The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-01-02
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Of confidence ( might be entitled % ,o ~
Apparently the scrutin, was satisfactory.
Tor on ny holding out my hand, 6s
came and seated himself on my knee.
aud .hispered, eon6denti,lly -
"Ae allays naughty At my lessons. ,
on know dou't generally care
much about children, but there was 4
look about this child that l could not
VI x1thstand;-half loving, half defiant
We we're friends at once and soon the
little girl, 'emboldened by her brothers.
example, dssaK nearer, and at length
joined 10 his sprattle.
$50 rksVeni, vidi, vici,' with regard
to the children; but you don't under
stand Latin and illusions, which is per-
aaps as we'll, for l may be mistaken, as
the first battle being a victory is not al
ways ~ index to the whole campaign.
1t il not tsici' quite with Mrs. Braddick:
there is repulsion between us, though
xe are exceedingly civil to one another.
Neither Is it 'vicr as respects Mr.. Rich.
ard Etheredge, Mr.. Braddick's half:
brother, Who has come up to town to
escort his sister to Etheredge Court.
We are mutually suspicious; 1 see him
faratisely glaneing At me from time to
time, and l must plead guilty to taking
similar surveys Of him. When we detect
each other in the act of thus taking
notes, We turn our attention immediatelV
to some other object. am intently and
lustantaneously engrossed with whatev-
er book or paper bapens to be near, and
he has happy faculty of seeming to
'ook At nothing, or Of seeing something
beyond the object at which he happens
to be gazing at. It is not vacant gaze
either, but an intelligent piercing of
the distance that one would think ben.
etrated the very walls Of the room, and
was calmly contemplating What might
be beyond them.
$50 much for the people I am thrown
with; and as I know the question that
would Re on your lips if you were here, I
will answer it in anticipation, if not af.
6rmatively, negatively, 4 am not IN.
happy in fact l am in a state Of perfect
quiescence; l don't wish Tor anything,
md am quite resigned to any Jthirgthat
nay happen. l am floating along on the
1ver, as 1 told you, listening to dreamy
music from the shore; the current
GEMS smooth enough at presest, and a
ar wind is waiting me along like a
lrlven leaf on the surface. l shall not
lax, l know that; I am in an atmoz-
here of peace at last. Strange that ac-
ion should be rest ?"
Katy unused lung over the letter
'hich she did not give to her mother
read. She told her its contents IN her
wn words.
"Poor Adrie," said Mrs. Davis, "my
lind misgives me about her. I wish all
10 books in the world were burned!
'on't You take to reading Katy: its
OF for women to be troubling their
eads with books and such-like; it
'akes men good for nothing, and wom-
. can less easily stand it. There's our
lear as full Of book-learning as an eggs
Ill OF meat good soul that he is; but
Is my belief that he does not know
Qua day to day what he's had for din
er, or for the matter of that, whether
e's had any dinner at all and never
hall l forget the time when that eipsv
amp stole his fowls, and sold them to
i'm afterwards, and he never so much
knew his own speckled hen that gain
4 two prizes, nor the great Cochin
hina neither. We must get Adrie back
US; l dare say shell soon tire. There's
. place like the country, with plenty
cows and sheep and poultry round
ou for company"
"Adrie's going into the country,
otber."
"Ah, but what sort Of country?-a
'oped-up grand house, with no liberty
roam about. To my mind, the worst
rison would be one that you could
Itch glimpse of fields and hills from,
ID be ever longing to be there, and
1t never able to reach them"
81 don't know, mother"
''Ah: but 1 do; and depend upon it
m not far wrong; but young heads
ways think they have more wisdom
IAN old ones. I've had my fancies, but
ley've taken fight, and perhaps
dries will. We must be tender with
sr. What We old ones fail in is want
memory; We forget that we have
zen young: We don't make allowances
metimes, Katy. We forget-we for
"Not you, mother" said Katy.
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