Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-01-28
LOVE vs.. 0OoooNs.

II nau gwen you all DAY TO observe
them, you could not have OWNED it.
You might have said that they tied
wreaths and stirred cake, and whisked
up and down ladders, and put their
charming heads together to giggle at
David for the sake of the picture they
was wrOng-that Lefty watched Amy,
and that Amy resented i'll defy you,
be as supicious as you like.
It was close on Christmas. The snow
was piled on the road in drifts. The
old house was full of light and pleas
ant stir of preparation, and made
ready with might and main to well
come its Christmas guests. 1t was
rather rickety house that David Ames
had hired for his young wife. It
wanted paint. Its windows were bad
ly hung, and the wind found plenty of
way under the doors. But the hall
was hung with boughs the balusters
were twined with wreaths; the doors
were arched with them so were the
pictures. And if you could find a iol-
lier fre-ight in ihe village of Dundale
/ should like to have seen it. And for
Il cheerier, sweeter, prettier little
woman than Mrs. David Ames, I would
never ask you to try, for it could not
be done.
Mrs. David Ames, nee Lefty Far
leigh, was little and brown and plump.
She had plenty of fine black hair, soft
brown eyes, little dimpled hand, all
| manner of wheeding, coaxing ways,
but no dignity; that is, none worth
Northumberland conclusive that she
was not-a true Farleigh. The original
Farleigh stock was understood to have
been that article dignity, I mean) in
its pure state and only by intermar-
riages adulterated with touches of hu-
man nature, which now and then re-
veaIed itself unexpectedly in the Far
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when she married David Ames.
This marriage took place Immediate
ly after the brilliant match of her sis
| ter Judith with Aarston, of Marston
Place, and Dundale was conscious of a
I sort of CONSERVATION at the news
Filtration it could have understood
! before her marriage Judith had walked
| and driven as constantly with Richard
| Ames as Lefty with his brother, and
/ for that matter there was nothing to
/ urge against David, the thriving young
proprietor of the factory near by only
| remembering how the Widow Ames
! had positively pinched off her boys
! education from her slender income, il
| would as soon have offered sixpence
/ for the marble Hebe in the FarleigE
/ drawing-room. Nevertheless here
was Lefty installed as the mistress o.
the rickety mansion, and preparing tC
/ receive her Christmas guests. judith
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/ Mrs Farleigh for the family accepted
/ Letty's marriage with calm, FarleigL
good sense; that is, very much as they
might have accepted smallpox. II
/ was inevitable, and they had nothing
! left but to make the best of it. Lefty
i could be done with that sinker, the
son of the Widow Ames, about hel
/ neck So they were all coming.
And now, perhaps, you comprehend
what was stirring in Letty's warn
little heart. Something more thar
hospitality the true Wife's desire t,
do Justice to her husband and her hap
piness. Marble Hebes she had none
but David had robbed the forest. anC
Amy Erksine had robbed her conserv
atory, and brought the flowers and her
self to Letty's aid; and then com
menced the watching and the taci
! quarrel with which we commenced
Amy and Lefty were bosom friends
Amy stood braYely by Lefty in tn
troubles about David. Lefty hat
Amy's confidence and of course if
hint to any student of human natur
that this confidence related entirely t
a certain pronoun, that student vii
! Immediately know that this pronoui
must have heen HE"
So Letty's first whispered question
was, SHOW is He?"
But the wind had plainly choppe
about in some new quarter; for, in
stead of the expected answer, Am
bridled.
He is rather a vague term, Lefty
but if you mean papa, he is quit
WE'LL"
"Oh % said Lefty, scanning Am
with that look that is feminine 70
phew For the last six months ''He,
,, in Amy's vocabulary, had represente
Rob Garston, as none knew better tina
Mrs. David; so this sudden ignorano
on Amy's part was little better tina
downright impudenee; but Lefty
keen glance, scathing Amy's hand,
caught something new and unfamilia
, "a sparkle-a ring-a signet ring Q
that, with the motto, "Go, " and han
+. pointing; and then the mystery wa
out. Every body in Dundale kne1
John oroftOn's ring; and John. Gro
ton was the richest man in Dundale.
"Humph ~ said Lefty and it is al
: tonishing how disagreeable that littl
monosyllable can be made. Amy 60
: ored scarlet. Strictly speaking, II wa
= not Mrs. David's affair If she chose {
}. wear the signet of the Caliph of Bag