
Mrs. Wolfe asked her if she could come
and sew a month for her, as because she
saw Mrs. Speed and Mrs. Weed both
look at her as though they thought she
would reply very drily in the negative !;
so, perhaps, to disappoint them, perhaps
to puzzle them, or, it may be, merely to
satisfy her own curiosity, she said, sml-
ing, she was quite at liberty and would
be glad to 60, asking, with apparent in
nocency, if it was shirts Mrs. Wolfe
wanted made. 1t was not shirts, but
work for herself--shc hardly knew what
she was going to town next week to
get good many things, and she would
be glad to have Anne come the next
day, if she could, and do some mending
and be company for Mrs. Wolfe said
she would as soon be in prison as at
home with nobody there but Moses =
All laughed, even Anne, perhaps be-
cause the rest did and all thought that
Mrs. Wolfe was an exceedingly funny
woman as for what Anne Hadly tho't,
nobody could see through the shadow
that rested on hor face to tell Twenty
years since she was spinning girl for
the mother of Moses w olfe, seemed only
u day to her !
WELL said Mrs. Weed, Il think
Anne is right nice sort of body, if
she is an old maid. 1 wonder,' she
added, directly, if she never could get
anybody to have her p and answering
herself, continued, think not, judging
from appearances, for | never knew Of
her having beau .....
It's most pity said Mrs. Speed,
that Moses wouldn't have her, seeing
that he has turned out so.' Mrs. Weed
said Yes,' abstractedly; and so they
arranged the table, feeling az sorry for
Anne as they could feel for an old maid
counting by their own ages what hers
must be, and repeating two or three
times that it was almost pity for her,
inasmuch as Moses had turned out so
bad, and she was not likely to get any
BODY, while Charlotte would have got
twenty usbands, any one Of whom would
have. suited her better than Moses, who
was not half the man she thought she
was getting.
Anne is a very good sewer, and .
very nice housckeepcr,' resumed Mrs.
Weed; Il think she must be thirty
five.'
sYes, there are good many fine
Qualities about Anne replied Mrs.
Snesd 8 she is good in time Of sickness,
and when there is death she brig ghtens
up the house like sunbeam almost
every one speaks well of Anne, but she
must be thirty-scven or thirty-eight-l
wonder what she would say It q body
should ask her how old she i'P :,
'well, don't know as care said