Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-29

/ IaiSeu uroWS anu rOunu mouth, Sne had
been on the point of whistling ever since Let
ty began-it was an old, naughty trick of hers
but now she laughed outright
No sort of inspiration left, Sally [ must
patch up LettyS fate myself Flatter not
yourself that she is going to be a good girl
and marry in meeting not she ! If there's a
Wild scatter-brained, handsome, dissipated
goddess youth in all Slepington, it is on him
that teSty little heart will ix,-and think him
not only hero, but a prodigy of genius
Friend A Ills will break her heart over Lefty ;
but I'd bet y pack of gloves, that in three years
you'll see that juvenile Quakeress in a scarlet
satin hat and feather with blue shawl and
green dress, on the arm of fast young man
with black hair, aud cigar in his mouth"
Why where did thee ever see him, Jo-
sey ?" exclaimed Lefty, now rosy with quick
| bushes
| The question was irresistible. 10 and I
burst into peal of laughter that woke Friend
AlllS from her nap, and, bringing her into the
parior, forced Us to recover cur gravity and
presently 10 and | took leave
Lefty was an orphan and lived with her
cousin, Friend AlIis. |, too was alone but
l kept a tiny house in Slepington, part of
which | rented, and 10 was visiting me-
AS we walked home, along the quiet street
overhung with willows aud sycamorcs, | said
to her, 10, how came you to know Letty's
secret r.
My dear, did not know it any more than
you but | drew the inference Of her tastes
and her character She is excitable,-even pas
SiOnate but her formal training has allowed
no scope for either trait, and suppression has
hut tal ba
some excitement +; what, then, could be more
natural than that her fancy should light upon
some person utterly diverse from what she is
used to see? That is simple enough. | hit
upon the black hair on the same principle,
like in difference The cigar seemed wonder
ful to the half-frightened, all-amazed child :;
but who ever has seen fast young man with
out cigar p
am afraid it is Henry Maiden" said |,
meditatvely; he is all you describe, but he
is also radically bad besides, having been in
the Mexican war, he will have the prestige of
hero to Lefty. How can the poor girl be
undeceived before it is quite too late ?"
"What do you want to undeceve her for
Sally? Do you suppose that will prevent her
marrying Mr. Maiden ?"
IL should think So most certainly ~
Not in the least If you want Lefty to
marry him, just judiciousIy oppose it. Go to
her, and say you come as friend to tell her
Mr.. Maldcn's faults, and the result will be,
she will hate you, and be deeper in love with
him than ever"
You don't give her credit for common
sense, Jo"
Just so much as any girl Of her age has in
love Did you ever know woman who give
up a man she loved because she was warned
against him ?-Or ever if she knew his charac-
ter WELL herself? | don't know but there are
women who could do it, from sheer religious
principles. | believe you might, Sarah. 1t
would be hard struggle and wear You to Il
shadow in mind and body but you have a
conscience, and, for a woman with a heart as
soft as pudding, the most thoroughly rigid
streak of duty in you none of which Lefty
has to depend on. No if You want to save
to Saratoga, to Newport, to Washington ;
turn her small head with gayety: she is pref,
ty enough 10 have a dozen lovers at any wa
terng place it is only propinquity that favors
Mr.. Maiden here"
81 can't DO that, Josephine have not the
means, and Miss = Ills would not have the will,
even II she believed III your prescription
Then Lefty must stay here and bide her
time. You believe in special Providence,
Sarah, don't you 2"
Yes, of course / do"
"Then cannot you leave her to that care :?
Circumstances do not work for you. Perhaps
1t is best that she should marry him, suffer,
live, love, and be refined by fire
My heart sunk at the prospect of these pos
sibilites. Josephine pnt her arm round me.
sally" said she, in her softest tone, " griev-
| ed you dear, this afternoon. ] did not mean
to. grieved myself most Please forgive me?'
havn't anything to forgive, JO," said |.
| What You said to me was true, painfully
true, and being so, for moment panied me
should have been much happier to he mar
/ ried, | know but now daren't think of it.
have lost great deal. | have