The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-01-11

I your future husband may bel am no
: rich enough TO keep sick people and idlers
n i think you will remember ill the day o
: your death what good mistress hav,
been. All the servants who have left my
situation have wished themselves bach
3 again.
Anne attempted in a meek spirit to dis
cover and imagine all sorts of benefits re.
ceved by her from Mrs. Darah. 1t was q
{ hard and microscopic task; however, she
succeeded in it at last.
Il ar snre, missus, she said, q thank you
heartily for all your kindnesses.'
} IL is no more than your duty, Anne,
answered the lady, with gratifcd smile
and folding ii the hands.
NO, missus. And il you sec q young
man walking here on Saturday, looking up
and down at the house, ma'am, would you
be 80 very kind, ma'am, as to send tho
new servant ard ask him il his name is
William Griffin and ifit is William, ma'am,
to ask him to GO to my fathers, and I will
send him word where am, ma'am? And
Anne waited, trembling and blushiny.
Anne Moss, I can't think how you dare
to take such liberty with me and my house,
answered her mistress Il have always
warned you of tho folly and unfitncss Of
young women, who have their living to get,
keeping lovers. You know that my servants
are not allowed to have followers; and it is
most likely that shall send an officer af-
ter the young mar, instead of my servant,
il see him prowling up and down, looking
into these windows. So the girl left, dis.
pirited.
Poor Anne feared to 90 and 1.-Two with
her drunken father, lest she should be in
suited by any of his low associates, and lest
he should be tempted to lay his hands upon
the little store she had laid up for he- VIII
liam and herself. So sho was obliged to
seek a lodging in the town, whero she cod
live decently until that day next week,
when William would take her as his wife
10 her first and last real l.home.
The misfortune che most Dreaded
namely, the dissipation of her little capital
began the moment she had left her mis-
tress' house. To :fave expense, she made
up her mind to carry her own trunk to her
lodging. She tried to do so but she found
herself too weak. She was obliged to hire
carrier; and that involved dip into Viii.
liam's money! as she delighted to call it,
So that the dip might be as shallow as
possible, she engaged lad instead Of
man for her porter. But before they had
half reached the quarter of the town whero
Anne's lodging was situated, his boyhood
began to evince itself in very visible man
ner. He painted, and drew long breaths,
and perspired greatly, and now and then
stumbled under tho weight His pride
tried TO hide these signs He endeavored
to stimulate himself with the thought of his
payment; but his efforts at self encourage
ment came out very plainly in certain nois-
es, and in his unconscious compression and
biting of his lips. The tender hearted lass
cspied them; she could not endure to see
him so vcxcd and inconvenicnced; and so,
for the rest of the way, she insisted on
bearing half the weight.
When she had arrived in her room, and
had dismissed her young porter, and sat
down to rest herself, she began to feel the
bitter results Of her efforts with the heavy
trunk. She was very i'll when she started;
she was now ten times worse. Her head
ached fiercely her breath vas short. audi.
bic, and gasping; her whole body was
parchcd and feverish.
She called her landlady into the room,
and asked her for little cold water. The
woman had counted on providing supper
for her; as she heard her stay was TO last
only week, she meant to make tho week
paying one, or she had prepared some
twopenny or three-half penny sausages.
which were eventhcn figuring in her minds
bill of fare at sixpence apiece. In rather
disappointed tone, therefore, she asked |
Anne if she should bring her nothing to
eat. The poor girl said she was sure she
could not swallow ANYTHING. The landlady
said she had some beautiful now laid eggs |
they were kind that wonderfully cured
headache and fever; indeed, she told her
that if any of her neighbors were i'll in that
way, they always camo and begged for one
Of these eggs. Anne was credulous, and
did not doubt her landlady's possession of
the medical nen which laid such eggs; but
Anne was also resolute-no one could per-
suade her out Of her own methods. She |
said that she felt good long sleep was
what she needed the most, and that she
should at once 90 to bed.
But although she went to bed she could
get no sleep; all the long night she was
tossing restlessly over and over. She re-
membered that William had promised, il |
he could get away, to call on her two or
three times before Saturday, for which a
friend had promised to lend him horse
and cart. She began to picture to herself
his astonishment when he heard that she
was gone, and she wondered if her mistress
would relent, and be communicative. She
made up her mind that, so soon as the NOR
ming had come, she would lie in wait for
the now servant, as she went out shopping,
and beg her to watch for William; and if
he called, to tell him where his sweetheart
had removed.
But, when the morning came, she knew
nothing of purposes and resolutions; she
was in brain fever, talking and rambling
wildly.
The landlady wondered that she saw or
heard nothing Of her at breakfast; and go
ing up to look after her, found her in that
frightful condition. The woman neither