Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-04

make his home. Then, that foreshA-
doWed trouble was perhaps what he bad
meant to tell her that night. aud she
would not hear him. Cruel. nngraieful
Marian, David had been such friend
to her.
Marian (nur little girl whom we first
saw behind the barberry bush in pink
sun hOpnet lat in her elegant boudior.
in her city home, seeing on the blue aud
g'ld walls nothing OF the pictures hang.
ing there. Only stretch Of meadow
shining in tn. sun-the smell Ol ripen-
lug grain-the quaint old house with its
sand,d floor, aud last, b II most Of all,
David IN sickness and distress.
A business man from the city went
doVn into the country and bought the
OH place. Cd.ring a price fabulous and
far bey"ud all onprt'tors.
David was quite beyond any wnr,'s
He m ant 10 st v until the owner came,
and then-he 1id not know,
His mother, quite broken down, had
fall, i'll under tier great trouble, and
bemoansd her altered circumstances bit
terly.
Tue day before the new owner of Rye
Fiel 8 VAS expected, letter came f'r
David. He sat like one on whom blow
had fallen. lt was not to be believed
AMI vet il was true he held 1t in his
hand-a paper strong aud good, aud
making him again master-sole owner
OF the lands about him.
David waited now feverishly. Then
Miss Folhugsbie and Marian came.
: This one grand surprise swallowed NJ
J all others He had not expected ever t.
look on her again. He had heard of bel
, good fortune, and felt that after tha
; there could be nothing in common be
tween them. David and Marian wen
| down through the meadow. over tb,
tender green ,nings just springing int
life, until standing on spot they boil
knew well.
, "Dear old Rye Fieldsl I could no
believe my heart was so full OF it until i
{ was about to 60 into n W, strang
2 hands"
/; I" am clad it is yours, Marian ther
/, is no one in all the world would prefe
to see the mistress here" s..,..
, David trembleG aud seeing that b
! stood on the brink OF the gull betweeI
them, said no more
e You mean, suppose, David, tina
You are too proud to accept Rye Field
I of me-" said Marian, pale and distress
= ed. "You have lived all you life here
4 it is right for you to remain. 1t woul
f; kill your mother to take her into a ne'
home
e Marian. it is with me now as it wa
:. with you little while ago on this spot
y feel the air oppressive here, must g
i awav. II has never seemed the same {
!. me- since that day. Can you solve thi'
l. Marian ? You, a woman 1t cannot b
that you mock the pain feel cannC
!. tell you the years that you have bee
& growing fast in my heart / do not kno
of time when the thought of one da
d making you my wife did not seem tl
d holiest, bapplest prospect man ever hat
II I love you, Marian, hopeless ~, knv
Il but then that knowledge takes nothin
% from the hard truth"
II David spoke in sheer desperation
was not natural in him to hide his fee
~ ings. Now that she knew it, she coul
y refuse lis love, (is he had no doubt 81
:. would, he could bear it better than nj
! knowing.
k Then it was not Miss Follingsb
If you loved ? o David, you can't thin
- what little nlnny have been -"
"Dirling, God willing, we shall er
r. our days at Rye Field, where | fir
At knew how sweet life really is, and oil
e how litter Tor thought that your hea
n was not for me-"
>. David held his pretty Marian, his vel
Y. own, close against that heart she had {
" doubted, and thanked that One VIII
i seeing bis great desire, had led him
il sure though devious wa,s up to it.
L. Miss F.lliugsbie spends all her Sun
, mers at R,e Fields, and though she
\. no longer Miss F"lllngsbie, Marian Hi
70 gins declares sometimes, il spirit III
e. that OF the old DAYS. that she could iii
rs it no difficult matter, even now, to
Il Jealous. she was SO long in finding o
@. who was DIvid's love.