The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-03
CHAPTER III.

Mrs. MADDEN, to return now to that ever-busy,
ever excellent lady, desired particularly that the
Cabots and Tillotsons should come. She said
so one morning to her pale cousin Ada, as the
two sat together, writing and sealing notes and
cards of invitation. Mot so much on my own
account" added she, "although / always like
to have them in any large company where
happen to be; but husband will miss the gen.
tlemep, if they don't come; and, besides, want
them, on account of the Stetsons, if they come.
/ want them to have good time, so that they
will be glad to come again and again; for Mrs.
Stetson is glorious creaturel You never saw
her-the small envelopes, dear, if you please
thank you You have never set your eyes on
Mrs. Stetson, have your"
No; pale, high-browed Ada never had. She
had miserably bumped shoulders, and sensitive,
trembling nature, that made her delicate about
showing them in strange places. So she was
always at home. I'VE do not mean that she
was always with her mother, in the brown house
close by the green hill, close by the native oaks
and beeches or that she was always where we
shall oftenest perhaps find her, at dear Mrs.
Hadden's. We mean that she was Away sat
F., among those who we're used to seeing
her wellused, to loving and fancying her.
"No; then you don't know what spirited
eyes there are in this world; what spirited man.
ners. She does everything with bound, as it
were, OF her inward life. Oh, she's perfect
creaturel What DO you think of Carlos, Ada,
and his sisters? You would invite them,
wouldn't you?"
Yes, Ada would invite them, they had so
few pleasures, or, at any rate, so few diversions
coming into their self.denying lives.
"Yes, that is true! They shall come, if they
will, and guess they will. Mrs. Stetson is
intimate with the BIS. B himself is
just about as true, impuiaive, and natural a
character as she is. He's generous and good
to everybody. He lent money to my brother
Harry, one time, when he was temporarily
Strengthened, as he often was in the early days
of his profession lent it, not knowing much
about him, without security and without inter
est, in the off-hand trust that is so beautiful
here in a world where one SO seldom sees it. l
haze always liked B for this" Mrs Had.
den said, With tears in her eyes al always
SHALL | don't like all his political bases, to be
sure, as Mr.. MADDEN does; but this has nothing
to do with my personal feeling. like the
generous, good man, let his theoretical bases
be what they yill. And, of all the men in the
State, there is hardly one ! would like it better
to know intimately, or would like it better to
have nv husband and Jamie know intimately,
Than Governor B. I think of this now.
think that, through the Ste.sons, we may one
day see him here, in orr pleasant village, In
our pleasant home. But, declared | must go
and see to Ellinor Little. Kate viii do well
enough; better than | can, any day, am SO %
foreetful: but one has to follow Ellinor up;
have found this ont. You saw those first tarts
she made2"
eyes, did," laughed Ida, at the same time
sealing note, at the same time drawing up
stool with her foot, that her position might be
little eased. But q neighbor came in, just
then, and Mrs. MADDEN sat down to recount
to him he was stanch Whig) some of BIS
excellent personal qualities. This she did, not
of any sage calculations, but spontaneously, out
! of a longing she habitualy felt and acted on,