The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-03-06
MisffllInaons.
THE BLOSSOM IN THE WILDER
NESS.
ny VIRGINIA y. TOWNSEND.


DoSou ever judge, reader, of the charao
ter Of the inmates from the physiognomy o
their houses? do. And 90 when the stag
swep. round the corner, looked out cagcr'
ly, for, as the driver had told me. about
.ten rods up the road stood the house ol
Philauder White. Ills wife was my moth
o-'s own cousin, and was jus. thirteen yrs
Did when went there to make my first Wis.
1t. Their, had been sono quarrel between
the two families two or three score OF years
anterior to my visit; and though my moth
-r and Mrs. White never participated in this
the aud of their ancestors hid doubtless
enyolyed some GOODNESS between them.
But to 'cut a long story Short for the
pen and paper gossip may be more disnifed'
but not whit better than tea party scandal
had b,en an invalid all the previous win
der.
When the soft April days, to which my
mother looked forward so eagerly, came,
they brought no bloom to my cheek, no Wig
or to my step. Ny constitution seemed To
have lost all its recupeatve power, and tho
doctor said, "send her into the country Mrs
May. If that doesn't help her, she is lost
to you"
Just before this, Mrs. White had heard,
through mutual friend, Of my illness, and
the very day Of the blunt physicians ulti-
natum, brought letter to my mother
"For the sake Of my old love, Janet it
read, "let all that may have come between
you and me at an earlier time be forgotten.
rhe grass is springing green on the hills oil
Meadow Brook, and-now, in this late May
-is the time for Jennie, to come to u.s.
There is q prophecy of health for her in the
soft wind that is lifting the edges OF my
paper Us I write. We know sho is your all
and we will be very tender Of your darling.
Will YOU not trust her with US for single
summer?"
And before another week had passed my
trunk was packed for "Philander White,
Esq, Meadow Brook"
looked out, as siid, and there sat the
pleasant white house, with its green window
blinds, between the shrubbery in front and
the cherry trees behind. My heart went
out to it at once and it did moment later
to the Sen,le-yoiced woman and tho fair
dark-haired girl, who rushed out on the
broad front steps, and, kissing my cheeks
said, "Cousin Jennie, you are very well
come"
But it is not to tell you Of that summer,
though look across the grey years to its
green picture in the Maryland Of my mem.
ory, that have taken up my pen this morn
ing.
Suffice 1t, the mountain breezes Of Mead
ow Brook did their work well {; and when
in the early autumn, my mother came for
her child, she should hardly identify the ro-
sy checked girl that rushed in with her curls
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