The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-03

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persons, because they are happy, should
want to make other folks sick. But there
i. great deal of aeIfshness in the display
of newly married happiness as that essay
by Ella tells us.
Frank sighed, and that sigh revived the
courage of Cynthia Now, she thought,
he will say Snip :" Can l say Snap I"
Oh no.
She put on little coquetry, You will
not have any cake at your wedding, Mr.
Frank" she said Everything about that
will be the perfection of good sense and
reason"
She had intended to be sarcastic, but as
the speech fell from her lips, it sounded
50 1t was trihing-unworthy She wish
ed she had not said it It's tone was Out
Of harmony with what she felt
Come said FRANK, "let US feed them %
He took one of the handles OF the tray,
and the bridesmaid took the other The
room was very merry. The cake was
served with plenty of noise, and the wine
after it. Frank seemed TO be quite self.
possessed and attentive to every body.
Cynthias beaux could make nothing of her.
She answered their questions wrong A
rumor ran than she was wearing the will
low for Seth Tsggart. She declined 10
dance on plea that she must keep herself
disengaged for her duties as a bridesmaid
and, indeed her head ached so she
feared the motion. Agonized by her self
consciousness, and with too little spirit left
to make head against the reports that were
going about, she could not but perceive
that Frank seemed not to remember her
"Who is that lady in blue, Nr Handy
is so taken up with ?'' she said to one of
the party Cynthia had always called him
Frank" before. but consciousness made
her now reject the old familiarity.
ooh that is somebody very wonderful
Everybody else is afraid to speak to her
She has written book Frank seems to
be right down flirting with her, doesn't he'
l declare, now, he always wanted some
body out of the way Nobody here was
good enough for Frank Have you heard
he has been offered professorship and is
going away? He i. going to live in the
same place she does / shouldn't wonder
at his courting her-should you"
u don't care" said Cynthia in her
heart, Il don't care, Oh yes do
care that be should have weighed me in the
balance so calmly this afternoon and found
me so unworthy that be takes back the
love he has offered me Has lie Judged
me very cruelty or am quite unworthy
Of his attachment Oh think that this
morning l had it in my power to be happy
all my life, when l refused him Oh how
can any one compare any other man with
him But he loved me only to-day
and now, tonight, his reason says am
not good enough to be his wife and he
is afraid of being unhappy with me. In-
deed, am not good enough-but would
try to be-"
If you would snip IT
1t was Frank Hsndy's voice She
caught the word, and looked up eagerly
Frank saw her, and stopped embarrassed
He was holding up torn fold in the dress
of his partner in blue
"If l knew where TO lind needle and
thread" said the authoress, with half
look at the bridesmaid
81 know Let me sew IT up for you, -
said Cynthia
Her pride had left her She felt hum.
bled to the dust II would be relief to
? do something for this woman--better than
herself-whom Frank preferred to her
Let me do it," she said earnestly.
Mr.. Handy, l shall depend upon your
escort"
Frank Handy bowed, and the girls went
. together into bedroom
Escort was it his escort to the city,
He had told her be should go there
: Cynthia sewed up the hole in the blue
4 dress, very sadly and quietly.
The animation faded from the young
authoress's face, as she looked down on
, Cynthia's quivsring lip, and saw big
tear fall upon her sewing. She had heard
: some one say she had been the victim oI
+, false hopes raised by Seth Tsggart, and
had in Der heart despised her for it ; but
now she felt as if the sad, hesrt-broker
) love bestowed on him Endorsed him as fai
D better than he looked. 1t was woe
| however, to which abe could not openl,
allude But. as Cynthia set the last stitci
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