Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-03-22

| man belngs, TO make them assume clNliHeu auu
respectable appearance.
called one morning on Miss Maria Walker.
Her father was out, and she had been playing
the piano ill she was tired 80 we sat down IN
the bow window and talked.
So, the houses are letting ! said !, who took
an an interest in the terrace which had sesn
growing up under my eye.
1.-Two are let" replied she, and both to private
families papa is peased--he looks upon these
twelve new houses as twelve new patients"
- But" said /, laughing, have you not read
the advertsement-' healthy aud airy situations,
rising neighborhood, AMI yet only one medical
man ?"
80, yes, smiled Maria, " but sickness, am
sorry to say, is very apt to run about az some
time or other, even in airy situations
But, Maria, you are mistakenj there are
three houses let, y said |, suddenly. q" The bill
has been taken down opposite--it has been let
since yesterday"
30, yes, fecollcct a very nice young man
driving up there yesterday, and looking over the
house for 40 hour | suppose he has taken it,"
A nice young man ?" said /, " that is very
interesting-.l suppose young couple just mar
RED"
oVery likely" replied Maria Walker, laugh
log but whether at the fact Of my making up my
mind lh,t il was an interesting case OF matrmo'
rs, or something else, could not tell.
It was week before saw Mars again, and
when did, STE caught me by the hand, drew me
rapidly 10 the window, and, with semtIra9c
expression, pointed 10 the house over the way.
looked 10 the dire ,toa Indicated and what
vas ms as;on.slment, wnen, on the door IN large
letters, read these words! Mr. Edward Rad
stock NJ. ID.
al. hap
thoughtess girl that | was another ieud Ct
Montague and Capulet. Maria, could not Ro'
meo and Julieue be found 10 terminate it p
Don't laugh replied Maria, gravcyi papa
Iisauito III With yex4tion imagine, IN q small
town like this two doctor, lis all the fault OF
that advertisement Some .cheming young man
has seen il, and finding 90 hope OF practice else
where, has come here. suppose that he IS as
poor IS d rat
At this instant the sound Of horses feet vas
heard, and then three vans full Of furniture aP-
peared in sight They were coming our way.
We looked anxolsly to zee before which house
they stopped must confess that what Mara
said interested me in the young doctor, and re-
ally hoped this wls all for him. Mara said
nothing, but, with iroRn on r brow she wit
ed the progre,, OF events. As | expected the
" vans stopped before ne young Doctors house,
aud in a few minutes lAe men began TO unload
4 Ny friend turned pale She saw mat the yeh'
cIes we're foil Of elegant furniture.
The eIe,ch has gol J, ung wife, too she
said, as piano and harp came 10 vea and then
added, " this will never do; they must be put
down at once they are strangers in the neigh
borhood We are well known. Sit down at
that de- my dear girl, and help me to make out
list Of al the persons we eau invite TO ball and
an evening party. look upon them as imperIi'
neni nterlopers, and they must be crushed
| laughugy acqusoed aud, aided by her,
soon wrote out lsi { invitations 10 be given.
" But now SAID she, afer o few moments re-
fectiou, one more name must be ldded they
must be invited
"They--gho?" asked ia tones Of surprise
"Mr. aud Mrs. Edward Radstoek" replied
Maria triumphautly, while could scarcely speak
from astonishment.
The rest uf my narrative | recolected from the
ips Of my friend little more than year later.
The rest Of my narrative collected from
the lips oil my friend, little more thsn a year
later.
The ball took place, to the Animation Of all
= C.. It was q splendid affair; a select
band came down from London, in which two for
tiguers, with dreadiully uueuphono names, ay.
ed upon two unknown instruments, deaitnel /
nearly every sensitive person in the room, and
would have driven everybody away had they not
been removed into the drawing room balcony
then there was o noble Italian, reduced to tenor
o singer, who astonished the company equally by
w the extraordinary number of strange songs that
we he sung, and the number Of ices aud jees which
ut he ate then there were one or two literary
~ men, who wrote anonymously but might lave
ii. been celebrated, only they scorned 10 put their
gn names forward among he common herd already
ne known to the public there was young poet,
le. too, who thought Alfred Tennyson infinitely SUI
ICE perior to Shakspeake, and by the air with which
ny he read a poem, seemed to nsinuate that he him
self was greater han either and then there was
its funny gentleman, who could initiate Henry
lr. Russell John Parry and Blackstone, who gave a
err negro recitation, which might have been Chinese
c poetry for all that the company Understood Of it.
1t In fact, il was the greatest affair Of the kind
II which G had seen for many long day
40 Mr. and Miss Rldsiook came, and were received
lu' with cod poiteness by both father aud daughter
The young man was good looking, with an intel
ne lgent eye, pleasing address, and none Of that
'n perness Of manner which usually belongs TO those
'n' who have Just thrown off the medical student tc
al become the doctor. Miss Rsdstock, his sister
r' who kept his house until be found 4 wife, was q
Ter charming girl Of about twenty. She smiled at
MS. the manner of both Mr.. aud Mss Walker, but
ed said nothing MIR. Radstock's only revenge fol
the GOODNESS and state ness Of tone Of the lady
err the house was asking her to dance at the srst op
ol portunity, which certainly was vexatious, fer biz
me tone was so pie sing, his manner 50 courteous
q, that my friend Marm could not but feel pleased
ne when she wanted to be irate, distant and naughty
~. They danced together several times, and to the
,.e astonishment OF the friends Of the young lady,
W. 90 myself in particular, they went down to suppe
o, the best friends in the world, laughing and look
Sa, ing like old acquaintances,
1 1 Next day, however, she resumed her origins
sa. GOODNESS of manner when the brother and slste
Io. called to pay their resp cts. She was slmp.
nv Nv polite. and 10 more aud after two or three word
'"J they retired, Emily RAIDS ock becoming as suI
- and formal as her new acquaintance. From tha
ia, day Maria became very miserable She was no
I5 avar,oous, and did no, tear her father losing hi
inc practice from any pecunary motives, but 1t va
,"se pride that influenced her. Her father bad 70
s;r many years monopolised the parish, as his prede
O." Be- cessor had forty years before him and now
I'm. behold young unAedged physician setting U
49,, exactly opposite, and threatening to divide in tim
- - the business OF the town, was dreadful. Tn
~ physician of the town sounded better, too, ths
y, one Of the Aoctors" and altogether i, was mos
nds unpleasant affair.
how Mara's place was now almost always at th
ours bow window. She had no amusement but ,
an watch the opposite house, to seeif patients cam