Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-11-29

are IN the same direction, will you not tako a
seat in my boat!"
" came from Mr. Hamons through the
woods, and as it is s0me distance, and YOUR
friends are waiting, | will not longer cncroach
upon your kindness"
" Not at all would you, if you allowed me
to go, but as have considerable to do before
returning to R, which Imust do tonight
must abide your words still, though we
must part here, something assurea me that this
Will not be our only meeting. May hope that
you will sometimes thInk Of me. until we do
meet again =
g Certainly, shall remember this pleasant
meeting, and thus of course, think of you,
she replied
" Thank you, kind4ady; good bye. and sud
denly seziug her hand he imprinted wal,a
kiss upon its snowy surface, and without wait
ing to apologize for the act, he hastcncd away,
and not till his little boat disappeared down the
river, did Euloeen bcthink herself that it was
already time she wa, returning.
AS she placed her hat again upon her shining
curls, she thought: " How wish | had dared
to ask him VIII 1T name should remember him
BY"
Then sheslowl y took her way back to the house,
where she found, Mrs Hamilton, considerably
alarmed about her long absence, which sh, AL
layed BY promising not to stay out 50 long
again. And there Was no chance for her to
break her word, though she felt tempted to
make another visit to that little arbor. for thew
returned in feweays to R, yet she was
haunted by the memory of that voice. many
time" after and aa3air Of wondrously oeaming
blue eyes, would sometimes surprise her by
looking up to hcrown, from the pages of her
book where, a second after, she would SEQ moth
ing but her unlearned lesson.
And how was II with the owner Of those same
blue eyes? Fla Ead scarcely landed on the 9th
or bank Of before he suddenly ex-
claimed Ngaas sd oot leavn Yer name.
how thoughtlass | Sas. But | will find her !
when | return, for certainly mover saw 80
lovely being. Perhaps Frank can tell me who
SHE is, if describe her" and 50 saying he has
tened on to his friend : residence.
Unfortunately, his friend knew not Of apy
such person as he described. A maiden with
dark deep, lustrous eyes, half shaded by the
longest ejlken lashes, and the finest face that
ercr could be, with broad white brow, and
raven trcsses sweeping over a blue-yoinod neck.
whose snowy vbiteness would shame the clouds
that float around the last morning star. and
that she lived at Mr.. lIamiltons"
Frank declared there was no sach person any
where about there. You fell a,lren md
dreamed it, Come, confess, fir cavalier, tAas
you took nap, and had d vision, and 20 oa.
and thcn let 1t rest"
No; will not confess that | lave h.cn
asleep, though bdre Ead vision, Frank. =
living, breathing vision over whose face A,a
thoughts Of a puros}ol ,H)ated."
Well, all can say il, that there is not, to
my knowledge, any such a person 1T Mr.. Ham
ilton's, not any young people any way, ana you
say she was yourg."
" Yes; not more than seventeen or eighteen,
at most"
@ 1t must have been u wood nymph, so you
had better forget her, or shall make that blue
eyed cousinoI yours jealous"
" If she ras a wood nymph, then I will live
in the woods forever, when get back from Eu-
rope, if | can find her If had time, would
90 over to Mr. Hamilton's tonight, and learn
her name, but have not"