Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-03
RASBURGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JULY B. 1857

colonel and his wife should have fancied
the governing passions and objects of
ordinary lives had never risen above
their sons horizon. They considered
him perfectly incompetent to provide for
the wants of the most frugal family, and
they had forgotten that love takes no
counsel from prudence. 1t was too late
now to remember it.
The Calonel, after repeated clearings
of his throat, taking off his spectacles,
wiping and putting them on again, said,
"Are you attached to Lima, my son %
He used the word in its preseriptive rus
tic sense.
"Yes, Sir"
"Strange never mistrusted it How
! long have you been so, Lloyd ?"
"Ever since / was old enough to I'M
| derstand my feelings but did not, till
5 very lately, know that could not bear
r the thoughts of her becoming attached to
e another"
B " Do you know what Lina's feelings
are ?"
No, Sir"
T " But surely you can guess, Lloyd"
! interrupted his mother.
" L can hope mother-and do"
"The sooner my son, you both get over
: it the better, for there is no kind of a
Q prospect for you.'
d "My child" said the good old man,
gently laying his hand on the shoulder
4 of his companion of fifty years, +" trust in
Providence our basket and store have
r. been always full, and why should moi
% our children's be? Lloyd now does the
4 business of the post-ofice while live
o they can share with US, and, when / an
n gone, it may be SO, that the heart of tn,
L ruler will be so overruled, that the offict
will be continued to Lloyd"
OF Lloyd either anticipating his mother
ID opposing arguments, or himself impelle'
irresistibly to the argument of love, dis
Or appeared, ard the old lady, who, it mus
I'd be confessed, lived less by faith than he
er gentle spouse, replied:
Te 1.-The Office continued to Lloyd VIII
ne ever heard of old Jackson's heart bein
,st overruled to do what he had mind nc
b. to do ?"
lie " My dear child!''
IL "Well, my dear, do hear me out; don
he the loaves and fishes all go on one sid
ty. of the table p
us Why we have had our plates filled
A pretty good while, my dear"
,a- "Well, my dear, old jackson coul
he not take the bread and butter out of th
ar mouth of revolutionary officer"
10 q am sure he has proved he qgOG
m not
or No, my dear, could not. Why, eve
all his own party-and we all know VIII
a. his party are in old Massachusetts"
us, "About like the other party my dear
gh My dear how can you say SC
ife. Why, his own party are the most violer
led giving over as it were, and low-liv'
oy- people yet they would be ashamed
in see you turned out of Office
ice. They would be sorry, know,
on we have many friends, and kind neig
-d's bors among them there's Mr.. Loom
vas Harry Bishop, and Mr.. Barton
no ." Mr.. Barton Lyman Barton n
res dear everybody knows, and everybo
says, Lyman Barton has been waiti
lan' this dozen years to step into your sho
e The post-office is just what he wants.
be sure he is snug man, and lives vii
and in his means but then he has growi
had family, and they are obliged to be pl
dent, and there would be enough to s
and he ought to have the office. And besid
and is he not always working for the part
ked writing in the papers, and serving tn
every way? and who was ever Jacks
you man, but for what he expected to get
t.? No, do, my dear, mark my wort
g you won't be cold, before Lyman Bar
ex- will be sending offa petition to Washi
urg- ton for the Office, and signed by ev'
r.. jackson man in town.
than I" don't believe it, my dear; | d'
his feel as if Lyman Barton would ask
" 1t the office"
feel @Well, my dear, you'll see, after .
are dead and gone, how it will be,
'oyd, may laugh-I mean ] shall see, if
'ents spared-you always have, colonel,
I'd to such a blind faith in everybody"
lonel My faith is founded on reason
and, experience, my dear. Through iif'
as if have found friends kind to me bey
her my deservings, and far beyond my
and pectations. 1 have got pretty near
she other shore, and / can't remember