The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-30
About Dick?" said Laura, not pre-


1T is true, athen; what could you
mean by it, my dear child?" continued
the mother, in tone of the deepest
regret.
What did he tell you, mamma?''
mo, but Gilbert did. Grace seems
to have found it out, and when she
asked him he did not deny it, and he
wished me to know, he said, because
he thought should use my influence
| to help his cause Do you really mean
to tell me that you don't care for
81 thought would rather be gov
erness than marry him., said Laura,
demurely. ~ g 81 isIrs3
My dear, it is only three months
since you expressed conviction that
nobody ever would make you suita-
BILE offer; and ] was little vexed, /
confess, because it is so much better
that girls should not think much on
those matters till occasion arises, but
| certainly did not expect that you
would shortly have an excellent offer
from thoroughly superior man, and
would refuse him point blank
He took me by surprise" said
Laura; and besides, [ always had a
theory that should not have offers;
l was certain that / should not, or
else | should not have talked as | did
that day. p o-lsg .os n-s j 4t.re. T.
IA theory" repeated the mother,
with comical little noise that was
not exactly a grean, ~, but something
very like one. zs9aosa
sit is very ihconvenient, mamma"
replied Laura, apelogising; but real
ly would rather go and be governess
to those children" saa afaS" III
So Laura went away. and she was a
governess, and she did not particular
ly like it.. Her employers were exact
ing; they were rather cold; and Laura.
being very shy, suffered many little
annoyances and much Inconvenience
without the courage to speak. The
wear and tear oflife having now truly
come upon her, she began to feel the
ofone's own accord, aud sought out
for ones self, and the sterner kinds of
duty that had come upon her. She
sometimes felt as if her taskmasters
now were men and women who were
never satisfied, never thought she had
done enough; but the former Master
for whom she had tried to work was
a loving, Father, who had rewarded
her with. his own peace in her heart.
By degrees, however, as the long win
ter passed away, she began to perceive
that she was still serving the loving
Father, and that made all things easier.
As for Dick, she had not much time
to think of him, and if circumstance
anything butpleasant had not aroused
her to think of him, he would almost
have passed out of her mind. ~
She read one day in the newspaper
a singular account of the burning ola
work-house. The fire had broken out
just at sunset, when party of young
men who were coming home from
a boat race, and going to dine at
large country house, which was men
toned, came running up to help the |
men who were bringing the fire engine. |
lone Of them" it went on to say,
who was carrying an oar over his
shoulder, made use of it to vault into
a window some heigth from the |
ground. He was a Mr.. Vernon. The |
oar cracked with his weight; but he
was flung on the windowsill, and di-
rected by the people without, made
his way to ward, where there was
said to be woman lying with her in
FAINT of few hours old. Others of
these young men got in also, and their
pluck seemed 10 increase the daring
Of the other men They rescued two
or three bedridden people and expos
ed themselves rashly. They also
some stores, and they all got out with
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non, who had his left ha md badly torn
by the fall of arafter with some Jagged
nails in it, which caught his fingers,
while the infant on his arm and the
woman were unhurt. lH' -
st could not be Dick" thought
Laura; "or, of course, I should have
heard of it from home 1t proved,
however, that it was Dick, and Grace l.
had to leave her young family, and go
70 nurse him. Very few particulars
we're told to Laura bat she did not
much care for that, as she had read
hem in the newspaper. Dick was
better, this was sometimes said; and
It other times, Dick has certainly
ess pain now than at frst;" finally,
hey said, that cut on his forehead is
healed now, and he looks more like
himself again" oh" thought
Laura. his face is disfgured, then, is
p But when she got home, and to I
Ter surprise, found him.sitting in the
with her mother and
lis sister, she saw that he was still an
Invalid wearing his arm in "a sling.
lie had glove on his left hand. and
t first Lanra did not dare to look at :
t; but her eyes. in spite of herself, i
gere drawn to it at last, and she saw l
hat two or three of its fingers were
mpty. How much more beautiful
be somewhat handsome face anneared