The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-11

and he could fully sympathize with Mr..
Charles Trevor
Mrs. Ruth welcomed her mother and
sister in-law TO her palace home with
sweet frankness and cordial welcome that
almost persuaded Maria into the belief
that she had entirely forgotten the little
episode in Miss Mackenzie's room; and
Maria loves dearly to talk to her fashion.
able friends about darling little sister
Ruth-the heiress, you know, that
Charlie iedl-Rewodts MsceRapy
He AND snE.-They had"grown up''
together, in the full sense of the term
and that was just the matter, They had
eaten each others mud pies, taken the
Group in each others snow forts, cried out
the sums on each others states. tipned
over each others ink bottles, sopped TN
The INK with their mutual handkerchiefs.
told OF each other in bout equal propor-
tlons, and made up in common exuber.
ance OF sobs and sassafras. They had
played at lovers behind the wood.pile. been
married by the prize speaker been divorced
by the first base,' been reunited By the
minister's daughter, and gone to house
keeping IN the peat swamp, at the regular
intervals as far back as their memory OK
tended
She had blue eyes, and never understood
Vulgar Fractions.
lie used to miss, so that she might qet
to the head of the class
One day she braided her hair in two
little braids behind and tied it with a
pink lute'string ribbon at three cents a
yard. When they walked home together
he touched it gently, to signify his appru-
baton. and she bluShed like a Mav.dow
er.
1t could not have been long after tha:
before she grew shy at snglng-school, and
was apt TO be going home with her broth-
er. In another year, when he went to
ST. Davids College, she cried herself to
sleep, forgot to crimp her hair, and said
nothing was the matter.
SO, OF course, when he came home on
his first vacation, 1t all happened as i,
could not very we'll help happening. and
as l suppose it must go on happening to
the end OF all young things dreaming or
Of old ones warning.
she sat IN the choir in blue dress with
white spots, with pink bonnet and pink
cheeks, and sang in very sweet little
country voice, that quivered and curcd
about the pillars of the sunny white meet,
ing house like incense in an open fields or
May day, you might have thought-ol
you might not.
lie, grown rather tall, rather quiet. will
long hair, and unmistakeable st. Davi :,
shawl, sat below in hi. fathers box pew
and listened
One Sunday it CHANGED that the Revcr
end MIR. Love, the recently settled an,
very popular shepherd of the ''meeting
house," felt moved IN the spirit to preacl
to his flock sermon upon Christian ami
ty, and TO suggest as its most fitting mu-
cal accompaniment Hymn Sj7 of th,
Sweet Singer Of lsreal Cust introducet)
Ah, you excellent mothers with wash
ing days on your minds, and ye father
struggling to keep your faith under tin
discovery OF Toms first cigar, do you neve
suspect in your stupid good hearts, tn
tears of solid comfort rolling into you
spectacles as you sing, and your soul
aglow with all the hidden meanings of f.l
owship in the one Master whom the,
} who love not never know-'lo you neve
suspect the firtations conducted over tina
admirable hymn!
Ii may bc very much too bad, but il i
very much the case. 1t is quite as bad il
me to suggest the sacrilege 10 your youn.
people. Bless your indignant souls the
stand in need of no suggestions. Asl
them. | do net deny that it is atrociou
IN me to spoil the hymn for .you but tha
, Is another matter,
She then, in her blue and white dress
: with sunbeam struggling through littl
ground glass gallery window upon hc
pirk bonnet, sang
"Blest he the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love:
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above"
1t struck him that her voice was les
like incense now, and more like melted Ill
yer which was very good fancy, blythe
way, and he would make n note of i
against some indefinte cxigencies as clas
orator.
, "Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
: Our comforts and our cares"
faltered the little silver voice and so iink
led into this:
when we asunder part,
1t gives us inward palm ;
But we shall still he joined in heart .. y
And he, turning round with the audi
ence, back to the Rev. Mr. Love, as was
the fashion in the Bloomsbury First
Church, lifted his face to hers, and their
foolish young eyes met-met and dropped,
and the work was done. .-EIIzAnFTu