The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-23

more J! cHclnmed' rubbing my eyes
with my coat-sleeyo. " No one ever had
better mother than have"
sat down in chair and sobbed out
right. | looked around ior something to
take with me that my mothers hand
blessed with her touch. There was a
spinning wheel in the room where / slept
at the end Of the spindle hung "a wooden
roll Wi;h my KNIFE half cut aud half
tore it off, pressed it feryently to my lips.
and tho placed it tendery in my vest
pocket had not time to 10 more the
old clock in the kitchen warned me
solemnly that my appointed time had ar
rived and with slow, sad, yet noise
less step left the house. Once in the
open air, my vented ligbtness of spiritre,
turned l ccnsoed myself with the tho't
that in few years | should return again
strong, healthy, wealthy and influential
man, an honor to my parents, a blessing
to my friends, and the husband Of Janet.
have often wondered since, how |
succeeded in getting away from home
with my horse and cart without arousi7g
any one.-but as good luck would have
it, ! made triumphant exit from the old
place, and in few moments was Jogging
fearessly along towards the home of Jan.
ct. My only dread was OF the little
spirited Fan; if after all she bctray us
what dreadful, direlul, desperate mis-
chief it would be what wretched pre-
dicament affairs would be in groancd
aloud at the thought; said that il it was
right that we should 90, we should 60; if
it wasn't right, in all probability we shoull
stay at home yet right or not right, if
that miserable Fan did bctray us, Id
spend all my days in avengng the wrons
that was certain Was | in earnest p
did mean it2 But we shall see.
How earnestly and anxiously gazcd
towards the chamber window Of Janet, as,
after fastening my horse by the road side,
walked cautiously up the long lane that
led to the doctors house. Oh joy mex
pressibie the waving of white hand
kercliei in the moonlight told me that
everything was right, that in Il few mo-
ments | should clasp Janet to my breast,
mine forever! All, happy I was;--so
happy, indeed, that l stood still there in
the moonlight, with my two hands pressed
firmly to my left side, Cor fear my over
loaded heart would burst away from me
entirely. y hat figure must have cut
then! What an Apollo must have
looked, with my fine proportions wrapped
up in my wedding suit was slender
/ was tall | was gaunt I'm sure / was
ugly-Iooking at that moment,
What possessed me cannot tell, but
from IN old chest had taken blue
broad-cloth swallowtail coat that had be-
onged to my grandfather in the time Of
the wars, and in the pride Of my youth
had got into it. The tail came nearly to
my heels, while the waist was nearly to
my arm-pits. The sleeves reached down
to the tips of my fingers, hiding entirely
from view the luxuriant pair Of white silk
/ gloves, which ! had allowed myself or
the important occasion. Above this un-
couth pile of broad-cloth was perchel a
hat Oh ye stars and moon that looked
upon it, testify with me that it was hat
IA hat and not stovepipe, hat and not
boot leg That hat looking back as
if through the mists of twenty-five years,
it seems to have arisen to the stature OF
two full feef, while the brim appears a
little wider than my thumb nail. My
eyesight isn't quite as perfect as it used
to be, and so | may not see quite rightly
Make all due allowance dear reader.
say that | must have looked ugly al
that moment. BE that as it may, | lho't
l was looking splendidly; thought the
figure ] cut, was an honor to the name OF
Brown and proud of it; proud as
walked up to Janets window, and placed
carefully there the ladder that was to
bear her to my side. Everything was
silent about the house. Fate was surely
with US Fanny had been bribed into
service. As ! stood there, could sec
her light, 1.-the little figure fit noiselessly
to and fro by the window, aud how
blessed hcr-blessed her from the very
bottom Of my heart, for her Kindness!
At last Janet commenced descendius
the ladder as she did so, the moo
crowded in out Of sight under a hug,
black cloud.-The very heavens favored
us; our success might be looked upon as
fixed. Three steps more upon tho ladder
rounds, and Janet's dainty little fee