The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1863-09-01

"DuIl care be gone, Clara continues, laugh
ingly, MARY viii be brought over with a sugar
! plum, and have the WheTeEithal in my posses
sion; so lust turn the river Of your thoughts
70 the fOcean' Of NOrt's benevOlence, in hi
d Christian and exemplary eomniisseratiOn Of Ou
Imprisonment in this Old nursery. Oh thou 81
perb teaml Oh, Mort, the liberal and ptincel
EiTeF"
misses Marshall and Brown, the class await
{ your departure from the room," called ou
Marion peremptoFily.
As We we're passing out, I noticed an eE
. preston Of disgust that perTaded Ciara's cOun
tenance, and, turning to ascertain the cause
I saw advancing, from an opposite door, tn
, Misses Nelson, tall showy, brilliant girls, mem
bers of the graduating class.
cas- sure as yOulive, they are going, - she said
as the door shut US out
"If I am not mistaken, a common saving o
yours is, 'the more the merrier,' " I said.
1''DO you love the Misses Eelson9" she asked
suddenly stopping on the second landing Of the
stairs.
/ opened my eyes wide with wonder "Why
Fidgety, what can you be driving att DO no
hate them, Of course. Thas sounds too blunt tC
be nice. I am not conscious of, andeloDe
never shall, hate any Of Gods creaturesP
"a very correct and pious reply, she said
''I wish TO remark, Love your enemies She
looked so irresistibly rougish and saucy when
she said this that threw my arms about Der and
hugged her, schoolgirl fashion. ''And those
j who persecute you, she continued, Hhea 7 re-
leased my hold, rs It not using US despitefully
ito poke themselves in our company uaasked?"
'fBut Fidget, my dear, Mr.. As1ary can ask
whom he pleases surely"
"But he didn't please she persisted, as she
tripped up stairs, talking in loud tones, needless
lore nfH Hn
4 necessity, a force Of circumstance necessity
thaE mothered an invention; for they have been
4 faithful sentinels to the auspicious moment
ever since Neither G.s first movement toward
I the feathers Did they not make It convenient
to be in the hall on the paFlo4 as Norton drove
up? Have been an inmas6 three years and
not been initiated into die arts and sciences?7
had some slight misgiyings on that score
myself, that I was beginning to understand the
maneUFeFing Of the young ladies who had taken
the first sW Get bird 's-eye view Of the world
Ny dear, Continued she, throwing her rich
furs upon the bed, "re3dy so soon, and looking
so hiceiy-but, as ] wish to remark, Where ig-
nefance is bliss, tweTe folly 20 be wise. It will
be time enough for sou to see things, that to me
are plain as a Bikestaff, two years from now.
Unul then, dream On. Having donued your be-
coming wrappings with sWiftRess of hand and
graeefulness of mode, 1sH YOU coudescend to
assist me in the difficult task of making myself
appear lovely inlthe eyes Of all beholdersg a
thing Of beauty you know, is Joy for eYcr,'
and would Won have the Kindness 20 me
your powder-bex? Ny dear, supposing You one
Of the sterner, could you, innocent Of the use of
the article, discoverthe person inyisible?'
It was delightful to discover the fun and
buFlesque of her movements, and the ex-
preston of her face brim-iull Of mirth and hap
piness. But I looked 10 encouragement, only
seOlding her for being an 0ut-and-out, pol1e-pre-
dieting old maid, brought on by extreme care
and pains-tal1ing in the toilet-line.
just then the Misses Nelson called from the
foot Of the stairs Clara called out, in answer
TO the girls, with peculiar, mischievOus smile
in her blue eyes, Patience is a virtue, my
dears The invitation was altogether unex-
pected to me. had not the forethought to be
in readiness, then, turning she chded me
for placing a shawl about her shoulders, as it
was her intention to wear her sOntag and cloak,
and that said sOntag would necessarily detain
her, being an intricate article of wearing ap-
parel, having several places to get in at, and as
many to get out, for it never would come
mended. She could not keep the remembrance /
of noie-y things in her worldly head. 1t had
been left so high and dry that it had a wooden
propensity to leak on such occasions; but she
was going to turn over a new leaf certainly. /
L . Z
one Of the things to be. Twas wild with impa- |
tience. made up my mind to be downright |.
angry with her, but I looked into her saucy, |
pretty face, and fell to thinking how lovely it |
was instead.
''Do make haste, Fidget, dear, I ventured
But, trying on her new hat, she replied:
"ROme was not built in a day, and it took it 1
three hundred years to die, and time is the only 1
thing in the world Of which men are predigal, %
and, with profound eourtsey, announced her /
self ready.
She wound her arm through mine, in her gen
tle lOvable way, and, as We proceeded to the [
parIor, made me promise I would never, upon (
any BccoUnt whatever, mention to Mr.. Asbury
that she was in the habit of calling him "Ma- I
ioT," and Governor and "NOrt, j" and Gle /
phantine Perfection" and the Thousand pet
names she had for him, as she was not abun-
dainty anxious to invoke the contempt such ia |
ITiliarity would merit. She said the veryrepeh- |
ton of such appellations would be a mark of |
my uncul6Vated state, and invite the small lord !
anger; and that if I ever yielded /
to the slightest temptation to ventillate upon /
the subject would be the means of her follow
ing the example Of Henry l., in not smiling
again, which would be a purgatorial pursuit to
me, for I would always want to smile into your
grave little face, girly-I am growing very fond
Of you.
So, with these words, hurriedly spoken at the /
parlor door, this gay happy girl ingenuously un-
locked the innermost recess of my heart, and
entered. I have heard the glad music Of those !
very words like a prelude to Joy, running /
through my life in after years, and it was kin /
dred to the little parts that make up the vast, |
tiny links in the chain, ''the little word in kind
ness spoken" the "motive," or "the tear"
Miss PardOe chided our tardiness. The Misses |
4 Ae
bury's intended excuses for US and, turning
their faces aside, looked unspeakable volumes
at us. Mr.. Asbury's manner was so deferential
toward Miss Pardoe that it became an atone
ment for our apparent rudeness. He even de-
tanned US while longer as if time was no object
to him, cOnversing in an Off-hand style, with /
captivating gayety, until we we're all lost IN adj
miration and delicious appreciation Of his CON
versational powers Listening, became re-
conciled to the fact that the Misses Nelson were
to accompany US, and my heart gradually ex-
panded to the benignant wish that Marion had
been invited. I believe ventured to whisper
this to Fidgety, as followed her down the
shoveied path to the gate At first she allowed
that it would have been q good thing, as per
haps, one could stand even Goals upon their
head such a bleak day, and it might be mere
comfortable than her new bonnet" but the
next moment she pinched my arm slyly, and
said she would not have it 50 for the world,
since distance lent enchantment.'
The Misses Nelson we're pleased to consider
us in the light Of children, and treated us ae-
cording to to their idea-not a relishable one to
Clara, at least; and had formed the habit Of
rolling my long curls up at night and cOnfning
them with C1ara's comb, (Which borrowed so
frequently that must have been a trouble to
her, and it showed an amount of forbearance on
her part that she did nottell me so } andI prac-
ticed STOPPING in my walk to let my short dress
drag, so ! should know how it seemed to be a
woman ] was as ungracious to them as l could
we'll be, and not turn Mr. Asbury's attention to
the very evident fact that amiabilitv was not