Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-06-03
MN GUARDIAN AND

Life appeared very pleasant to me. Ele-
anur War; enue, us | sat considering its
different possibilities the morning after my
return from school. 1t is apt tn seem 50 to
girls Of eighteen, with sufficiently pretty
face, sufficiently pretty fortune, and not
q known care.
Left an orphant at eight years old, had
been ever since under the care Of a maiden
NUT, who came ut my fathers death to take
care of little me. aud the guardian he had
APP ointed. This was a man a % deal
younger than my father, but whose true
and noble qualities outweighed to objection
of youth some would have raised against
! Mark Anderson. Under my Aunt Lucy's
immediate care and his occasional direc-
ton, bad quietly passed my childhood,
and for the last two years had been at
| large boarding school. / had much edu-
cation as girls with such experience usually
acquire, natural taste for drawing and
music, and an "inquirirg mind"
Reaching home at last, | found my aunt
! unchanged. She was Of the kind whose
soft brown hair never grows gray, whose
mild blue eyes are undimmed by age, whose
| plump hanis are always smooth and white,
do what they may. gave heran abbrevia
ted account of my educational doings, de-
| lighted her heart with the beauties of wor-
sted and crochet.work l had brought her,
gave small sample of my musical skill,
showed her the lust shawl sketch-she had
that weakness for fancy work that mild
natures are given to-snd asked for my
| guardian.
He will be here to night. lie would
not como last night, thinking you would he
tired. A very worthy young man, my
! dear"
But I don's like worthy young men, as
a general thing. They are generally stu
pld as if nature couldn't make people
good and smart at the same time"
"ODly wait until to night. We should
never allow ourselves to form rash opinI
ions"
Dear soul She thought me little girl
still. That evening, neither late nor early,
Mr. Anderson came. / had not seen him
Cor long time, and we had both Of us
changed. A tall, grand figure, such as
gives the idea of strength and protection
too. Twas large myself, and appreciated
size when | met it. And had an idea of
my own that great hearts were often found
in corresponding bodies that big souls
were not always crowded into little bits OF
forms.
Strong, clear cut features, dark bair,
kind eyes, refined hands and feet. A man
Of thirty, looking bis age.
"And is this the little girl saw last p
Have two years done oil this?"
And is this the grave guardian l re-
member with such awe? If have grown
old, you have grown young to meet me-"
81 have not refrigerated much !; it is you
who have grown up to me. Eleanor, you
are foe! II you are as honest as the
little girl was, it will not hurt you to hear
it."
81 hope Ihave kept the coed qualities
Of little Eleanor, and added in innumera-
bic ones in the grace that comes with
growth"
Before we had talked much longer, de
cioed that the guardian of mine was splen-
didly unlike most people. Not in the small
way which affects ecentrieity. mistaking it
for strength, but in such ways as strong
mind might indulge in. Without seeming
to question me, he yet drew from me all
about my school life and whatever his
thoughts on its superficial history, hc kept
them to himself. Had he assumed the
office of mentor, would have hated him at
once.
have dwelt upon this evening, because