Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-02-21

uary bills, which is the strongest comparison
one could make in his case ; aud though his
wife was not especially inclined iha, way, she
sometimes left the law of chariiy-'ihnk no
evil'--a little out Of sight. .
Just take my word for it, Mariha-I'm very !
good na,ured to-nieht-cleared the years rent
this week, and don't want to be upset-if |
that girl tells you unpleasant things of Mrs
Miller, she will entertain the next person that
piH hsicn'-Mr Cooper made an expressive
panse-quie as dsagrecabe stories of u.s.
What could she sayl' Mrs Cooper was
quite in earnest about it. 1'm sure, dear,
there's nothing goes on in his house, but that
| should be willing the whole world should see.
That's so, through an honest medium but
not through smoked glass, Martha that's the
thing and just this story has made me suspic
ious of Lucy. havnt half the confidence in
her had an hour ago for must say never
have seen anything in her 10 find fault with
! In spite Of a resolution not TO mind it, Mrs
Cooper herself felt a secret uneasiness from
that moment She noticed Johnny was far
more freiful but that was his teeth, Lucy said.
He did not take 10 her as lie had done TO Julia
but then it was a work Of time 10 wean a child \
fTeliulncss suddenly cease, when Lucy was alone
with him in her own room, TO be resumed, in
quarter of an hour or so, more distracling
than ever.-Johnny began 10 droop, and had lit
tie appetite for his bread aud milk; but his
sleepless nights did away with all suspicious Of
an opiae privately administered, which friend
kindly suggested Triling discrepancies grad
ual.y crept into Miss Lucy's account Of their
daily walks, and the touching history Of her
own orphanhood the incidents Of which found
a sympaihzing listener 10 her new mistress.
4 Ii never had occurred 10 her To doubt a
word Of it heretofore and Lrcy had been re-
lieved of much drudeery that Julia dragged
through with in the course of week, because
Mrs Cooper could not make up her mind 10 ask
a girl who "really looked as much like lady
as herself" and chad seen better days." TO do
! it. She waited on herself more than ever,
} and was becoming as much slave TO Lucy's
suggestions and opinions, as she had been to
! Julia's sulenness, in spite of her determination
t TO the contrary.
Mr. Cooper, having no such fear before his
D eyes, noted various symptoms of human imper-
lection in their al-accomplished maid ! but,
5 though his wife acknow ledged some Of them,
n and felt an uncomfortable surveillance over her
T self and her visitors, these new bonds were
] still harder 10 break than to last
Mr. Cooper, passing through an obscure
street one morning, TO arrive sooner at friend S
S counting house, met him squares distance
d from it, and stopped 10 discuss the business ar
y rsngement on which he was bent.
Fifty cents on dollar. - said Mr.. Allen
!. ''well, I'm sorry for poor Brown. III see
: Just look al ila, girl, Cooper. How little
i fathers and mothers know what become OF their
It children on, Of sight! See, that's a gentle
mans child. evidently. What filthy alley
I he's been taken 10. I've seen her befole
i though; she stays by The hour when she
comes and Of course the mother thinks the
:. boy is taking the air." .......
| Taking small pox more likely, Mr.. Cooper
r. yentured, ca.elessly. But what was his friend.
o asionishment TO see him spring forward, the
y next moment, and snatch the child away, tC
II the girls aslonishmeni, as we'll as his own.-
1t was Lucy who stood before him in speech
in less confusion, conscious that, only the day be
Is fore, she had assured Mrs. Cooper that sh,
never saw an acquaintance from one week.
end to the other, and would as soon give hin
n poison as candy, with which his little thin
III hands was.fed when she so suddenly encoun
re tered his father.
10 Mr.. Cooper had Mr. Aliens unconscious
b., testimony that il was nothing new. lie pai'
r her wages TO the day, and discharged her OF
il the spot, taking Johnny home HIMSELF befor
ny she could come for her trunk, and have an op
IL por,uniiy to tell her story TO his wife.
n tn Mra
e seemed to feel il a relief and she did indee
breathe more freely when The sobbing Luc
ng had kissed Master Johnny goodbye, and fo
N, lowed her trunk out of the house.
4 Lucy has got place, ma'am,' said Ann
x the cook, few days after a new girl had bee
il installed in the neat little nursery Il saw he
at The corner last evenin', ma am; an the lad
said she wouldn't ask any character Of such
tidy lookin' one. It's lady as comes her
lat sometimes and she lives in Twentieth Stree
Ell Lucy says
lis Mrs. Gregory = And Mrs. Cooper instan
,at ly felt secret uneasiness at being served up
ort Mrs. Gregory as Mrs. Miller had been TO he
ey But, dear me, there's nothing she could sa
ad against US. But. she had just discovered
ve- secret hoard of sugar in one of the nursei
drawers, WIN which Het ooy hdu efiuent
a been coaxed and bribed, and which account'
md for his pallor and loss Of appetite. So 81
was forced to doubt her late handmaid in mo
er- ways than one.
,e- She met Mrs. Gregory that same aflerno
lii at Siewar's and imagined that she was pu
as posely avoided. Weeks went by, and her Ia
you call in Twentieth street was still unreturned
'e.' you have not seen Jane lately, have you
Thy said mutual friend, who, wors,ed work
hand, was passing sociabe evening.
ned No. returned Mrs. Cooper, coldly, hopi
ats in her heart the subject nigh, be dropped.
If you won, be vexed, Ill tell yon the rf
ire. son now PROMISE -u 80.
'I'l promise for her. said her husband.
. Mrs. Cooper had devoully trusted he "
his safe in the depths of John Halifax, Gent
rac- man. when the conversation began but, ST
pecting what was 10 follow, he laid down I
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