Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-06-17

shown them to you. The m;gnonette.
has been so thrifty this year. and the
verbenas are beginning to look beauli-
fully
4 wonder how many bouquets you cut
and send to Mrs. Blight, in the course
Of the summer
Miss Benedict began to feel hotter than
the cool shades of the walnut trees would
naturally allow Of.
But our flowers are all common they
never seem worth sending to any one
If you were unable to go out Of your
room from one years end to another,
sweet peas, and misnonctte, and few
tea.roseb buds. now and then. would help
the hours along1 amazingly, particularly y
as happen to know Mrs. Blight is very
fond OF flowers, and has never been ac-
customed to exotics. When they lived
in one OF the Grant cottages, and had
the prettiest door-yarl in the row,
many a time your mother and have
stopped to admire it.
There go the horses round to the
door. Miss Fanny felt herself partial ly
inclined to plead guilty, bat was not
sufficiently amiab!e to do it at the NOM
ent. 1t is hard to take 4 catalogue Of
other peoples sins. negligences, and
ignoranccs, discover in compiling it.
that you have quite as many ot your
own .No... how easy it would be for
Mrs. Ashley to drive round to our house,
and give US the variety Of ride occasion
ally. 1t would not take her half mile
out of her way.
/ You might not be ready when she
came; and she might not have the hall
hour that she drove around and your
toilet would take to spare
Time why she has nothing to d.
from morning TIL night; and if her times
50 very precious, how easy it would be
to send one OF the servants over and ask
me TO be ready. | don't see why you
are So
so what my imiable daughter:
Miss Frances would have sad dis
agreeable, bad she finished her sentence
at the moment but she bethought herself,
and said, more quietly. Why so teazing
father. Now YOU know it's just as |
say; she has house full of servants and
nothing to do,and i. would not hurt her
IN the least
You have five rooms TO see to, and
she twenty, besides all these grounds and
out buildings
But she does not do it. There is the
gardener, and the coachman, and three
glrls in the house.
I've he ard you say it was NOR. work
to look after Ann than to do all the
WORK yourself Mrs. Ashley has five
times as much on her hands, then, as
you have, to say nothing OF company
and the perpetual round OF engagements
that make so large an establishment, ne.
cessary.'
You are determined to make your
side of the question: see. Miss Bcne-
dict rose from the rustic seat, for ner
father hld stayed his time, and it was
one of his office evenings, He offered
her his arm. as usual, on going down the
hill. His attentions TO her were almost
lovcrike, his only child. his sole intimate
friend. She stood still, and hesitated a
moment before she took it; but he looked
down on her SO go5d-humoredly, and
with such an evident understanding OF
her mood that she could not decline -
Well it is nnt Mrs. Ashley alone, father;
bat look at Maria Wood ridge. Now,
She always rides to cauIh, for in.
stance, and she kn VS. how easily you
take cold, and that you never like to
miss Il Sunday
They invariably have a carriage full,
Il KNOW that, in Summer; bat what
trouble would it be to her to send back
for Us : Fanny added, in Triumphant
tone. f + size had inslanced i priy4tou
that she knew her father felt, and err
taln.y there would be no reason why
Miss Woodbridge mi i.Atn1t avert It.
The old lad 5 execu,-. Frank flat
irons viii wear out As YOU neve!
have had a carriage, You are not suppos.
ed to know tnst many people who do
20 in their shab5ie,t conreyaEets, or
stay at home altogether. in wet weather.
because harness. and varnist!, and horses,
and coachmcn are tender plants. Every
shower, every revolution Of the wheel
does just 50 much towards iujanns and
running vehicle. Suppose you were
10 ask Ann iustto step IN and help Mrs.
Atwood with her cleaning half an hour
or So every saturday.
She had enough Of her own to do,
retortcd the unconscious Fanny. 'She d
not thank me for any such orders
Or Miss Woodbrldges coachman his
mistress, for being kept out III the ram
half an hour longer than was necessary.
Besides, suppose she got US there; how
pleasantly you would feel riding home
first, knowing that she and all her COM
pany were waiting in the vestibule for
the return of the carriage, tor Of course,
as they live two miles off, that would be
the most sensible way of proceeding
Here come the Ashleys ! do let US
90 out of sight, father And glad oil
the interruption, though not caring to
be seen walking along the dusty road
Miss Benedict tried to draw her fathe,
INTO lane just at hand.
What for, prays think, besides,
that Mrs. Ashley wishes to spc TX to us.
Yes, she does; she is telling the coach
man TO stop.
Mr. Benedict stood still and bowed