The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-01-26


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II Ned Stone bad ever fault found
with h.m on ihe score that be uas
practical and that ite oqat poetieal be
mig hayc answered with Mistress Au-
drgy supuosing and its a douhtful
case} that he was informed Of the exist
ance Of that rustie-"I DO noi know
what poetical is: IS it honest ia deed
and word is it true thiug2' Ger
,ainly in both word aud deed be WAS
himself honest and true. For things
that we're otherwise he was quite with
out sympathy. Indeed he was Tor The
most part without knowledge concern.
ing them; being a simple, straight
forward gentleman, who went his own
way, lived his osn life, did what it fell
| to his lot to do, in a curiously sober,
steady, homely fashion He never
swerved to the right or to the left. II
/ did not occur to him, apparently, to
deyiate from a compact plan Of consist,
ent conduct. He never seemed TO say
anything be did not mean, Or to mean
anything he did not say; the while bis
openness had not about il that element
Of offensiyenes that characterizes th,
unreserye Of some people; with whom
ospeaking their minds as they phras,
4 Iii, is rather ike cracking bad egg
an operation better permitted than
performed.
Ned Stones mind ran pure and cleal
Is a brook You were Of course Mt lib
erty. If such was your humor. TO derid,
/ il as being merely water brook aftel
all prcicriug fonut Of strong clare
perhaps. Still the former, be it re
nembered Is available at all times ant
dalectable over III its own mild wav
whereas The latter is only for occasioni
ef fcstiviiy AZ long Intervals, aeyer run
lining fog any protractod period, noi
always quite clear, and wi,h MI i'll
charms capable upon proyocabon o
giving you a headlcAe, or throwius
/ Won into d fever
He was broker il the city nothing
moro nor less than that Whothor hi
labor aud profits had to 10 with ten o.
sugar. or shifs or sto L, | am not Ger
tain. faugd it sufficient no know h
was BROKER 81 some kind ia The city
/ The facl coryevea q certain ilea to nj,
mind. III had sought To- enlarge ia,
Iidea by clarifying tho fact ] mjgLt hay
found myself less enlightened than fur
ther confused about tie matter; for in
Iauiry + notice. often bewilders IA mucI
ms il instrnc,s. He had been very poo
lat one time Of his life ana had had Z
/ work very hard. His industry. howev
er had in the end met with it's du,
reward Arrived at middle age he wa
very comfortably cirenmstapced ana II
saw no reason to Doubt his prsoperit,
would continue. When he announce,
to his friends, therefore that he though
Of taking to himself a wife il was fel
generally that the step he mediate
VAS A prudent and proper one. an
only what might, under all the circum
stances Of the case, haze been reason
ably expected. And when be furthe
stated that he had made an offer Q
his hand to one Miss Georgiania War
rem, the daughter Of wealthy Eas
India merchant, and that his offer ha
been accepted by the lady, we Of cours
. haetened to tender him our heartie
congratulations on the happy occasion
When / say Eve" Imust not be undei
stood a. employing the editorial fir
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