Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-03

country, IN unmeasured quantlIy, Dy the
bounty of Providence. Then when, as
with the colonel, there are no vices to be
pampered, no vanities to be cherished,
no artificial distinction to be sustained, no
conventional wants to be supplied, the
few hundred dollars do all for happiness
that money can do. The king who has
to ask his Commons for supplies, and the
Crmsuses ofour land who still desire more
than they have, might envy our content
ed colonel, or rather might have envied
him, till, after life of perfect exemption
from worldly cares, he came, for the
first time, to feel chill from the shad-
ows of the coming day-a distrustful fear
that the morrow might not take care of
itself.
Among other luxuries of a like nature,
| (the colonel was addicted to such indul-
gences) he had allowed himself to adopt
a little orphan-girl, Paulina Morton. She
came to the old people after all their own
girls were married and gone, and proved
so dutiful and SO helpful, that she was
scarcely less dear to them than their own
flesh and blood. Paulina, or Lina-for
by this endearing diminutive the tamil
liary called her-was pretty, very pref
ty girl, in spite of her red hair, which,
since it has lost the favor some beauty
divine or moral, of classical days, won fol
it, is considered, if not a blemish, GER
tainly an attribute of beauty. Paulina':
friends and lovers maintained that her:
was getting darker every day, and tha
even were it fire red, her soft blue eyes
spirited, sweet mouth, coral lips, and ex
quisitely tinted skin would redeem it
Indeed, good old Mrs. Barnard insisted
it was only red in certain lights, and thos
= certain Ithuriel lights Lloyd Barnart
never saw it in for he often expresse,
his surprise that any one could be s
blind as to call auburn red In thes
n days of reasons supremacy, we hav
=. found out there are no such /" daint
spirits as Ariel, Puck, and Oberon.-
=. Still the Lover is not disinchanted.
q "Lina, my child" said the old LADY
4 one evening attwilight, while the burnin
IS brands sent ruddy glow over the ceilin
g and were reflected by the tea-things, ou
4 'neat handed lass was arranging" Slim
n do you expect Mr. Lovejoy this evening
No, ma'am."
% Tomorrow evening, then ?"
= No, ma'am I never expect hi
Of again"
You astonish me, Lima. You don
sc mean you have given him his answer ?
Y. Lima smiled, and Mrs. Barnard CO..
[e tinued Il fear you have not duly Co
id sidered, Lima"
Mt "What is the use of considering, ma'al
r when we know our feelings ?"
of "We can't afford always, my child,
e. consult feelings. Nobody can say wo
us against Mr.. Lovejoy; he made the be
he of husbands to his first wife"
nd That was very good reason wi
he she should love him, ma'am."
,r- Mrs. Barnard proceeded, without hee
to ing the emphasis on she. " He has b
he three children, and two of them are out
10 the way"
NO GA poor reason, as have alwa
is thought, ma'am, to give either to fail
ci- or children for taking the place of fmotf
raj to them"
or "But there are few who are calculat
art for the place you are cut out for a 81
ain mother, or step-daughter."
.tic Paulina's ideas were confused by
he compliment, and she was on the po
her of asking whether step-daughter g
I'd daughter-in-law expressed the same
the lation, but some feeling checked her, Z
- instead of asking she blushed deeply
en-, The good old lady continued her sou
nds ings.
'os- " I did not, Lima, expect you to ma
nal Mr.. Lovejoy for love-"
ing " For what then, ma'am, should
of marry him p asked Lima, suspend
ion her housewife labors and standing bel
int the fire while she tied and united
age string of her little silk apron.
Ires Girls often marry. my child, to
ice a good home"
six "Marry to get home, Mrs. Barna
Lion 1 would wash, iron, sweep, scrub, beg
Ger, get home, sooner than marry to
by one and, beside, have not the pl
Iere antest home in the world ?-thank
: to your bounty and the coloners."
our Mrs. Barnard sighed, took Lina's
ass chubby hand in hers, stroked and pre-.
the it. At this moment, the colonel, '