Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-19
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TWO WHO WAIT.

There's rosemary-that's for remembrance"
loved Robert as Inever could love again.
Twas an orphan, and friendless. Being
quick with a needle had come to Boston
hoping to find work there Somehow chance
favored me-no, don't mean that mean
God who promised to be father to the fa-
tAeriess was good to me- | found a COM
t)gtaJle-boarding place, aud, by means of
my landlady, a paying run of custom. |
went out by the day to finish off dresses,
sewing with dress makers sometimes, and
more often after theyr had got though and
gone away. Robert Eden boarded in the
same house with me, and he liked me from
tie first
How proud was of his liking, the hand.
some manly fellow He was clerk in a
store, and he got through every night at
six o'clock ; and often, if he could find out
where | was sewing, he would come and
walk home with me. This was before we
were engaged Afterward, of course, he
came every night, as regular thing But
never shall forget how it used to be dur
Ing those first months before he had asked
me to marry him. never quite know
whether he would come or not, so it was
something pleasant to think and wonder
about as sat over my work. Then, when
saw that he was really waiting, how shy
used to be, and how demurely | used to
walk along with my eyes down until he
fl0c3 ne, and then look at him as if were
altogether surprised 1t was an innocent
little deception which harmed no one.
don't know why | speak of it, only some
tines | like to go over all those old days
my thought, and every one of their little
memories seems bright and sweet as tresl
blossoms
had known Robert six months, when
Ole night. instead of going home at once
as usual, he asked me to go out to Noun
Aabwn with him. The days were at theiI
.4-est; it was only half past six, ant
-ere would be plenty Of time for a rambl'
among those fowery plants before the,
"'l.a shut he gates aud leave the deac
people to their still night-slumber | wa'
Cad enough to 60 anywere with him anc
il Was very pleasant to get out OF town
ala spend the long June twilight among
country sights and sounds. So we set OF
atonce
1' 'Ndul4i ul IL was, waning dUOuI ii
hose lovely grounds, with the day just
iEawlng to its close There were flower.
every where-howers growing up joyously
ana shaking odors out of their crimson anC
purple cups upon the still air, emblems o
5ad grateful life--and flowers, too, broker
nom their stems, and laid upon the graves
@DeThgs Of love and of memory, to Civ,
"i,h there the sad sweetness of their ex
sHng breath and then fade, ,emblems thcs,
" Death and of woe.
II was there, among the flowers and tn
-'aVeS, that Robert told me how dearly b
-'1 grown to love me, and asked me to be
.45 to him forever Yes, | remember h
s''l lhat-belong to him forever Tha
Igant, did it not, through life and throug
.ga'l ! Surely it found me--when | ha
"'IhlSed him--for all time, and all eternit
d, We'll, 1t was strange, but in the mids
VI my great, deep joy thought come owe
what if this troth-plighting among tn
7'"EeS We're an omen-what if it should /
' Death and not for life ? But | tried
Da4Sh this foreboding | knew | wa
,lPerstltious, naturally, so | woul
AZ +'' n let myself utter the haunting though
10 Robert
when the time came for the gates to b
}.G' l1 We went out arm III arm, we two wi
''oAged to each other for evermore. w