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

VIGIL, INC IoloWlnS nignt, 30 ne settled IL
would be no use inghurrying on before us
and we Joined Fanny again, who saluted
Us as we came up ; q nWel, Mr.. Barnard,
! hope you are ashamed of yourself
Your few minutes have been just exactly
an hour all but eight minutes, and here
have mama and I been missing half the
pretty views by looking in stupid Murray
to try and find out what the places were
believe you went to smoke, and I've a
great mind not to lot you have that
sketch foryour champers you made me-
promise you" Nick colored up and be-
gan mumbling out an awkward apology,
just as If he had been guilty of some ter
Bile offence, till she interrupted him.
''Wsll, never mind. III let you off this
time, asyoure friend Of Jack SO
please tell me whether those are the Jura
4 over there or not. 5lslsa.qst { dtfu
I Ileft them chatting away pleasantly
together. and went and sat down By my
self in anything but pleasant thought.
TIL that hight at the pilot house + had
not been sure that was really iu love
with Minnie Darleyaat all. 1t was only
now, as stared down into the foam of
tile raddle-wheel, now that all chance
was past, that 4 was finding out how
much | really cared for her. We were
nearly at Oucby, I4opened my pocket
book, and took out an envelope With a
faded violet in it, and threw it overheard.
F"That's DONE. She is q tiirt like the rest
of them and Invent to see the luggage
taken out. aig'aq DO aua.Ai4 gg1dt 4a
We slept that nightat the Hotel Glib
bon, and, after an early walk through he
wood to the Signal Hill, which commands
ons of the most extensive views of the
Leman, started off again by boat, past
Vevay, and Old Chihon, and the little
island, to Vile Neuve, at the head Of
the lake, where we took the train to Al,
gle. " mH liia5 3 sbrgi sI3 20 5,er
4 We left our luggage at the station, and
made a small boy in ablouse happy
with the promise of fifty centimes to show
US the way to the house, which had been
4 hired for some years as a summer resi-.
dence by widowed cousin with two little
girls. A pleasant walk of half mile up
La narrow road, fenced in by a. crumbling
stone wall, half hidden in ferns, and over.
hung by walnut trees, brought US to q
grove of 9magnif cent chestnunts, and
through their huge twisted stems We coon
caught sight ofour friends coming to meet
us. ~ no ,o,
4 "lf you are not all too tired. III said
Mrs Grey. when the first warm greetings
were over, swell take q turn on to 4 my
gazebo beforewe 60 home Your boxes
will be sent up, dear.1in time for iyo ou to
make yourself comfortable for o solid tea
at six. ! should lose my cook, in all
probability, Mr.. Barnard, if attempted a
! dinner later than nalf-past twelve OF
one here; but 1 hope We shan't starve
|you,',,sib IA, ra }sifgq soo tp,l IF o,,6r
Mrs Grey's t'.'gazebo," her fayorite seat
was q great boulder Of marble, assembled
by natural steps. Il was sheltered com
pletely on three sides by rocks and pines,
and looked out over the tops Of the chest
nuts across the Rhone on to, the grim pro-
file Of the Giant" on the other side Of
the valley, and the three rosy snow peaks
Of the Dent de Midi father off to the left,
t5 truly was a charming spot, wild and
lonely, 50 lonely, indeed, that Mrs. Grey
had forbidden Emma and Edith to 90
there alone, and had never been oyer,fond
OF staying there herself after sunset, lsince,
one unusually severe winter that she had
spent at Chevronixs her st, Bernard had
been strapgled IN the night, and b,g ronnd
footmarks, four INCHES across, were found
IN the morning leading up to the gazebo,
where the snow was melted BY, some beast
which had been lying d,wn there. ~
On q table Of soft moss close by some
sough, wooden eats, we foud soine wine
and fruit awaiting US, and sat there chat.
tering and telling our adventures till it
was time to 90 in: 1gThere are some let
ters for some Of you, Fanny, dear, On the
drawing room chinncypiecc," when We
had llspt all n for teal forgot them when
we came in,, Fanny was up and danced
back into the room with disappointed
,bi"Not one for me what a shame Mrs,
\, Holmes two for you, mamma, and N,
II Barnard, Esq, such a fAt opc for you,
Mr.. Barnard lin sure itmust have got
another one in II, Nick took it.. blushed
4 crimson and put il ip big pocket, ! ~ was
4 from Mr. barley. -sf. avsa ds...,f.1,
4 Supper, as everything else must, came
to IN end ats last ;ibus after soppcr, there
was Q turn on the terrace, and, after that.
something else, which kept US with tbe