Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-04
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higglns, aud am not part and parcel
Of the whole 2"
David east his eyes over the smiling
land aud heard the night air sSeepiug
through phalauxes Of supple grain, the
n'snlt of his own labor.
He put away from him all show Of
lightn' s. aud insincrrity.
marian, things cannot go on as they
have for very lnng. | have sn oTteu
lOnged IL tell yuu many causes fer leing
changed man, NJ muther says am"
Il knew ! could uust you With this.
She Is uld l wish TO keep all thorns
an hindnnces from her path. She
could not understand; you can aud
will"
With a quick motion peculiar to her
when vexed, the gi,l threw up her hands
and covered her facs
20, DWid, please don't. II it's any
thing bad don't want to know il; YOU
don't know, David, how m ny things
there are To- worry me-litile things /
could never feel like taking to any one.
So please, David. don't tell me. am
fideuce-at least another tim'-not now
feel as though tonight / could not
bear another Iot "
David peutly put out a large brown
hand, and, uncovering the girls face,
lonked iuto the blue eyrs with a new
aud expressive sorrow down deep in h S
own.
"Marian, has any thing gone wong
anew ? hope you don't mind mother
folks at her time of life require forbear
ance. Your life is all before you, You
know"
Marian looked out to the west where
the black shadows lay, and almost
wished that all the years which were to
be, had been known aud passed.
Il have no complaint TO make oi
vour mother, David, she has been the
only woman friend l have ever known
she has not understood me, perhap>,
but that may not be her fault. No,
don't know what it is that makes me so
but feel that should love to go away
from here at least for a little time"
$50 away from Rye Fields - home
without Marian ~
David's hands dropped nerveless al
his side. After all these years, he be
lieved that if he spoke then she coult
almost find it IN her heart to hate him
and so he kept silent.
, 1t was not possible that anything HI
might say could make a change in her
) What had he to offer against that ga,
world from which such as Miss Fol
liugsbie came down iuto peaceful coun
try places, sowing ambition and discon
tent
"Good night, Marion. You had bet
ter not stay out; the dew is falling
now" And he was gone.
|, Marian went slowly up the homewar'
! path, thinking that il she had permItte,
David to speak he would have told he
Of hopeless passion, as a man conl'
tell any woman friend whom he knew t.
be disintere-ted, about passion 10
another woman.
Marian did not doubt all this, and he
9 heart held new ache as she went 50 IT,
: up tue stairs to her own little chamber
! and lav on her white bed very still un
, der the pallid moonlight, and went bac
: step by step over the eighteen years q
. her life, seeing in many things change
she should have made.
Early in September, when the ban
- berries and shumachs stood scarle
. !, through the long, dry days, and the ry
! fields were shaven clean, tn le was
" breaking up ut the oil farm house
: Miss FUllngsbie went back to the ci
taking the happy Marian, whose ecstac
!, ut the thought knew no bounds, albel
. :, she had grown paer day by day wit
!, some hidden thing. Miss Folling>bi
:, promised % assist her in many ways
W first, she was to remain with her as con
50 panion or in 10 capacity at all, as Ion
as she liked after that, they would SET
:, She might return to Rye Fields perhaI
3 If she choose. Things went Oh muc
10 the same apparently at the old place
:, mornings, moons, and nights, over an
= over until the maple leaves were btt,
y and red, and the little garden, where I'll
I h lily hooks and currants had blossome
y aud grown, was barren desert.
Mrs. Higgins, in her checked apror
~ swept, busted and baked, finding /
= n uch fault in the absent Marian as whe
~ 81 had been under her eye and hand.
~ The greatest change was visible
= David. His color was quite gone; b
!, had fallen into the habit of walking IL
- hours alone in tue short evenings, con
y ing hcme in the edge of night, going
~ ~ bed without any supper, and rising
a daylight to begin again hard wor
10 % scarcely speaking o word to any on
10 IL "Well, if l didn't know David bett
20 20 and there amt single girl about th'
90 90 he makes up to, I'd satin and su
e. think the lad might be in love.
- - An awful thought flashed through Il
~ good lady's mind, aud she allowed IL
- grav wooden stocking she was knittiI
-, 90 to fall il great tangle on the stoi
q hearth. 90,
% .Well, I never. shouldn't wonde
~ now, if d ivid Higgins varn't grievi
~ his appetite away about that city gil
- Miss Follngsbie. I rally believe
n though should have thought David
~ ~ man Of more sense than to banker aft
~ a woman that never gave him though
~ al He'll get over it, and it'll do him good
Ia Still David went his way and made
AR sigh, yea or nay.
"a 40, dear Miss Follingsbie, how mn
,r. owe to you without your aid mig
No never have known any thing more abo
Is. myself. To think had friends. kindr
IN and fortune waiting Tor mt, and
he near all these yenrs aud not to know
it. How strangely things come abnu
q" A something compelled me to leave Il
ad Fields all mt once. / wonder If it "
he what is called fate.
m. "I shouldn't wonder, DEAR" Miss r.
cir lingsbie said, with smile at her YOU
friends enthusiasm.
an "By.the- y, Marian, speaking OF r
ch Fields. Just remember that friend
mt mine down that way now. who knew
,ra | aneut last gtImmar there writes me tt