Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-02-21

knowledge Us now, had sooner be without
his charity. However, it is ungracious to
pay SO and after swallowing a twenty
sound note it would be absurd to strain at
a goose and giblets. We will eat the bird
on the day set apartby the Church. Shall
we invite our fellow lodger
Mr.. Nicholson Oh, certainly
When the tea things were cleared away,
and the lamp lit. Susan Mapleson set 10
work upon her brothers buttons and socks,
and while she sewed and darned, he read
a novel aloud to her; equitable division OF
labor
Just as he had finished chapter, the
hall door closed, aud observing that Mr.
Nicholson had come II, sud that it would
be good plan 20 give him his invitation
at once. Harry MaplesOn rose and went
out, returning presently, followed by the
fellow lodger, an elderly nan with slight
stoop, who placed his hat and umbrella on
q chair, and came forward to greet Susan,
who took off her thimble to shake hands
with him.
Have you been to the British Museum
today" she asked
Yes. ms dear; yes. as usual am a
leech applied by the publishers TO Old
books
\ leech Ne q bee
Well, that is perhaps prcttier way
Of putting It, and more complimentary
both to myself, aud the venerable authors
/ draw from they are fowery enough
sometimes too But the bee skips from
bud to blossom iii q gay, coquettish man
ner, which would never draw the honey out
Of q black letter volume let alone q
medieval manuscript. fear that leeeh
Is more literal
But then what term would you have
left 10 apply 70 the publishers asked
Harry.
Nay nay said the ola man /
cannot complain. They pay nae very well.
There is not much competition in my mu-ty
line
4 tyr5 ip pnysjoyuomy NIGH, have pro-
uouucad Mr. Nicholson TO De intellectual
and benevolent but it would have taken
an adept in the art 70 decipher the express
sion which habit1ally spread over his tca-
taTe-. There was weary. hopeless,
hunted look which told OF great suffering
either mental or phyaIcai-proCaDly the
former, for the deep lines about MS mouth
and eyes were Of that character which is
worn 81 sustained rather than spasmodic
action of the muscles. He was man with
o terrible because secret sorrow. / 30
not say that you would have gathered oil
this on the present occasion, for when ne
wa in the society of the Naplesons he
was different being He was 2 lonely
man. a professional ana q natural one but
u0tH quite lately ne had been (. student
and nothing else. studying for his liveli-
hood. -tudvin, for companjonship. even at
meal times. STUDYING al find an opiate.
Bnt since he had formed an acapaiptaucs
with the voun- brother and sister life had
acquired . now interest fo- him. ana thar
little parl5r was an ARK on the waste Of
hi- existence
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Nicholson went mn stairs. she naesed into
4 retIrninr again soon with 4 auantitv Of
,nilIinerr materials from which she n-o-
oeedei 10 coneoct one of those articles OF
feminine adornmans which fathers and
husbands pay so highly for.
Poor old Harry " her thoughts ran
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