Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-03-20

Il Will 90, Lily' Dul you 40 MOI Hean
that l shall lose you, Lily? Kiss me
once. You never gave me kiss
So she lifted her face to his, and light
ly laid her arm around his neck and
kissed him once. Then he rose quick
ly and departed, riding away with the
hostler.
When, next morning-it was April
25, A. D., 1862-Thomas Elliot entered
the store of AbJah Grigg his usually
bright face wore somewhat resolved
and preoccupied look. The eminent mer-
chant grufiy greeted the obscure clerk,
Like true vulgariaD, be did not admin
lister with plain directness the awful and
confounding admonition with which he
felt himsef charged, but transferred his
Immature into the general texture of his
conduct. He was sour of face and rude
of manner. He found fault with the rate
of commission which Tom had accepted
on that last lot of guano was inclined
to charge upon Tom the non-return of a
certain customer of yesterday; quite
snarled over various letters and, after
sundry other nagglings, at last, squarely
charged that it was Toms fault that the
harbor master had not berthed the Sea
Nymphs with salted hides) right in
front of the store, but had laid her across
the end of a. dock two blocks away.
Upon this Tom, who had answered
him not a word, quietly wiped bis pen,
put up his blotter he had been writing in,
tnrned down the lid of his inkstand, dis
mounted his Faber No. from its clerky
perch over his right ear and put it on
the rack, turned the key in his desk, took
off and hung up his venerable office coat,
and put on very neat dress sack,) took
his hat, and turning to his respected and
rather puzzled employer, said, not with
out cerIafu Iofttness Of mannv'
'Mr. Grigg, let's not have any unne-
cessary difficulty. l bave no particular
expectation of coming TO your house
again that / know Of
Here the old merchant looked relieved
but his face clouded again as Tom ad-
ded
4 meant to have given you more no
tice, but things that have happened with
in day or two have hurried me. I'm
through with my work for you, Mr..
Grigg. I'm to see a man at eleven this
morning about partnership. | can re-
commend VIM. Waters for my place, il
you don't think of any better man..
He held out his hand saying good ma
turedly Good bye, sir success to you.
Mr.. Grigg shook hands without at all
meaning to. He was badly upset. Tie
was confounded. He had fully intended
to administer a mild but firm reproof
and thought he had been paving the way
to it very skillfully; and now he found
himself suddenly thrown on the defensive
by the manner and the language of the
young man. Thus there jumbled about
in his mind an incongruous mess OF sat
isfaction at the discontinuance of Toms
visits, dissatisfaction at losing him, irrita'
ton at being talked to- and that POM
pous, reproving state of mind that he
had been nursing. And between the
humbug sentiments which be had been
meaning to express without feeling them
and these genuine sentiments which he
had not expected to feel and did mol
mean to express, he mumbled and gob-
bled in his talk quite pitifully. The rich
but vulgar New York merchant is sell
dom a great extempore orator of the
feelings.
Good morning = said he good NOR
ming, then, Elliot l-Ah hem !-Ah'm
I'm sorry-I'm glad-I hope that in the
future you-Pts very proper-It's very
improper-Well, just as you say-Pm
sure-I was intending-Very well-ve-
ry well p
And with this lucid exposition of the
moral bearings of things in general Tom
left. After he was gone Pig Grigg very
quickly and naturally heated up into q
rage. Why should he not He had
been caused TO look ridiculous-to him
self, at least and in about fifteen min
utes he agreed with himself, with more
heartiness Of determination than accura
cy in costume, that he would sit in tha
young puppy's skirts. just as sure he
said, with a ludicrous habitual asserva-
ton of his, which wasn't meant to b'
true but sometimes was as sure as Tn
goose
young puppy he said, and Ton
was a well grown fellow of twenty-four