Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-21

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al eyec see couple set a sight on each 9th.
y, it's yoo and George!" put in Mrs. SearIe APP
jropriataly.
Meta was still watching that smile. She wished
ihe could put her head on her shoulder and cry
/ little.
But Esther did not cry. She only smiled and
'miled, aud talked in her checry way about to.
morrow, with her little jokes about the dress, aud
George and the guests, and the flowers, and
,miled, and smiled.
al always meant Esther should wear book mus
10. Yourn'n come from Boston, didn'. ?" OBJ
served Mrs. Searle, considerably.
The blood left the girls face for a moment
but that was all.
Presently Meta said she must 90, and the two
went out on the steps together. The night was
very dark only the light from the house-windows
elI far upon the snow Meta stood within it, her
pretty girish face all aglow Esther stood with
IA il, her face in shadow.
Meta {"
Esther Esther
" God bless you, Meta. God bless you, my
sister. think you are my sister, Meta /
think so think so somehow"
The girl could only sob, c.ingng to her.
" Esther, | can't bear it ifyou only wouldn't
try to smile 80 p
"Why shouldn't / smile, Meta am very
glad for you--oh so very, very glad - soilly.-
Then presently "Robbe would be so glad, too,
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She wentin. Ii wasnot face with which to sit
down in the hmp.lcht and stitch and stitch
away upon her fathers .hirt aud hear her mother
talk OF Meas wedding. Hardly Gce f1r thar.
Mrs. Seere looked up over her specacIes.
"Wel, do declare, believe you're gone era
". dreamin' and peerln' out there again-awsys
dreamin and peerlni."
"E,ther. do you know what the thermometer
ia 27 remarked her father in his precise tones.
II am going out to walk, tai1 Esther quietly,
very Quietly, but her face was turaed away.
Mr.. Sesrie resumed her knitting 10 despair.
"We.i, say fort, Esther Scar e, YOU are gole
cfazy Father, why don't Won tell hsr she
shan't stir a step such q night as this ?'
"Ah. ahem the thermometer only lwc
above, Esther"
"l must be of, alone. mean ! want to walk
for few minutes" sand the girl. her face still
turned away. Then she shut the door upon her
mothers unfinished senteuce-Esther could not
bear to be rude, but there were other things she
could not bear, as well, ust then-weut upstairs
put on her hood and cloak, and hurried out into
the still. dark night.
WI, sbe bod ,s.ssd ,brou,b the g,,e sbe
80 I na.g f,r ,oTs ,e,son. she did not Know
rSr ,,, and ,ooksd in At The window where the oil.
f,Iy, y.rs si,,in, hy tbe fir. Dd She hear on,
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turned away from the warm window, and the fire
Fgbt and t6e aged faces there within IT, then on
aglin, where die night was dark and still. 1t wa
very dark and very still. The sharp, fresh winC
vbirled about her, and the snow lay deep under
her feet.
She turned aside from the road where the
sleiybjnp PARTIES snot by, aud the merry yo.cei
sang, and the happy faces showed in the ligh
from hawpy homo windows. l. was no place to
Esther, Tonight.
So she made her way eff into ihe fields, wheT'
the snow lay white anu uuOEoAtn' Sle had n
fear OF the loneliness She did not mui the deel
cold snow drifts through which sh, Wdded. 70
there had come one OF those few hours which d''
come sometimes into tbs girls patient llle, whei
her soul cried bitterly unto God, who had smit
ten her, and to be alone with him was all sh
could do
so, walking on and on, her hands thrown dow
and folded, with The snow oe!oW aAu osIere hsI
and the nis around her, she talked with him
and he with her. Perhaps, toe, with Robbie
do not know.
1t was picture-the poor, lonely figure tina
the happy New Year had forgotten and p4s'e'
by, the orowatd, triumphant figure for which th
blessing waited.
Dawn over the fields a ravine worked lis wa,
through to III = nyer, a steep place, with rocks a
the bottom. A, one point it was crossed BY who