Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-23

your letter. 4 90 not speak ohnanu vi
unadeisedly but I do speak decidedly,
wishing to aid you in determining your
mind from a subject which (you must be-
lieve me) can only bring you pain. fH a'i
"rhat you may be more satisfied of
this, Tenclose letter from my daughter
Minnie who is much distressed at being
obliged to give you pain. r.a' iiL
"Believe me, yours sincerely; m
61 bag b56 a "T. DARLEY."
/ could not bring myself to read Min
MES letter. SO folded Mr.. Darley's up
again, and gave them both back. 9fj b9sl
u "Poor old Nick I'm very sorry for
you. hadn't notion you really cared
for her. Good night, old boy r. and l
squeezed his hand, feeling half hypo-
crite all the time, and laying down to
think till | fell asleep. 5oisg2ie 81
/ think that any one who is rash en-.
ough to attempt to describe even an ordi-
narily pretty girl is sure TO make a fall
ure; so all l shall venture to say of Min.
ME barley Is, that she was slight and ve-
ry pretty indeed. Possibly some critics
might object that her lips were rather too
thin. Perhaps, too, that her dolicately
chiseled features were. at times, almost
SO colorless as to be almost more sugges-
tive sof marble than of soft flesh and
blood but in moment blush or a
smile could warm the beautiful statue in.
to charming English girl; and any one
must have been something altogether less
than honest, who could watch her. fresh
and animated, in the momentary pause
in valse or gallop, without acknowledge
ing Enthusiastically speaking at least
she was lovely. Her father, who was o
rich lawyer, owned a country house not
far from Barnard Hall, q fine old Eliza
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bethan house belonging to General Bar
nard, a distant cousin of Nick's, with
whom at one time his father had spent a
month or two regularly every year. All
at once, in his old age, the General had
taken it into his head to turn Roman
Catholic, and had quairelled with his few
surviving relatives, with none of whom
he had any communication since the death
of Nick's iather seven years ago. Mr..
barley had once been the family lawyer,
and, even before he had bought an estate
Of his own in the neighborhood, he and
his family had been frequent viyitors at
Barnard Hail. 1t was from childish
friendship formed at the Christmas par
ties there, and continued almost with
out interruption ever since, that the fir
tatlon had sprung up which just ended in
Nick's discontinue, I,heard the whole
story from him again and again in the
course Of the next few days; (; ior now that
the ice was once broken, he thawed very
quickly, and poured his griefs into my
ear whenever we were alone. l really
was very sorry for him, for I knew how
l should have felt at that letter. | had
.
only known her six months ! he, poor fell.
low ! had loved her for ten years. 1t had
been, according to his own ac-
count, his one idea since he was a
boy at school, and he was inconsolable
now. and seemed quite unable to rouse
himself up to anything rhad the great
est difficulty IN Stirring him up enough
to start for Switzerland, and if it had not
been for my mother and sister, whom I
had promised 60 escort as far as Geneva,
| am not at all sure that either Of us
would have left England at all. When
we did start he was not lively compan-
A.
ion, and for the first whole day travelled
with his hat resting on his nose without
speaking word. 5dh Aaad fa9 ~
Fortunately our passage over the Chan
mel was very rough one, and Nick, who
was never an oyer, good sailor, was com
pclled against his own will, for time to
turn his thoughts away to other more i'm.
mediate troubles, y sae ao,a5ieo, N }ei,
There is nothing, as every one knows,
like time and change Of scene to take the
edge off any, sorrow ; and nothing, per-,
haps, helps their effects more than anoth-.
er sorrow Intervening. His shocking sea-
sickness was, as it were, an awful black
chasm yawning between him and bis re-
lection -and when we landed at Boulogne
his spirits had risen in way that sur
Ipriscd US all. We had lovely weather,
luxuriant fruit, and amusing company
my mother and sister, who both liked
him, and had heard his story. did all that
kindness-could suggest to- cheer him up,
and by the time we reached Geneva, after
leisurely journey, be was quite himself
again, merry and uproarous,o the life Of
the party !? and his confdences to me had
been dropped for at least a week. '.'..l '''a
We had arrauged--at his suggestion 7
believe--to go with the ladies Of our par