Litchfield enquirer., 1857-09-03

parents had taken her the rides on Mothe Luret's donkey, that they could not make g to the right without pulling him to the left the cherry gathering and the sails on tn lake in the boat of the innkeeper.
 ! These recoliections have all the charm an(
 freshness of childhood Frances recalls t,
 herself less what she has seen than what sht
 has felt. Whilst she is talking the cloth i laid, and We sit down under tree Before us
 winds the valley of Seyres it's many-storiec
 houses abutting upon the gardens and slopes o the hill on the other side spreads out the lpark of St. Cloud with its magnificent clumps
 of trees interspersed with meadows above
 stretch the heavens like ali immense ocean, il which the clouds are sailing ! look at this
 beautiful country, and 1 listen to these good
 old maids 1 admire, and l am interested
 and time passes gently on without my percev
 ing it.
 I At last the sun sets, and we have to think
 of returning Whilst Madeleine and FraLc.. $
 clear away the dinner, 1 walk down to the ! manufactory to ask the hour The merrv-ll,,-
 king is at its height the blasts of the tromb-
 oas resound from the baud under the acacias /;
 for few moments l forget myself with look ing about; but have promised the two sis
 ters to take them back to the Bellevue Stati,n : 1 the train cannot wait and 1 make haste to | climb the path again which leads to the wal nut trees.
 Just before reached them, I heard voices on the other side of the hedge Madeleine | and Frances We're spraking to a poor girl whose clothes were burnt, her hands blacken- ed, and her face tied up with blood-stained bandages. 1 saw she Was one of the girls en- ployed at the gunpowder mills, which are built higher up on the common. An explosion had taken place a few days before the girls mother and elder sister were killed she her self escaped by miracle, and was now left without any means of support. She told all
 this with the resigned and unhopeful manner of one who has always been accustomed to suffer. The two sisters were much affected ; 1 saw them consulting with one another in a low tone then Frances took thirty sous out of little silk purse, which was all they had left, and gave them to the poor girl. I has tened on to that side of the hedge but, be- fore 1 reached it, met the two old sisters, who called out to me that they would not re- turn by the railway, but on foot /!
 1 then understood that the money they had meant for the journey, had just been given to the beggar Good, like evil, is contagious :; run to the poor wounded girl, give her the sum that was to pay for my own place, and return to Frances and Madeleine and tell them 1 will walk with th3m.
 I am just come back from taking them home aud have left them delighted with their day, the recollection of which will long make them happy
 This morning l was pitying those whose lives are obscure and joyIess now, 1 under stand that God has provided d compensation l with every trial. The smallest pleasure de- rives from rarity relish otherwise unknown.
 Enjoyment is only what we feel to be such, and the luxurious man feels no longer sate- ty has lost him his appetite, while privaton preserves to the other that fr.t of earthly bles>ings--the being easily nude hoppu. Oh that could persuade every one o; this that so the rich might not abuse their riches, and the poor might have patience. If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the re ccpton of it is the rarest of virtues. Ma,!, leinc and Frances Ye poor old maids ! whose courage, resignation and gen. l erous hearts are your only wealth, pray for the wretcled who give themselves up to de- spair fer the unhappy who hate and envy ; and for the unfeeng into whose enjoymeuts no pity enters