The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-11-01
THE GONERNESS
r You bear a santle heart and heavenly blessings
Follow such creaturea"

You bear gantle heart, and heavenly blessings
Follow such creatures"
II wonder why Isabel is out SO late this
evening; il is almost dark and SHOWS very fast -
The speaker was pretty bat delicate little
gil, busily employed III arranging the simple
evening meal, in small apartment, whose
scanty but well kept furniture spoke both Of
poverty and industry.
Mrs. Gascoigne gives iarge party to night,
and perhaps she may have detained Isabel 10
piled her mother.
II wish | could see a real grand party
sighed the child az she spread coarse, but
clean cloth upon the polished table.
IL am sorry to hear you express such
wish, my daughter, said the pruden, Mrs.
N0ryce.
Mother, there surely can be no harm in de-
string 10 behold what 60 many people are con-
Enually enjoying
The indulgence Of unattainable wishes is
always wrong, Susie apt to begin
with idle wants, and to end by cherishing a
feeling of discomfort against the decrees Of an
Al-wlse Providence.
"Oh, there comes Isabel; hear her step on
the stars!" exclaimed Susan, as she bounded
forward TO open the door,
And who is Isabel r. asks some impatient
reader. She Is neither a wit, a beauty, or aD
heiress, my young friend. She has no superla
tive attractions nor is she a heroine of roman
verses. Isabel Noryca ia a governess daily
governess: destined TO that vocation from
childhood, and fulfilling its arduous duties pa
IDENTITY, quietly, and with an endurance emf
nently womanly
Imprinting kss on her sisters cheek, and
kindly pressing her mothers extended hand,
Isabel threw off her cloak, which was heavy
with snow, and drawing her chair towards the
Ere said, viii yOu give me cup OF tea, dear
mother4 must return to Waveriy place before
nigbtfall'
Return Isabel 1t il twilight now. Why
are you going there again
Mrs Gascoigne wishes to exhibit her pref
" children in some tableaux vivants, and
have promised TO dress them, and arrange their
change OF position"
Can nobody do that excepting you Isabell"
asked Susan quickly.
Isabel smiled. Mrs. Gascoigne has request
81 me- 10 superintend the pictorial department.
and have every wish to oblige her, together
with very cogent reasons for not displeasing
her"
" hat slave you are TO that woman, Is-
abel really believe she thinks she has bought
you, body and soul, with her paltry salary
Susan, you are too young and too thought
less TO know much of the difficulty of my posi-
uon. Mrs. Gascoigne is rich and fashionable
| am poor and dependent on my own exer-
nons. lfany offence on my part should occasion
my dismissal from her employ, her inf aence
would be sufficient TO I'M ure me materially and
We cannot afford TO risk the loss of the poor sal
airy which you seem 10 despise"
Il do not despise the reward Of your labors,
dear Bell-but | cannot bear to see you oblig-
90 TO study the whims and caprices Of people,
only because they are more fortunate in life
than ourselves. How do hate such people T.
t. For shame for shame Susan-you would
10. hate them, il you did not envy them "
susan blushed deeply as she felt the truth of
her sisters rebuke why did not Mrs. Gas
Soigne invite you earlier, Isabel7' said she af-
ter a moments pause; "you might then have
had time 10 prepare dress for the party
Isabel laughed-a real merry laugh. "Why,
Susie, you don't think am To be one ofthe COM
pany do youf"
What, then :" exclaimed the little girl red
aenng now with anger; you are not going to
1t one OF the servants, / hope!"
NO" replied Isabel, with half sigh, "I
am about as far removed from the one station
as The other Those whose only riches lie in
their brains, a governess for instance, is in 80
aety, like the poor flying fish among the fiIny
u1oee; its wings enable it TO soar into the free
slf but its necessities bring it back to the gross
Of element, where il finds subsistence Mrs
Gaseoigne's entertainment will commence
win series Of 'tableaux, and finish with
Mney ball shall probably never appear be-
Iofe Tie curtain which will veil the arrange
ments Of the living pictures"
\, susan looked very vexed, and even Mrs.
Noryce sighed, as Isabel proceeded to take ont
her Well preserved dress Of deep mourning,
bought with some difficulty some two years
previous, when the death of her father demand
I'd such tribute Of respect
IL 10 shame for you 10 be seen in such
dowdy old dress, Z" said Susan, "the damp has
taken all the curl Out Of your hair, too and
Just now, when you ought 10 look prettiest-
yoG y will be . perfect fright! hope nobody
will sse You"
care very little about the matter" said
isabel, smiling; "for ny own sake wish TO
look nest but no one will notice me-" And
With these words, she retired into her little
bedroom 70 make her simple toilet. In q few
minutes she returned, looking 70 lovely In her
pam attire that her sister, who loved her dear
" wa more than ever painsd at the thought
81 S nsr not appearing 70 advantage In q richer
afsss Her 6ne hair braided smoothly scross