The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-25

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What VIII Mr. Deaue say 10 your goins
away said my grandmother, when | hat
impressed upon her mind my duty Il
Aunt Rachel.
1aon'tcare what be says
Lor' said my grandmother, with a looI
which implied q two hour, speech, al
least
That letter was from bis wife, ! said
looking anywhere bot az her
She never answered a word, but msi
kissed me on both eyes, and stroked my
hair teuderly for a minute or two. Thor
we parted for the night, and | went away
IN the morning before Mr. Dean was up
Aunt Rachel was out of sight OF death
door long before ! reached her, as had
confidently supposed She would be; but
she welcomed me heartily, and the kisse.
Of the children soothed somewhat the sort
spot in my heart.
For the next three days the activity O
the busy bee, long impalod on poetica
pin, was not to be compared with mine,
If there were any gifts Of healing in mere
work, was determined to have them out
Of it; but the image Of Mr. Deane wa,
ever IN my minds eye, aud as people say
who have not been to the Normal, got
no better fast.
Last Of all went huckleberrying witt
the children, and picked as for my life.
There's strange man coming across
the field, said one Of them.
/ looked up aftor d minute, and took
Mr.. Deano's offered hand.
If you teach school as you pick berries
you fortune will soon be made, he said,
with the glad look in his eyes which
seemed to Danish that dreadful wife Of
his to the uttermost parts of the earth,
How did you tind mes
by my wits, chiefly. Your grandmoth,
er was as mysterious over your departure
sif you had gone into a convent; but
when told her had good news for you
she relented and gaveme the clue to your
hiding place,
And Aunt Rachel directed YOU here2
Precisely.
What is your good news2
| have heard of a school You can have
for the asking.
am exceedingly obliged TO you.
1t is private school, and very small
but it has the reputation of being difficult
to manage, and from all ! know of you
have concluded that you will be the right
person. win you undertake It?
Yes if you are sure of my fitness.
l haven't dogbt of it. | said the
school is small-it has, in fact, but one
scholar, aged thirty-two, and his name is
John Jacob Deane.
If said anything or committed myself
in any way for some minutes after this
astonishing speech have entirely forgot
ten it.
And that latter--I found myself saying
after while.
Was from my sister to her husband,
who had deserted her. II was to look
after him, and bring him back to reason
that | was riding post-haste to Meriden
that wild night. She enclosed it in a let
ter to me. / forgot TO mention, he said
after pause, which was not without ell
oquence of its own, that my school be-
gins about the first Of September.
Not if | am to teach it, said /; | shall
spend that month and others after IL in
turning all my fortune into pretty things
that ! have always longed for.
When Miss Rebecca Verjulec, my form
er roommate at the Normal, heard the
story of my engagement, she wrote me
letter of congratulation, in which she in
timated darkly that mine would be one
OF the many matches founded on graft
tude.
John Jacob, said / solemnly, when |
saw him again, if you are about TO marry
me out Of gratitude, tell me at once, that
! may fee TO my Aunt Rachel while there
is yet time.
My dear little school mistress, he re-
piled, if had been moved only by graft
tude | shonld have proposed to your