Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-02-20

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them. l met him half way coming to say
goodd bye, and he said. Robert has told
me, Mat he will be true honest hus-
band"
And I said, "Yes- thank you" and
we both forgot to say good bye.
Robert was to come with the New Year,
and we we're to be married. His letters
came often, he sometimes spoke of Gilbert,
and then it was SO hard to answer them,
SO that the wickedness in my heart should
never be known. One day the Willsrd
carriage went BY, and neighbors said it
was going to Gilbert's wedding in the city.
That night how tried to turn him out
of my heart and forget the past All
night my eyes never closed, ami in the
morning my face was white and haggard !;
but mother never knew-shc thought me
ailing and she told me l must get back
my roses before Robert should come.
When the New Year came, Robert and |
stood up, and my lying lips said over the
holy words and there was nothing left but
to make the best ofmy bargain.
We went away to the city, and father
and mother threw an old shoe after U.S.
"for luck, they said and at that we tried
to laugh, it choked US. never loved my
country home as | did when | took nv
good bye look at it, with father and moth
or standingin the door looking after us,
shading their eyes with their hands.
In my new home sometimes met Gill
bert and Mary and she seemed SO light
hearted and merry, but fanced Gilbert
seemed growing old fast, aud his eyes had
lost some of their golden sparkle. tH
Ten years went by, and Robert was
kind, and loved him as much as | mi ght
have loved an elder brother; but had
not forgotten Gilbert nor the old times.
Sometimes | found him watching me with
somthing in his face could not under
stand, only it was look of loss; and |
would be kinder to him. go he should nev-
er miss the whole love | could not give
him. iH ..4.
And then Robert was sick, and grew
weaker and weaker, and the doctor said
he must leave the city andgo where he
could get breath of freshcr airand bill
of warmer sunshine.
We went to Florida-to St. Augos,
| tine. ~
How soft and warm the air was but
it seemed to stiAe him. We would stay
all day in the house With the curtains
drawn close to keep out the scorching air
and only after the sun had dipped down
into the sea would we leave our rooms
and 90 out into the sweet scented air.
There was u stone wall, shaped like 8
half moon and on it we took our walk, and
gay crowd passed up and down, whilc
the band played until midnight. The
stones of the wall were worn smooth with
the dashing of the wrves against them
for more than three hundred years.
don't know which was the gayest
the bright feathered birds, or the bowers
they swung in. Robert loved the grea
mangolia blossoms, and | would put on,
in dish, and the room would be 81
sweet with only one.
But the air seemed to shorten hi
breath and clog up his life, aud one da!
he called me and said.
I "Matty you will be lonesome whcr
l gol" 2 a# @
i And never loved him as | did whel
he lay there so wasted, and ! thought o
the great wrong had done him, and go
down on my knees and cried out.
I "Oh ! Robert don't say that-didn'
we oome here 50 you could live? CO.
A won't leave me alone And q grea
I light came into his face. and he put hi
weak hand on my head and said
"Matty didn't know-I Lad though
sometimes that you didn't care for me a
J l did for you
This nurt me and ] said, "Robcrt, th
world will be SO dark if you are gone.
He shut his eyes SO wearily. and jus
whispered, "God will light it up Matty,
: and these were the last words he eve
: spoke. '"+
He died that night, and his eyes fOl
lowed me eagerly and lovingly, but b
could not speak. And in the mornin
. they told me must bury him before th
sun went down.
How hated them for this way of hui
rying people into their sraves.-So b
sleeps in the old burying ground wher
: the moss has crept over the graves COZ
9 cred with quaint Spanish cyphering, fc