The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-09-06
The man made no answer.

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tell you lie LowF
No answer still.
Bill! DO you think I'd tell you q lie
nowF said she, as though her life depend
ed on his answer.
No, no. lass said no at last, 4 dom,
think you'd tell lie any time-but now
and he hesitated.
Where's Jcnnyr interrupted the wo.
man.
Here said one of the youngest women,
standing up so that she might be seen.-
what do you wanti'
Jenny, you'll find tho key of the green
trunk in the china mug with Nelly on it.
l wish you'd look in the box, and get Inc
my cid Bible OUT
| The girl found the key, and asked where
the box was.
% dear, forgot, it's under me- raid
the woman.
There, never mind said he, 4 don't
want any fuss about it,
20, Bill, dear, wish you'd lift me up
little, and pull it out. You can put the
broken chair uuder to keep mo up them
mo, never mind said he, it'll pain
you So
%. Bill. dear. don't mind, ! wish you
would
He did it at last; and, after some trouble
and a few suppressed groans, the box was
pulled out to the middle of the floor, open
cd, and there, wrapped up in paper and
neatly hid, was the Bible; the paper grea-
| sy. from contact with disused head dresses,
garlands, bands, and other small accesso.
ries of the dress Of the Queen Of the Are
ma. They gave it to the womaa, who
soon aske !, where's Mary?'
%, she is here now said che Of the
women, and gill about five came running
in; she had been performing the part Of
little fairy in the just finished scene; her
wand was still in her hand. and the gauzo
wings on her shoulders; she took them eff,
laid down the silvcred stick, aud care TO
the bed.
MARY, dear, arc you thereT
Yes, mother Pm just done, aid the
people clappcd so when Julia took me On
her shoulder
Put her on tn, box, she cau't see her.
suggested some one; it WAS push to
where the child stood, and then the moth
er said:
MARY, I'm going away
%, mother, where tof
But before go want yoI to see me
and father friends again. The child star.
ed with wonder, but the woman, not heed.
ing her, continued: Bill, dear, have YOU
90; the paper off the Biblel Well, open
1t ut the New Tcs'a.9cnt.'
Here, ono of YOU women find il. Jen-
ny, will you? said the man.
Jenny did and gave it Lack.
Now. Bill, :aisc me up y little
%, never mind, said he, 4 know you'll
get hurt
She only looked repetition Of her re-
quest; and lEcn taking the open book from
his hands, said:
Bill, dear, you know YOU SAID there
was something wrong between that Lon
don chap and me. told you at the time
there WAS not, and you diln't believe me,
though YOU didn't say SD; and you don't
believe it now said she with increased en-
ergy. Now, Bill, hear me swear that as
| believe am dying woman, believe
him to be a true fricn! of yours She
kissed tie hook and said, DO you Lolieyc
INC now "
YES, yes said the man, Il do, do!
as though somc spell over him had broken. |
4 DO, Nell, do! o, Nell! what a--fool |
I've been, and what coward not to be.
lcve it before! o, Nell forgive me, for
give me, I've done you wrong
The woman raised herself by great ef
fort to reach his hand, am kissing ii, said:
Il do, Bill. know you'd do me justice
some day
20, Nell, it, not too laic-uot too late
You'll get better, and well be MS happy rs
we were before this
The woman only drew his head to her,
and kissed him; while lie, reused, kissed
her again and again. You do believe me,
don't you, dear?
%, forgive me, Nel o, forgive m =
were the only words he could find in the
rush of his newly found trust.
Bills wantedr shouted some one at the
door, odd Whips called you three times
Here's the white, Bill s. id Jenny,
you want touching; and she brought it,
and stood with tho lamp while he painted
out the traces Of tears on his cheeks IN
front Of broken looking-gass.
The red will do, Bill; 90 on, or you'll
have him in her, and she won't like that
Bill went on, and tho doctor arrived
few minutes afterward. He was a short,
s'out, good humored looking man, with q
brisk way Of speaking that at once secured
obedience.
Now. then said he, what's miss D.
l could make nothing OF that fellow you
sent after me. Ahr said he, altering his
tone as his eyes, growing used to the light,
look in the woman's face on the bed.
what do they call your tuning to the
youngest of the assembled women.
Jenny, SIR
will you stop. All the rest CO."
The women grumblingly obeyed, and
he stopped down to examine his patient.
when did this happen, JcnnyT
Il ast night, SIR
'Why didn't you send beforel'
we did send to oao here in the village,
but he wouldn't come, because sho belong
ed to the circus. He sent her this hand.
ing him a paper.