The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-06-27

sounded TO mel ], Margaret Bailey
Monroe, conlcssedly a belle, beauty,
and a lady of rare accomplishments, be-
sides being heiress to hundred thousand
dollars-f was Just "another ~ Why
didn't he call me person, and done with
it? WELL what would he
do with my frightful w und?
"Mix little -four and sat and put on
it, said he; "ihat will stop the bleeding.
1t is a mere trihe"
1t may have been a trihe. but it was
enough to make me swoon. Or perhaps
| swooned out OF downright ycxaton at
the man.
When recovered, he was gone. BY
and by, when Belle and | were alone
we roomcd togethcr-I asked her what
Mr.. Harrison said and did when | tainted.
"Ile said" Belle answered, clay her
on her back and leave her alone ?"
as that all he said ?"
"No; not quite Some one brought
the -four and salt, and he put 1t on your
finger, and SAID, There, tie rag around
it,"
A rag!
l should certainly hate this young
man. After that he became
such an object of interest to me that
could scarcely keep my mind of him an
hour at time.
was not long in learning something Of
his history. 1t seems that IL love of adj
voptur, I,t cont I;,,, 90, - annie, ..,,rl
the world, when he was boy of about
sixteen, both his parents being dead.
lie had been absent from his native com
try four years without interruption, and
on his return had decided to 90 to the
academy Il short time to correct certain
lacks in his education. This explained
why n man of his advanced age should
be attending schCol-for he was twenty
one if he was n day, Belle assured me.
| myself was about seventeen. was the
only female student of German at the
academy, and it was OF, that account that
Mr. Harrison manifested some degree ct
interest in me, suppose, for he was al
most enthusiastic in his admiration of that
Scholastic'tongue, So | saw Il good dead
of him, after all.
The following winter, at party at
Mrs. Sands, in Sandtord, one bitter cold
night | Glanced to be alone with Nellie
Wells one moment in an upper chamber
which was used MS Il cloak room for the
lady guests. There was furious fire in
the stove, and lis sides were rcd-hot.
Nellie was very pretty grl, but rather
dull. She wore Il dress Of some gauzy
fabric, and going too near the stove, it
took fire. ran out Of the room, scream.
inT ut the top OF my voice:
"Mr Harrison. Mr.. lIarri-cn Oh,
Mr.. lIalri>on'
lie came quickly into the hall saw
me; was u? the stairway with Il bound ;
and as ! WAS running bacl, into the room,
he went past me, pushing me aside rather
rudely, and cook in all with quick, cool
glance. Nellie had hauled Il quilt from
Il bed that was in the room, and was
trying to sliilc the fumes. He threw her
/ on the floor, rolled her over and over in
the quilt, like Il mummy and eXtinguishcd
the flames at once-hu-gcd her, too.
She was not very badly burned, after all (;
and her face was not touched by the
/ flames so that She remained as pretty as
| ever
"Rema,kably sensible girl" said Mr..
Harrison aitcrwarl, to a group. that clus-
tered about him IN the parlor "AIo,l
girls would have rushed heidong into the
hall screaming lke'-hc looked at me
like mad,' he added, with quiet smile.
"lt ever marry said he, "whch |
/ probably never shall, | shall marry q
sensible woman--a woman who would
not set UP scream if our youngest child
should fall into IA tub of hot water. but
would pull the child ont as quickly as
possible, and send for doctor"
Somehow, was vain enough to think
this sarcastic speech was intended solely
to rebukc me. knew ! should certainly
scream in such case. 1t was my nature
to scream, and how could | help my ma
ture}
As for that poor little Nellie Wells, |
hated her, and almost wished it had been
my own dress that had caught firc-only
! should certainly have burned to death
before Mr. Harrison would have come
and wrapped me in a qlilt and hugged
me.
From that day forward, some powerful
influence was at work upon me. | strug-
glcd hard after that cool manner in dan
ger which Mr.. Harrison possessed in so
eminent degree | ever vcnturcd in
the pursuit of perfection, to ask him how
he could do it.
Il suppose" said he, "it is because
naturally have such an extreme terror of
danger in every shape-such a lively
sympathy with those in peril-that | feel
very strongly the necessity for being calm
when others are excited | think that
whatever excuse "A lady may have for
losing her witS-and that is at the best
very llttle-a MAN has no excuse what
ever. | always try to keep my wits
about me-"
$40 be calm, them said I, with the
witherlng irony common to girls of from
fourteen to eighteen, some only needs to
have his wits about him."
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