Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-11-28
"A TALE OF THANKSGIVING DAY,

Die leaves in bright showers along tn,
country roads. played an manner 0
graceful antics with the white anC
crimson chryssnthemumsfn the shadow
Of The old quiet farm. house, Just as
glorious Thanksgiving morning, giE
Short, sas we all remember IN thesdiai
plates of ear lives-o one connected with
shhsh'ne. and sweet, hslf-forg9tteP
nenories of the lost days of child:
6oSa.e lied 90 y si s2I g
Mrs. Harrington did not think o.
abese things, however, when Che merry
Find ratiled the plate-glass. windows Of
her stately msnsion-she was ponder.
ing on the probable success OF her din
ner party OF that day, an affair labo-
siously gotten up for the benefit of a
few aristocratic acquaintances whose
approval Mrs. Harrington would doubt
Jess have preferred TO that OF the Angel
Gabriel himself. For she was one of
those ladies who hang on 10 the but,
skirts Of the beau monde, and, live
Through an infpitude OF snubbings and
well-bred insults for the pleasure OF
counting few Mrs. Puliphafs IN 1IheiF
gill, bound visiting lists.
IL Mrs. Willougbby St. James only
comes-ande Mrs. Silvingham.' pom.
defed she. fl will be success. But
good gracious! what an expense it
will involved The wine bills actually
make me tremble. We can't live on
credit much longer. and yetit. is neces-
5sary, 10 obtain rich husband Tor our
fGeorgiana.' o
And the weary frown settled down
on Mrs. Harringron's brow again. No
body can tell the slow agony of keep
ing up appearances on foundation
of nothing, but those who have expe
rienced it. .
Miss Georgiana, sitting opposite 10
an amber silk morning robe, glanced
up from her novel at her mammals
sigh j
What's the matter?' Il
Nothing. only l wish this party was
over and the bills all paid. It will be
very exclusive affair, however, that's
sone comfort
Not like the oId-fashioned country
THANKSGIVING remarked the young la
dy, slightly curling her lip. i met
Mary ArnotI yesierday-that unrecog-
nizable cousin Of mamma's--and she
aiold me in that innocent way Of hers
that she was going to market to see il
she could find chean little turkey
her mother intended TO have quiet.
sold-tIme Thanksgiving dinner'
How vulgar said Mrs. Harrington,
giving the tassels of her cashmere
morning dress a toss more Expressive
than any words. People that live in a
half house and dress in cheap delaines,
how can they expect US to recognize
them as cousins?'
Dear me- says Miss Georgiana,
who was not deficient in pertness, 4
{ thought you and Mrs. Arnott were
brought up together, before she mar
ried poor bOOkkeeper and you law
yer
Mrs Harrington was a little con-
fused, but she contrived to evade the
uqpaiatable subject. e.
2 TsGoodness! Georgiana, who can that
beeoming up stairs with such a heavy
step? Not one OF those horrid trades
) people after money. l hope,
/, The door flew open as she spoke,
. and an honest old countryman, brown
and sunburnt and attired in antique but
ternut colored suit, stalked into the
room with the tread of an elephant.
How dye do, Cousin Becky? Hav-
en't forgot old Jsbez Higgins. bev
you? Many's the time you come over
to,our house to get milk for your moth
er when you lived in Yarmouth /
Mrs. Harrington stood aghast at
this unexpected apparition Of coun-
try cousin who she had long ago sup
posed dead, or married, or something. |
Meanwhile, honest Jabez stared round
at the gilded gimcracks and satin dras
peries. with wide open eyes. 8 8
Sorry TO see YOU looking SO pale
and wizzened up, Cousin Beeky.e City
air 1on't agree with you, i ealculate?
And how's Nehemiah ,5s ~
/ Now. if there was anything on earihi
Mrs. N. Howard Harrington detesied.
it was hearing her husband named BY
his baptismal appellaiion,, 1t fairly
rallied her scattered lacahies, and en-
abled her TO calculate with some as,
periIy- -s-. t g II
4 really did not expect g
q .Of course not.' put in Jabez, good
humoredly. Didn't expect,to to come to
York myself until yesterday mcrnin..'
I But what could have induced you
Come to spend Thansgiyin' with You
and Nehemiah Interrupted Jabez with /
bssming eyes. saE g III
:. TO spend Thanksgiving Mrs. HART
Fipgsep actually grew faint, ct. the ideal
ofprsenting cousin Jabez Higgins.
wbose existence she had stidiouslv ig-
,pdret for the last twenty years, to Mrs.
Ra19ughby. St. james. Or he Honora-
BIZ Alphonzo SnvinghsnI 'ss . e
= q m sorry, sir,' she said fiigidfs
pEHipg herself up. 'tRat, I am com.
peeled to decline the honor you intendf
me. We are really unable to aecomst
modste you. and you must be oawafe
thatfhe slight relationship existing be-
tween us nssiFfI o5f
c She need not haze gone beyond the
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