Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-06-04

don pie chm looked like mOuld Of ELY
yes. ma'am. have seen soae strange
things in my long life Of service. can tell
You. know Tho secrets of good many
families and understand the difference lie.
tween company faces and home faces pref
y we'll BY this time. Fhere,s many 4
seemingly happy couple. who are always
my darling" each other in public, Who
quarrel like cats and. dogs at .home.-
There's manySa house kherethes give fine
dinners and suppers to their friends, and
scrape snl pinch themselves TO do i'll
I've lived where the poor lady sat up night
after night to let her husband in. unknown,
as she thought to any one, and when he
came in as late as three or four o'clock of
q morning. he was in such state that |
would not have opened the door for him:
sni I've lived where trustful. plodding
business man mover guessed what gay gem
tlemen visited his wife during his absence
Yes. ma'am. I've seen many sights, and
found out many secrets, but never such
sights and such secrets rs those met with
at my first place. forty years ago next
summer. ..r,. i.
was fresh. buxom country girl then.
with cheeks redder than any apple, and
was counted handsome; so, when it came
time for me TO go to service. Granny. the
euly relation l had living. was terrible
anxious about me-. Girls are light heart.
Ell AID light mind.' she said, "and are ca
silly carried away by fat,ery, so that
handsome young fellow with a smooth
tongue might lead Ann into all kinds of
folly" Sc Granny deliberated, and re-
fused this place because the sons had Just
returned from college, and seemed "a tho
she never would be shifted. AT last. how
ever, the minister, who had been bache-
Tor So FAR. became married man. and
Granny came home in great exultation to
say that | had been chosen from a host Of
other applicants by his young wife, who
needed another servant besides the gray
headed old black woman who had been in
the kitchen of TIE parsonage for dear
knows how many years. Its fine
place., said Granny; so the poor old laly
packed her trunk AMI went back home to
her little farm, and took my way to the
ministers.
| knew good deal more about him
thar Granny did. through going more a.
mcng the young folks in the village, and
had heard how. for a whole wear, every
one thought he was counting Miss Pene-
lope Reede, and that it would certainly
have come to a match, but for Miss Bella
DantoD. who. coming to the place on
visit, bevitched him with her bright ewes,
and was married to him in month
Some said it was shame. and that Miss
Penelope bad been Tilted; and others said
that there never had been anything serious
intended on the part of the mini<:er-aad
almost everybody believed that Miss Pene-
lope, Tilted or not, was far the prettiest,
and that. but for her eyes. Miss Bella,
now Mrs. Burlington, would have been
quite plain.
Plain never could have called her, for
her face was the brightest that ever saw.
1t changed like an April day. anil you new
er could tell what expression would come
next into those great brown eyes. /
didn't blame Mr.. Burlington for loving
her, let Hiss Reede be what she might.
suppose married life is abont the same
the world over. while the couple are young
and loving and newly mated. The minis.
ter and his wife were like two turtle doves:
his arm was always about her waist, or her
hand resting On his shoulder She was so
precious to hisa that he could not bear to
be away from her a moment. but would
have her sit beside him while he wrote his
sermons, and so with him on all the visits
which he, as q minister, was obliged to
Gake.
AT first, think De loved her most: but
by-and-by she grew so fond OF him that
there seemed no end to her affections. 1t
Is always so with women; the married life,
which makes most men grow Indifferent,
only makes the women love the more. l
think. ma'am. il men only knew how much
love could be given them by their young
wives, they'd try harder for it than they
generally do. To do Mr. Burlington jus.
tiee. no one could find fault with him.
at the end of six months he was as much
OF q lover as ever. If the story about his
jiting Penelope Reede was true, she wo'd
have been jealous woman if she could
see them roaming up and down the little
garden. while he twined roses in her hair
and told her how they became her; or sit
ting on the old piazza long. sweet, moon
light evenings. whispering to each other as
only those do who have something tender
to say. Often and often have thought,
as watched them. that it would be hap
Ply thing to have such loving husband as
Dir. Burlington.
II was beautiful evening. remem-
Der it as well as if it was only yesterday
that was clearing away the tea things
In the back parlor. and my mistress was ly-
ing on a sofa, not very we'll. while my
master read to her The red light Of the
lamp was in the room; bat on the veran-
dab. through the open windows. lay the
brightest moonlight ever saw Stand
ing in it, l noticed. before the others did, a
ladydressed in white. She:had pale brown
hair. fair skin, and soft blue eyes. She
held her bonnet in her hand. and stood.
with hesitating sort of look. upon the
window sill. Ii was long French win.
dow. reaching to the floor
y.Sir--ma'an-a ladyr'I said, and /
was so startled that ALMOST said ghost.
for such fair. purelooking creature /
never saw before. As l spoke she came
in. - tna
You will pardon my unceremonious
entrance h. ell ssI l.