Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-07-13

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So should he read it after her demise !
She would seal it up in a fancy envelope
and ask Grandma Muir to send it to him
; and then he would know what living, she
could not tell him. She sighed deeply al
the thought.
Something else beloved. Rosetta turn.
ed SHARPLY Opro ite her, staring with
all his might and main, stood a mad lu1
Cattle, mad or not, are no respocters OF
persons or places He had walked into
the graveyard, and there he was, and
there she was. Rosetta wanted to die Of
hasty consumption, but to be gored by a
mai bull, though u shorter way out of
this world, did not present itself in an
attractive light She looked about for
some means Of escape: behind her were
the vii low and the church wall. The
bull lowered his horns Rosetta shrieked,
and in a moment tall figure leaped the
fence beyond the bull, and few to the
rescue
What was done was done in moment.
Perhaps the bull was of soundcr mind
than one might have supposed. At all
events he succumbed to the iemonstrancc
Of stout stick, and rushed through the
gate, head down, as though he meant to
burrow in the bowels of the earth, and
made for his native meadow.
Then, and not until then, did Rosetta
recognize the form and features Of Maurice
barrow
providence certainly sent you," she
said.
"Provi lencc sends me every summer" ="
said Maurice. 81 have betn sketchinc
these pollards yonder and the little house,
and the fen'e, and pretty girl leaning
over it. Come and see my picture, and
tell me what you think oft And then
if you will let me-, will walk home with
you"
Rosetta acquiesced, but looked about
her for the book-the bnahuGyj Jrsg lse--'or
hgafas ;hRFmeTS J ;adaf8u Tiombstones, and false
loves end broken vows and early death,
and all the rest of it, but it was not to be
found, and explanations would have been
awkward.
Suppose Maurice had opened it and
saw the title i" Heart Throbs," Suppose
she had been compelled to admit herself
the doleful poetess!
She decided to return when she was
olite alone and look for it, and went off
with Maurice. She looked at his picture,
and shared his lunch. She talked, and he
talked The sunlight f7ll over his gold
brown hair, and his bright cheeks and
sunny eyes and broad shoulders, and made
a handsome man Of him.
i At last he saw her ZONE, and went in
TO tea with her, and pagtook OF pot-cheese
and strawberries and new biscuit, and was
SO entertaining that not until after he had
gone, and she had actually and fairly re-
tired for the night, did Rosetta remember
that her heart was broken.
She found she could not cry abont it,
aud decided that it must have been de.
snair that had dried her tears but then
she slept very comfortably notwithstand'
ing.
The next day she went after the little
red book, and could not fnd it. She
looked behind tombstones ehe asked {
little boy who stood staring ut her if he
had ..seen a small rcd book The boy
had not, of conrsc. She could not WRIT
any more poetry until it was found-an(
not fniing it, she gsse'up scribbling al
together.
; Then TOO; at unexpected moments, Mau
> rice appeared; always gay, bright, ant
cheerful-always proposing some new OK
pedition. 1t was astonishing that, sipc
all her Joy in life was over, she shoul'
enjoy the weather SO much; OF course
was the weather, and the sky, and tn
g trees, and the flowers. Nature was tn
r broken.heart's consolation. She eve
thought that Maurice had anything TO d
U with it.
She had not on the morhihg when h
stopped to bid her goodbye, before u day
! fishing excursion with certain mascuiln
9 friends, and made her wish him back, an
promise 10 eat some Of the hsh he shou!
bring back; but she knew he was yer
kind and brothcrly friend, and felt yer
thankful to him.
lie looked handsoricr than ever too,
he marched away with his lishng-tacS
over bis shoulder.
Bat what mattercd II to her that al
|. one was handsome? her heart was broke
" She wandered about little disconsolate
ID aud tried to shed tears that afternoon !
:, aid at dusk she went out upon the por
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