Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-02-28


closed until we are all in our places in
the back drawIng-room Then they will
be thrown open, and the ceremony per-
formed Immediately. That, and the con-
gratulations, and the breakfast. will
but what am l thinking of to let you be
standing tiring yOurselfin iisway? Come
to the fire, and be quiet until We have to
90 down."
II would rather 60 to my former position.
please to raise itup, Laura, am SO
warm"
ut is a delightful morning" said
Laura, pushing up the sash; 1.-the air is
more like April than January" She
drew a large armchair directly in front
of the window as she spoke, and made
her friend sit down. Don't crush your
dress, though" " she entreated, as the other
sank into its depths without any apparent
recollection of that important copsidera-
ton. Mercy, child you will ruin your
head if you lean back against it in that
way"
Emily looked up with a faint smile.
"You can set it to rights again" she
said. 81 must lean back | am so very
tired" .. ..-..
She closed her eyes, and Laura, who
had been wondering privately all the
morning at the strange manner in which
she was acting. stood gazing at her now
in positive dismay.
Everybody-ihat is, everybody who
constituted the fashionable world of j.,
was perfectly aware that this marriage Of
Mr.. Madison and Miss Blount was a
"madc match" everybody, excepting Mr.
Blount, who was not in the way of hear
ing gossip, particularly about his owl
daughter, had knoan all along that it was
a match not at all to the taste of the
bride and she had been very much pited
at first. But people took it for granted
that she had "become reconciIed to the
affair."" and it was with sudden thrill
that Laura Ashby now connected hel
singular conduct with the recollection 0
her aversion to the marriage.
Good Heavens y thought she, aghast
and she went and sat down by the fire t.
think the matter over, ........
A thousand little circumstances unno
ticed at the time of their occurrence start
ed up to corroborate the dreadful suspi
cion which had flashed upon her mind
and she was wrnging her hands, meta
phorically, over the miserable fate t
which her poor friend was condemned
when the door opened, and a troop o
bridesmaids were ushered in by Lucinda
After exchanging a few sentences wit
Laura, they all followed her with ga
..a. ona Io,oh.or 60 o#or ,ho;r o.ao.;no
to the bride, who still sat just as Laur
h.l lof. hor fow minutes hoforo
, "She is asleep" whispered the frs
one who approached and the rest move
sofIu ond snoto n law tomas =. tho
,.,horoa oronrd ,bo oho,r
H. lorol, sho Lode -,
.,Raontif,l -
.,Evon;s;,o,, ',
..Too no,e "
ooh aho n;,, haro oo,or ,rbor sbo b,
,l,,,., a,.o;.od -,
c,,aaor,u .nonoo fall ouar Tho c;;rcI
tho s;,onoa of ,ncorso;ors owo Sb
in surprise then chill doubt and terrC
( came into their eyes, and they stood pari
lyzed.
1t was at this moment that Lucinda al
t preached the group, and, struck by tn
expression of all the faces before hel
: she pressed forward, as with an instinC
t of what was to come, gazed for an instar
with starting eyes, then seized one of th
white hands that hung loosely over tn
arm of the chair. A touch was sufficen
: She fell on her knees before the motion
Y less form, with loud, piercing shrie
, Al Al II l. o,,,o