New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-12
aE0sr sIOxIEs AID THEIR PHILOSOPHY

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Nv grandmother was woman Of strong mind
good, bold, upright old lady, Il mean, that she
held herteif qprightl who had no nerves to speak
of, atd elch sound health, that it was favorite
had never kept her sbed q single day, except my
dear, YOU know, (she used to whisper) upon GER
tan ccSai0ps, lshe had eight children) which can
moi properly b called maladies.'' My grand
mother did not believe in ghosts Yet, my dcars .
behave Il ghosts hut II For when was at school
IsaW n Appearance. Miss Lloyd, who kept the
AchooI MAs an excellent person, and we school
girls Mere all very fond Of herf0nd, though lit
tle aila'd ~ her, TO- sor she vas strict disciple
0f my nrHsest friendships, that have lasted me
through life, were formed there. But there was a
gin there, Miss Hake, who was not exactly a
dear friend q mine, but who, nevertheless, took
&reatdeal Of notice Of me, in droll, half-joking
sort " 4 way. She was q good deal older than
myself Ahe might be fourteen or fifteen-quite one
Of The older girls. And she rather provoked me-
becauaes ehe treated me as d chId-kindly yet
sun q Achild. She used to plague me, too. She
wolld pinch my little fat cheeks till they were
redder fhan nature had made them, which was red
enough always playfnly yet still she hurt me
sometimes and when she said, Now, / am going
70 have cherry ont Of your cheek!' i used to run
away nd hide myself 10 some dark corner. Still
was Iather fond Of Miss Hake. The truth was, my
feelilg. towards her were odd mixture Of liking
and dHltkingy OF attraction and fear. / am pretty
snre the liking predOminated. She was tail.
handsone glrl, with dark, curling hair, and large
a yacation time Was past and gone and we were
~ back at school, except Miss Hake. No reason
~ given why Miss Hake was still absent, nor
Mere we other girls surprised that Miss Hake should
~ st home week q two longer than we did.
The thing had happened before. Miss Hake was q
rich, favored pupil, and her holidays were ant to
70 rher 81 the longest, well as Of the oftenest
Man1Qn Shls 70 you, my dears, lest you should
suppose that my much thinking about Miss Hake
49, We cause Of the curious appearance which
am about 70 tell you Of. did not think about
Mle1 hake inst at the time to which refer. In
deed, seemed TO have forgotten all about her.
1 Ng M0Aoer we were very busy, repeating the
nCedasy ~ q. sasks; wnch q am sorry to say) we had
Mss Lloyd was, on such occasions, rather nut out
and somewhat Of the crossest About her I was
Obliged to think great DEAL But, do assure
you. MISS Hake had gone quite out of my head.
One eyenng--it was towards the latter end Of
August (0ur summer vacation was in july and nari
Of Augusta one warm summer evening, at nearly
q Clock, was in my bedroom, with some girls who
slept ~ ne satne apartment IA good large apart
s;nb eny y h.S MSa;sg w ana very busy sorting my linen
token, i Wasa Saturday evening. Everything wa
regular ct our school. As soon as the linen wa
brought home from the wash on Saturday evening
We eHH went up 70 our rooms to see that it wa
right and 70 put il by. Each girl had littl
clothes basket Of light wicker work. Each OH
had certain drawers to herself in certain chests al
Vlded between the occupants of the bedroom; an,
N these, ones own drawers, and no Others. eacl
grl was expected smoothly to Law away her line,
N NICE order, too. Articles were not To h,
ni1eu, PIT sorted, 50 that caps should 20 witt
caps, and gowns with gowns. If we did not d,
lls-! Me fuMbled our drawers-the inspectress
VINO gaited matters daily reported us for untidines
anu MaS Lloyd exacted a fine Our weeks nncket
money had 70 pay for it. These repujations ,,ar
caretuily enforced, in order, as Miss IinvS oh
served, y 70 give us tidy habits.s On the Ssfnrda
night mention, was very busy sorting NV j;na, u
which mad come from the wash in q sadIy m;.a
up state. The bill that accompanied II was nat :
easy as nslal 70 verify. think some other girl
night caps had got into my basket 50
Al any rate Was longer than usual sorting m
things, and all the other girls had finished nrttir
away their linen before me- They had ali feft Il
room, however, without my having taken mut
notice OF that circumstance. I had laid by mo
Of the things In the drawers and was now stoopil
over my little basket in order to take the Ia
articles from II Though it was getting dusk, t
lignt IN the room was quite strong enough to q
mt q my seeing any object with perfect distin
ness: Suddenly some feeling made me lift \
mead rom the basket, and as it were, looking Q
rom the window curtain, though not all shaded
! called ont ioyfully 0or I was really glad
see her} n OH Miss Hake, ,are you come |? . Nj
Haka made no answer. | said, = Oh, Miss Hak
won't You speak to me?u No answer, Som
lang else said - forgot what-but all of a s,l
den little feeling Of terror crept over me, b
cause Miss Hake would not speak, and becau
she looked at me very fxedly with her large dal