Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-05-21

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From lsabefs he went to several other
houses. Everywhere he found the Young
ladies dressed to receive company. Some
were reading novels; soaae had a book of
poetry open before them and enc, who had
a pretty hand, was coquettishly knitting a
purse. Not one of them appeared to have
anything serious to do Most of them af.
fected, like Isabel, to be quite languid, and
talked as if the fatigue of the day before
had nearly killed them.
When Harry reached the pretty, but un-
pretending cottage where Fanny resided
with her widowed mother, he found the
hall door opened to admit the breeze. and
SO Just tapping at the parlor entrance, he
entered bowing. In the shaded light of
the cool fragrant room, he could not for
moment see; but he noticed Immediately
that no one answered his salutation. and.
directly, he beheld that the apartment was
empty. just then, hewever, fresh LIQUID
voice, as merry as birds in June, was
heard warbEng IN an inner apartment
Harry listened awhile charmed but find.
ing that his knocking was not heard, and
recognizing, as he thought, Fanny's voice,
finally made bold to 90 in search Of the
singer, Passing down the hall and through
another open door, he suddenly found him
self in the kitchen, large, airy apartment,
serapuicusiy clean, with Fanny at the end
opposite him, standing before a dough.
trough, kneading -four and carollins like
lark
1t was picture an artist would love to
paint. Fannys face was seen partly in
i profile, showing to perfection her long LASH
es, and bringing out in relief the pouting
lips and roaad chin. The breeze blew her
Grown curls playfully about, and occasion
ally quite over her face, at which time she
would throw them back with pretty toss
OF the head. Her arms were bare. and
rounded-whiter or more taper arms never
were they fairly put to shame, with their
rosy pearlness, the snowy -four powdered
over them. As she moved with quick
steps at her task, her trim figure showed
all Its grace, and her neat ankle and deli
cate foot twinkled in and out For while
| she did not observe Harry. It was not till
she turned to put down the dredging-box,
that she beheld him
Most of our fair readers, we suppose,
would have screamed, and perhaps run out
OF the opposite door. Fanny did no such
thing She blushed little, as was natu-
raj, but having no false shame, she saw no
reason to be frightened, merely because a
handsome young gentleman had caught her
at work, SO she curtesicd prettily, laugh
ed sne of her gaycst laughs, and said hold
ing up her hands:
Il can't shake hands with you, Mr.. Yer
aon, you see. Mamma Was kind enough
to let nse 90 to the picnic, yesterday; and
put eh seHle OF my york and so I'm doing
double to-day, to make up for it. If you'll
be kind enough to wait minute, I'll call
mamma
No, no, said Harry, charmed by this
frank innocence, and unceremoniously tax,
ing we'll scrubbed chair, I've only few
minutes to stay. My call is on you came
to see how you bore the fatigues of yester-
day
Fanny laughed till her teeth, so white
and so little, looked behind the rosy lips,
like pearls set In the richest ruby enamel
'tatlgued. Ehy, we had such charming
time yesterday, that one couldn't get tired;
even II she had been hundred years DID,
You'll never grow old p said Harry, sur
prIsed into what would have been flattery,
If ne had not sincerely thought it; and his
countenance showed his admiration for the
bright, happy creature before him.
Fanny blushed; but rallied, and answer
ed, laughlngly: Never grow old o, soon
enough What funny sight I'll be, to
be sure, bent almost double, and cap on
my head like granny Horn'sp
Harry laughed too, SO ludicrous was the
image; and thus he and Fanny were as
much at home with each other at once, as
If they nad been acquainted for years.
The intended FIVE minutes imperceptibly
grew into ten, and the ten into half an
hour. Fanny continued at her household
work, pleasantly chatting the while, both
she and Harry mutually interested so as to
forget time and place alike. At last the
entrance Of Mrs. Somers interrupted the
tete-d-tete Fanny was little embarrassed
when she found how long she and Harry
had been alone but the easy-ofco man.
ner OF Harry, as he shook hands with her
mother, restored her to herself.
Ii the elegant refinement about Isabel
mad tempted Harry to fail in love, the
household charm which surrounded Fanny
forced him to be so whether or no. He
went away, thinking to himself what a
charming wife Fanny would make, and how
sweetly she would look in her neat home
dress, engaged in her domestic duties. Nor
Is Harry the only bachelor who remembers
that wife cannot always be in full dress,
and who naturally wishes to know how she
will look In kitchen "A wife ought as
much to know how to manage her house,
he said to himself, 'as man to understand
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