Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1856-10-08
BEILoVs FALLS YER MONT WEDNESDAY EVENING, oCT. s

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they cannot sit and fold their hands,
eyenwhcn they wish iosthink. Let me
assure my lady friends thai, with a half
knit stocking III their fingers, all such
feelings will vanish. They will have
the happy consciousness that they are
!. doing something Il and that goes a
great way in haking MP the happiness
OF some lives. Instead. therefore, p3
leaning her head upon her hand, and
thus gazing out INTO the night, as hero
ines Of romancc<nre wont to, do at the
twilight hour, our heroine took her knii-
ting-work, and, Sitting in an easy-chalr,
looked quietly at the fading sunset, the
slowly descending new moon, and the
bright stars that came out one by one.
Very beautiful she thought the scenes:
and then she wondered where William
was and what he might be doing. Per-
haps he win 60 10 the THEATRE she
thought and then corrected herself as
she remembered that it was an opera
night, and thst he had always expressed
a wish to see Vesta Vail.
tIhe~everissrs .lsa.eeass-sss lssss drew iscr'
from the window and, lighting the lamp,
she sought the " Amusement" column
of the " POST and found that Vesta
Vail would appear in Lucresia Borgia.
"Ah, / am glad of that William
will ENJOY it highly" Self-forgetful,
she did not lament that she could not be
there too; but she pictured the gay
scene at the Academy, and was happy
in Williams supposed happiness.
A few scenes in Kinesley's Saints
Tragedy"--so sad that she could read
but few scenes and lastly, in accord
ance with another old-fashioned notion,
chapter in the Bible, and thus NJ
Stanley ended her first day alone.
Few of us can remember ever having
passed two days in succession exactly
alike. The usual order is quiet
day, and then an active day tn
another quiet one. So, Mrs. Stan
ley had passed one still, quiet O.,
the one that followed might naiulg b
be expected to be of different charac-
ter. One would have supposed that she
had appointed reception day, SO nu-
merous were the calls she received.
Very little time she had for the odd jobs
she had planned. But the worstcd work
was finished, and the pencil drawing
commenced.
On the third day, the parlor was
strewn with drawing materials, working
cotton, &e.; and slight showers kept
Mrs. Stanley indoors and busy.
"0h, this hemstitching is getting tire
some l would not make mamma a
present that has cost me any unpleasant
hours. I'll lay it as.de for time. I'll
draw little while. No; Ill look al
those songs. Yes; at this one" And,
seating herself at the piano, she opened
Mendelssohn's beautiful little song Far
Away"
90 far away m fy ia dresnI e,
Where thou now
wnsre eses2sting snous afe a. 'urg.
And foamirg brooks 20 Is sewaFa 'yeatssng,
wherc thou ala
And still my soul pursug7 its dreaming
Till thou return
Time shan not me to complaining,
Our hearts unaltered a e rgmsiuing,
Til thou return,
Charmed by the influence Of the words
and the music, Mrs. Stanley leaned her
elbow upon the music-desk and fell TO
thinking. She was aroused by touch
upon her shoulder and kiss upon her
forehead.
"Oh, William! is that you2 How
you frightened me ] did not expect
you so soon"
All then it was not me whose re-
turn you were waiting? Hey, my dear ?"
Mrs. Stanley blusled, but her happy
face told the truth" whose return
should she be waiting forI"
Yes, yes but | have have not been
among = everlasting SHOWS" and foam
ing brooks"
Well,well, have it as you please. on
ly am so glad that you are here. Lut
how did you get in without my knowing
iti"
"Oh, out of sight, out of mind you
know"
Cruel man, you know nothing about
it. Look around the room and see how
hard have tried to keep busy and not
to grow lonesome.
Drawing, embroidery, sewing, read
ing, music Do you know that flnci-
ed that your occupations had been vast
ly difierent?'
No; what can you mean Z"
Have you forgotten year ago at
this time p
Yes, yes; ] believe so. But what
of it?'
Well. it SO happens that l had not
rgotten it. Scrubbing and cleaning
week, was it not?"
Perhaps so. What made you re-
member it z"
Why, set il down in my memory
as the unhappiest week | had known
since our marriage. So. this year, / re-
solved to be out OF the way while the
'three days revolution was taking place
so forced myself off 10 New York"
"Oh, William, had you told me this
before, you need not have gone, and ]
should have been spared some sad
thoughts and some sad tears-Some not
many, mind your
All how is that p
81 have attended to no house-clean-
ing since you left"
Indeedl Then the evil day is put
Off"
Not so. / have no evil day. This
year resolved to have no more house
cleaning periods, But to put the house