Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1869-05-18

Aud It doth follow as the night to day ~
Thou canst not then be false TO any man. ~ II.
And Cav, YOU were not trr,e to yourself, and q
of course YOU were false TO Frederic" ar
- our friend Gay Is very proud" repea.eu hi
Eliza hopelessly. Sand Mily, was not gong a,
t 10 admit had thought farther than he had" AZ
UFlizayl Elizay! It is time TO hang on tne II
mt and put in the pork" called down Mrs. Orange
from the stairway. HIf you will start the dinner
needn't come down till get my skeln on, uo a
| YOU hear" ,>. = 81
pies, and stockingyarnl That Is all have 70 look
| forward to in life, she added. c
4 And so it seemed to prove. DAYS and weeks :
and even months went on, and Miuys cheeilui
prophecies were not fulfilled. II
one day Mily Bergen's half aunt Betsey, from
4 Dorset who was a talking old woman ana tooh
snuff; came over to pay visit TO her nan pro
tberis family. While she was there Eliza Orange
came in, aud preseutlo Milly said oil SUD-
den. n. |
sevP He is book-keeper in the cutlery es-
tabshment at Dorset, and boards az MISS ha'seys
Flixa stooped over to stroke seven toed KIT
ten LAYING asleep on the hearth, stopping. hef
breath to listen for the reply.
But aunt. Betsey was never IN TASTE 10 pe 81,
talking, or To leave off after shs-had begun. She
shook up her chair cushions, counted the stitches
. on her seam needle, took a pinch OF snuf, ana
then said, deliberately. -S,,,.
IFreSieric Chesbunt2 Yes know him. Why
Won see-Aliss Hasley lives the very house but
- 20 mo and We are y-repe i~Sit-ups, and are
one 70 ns se IKE own folks, Her ana gsna
, Chestnut is one Of her Oldest boarders,, quite
stand by, and know him as well as l do this
=, young lady here don't know anything against
u him neither, nor nobody else.
He is Just as nice young man as there Is IN
~ the town of Dorset, now that ls so. And he Is
paying attention now to a girl over there at
Dorset.
: !; "Who is she, Aunt Betsey, what is her name"
exclaimed Miily. :.
" ga Dudgeon girl, and and Miss Hasley and
] arc not over pleased with tue MATCH.
"Why, aunt Betsey." -y
"Because she isn't more than half good enough
for him."
81 thought she belonged to respectable fam
ily."
GWell, she is likely girl; and belongs to a
he respectable family and all that. But l consider
In her piece of lazy furniter, and so does Miss
Die Halsey,"
M Eliza had lifted her face from the kitten, and
Int was lsteuing, white and eager, greedy TO lose
Of nothing not even the pain every word brought
ve her,
sX- "But do YOU think they will marry" asked
he Aiily moving her chair to bring it before Eliza
excited face.
Ihe 81 understand he has taken her homo to see BIZ
her folks and see how they like her.
the and the baby in few days." she added as thoug
attn witt, sudden change of thought
his II made no difference 10 Aunt Betsy what the
subiect-sle was at home on any ; and taking
Of pinch Of snuff she chatted away just as readily oil
q the next theme put in her way with such adroi
sky carelessness.
up When Eliza went home soon after, Miy wen
To 10 the gate, and finally along the road as far a
1ers ths third maple tree
the 81 thought YOU were nv friend "Afy," sal,
Deg, lst,ayp 7
ber hear whatever else your sAunt Besey could tell
$50 am your friend, your true friend bu
HAL YOU locked though there vas dagger stitch
lust ing in heart, and was not going to let he
eep go back TO Dorset with any story about you
tell Miss Halsey. Besides, she had told all sh
her knew, and some she guessed, already. Don
rret, cry, ZlY. have a epresentiment viii com
tub out right yeti +
tove "Right" ment to these young girls the wa
ate most desirable, in their nite eyes, they see suc
ken q little way into life and the great Beyond.
So NIilly went bacllto the gossiping aunt, an
here Eliza went forward to take up the burden of
un life from which the sun was darBened, and th
o,,,. moon with held her light. But
,ho,s ------,. 49, "The iarsss; day,
Ineh Live till To- morrow, will have passed away"
cape should turn tllescolor Of her fate.
Aunt Betsey was right about great man.
things aud at the very moment she was tssnl
her pinch Of snuff, and uncOnseOusy Thrust
ing poisoned arrows into the heart Of EliZ
Orange, the same subject was being discussed b.
olnS Frederick Cheshnut's father and mother in th
she clean, airy kitchen Of their farmhouse
"Did YOU give Fredric hint ofhow you fell
and mother ?" asked Mr., Chestnut anxously. "No
II on a word for nor against. | wouldn't. l treate
the girl just as well as knew how though neve
have could stand il with the Dudgeon blood.
are always did feel as though was p0rcuplne wit
ou, my quilts ont whenever saw one Of the fam
Ieep- w. even as long ago as when they and we wer
Young together, though don't know any reaso
not why replied Mrs. Chestnut, stopping momer
uch- 10 mediate upon the metaphysical side Of Ii
question. Well, soft Is, "she resumed cheerfu
lulet after an unavaingpause some folks can't bei
Wo- cheese, and never took to the DudgeOns. Blu
come nevertheless, shall try to treat Freddys wi
ouse Ike daughter, whoever she may he $50 show
Ahew ed her my cheeses, and took her out to see Il
ering garden and the pig and never hreathed brea
for nor against TO Freddy. Only as she was
putting on her things in the real Dudgeon wa
eHc dawdling and dowdy, just said to Freddy, so
of aside, said l, "Next time you come, brir
2 the Eliza" And he never said a word, and new
her said word / wouldn't for anything.m
and, All, kind-hearted Mother Cheshuntl UDco
she sclous influence is sometimes mightiest and
word spoken in due season how good Is il
"Fredric didn't tell You, / suppose" ask,
row Mr. Chestnut, "anythng about what made d
her trouble betwixt him and Eliza Orange?
wasn't there ever anything to il only our gu
?. 81 Musings, after all ?"
g by "Well, don't know" replied Mrs. Cleshu
you'd all the more ceerfully to balance the gloom
any her husband, 81 guess they liked each other
mistake about that but they are both pret
me proud and pretty stuify, and mistrust SON
,eady thing has gone wrong that they won't either
of them come back If. But, then nobody c
ourn- tell the betwixts and betweens of a couple
time. vounn folks and Themselves as lttla a. anyho,
from Young folks don't know more than n connIe
an rabbits what they Want and what they ought
Time want, and they are just apt 10 stumble on
was wrong thing as the right thing" pursued M
him Chestnut, with the wisdom Of experience and
down long observation stirring an her brau. "Wh,
can't positively say there was any certain
i on gagement, or the ike Of that but s,tpposeC
was an understood thing. Well, don't knc
e al father, it will come out right, one way or
sofa other, and talking won't feed the pig, or pick
said peas fol- breakfast tomorrow mornlneT
laiat- So saying, Mother Chestnut put on her $,
I'M bonnet and went hriskly.out, with pail Of nj
ought in one hand and an empty basket 10 the ott
hoo- Il was not her heart that was on the anvil
rend so she could comfort herself for her disappoin
ly, expectations by the homely duties Of her HON
him life.
ars Meantime, at the same moment, Fredc
know Chestnut, alone in his counting-roOm, trOt
N OF bis foo, and thought.
Since that one black day, so long passed nj
what he had been in whir Of wounded self-love, S
apple picon, aud DESPAIR. dissatisfied and restless.
OF a had been tossed from one moodto another, s.
7, ior of nothing but Of repeutng whatever he did
she one stage of feeling as soon as he had passed
queen the next E
All, II he could be wise enough to wait till
lhueF- tide OF passion had gone down, aud he fiji
"oG'd which Is shifting sand and which is solid ROT
vi We "a; youth IS so wise, and its wisdom Is 81
think tooshness!
from At last, just when Mother Chestnut went