The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-04-13

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ing Atsls het whole mind apparrutly
alled with the wofk 81 trimming The
dough iraE the edRe II the pie Bat
really sac was working BY the hArssi
kind OF meoLAnioal iBslinet, AID II might
s. vel have been cabbage a. pis she
wss panng 50 deEterously, Tor all Ae
thoaghl Ale vas giving the work
Tas sun, shining through lhs hop
vine Al the little wooden-bAFred window
Bsckered on hcr hair and made CLEAN
q light aud shadow on TIE sali before
her The white day lilies. ia the bil q
gardsn.bed by the door. sent in breath
Of fragrance. aud merry cricket pipod
10 bis fellows under the hearth-stona
The day and place made quiet pic
inre Of cheerful p~aee. II only a bad
been hllod by heart Al rest. But to
Eliza Orange the sky above and the
sepsember landscape It shone upon
Nero covered uita thin, impeneirabIe
veil oi green 10 her the sun was cloud
ed aud the sweet flowers we're accented
with the odUr 81 decay. Even the home
y sights of home about her the egg
bealor the SKINNER, the Aour-scoop
hanging Oh their nails filed her with
loathlpg and despair
Il can not bear il / can not bear
il ! shall die Oh no, / shant die
can't die; and | must endure what |
can not bear she moaned, deep in her
heart.
There was distant whirling whir Of
her mother spinning heel, tar away in
the gaFret; the water drippod with
ceasoless flow in the tub under the shed
the hemiock sticks IN the stove cracked
and sputtered their disgust ct their
fate; aud somewhere, somebody called
out to oxen that dragged creaking
cart.
By-and-by door opened and shut,
aud there was sound Of footsteps com
ing across the uncarpeted aoor.
Eliza turned, with FIRST sudden inn
pulse, to shut the door upon herself and
her misery; aud soon came quick
feeling Of thanktulness for anything and
anybody that might help her to escape
for a little time from her troubled
thoughts
At the same time girls voice called
'Zay where are you?
Here, in the pantryp replied Eliza,
turning little to put a spice-boI upou
a shell, that she might hide the marks
Of tears on her face, as a young girl in
a wood-colored calico dress and pink
sun-bonnet cams in and seated herself
upon high sugar tub.
oh, Milly 2 is it you ? / am glad
you have come, Take an apple, will
you ? There are somo real nice Port
ers on the shelf behind you, said Zay,
IN quick, animated voice, still keeping
her back toward tho new conner.
Milly took an apple and began eating
1t, not speaking at first. but looking
with great, searching eyes at the droop-
ing figure before her
II Milly Bergen had not been born in
the quistest most stagnant spot in the
world, and woman besides, she would
inevitably have become detective Off
GER; for not so much as a mouse could
scainper behind the wainscot but she
knew. by ready intuition, what it was
seamperipg after
And now she said. directly, What is
il, Zay Anything about Fredericg
lay replied 10y the downfall Of tear
upon the PIE she snll held, and sud-
den shaking Of her whole frame that
she quieted 50 suddenly; and, with an
evident effort to steady her voice, she
replied, forlornly, Frederic aud | are
through, Milly
What do you mean. zayr gasped |
Mllly, showing down her apple and |
stretching open her eyes still wider.
1T is true, replied Eliza, in calm de- |
spair ! shall never see him again
Il be were going BY The window should
not look ont, and be would not look in.
We are nothing TO each other any more
Gay Orange, don't believe Il Tell
ms abou, i. qaiek cried out AIilly, in
ready sympathy.
IL was only last night replied zay,
mournfullyi but it seems year--it
seems a lifetime. Frederic came in as
be always does p aud from Dorset. He
hadn't been home before .or more than
a mouth, aud hadnt seen him in all
that time II seemed ike a great while;
but Mllly, it was not like alwaysl Nov
] am going 70 see him never again T
eoboed poor Gay. breaking down for
moment.
Then. swallowing very hard. she went
on again.
he seemed natural enoagh Just as
be Al~ays did; til. finally, be lay down
on the sofa ard put his head on my lap.
aud then be said he didn't know hos
] had looked Al cur acquaintance, aud
be thought We onght 10 llnre an under.