Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-06


yesterday"
"Oh, yes, | recollect very nice young
man driving up there yesterday, and look
ing over the house for an hour | suppose
he has taken it,
" n nice young man." said l, =" that is
very Interestingly suppose young couple
just married"
Very likely" replied Maria Walker,
laughing but whether at the fact of my
making up my mind to its being an inter-
esting case of matrimony, or what else,
know not.
1t was week before [ saw Maria again
and when did. she caught r,e BY the hand,
drew me rapidly to the window and with
sem-tragic expression, pointed to the house
over the way. l looked. What was my
astonishment when, on the door in large
letters, | read these words Mr.. Edward
Radstock, NJ. D.
"A rival" cried l, clapping my hands,
thoughtless girl that | was; another feud
of Montague aud Capulet. Maria, could
not a Romeo and Juliet be found to termi-
nate it ?"
Don't laugh" replied Maria, gravely !;
papa is quite i'll with vexation imagine,
in a small town like this. two doctors it's
all the fault of that advertisement. Some
scheming young man has seen it, and find
ing no hope ofpractice elsewhere, has come
here. | suppose he is as poor as rat"
At this instant the sound of horses foot
steps was heard, and then three vans full
of furniture appeared in sight They were
coming our way. We looked anxiously to
see before which house they stopped.
must confess that what Maria said inter-
ested me in the young doctor, and | really
hoped this was all for him. Maria said
nothing, but, with a frown on her brow, she
waited the progress of events. As | ex-
pected, the vans stopped before the young
doctors house and in a few minutes the
men began to unload. My friend turned
pale as she saw the vehicles were full of
elegant furniture.
The wretch has got a young wife, too, -
she exclaimed, as a piano and harp came
to view, and then she added, . this will
never do; they must be put down at once
they are strangers in the neighborhood, we
are well known. Sit down at the desk my
dear girl, and help me to make out list
of all the persons we can invite to ball
and an evening party. | look upon them
as impertinent interlopers, and they must
/ be crushed.
/ L laughingly acquiesced, and, aided by
her, soon wrote out list of invitations to
be given.
But now." said Miss Walker, after a
/ few moments reflection, one name more
must be added; they must be invited"
- Mr.. and Mrs Radstock," :" replied Ma
ria, triumphantly, while ] could scarcely
speak with astonishment.
The rest of my narrative | collected from
the lips of my friend, little more than a
year later
The ball took place TO the admiration Of
all c. 1t was splendid affair; F.;
select band came down from London, il
which two foreigners, with dreadfully uneu
phonic names played upon two unknown
instruments, and deafened nearly every sen
sitive person in the room, and would hay,
driven every body away had they not beer
removed into the drawing room balcony
then there was noble Italian, reduced tc
a tenor singer, who astonished the compa
ny, equally by the extraordinary number
of strange songs that he sung, and the mum
Der of ices and jellies which he ate theI
there were one or two literary men, who
wrote anonymously, but might have beer
celebrated only they scorned TO put thei
names. forward among the common herd al
ready known to the public there was
young poet too, who thought Alfred Tenny
son infinitely superior TO Shakespeare, AM
by the air with which he read a poem
seemed to insinuate that he himself wa
greater than either and there was fun
nv gentleman, who could initiate Henr
Russell, John Parry, Blackstone, who CAV
negro recitation, which might have bee
Chinese poetry for all the company under
stood of it. In fact it was the greatest al
fair of the kind which C--had seen fo
many long day Mr.. and Mrs Radstoc
came, and We're received with cold polite
r ness by both father and daughter. Tn
young man was good looking, with an IL
telligent eye, pleasing address, and non
,, of that pertness of manner which usual
belongs to those who have Just thrown o
the medical student to become the docto
Miss Radstock, his sister, who kept hous
: for him, until he found a wife, was charm
ing girl of about twenty. She smiled .
the manner of both Mr.. and Miss Wake
t but said nothing. Young Radstock's onl
{ revenge for the lady of the houses coldne:
i and stateliness of tone was asking her I
; dance at the first opportunity, which ce
II tainly was vexatious, for his tone was
pleasing, his manner so courteous, that III
u friend Maria could not but feel please,
u when she wanted to be irate, distant, an
l. naughty.
= They danced together several times, al
:, to the astonishment of many friends of tt
/ young lady, of myself in particular, the
:, went down to supper the best friends
e the world, laughing and looking like o
: acquaintance.
- Next day, however, she resumed h
e original coldness of manner when the brot
er and sister called to pay their respect
) She was simply polite, and no more, and a
ter two or three words they retired. Emi
Radstock becoming as stiff and formal
- her new acquaintance. From that d;
a Maria became very miserable. She W
a not avaricious, and did not fear her faith
% losing his practice from pecuniary motiv.
= but it was pride that influenced her. H
. father had for some years monopolized t
II parish, as his predecessors had for for
N years before him; and now to behold
! young, unfedged physician setting up e
d actly opposite, and threatening to divi
:, in time the business of the town, was drea
a. fnl. The physician of the town sound
n better, too, than one of the doctors, and
ar together it was a most unpleasant affair.
o. Maria's place was now always at t
,e bow-window. She had no amusement b
to watch the opposite house to see if p
- tients came or IF Edward Radstock ma