Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-16
left England. Take care you DO not allow
yourself to ps too much excited now. sup
pose this news will shorten your trip.
- Bless you, iny dear son,

youreelI To- D9 too muCh eXclteQ now L sup
pose this news will shorten your trip.
I" Bless you, iny dear son,
Your Loving mother,
''Can Minnie have changed her mind ? )"
he said In a low tone 10, surely not, 1t
can't be-
:. Can Minnie have changed her mind :" |
had not thought of that. Yes, that's it
whaG elee could il bel that must be it and |
tried to swallow the big lump In my throat,
and eaid, - That's It-ot course 1t is. Nick,
you are a lucky fellow, and congratuls lie
you, though it costs me something 90 so.
Ot course, that's it."
| don't think hs noticed the last part of my
speech i: bur he snatched up the letter and
read il through again. g No, surely, she
never would. It's impossible
- Impossible ?' l said why the very
same thing happened to friend OF mine this
very year. There was he desperately IN love
with girl vino refused hin fat, and sent bim
oil 10 travel, down N the mouth enough TO Kill
! himself aud then as soon as he got nobody
knows hcge, she found, on second Thoughts,
/ she vas more in love than he Was, and GreTe
Was such piece ot work as never was 80 lei
him know. AS lock had Ii, letter to tha
ScIi,y Islands found him and brought hin
back quick enough, and they were married
! straight of. " hats more, tney are about IS
happy q couple as ever l saw. Impossible
bless you. nothing is impossible about girls,
/ Uniess /. IS 20 Understand sheni.
! | had worked myself Up till | hardly knew
( whether to iaugn u cry. Mex pitched his
/ cigar over tbe see and watched IL hiss int0
the watsr taen pog his band on Lay ann and
s4iJ, with & coGlEess that seemed rather ODD
Tor : lover. and aggravated me insonselv. " it's
d rum 90. ana 1 DON. know whas to make Of
il. / Want to ask you one thing dont say
! = word ~ ibis . your Inotbcc or SISTER. lie
/ aii seen } iitcle excited, and color5d up s.;s-
! l., ana promised 10 Keep his counsel We
should b. a. LuevIonix, il ali went well, the
/ following ;5A5, - he settled Il would he nc
us3 n r-yins on before us, and jolue6
I Fanay agl.n, " % saIpted US = sse came L
= " oii, NJ. Bernard, Aoqe you axe ashamed
/ OF yourself. -ar i-w minutes E4gs t-@a
just exactly an hcur All bat Ell Ia minutes,
ana here have mamma and been MISSING hali
the pretty y2ws by looGInG Ia stupid Vi lrs-y
/ II tty AMI Eus out what the PLACES were.
btiicvo yCu went to sr..oHe, and "; : gre41
mind BOT 10 leI you have ,ha- sketch for eour
chambers you made me prols sc jou. Mex
c0iored L end began Iumblin; out "a awk-
/ VII apology. iu-t - if be had been sui-y q!
sJme terrible oEen-e, I'll che interrupted hln4.
- W eli. never mind, II let you Oft Ing i'.4e,
as you re / ffiend of Jacks So please tell me
me whether those are 5hs Jura over there cr
no."
lett them chatting away pleasantly to
gether, and went anu sat down by myself ln
any thing but pleasant thought. Till that
q night as the pIlot-house l had rot been
that | was really in love with Minnie D4rley
= ali. IL was only now, as | stared down
/ into the .oam Ot the paddie-Hheel. now thai
| all CHARGE was past, that was finding cut
! how much | really cared for her. We were
nearly at Onchy. | opened my pocket-hook,
and TO L cut an enveIop With faded violet
/ 10 It, AID threw ii overheard. - That's done.
q S1e Is a lirt Ike the resr Of them, and /
/ vent 10 sec the luggage taken out
H s.epi that nigh; al the Hotel Gibbon,
and, alter an cary walk through the wood to
/ the Signal HilI, which Commands one Vi tho
most extensive views OF the L9man, started Oh
again ~ BOAR, past Vevay. and O.d ChIIIon,
and the little island, TO Vile Neuve, at the
| head Of tie LAKE, where we took the train 10
Ai5le.
We lei. cur luggage /; the station, and
I made Il small boy N a blouse happy with tie
promise OF fly centimes 10 show Us the way
~ ihe house, which had been hired ioE sOme
years a. q summer residence by "a wIdow ed
ceu-in with two lIt,Ie girls A pieasant walk
OI hall q mile up narrow rad, fenced IN by
Il crumbiing stone wall, half hidden IN ferns,
ard oyeIhupg by walnut trees, brought us 70
| q grove of Ia ynIGcent chestnute, and through
their huge twisted stems We soon edughs
| sght Of our friends coming to meet Is.
II you are not all too tired, sa!d Mrs.
Grey, when the first warm greetings We're
over, - we'll take = turn on 10 my gezcoo be-
fore We 20 nome. Your boxes viii be sent up,
dear, IN time for you 20 mske yourself com
| portable for j sJId tea st SIX. | should lose
my cook, in all probability, Mr.. Barnard, If
attempted dinner later than half PAST .wolse
or one here; but hope we shan'r starve
you
Mrs. Grey's "gazsbo,'' her favorite seat
was a great boulder of maj BILE, ascended by
natural eteps. 1t was sheltered comp e'ely on
three sides by rocks ana pines, .4ni Looked cut
over the tops OF the chestnuts acroas the
Rnone on 10 the grim PRONE OF the = Giant,
Oh the other side Il the valley, and TIM three
rosy snow peahs Ut the Dent de Midi larther
off 20 the left. IL truly was d charming spot,
Wild and lonely, 50 lonely, indeed, that Mrs
Grey had ioroldden Emma and EtIth TO 70
there alone, and had never been over-foud OF
staying there herself alter suosat, since oue
unusu4ily severe winter that she had spent at
Chty7onix her s.. Bernard had been strangied
in the nighr, and big round foot.narks. four
incnes across, were found IN the morning
iesidI1g z up 10 the gazebo, i" here the snow Was
melted by some Ucas. nIch mad been ly ing
dlwn there.
On tabe of colt N close By some rough
N90JucD seitS, We I0unu some Wine and it'll
.waitiUs. us. and tnsie chatlerlas a1d
telling car adventures til is WAS time 10 X
Ia. There are d me letters for some ct yoe,
Fanny, dear, The drawing room chimney
p.ece,'' when We had Il! net for tea II toF-
| tsoe tnem when IN Fanny Was op
! and danced back into the room with a di.ap-
/ pointed = Not one Tor me; what u shame
, hiGs. holmes, t~ o for you, m ANNA, and y.
i BAInard, Esq, such tat one ior you, df-
Barnard | IA sure II must have got anosher
one ID 1t. Nick took it, biushed crimson, and
put 1t IN bis pockea. IL we from Mir. DAI-
icy.
Supper, as every thing elss must, came 10 au
2 end 1t last; but after supper the e was a turn
on the terrace, and, after mat, something else
which kept us with tine rest OF the party, aDd
Is was noI till We were alone in the ht-e bed
rcJm we were TO share for the night, that
: Mex could venture 10 open mis- letter.
| cob'. know which was most eager.
{ looked over wish hiIn and read
i - bgAYToS LODGE, august 10, 1868.
:. Mv dear Nicholas IF you beiieved bow
painful il was to Ce Obliged to send you
{ the e4 closure 30 my last letter, y,u VIII not
: | al, sure, doubt snA. 1t gives the greatest
D pleasure to forward thas which accompanies
:, tnis. Second thoughts, they say, are best
Z fancy You will not quarrel with the Truth 81
the saying In youc own case. l think you
3 had better come here 4: cnce on your retu n
There will he eeyeral business matters to al.
e range, Cud | may, probably. by then, be abls
:, 10 cay what allowance | snail be able to le
5 you have. You mcss be moderate 10 you
}. expectations ut hIs..
Il [ nope 11rs. Ddrley may be able to persuade
your mother 10 meet you here. Wishing yoi