Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-12-14

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Then there was another long silence. The
!, mother finished washing her dishes. and came
I ind sat down between her son and her hus.
! band her face very white and her hands
shaking a little. After a while the old man
reached out and took one of the trembling
s hands in his own.
4" We mustn't blame John, mother he
SAID trying to speak cheerfully. "What he
8 cells isn't unnatural Other young men say
} the same Very few Of them are contented
! days TO live their fathers lives over
3 again. Only it's come sudden. Don't think
we blame you, boy. It's all fair apd right.
. only sudden
John got mp and went mp stairs Iis
mothers pale silence, his fathers attempt at
checrlulness seemed more than he could pos
slbly bear. lie went away to his own room
aud sat down by the window Over across
the fields light burned steadily. He knew
It was the lamp in Angelina Walmarth's par
Tor. Was she worth all this that he was max
ing these two old people suffer Was he
sure that she would love him as they did p
7 Was he sure that she would ever love him at
all And ia this untried life, this world
where so many failed, how did he know that
he should succeed What was he going to
, do How vague all Of his purposes we're,
just dream, born Of a soft spring nirht.
aud Angie Walmnrth's fair face Aud for
70 be was going to oyerturn the whole fabric
OF his life. No, be would not be so mad.
This summer at least should 20 on as be.
fore He would take time to consider. By
autumn he should know better what he could
DO, ani whether he conld bear to leave that
old father aud mother, Eve Of whose treas.
uros the church yard held, and whose all he
was. quite alone lle began to think that
this very fact, that he was their all, laid on
him an obligation not to be evaded, that no
success purchased at such selfish expenditure
would be worth having. At any rate. he
would wait. Aud so sleep came on him. and
the morning brought him strength and calm
ness, and seemed to give him back his old
self again.
VIII you see James Mccormick to-day ?"
his fither asked at breakfast with an anxiety
he strove to conceal. John smiled cheer
fully.
Not today, father; not at present. NV
plan was too sudden to be wise. have given
1t up for a time, at least | will carry on
the place a while longer"
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s'uee' uon AHo"s' nhu peen at WORK IN ms
,ggu' "i'u uu'oNs1'ous'y 10 h,msei'' through
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"e' e u,s'''s' ie uAI peou ,earn,is 'ns sweetness
~ P"'u "4u s,i'l"o o-uu'y uone iCr us
Nv" 'lN0 i1 VA" pesuh 10 ASK nihseif' not
he felt that in the very fact of his being to
those two who loved him as !heir all on earth,
God had called him to certain duties on which
he would never again feel tempted to turn his
back. Reconcled at last to the appointment
of Heaven he was at peace also with his own
soul and new light came into his eyes, q
now vigor aud manIness into his life
lie could think of Anqoline Walmartb in
these DAYS without pain. There would ALWAYS
be in his heart for her the tenderness GOOD
man feels for a woman once beloved. but
whether she was his or another's. he could
reckon her loss or gain among the g all thipcs
he was contented 10 leave with Heaven y
He had heard in the summer that she was
to be married on Christians bnt he heard ma
more about it afterward. Her prenarat;ons
were going on. he supposed but bs seldom
saw her. Ile had never spoken with her
more than a passing GOOD day since her On.
gagemont.
One afternoon in Noyember. ne brouoht
home from the village post-oflice bundle of
papers. his Boston daily among them Sit
tinr by the fire and turning them over. his
cyes were caught by the headline in laroe
letters.
,..a ..
ANo'hL" pASh OF phfAloArloN'
He hnpnu IN Fa al thu ariIela with tho biz