The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-12-24
VOLUME VII-NUMBER 19.
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Marie, Marie =
l don't care, Deb-I will, and so
: see if / don't = said the little girl, ele
waiting first one aud then the other oi
bef snowy shoulders, while Deborah, hel
a old nurse, secured the loops of her white
4 dress. If we've got to have a cross
hateful, screw faced old maid in the
house, IN torment her all | can. II
stick pins 10 the back Of the chair-I'l
tip over her plate at dinner---Fll pu,
things in the path to make her stumble
when she walks in the garden I'll be
just as bai as | know how!'
This threatening speech was deliver
ed with various emphatic pantomimes,
which made doubly effective.
Marjory Ellis was iatberless and moth
erless. She hved with her doting old
grandfather, in the brown-grcy cottage
that stands the very last on the road
leading from Stanton to Greeudale -
She was in the broadcast sense of the
term, a spoiled child doubt much
whether shc had ever. been refused any
thing during all The six years she bad
lived with her grandfather and Ma,iory
was now twelve .t -
There was no other chldreu at the
cottage, SO the little girl carried it with
high hand. She was bright, inquis.
tive, impetuous child, with great many
good impulses and warm feelings, but
her heart was like a garden that requir-
ed much wedding.
1t was with anything but feelings of
satisfaction that Majory had heard her
grandiatber's announcement, two days
before, that he had received a letter
from Jessie Mann, an old friend and
scboolmate of her mothers, stating that
she was travelling through the upper
part of the State, and, would if conven-
lent, and agreeable, make them short
visit. Her grandfather had at once
written the lady an urgent invitation to
come to the cottage, and be should ex-
pect her the latter part Of the week.
Now Marjory had conceived an intense
aversion to all old maids as the two
or three with whom she had been brought
in personal contact stood in her view, as
the type of that most shamefully malign-
ed class of individuals so that the an
ticlpations Of Miss Mann's visit seemed
to arouse all the beigerant propen.ties
Of her nature, and she determined to
circumvent every effort of that ady's to
command or tyrannize over her. !
Ma,jory had already settled in her
mind what sort Of Il person she must be
tall, thin and angular, with a sharp
vuoice, square pale lips, and general
expression OF countenaLce which re-
minded one OF northeast wind in
March ....
1t was Saturday afternoon when Miss
Mann arrived. Marjory heard the stage
stop, and Immediately hurried out by
the back door into the orchard, her little
red mouth Set in AN expression Of most
iDdomltable obstinacy.
She did not return until supper time.
Deborah met her at the door.
Come right into the parlor, Marie
she SAID, The lady's been iDquirng
for you balfa a dozen times how could
you run of so = .I ..... .rI
Because | wanted to- was the salts.
factory reply; aud the saucy, willful
child brushed past Betty, aud IN no very
clIiatory mood, entered the purlor. 4,
The lady who WIS standing at the Ia.
bic examining some neat engravlngs
turned round hastily, aud there
was tremulous ,agciness 10 hcr voice
M she asked
Are you really Annio's little girl
Come 10 me, my child
She was pale, aud on tho whole plain,
this ogrcss of Alatjorys fancy, with soii
daik bair folded heavily about her checks
with large, serene, grey eyes, and
mouth, that most Significant feature In n
woman's face, not small, but full, tender
aud one that dropped naturally into
.s.tlo. Aud Ma,iu,v With hof woaIaf.