Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-31
CUR GUEST MARGARET.

"He will never care for me any morew
Elizabeth Dayton exclaimed. She was the
spoiled and petted child of a rich West In
dian prOpri tor.
Mrs. Markham looked up from her en-
broidery. work in some surprise. "Lizzy,
my dear said she, when will you learn
to control in some degree your excitabIe
nature ?" and the quiet old lady looked
really grived. "Who will not like you
and what is the cause OF offense?"
Lizzy could not help laughing when she
found how imperfectly she had expressed
herself.
"Ohl you know what l mean," she said
in her impulsive way.
"Indeed | do not" Mrs. Markham re-
piled, quite gravely; and then she went on
with the brown Leaf that she was working
on the canvas.
Lizzy had been three years at Mrs. Mark
hams school; and, although much i'm
proved, she was the most troublesome of
that lady's pupils. She did not care much
for any of her companions, yet she always
took the lead among them. Lizzy had not
very humble spirit. She was a clever girl,
butshe need not have prided herself on her
cleverness. There were many in the world
around her-aye, and at her very doors too
of tar greater intellect than herself; but
Lizzy, poor child, did not know this. 1t
was rather an unfortunate thing for her
! that she was at the head of every class in
that seminary. You are all very foolish
| girls y she would say when she was very
much put out and then in little while she
would be very repenLant and present her
schoolmates with peace offering of tam
arinds Of Guava Jelly. This was her way,
and she did not want for friends, though
| she never took them earnestly to her heart.
The masters were all delighted with her;
but she was so eager and sensitive and pas
| sonate, that sometimes she forgot her good
| breeding with them. 1t was a sheer i'm
| possibility to go on quite smoothly with
the girl. Yet there were many worse girls
than Elizabeth, and ] sometimes used TO
! think Mrs. Markham did not quite make
allowances for her quicksilver tempera-
ment; she did OF consider that the poor
child was dreadfully grieved and worried
by what would have been 10 her no kind of
annoyance; and now, in her indignant
outburst, when she said, "He will never
care tor me any morem Mrs. Markham
only thoughto of her pupils want OF control
over herself, so preiudicial to her as the
head of that establishment.
"You know what mean, Mrs. Markham"
the impetuOus girl exclaimed. "Papa is go
| ing to marry again. He will marry that
horrid widow, Mrs. Dalston; and then
| will stay with you for the rest of my life J"
"HOw you jump at conclusions " Mrs.
Markham said. LET me see the letter."
Lizzie handed it to her. The expression
that called forth the wayward girls resent
full alarm ran thus:
son my way to St. Georges stopped at
Mrs. Dalston's. She gave me change of
horses. Mine were quite knocked up. She
has been widow for three years, yet still
| ha faals hnr lOco 6aanlu -
Mrs. Markham could not help smiling on
seeing that eager, angry face. "There is
really no cause for alarm that can dis
cover" she said.
Almost before the words were out of her
mouth, Lizzie interrupted her.
''You will not sympathize with me, but
only laugh at mep she exclaimed. tell
you papa means to marry; and you who go
on so smoothly don't know what, 1t
is to be thwarted and vexed like this"
Mrs. Markham Thought she did not al
ways go on so smoothly, and that her spirits
were sometimes sorely chafed; but she did
not tell Lizzy this, for she had burst into a
great fit of sobbing and crying. She only
kissed her forehead, and begging her to
be ina better condition to meet her friend
whom she was expecting that evening, and
4 compose herself and to wash her face, so as to
4 who was to be her guest for some weeks.
just like child, and in truth she was
scarcely more, being only sixteen years OF
4 age, in few minutes Lizzy had thrown of
her trouble concerning her fathers narri-
age, and was listening with interest to all
Mrs. Markham had to say of Margaret Beau
mont, the expected guest; and this did
more towards Frightening up her counten-
ance than all the washing in the world.
BY the time Margaret arrived, Li2zy was
( quite cheerful, with her hair smoOthed
prettily back from her forehead, and soft
Il ness In her clear eyes that was not usually
there, like the spring sky after q rain storm