Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-08-10

Evey year, for more than thirty, had
stolen something from her you'hfu beau
ty, until now there was not Il vestige left.
Perhaps time had not altogether spared
her heart as well At least there was
not much music in her voice as she held
forth, in a sharp key, for Sybil's benefit.
OF" 1t is just as tell you, Sybil! l
haven't taken care of you for the last ten
years to you set up against me now. As
for that little dandyfed Harry West, if
you don't send him to the right-about,
shall. Whenever you do get married.
which won't be for ten years yet, you'll
have somebody that's sensible enough to
get something ahead before he thinks of
taking wife. Harry West, indeed! A
pair of babies, both Of you"
"Aunt Nancy" protested SybiI, just
ready to cry, Harry West isn't dandyfed
one bit 1t is just your imagination. And
he is twenty-one, and | am seventeen
and--'
"Seventeen! Pretty age to set up a.
gainst your aunt that's been father and
mother both to YOU Just see what your
own father came to by marrying before
he was well out of his jackets. If you
must 90 with any one, there's Job Por-
ter. He's got a farm of his own, and
money in the bank, and it's well enough
for him to think Of marrying A more
sensible husband he'd make. No; | tell
you you must give up your foolish notion
about Harry West and if you must have
a beau, take job"
"Aunt Nancy, | know you have beer
kind to me. | know you took care of me
when was left all alone in the world
but indeed | cannot think of Job. He is
forty if he is anything, and do not care
for him, and-and-I do love Harry"
Aunt Nancy's nose took a turn upward
"Humph !" was all she said.
SybiIs eyes flashed. Ii was enough tc
have to tell that stern woman what she
would hardly tell Harry himself, but t,
have her confidence met in that manner
was too much.
"I'd like to know what you are made
of, Aunt Nancy" she exclaimed passion
ately. 81 do not believe that you evel
cared for anybody or anything in youl
life"
She stopped in dismay a sudden frc
had flashed for moment in Aunt Nancy's
faded eyes, and streak of red came into
her withered cheel,. 1t lasted but mo
ment. The look died out almost as quick.
ly as it came, and she was just the same
grim, cold-looking woman as before
There was moments silence.
"Well," said Aunt Nancy, at last
shave you said all you were going to
If you have, you may 60 down and sci
the bread rising, and tidy up the kitchen
And | tell you now, once for all, that il
Harry West comes here again, | shall
tell him to 90 home, and pick up chips fol
his mother" - -
Sybil went down the stairs with tears
in her eyes, and heavy sinking at heI
heart. She had regretted her hasty words
as soon as they were spoken ; and now oh
dear! Aunt Nancy would be as good as hel
word, and Harry was coming that very
night, and she should die with mortifica
ton, and he would hate her-Sybil-fol
being the cause Of it all. 1t was heavy
heart the little maiden carried about with
hear that afternoon.
And Miss Nancy went on with hel
work in the garret. But some inward
strife was plainly going on, for she moved
with a nervous energy that was unusual
and seemed to be trying to get the better
of her thoughts by greater exertions.
There" she said at last, "the catnip
and penuyroyal, and wormwood on thai
side. Now the peppermint, and sage, ant
saffron must go up here. That bureau
will have to be moved. | may as wei
look it over now as any time" =.
1t was heavy, cumbrous piece of fur
; niture, that had been banshed to thu
parret after her mother died. Mis-
Nancy had often said, 81 must lool
over that old bureau" when she came ~
to this rubbish room but, contrary, t.
her usual custom of always doing every
thing in season, she had neglected it Til
nov.
She took out the drawers, one by one
In the first were some of her mothers gar
ments--the good mother who died so long
ago. Miss Nancy handled them reverent
ly, and folding them carefully, laid then
back again. 1t was plain to be seen BY
the softenened look that came over hel
rugged face that she had tender places il
her heart yet, if only one could but inC
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