Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-08-21

I i0rth | am alone fH crermOre T.
| knock AZ the door but the desplsed is
too quick for her. and o.tches her fixing
her hair. He appeans not 10 see e., and with |
an effective blending ofsou0w and respect In |
his manner, remarks In oh "a on that /
voice. " Excuse me Mis- Motfat, but forgot
Nv umbrella = taking bis time aboat II too, |
be Il Observed.
OTFDnED OSE (ioqahHl like Paul Pry." |
THE DEsPtsED iaas hs'tlsi. bp trying TO |
koep hs teapcTl. " Yes. ami stil further like |
Paul Pry. hope don't intrude p
Offended one edges over TO the sofa and
gives the despised Just half look That's
enough. He drops hat and umbrella, forget
ting his recent solicitude about the latter
article, and changes upon her with such inn
petuosity that, thrown of her balance she
drops on the sofa as IL shot He goes down
on his knees. Youth and the machine have
made them supple. He grasps both her
hands in his, drags her down to his level, and
! kisses her Little scream from the offended
! one. and an "Ohl you brute How you
! hurt me You've jammed the hair-pins into
: my scalp. You're as rough as a bear.
"Such AS am you love me"
"I don't; | hate you"
" Prove it by giving me another kiss"
" l won t."
"Why not %
| - BeCtuse-
! That's no good reason" graspiug both
! hands again
; Hush! Let go! There's Mrs Hall"
Grand scamper of beth to sewing-machine.
! Fortunately the wheel is propit;ous, and starts
just in time to satisfy the watchful house
keeper they had never stirred from their seats
e since she last looked in. " How are you get
e ting on ?" she asks. Both replied, affably,
"Oh, very we'll" Exit Mrs. Hall, with a
!. sense of duty conscientiously performed
irradating her pleasant features.
80 you hate me, do your
= "Yes, do
n Sanderson bows as il accepting this as final
and with br ken heart turas to business.
please She puts both feet on and starts
the wheel backward II said foot, not feet, -
he exclaims. authoritatively.
+ We'll and if you did, you are not my
= MASTER
d "Who, then, is running this machine, you
,f OF II"
II am, ;" she answers.
t, "Under my direction
d "Yes, concede that much"
d "Then put your foot on the treadle''
X She does So and can not start the machine.
t 1t will not work for her, and he places his
Ig right foot upon it, and 10 it starts off with
will and being SO close together this couple
as keep the peace and silence for good ter
t. minutes, and neither has ever found the sew
ly ing-machine 50 pleasant to work before.
At F" Do say you don hate me, he whispers
" "Well, / don't just exactly hate you
e. Click click the sewiug-nachine plays it
lie busy accompaniment to their soft young
I'd voices.
nt Then you love me2"
Ie " Yes but only little Bit"
as "And you'll marry me, since you low,
lis me p
he 1Oh, that don't follow"
I'd "But 1t does when man loves womal
ly honestly as ] do you
as I'll never marry you
in Why not p
as Because you area sewing-machine man.
nv $50 better men have been before me- Thi
is a land of self-made men, and may go t.
OF Congress yet. ! would do even that to wi
af- you
ch "If you were only any thing poetic O
%. grand, now"
,er "Once for all, Carrie, will you engag
an yourself to meY
ad "No; most positively no. can not brin
We myself to marry sewirg-machine agent"
ed "But il that's your only object, have
lat say | shall not be an agent mach longel
st. Indeed, this is my last trip through the cour
v.
cd a branch office in Chicago The New Yor
VS. firm furnish MS the means, but even if the
Ter did not, we had capital enough to go int
eft business for ourselves. How old are you Y
n "Iwenty."
Mt HonestP"
law "Honest"
pie He smiled.
nv "Anl am twenty-five. For man
rie that age have what might be clllei con
die petence. | earned it all myself too"
t. ldded, with a touch of pride. 6 started
em life poor boy, without friend to help m
lad or cent to call my own. I've been out
,ou the world since l was fifteen, and feel like
nd real old man now, and want to marry al
Irs settle. So dom keep me in suspense, CARR
in for I m not man to beg and plead indee
the I've hard hardly time to court. If | had ha
ar | might have been married long age" ~
ap- +" An ugly fellow like you y
IL "Yes, an ugly fellow like me- If we
en- not convinced that you loved me-and |
cad not lack even the assurance of your words
die lps-I would takeno for an answer and lea
uld you forever but know you love me- IN
ing is the principal reason why you should
hen come my wife, and there is no sensible reas
the why you should not
,teo "Only that you are sewihg-Hlacni
. a man"
ary s'Is that an insuperable objection
oc- Yes"
nm. "Well. men can not all be chief mag
oht trates nor merchant princes, even in Ameri
he A woman who can not appreciate me for I
lred true value--that of an honest hard worki
as man-is not the wife for Inc. Good-by, Nj
his Moffat. ...
and He rose proudly, and before the girl col
and say word he had left her. She sat there
Law. a sort of stupor, hardly knowing what to Sc
le- or think, or do. Half an hour must ho
elapsed when she heard the trampling
that horses underneath the window, and peep
ask out, saw his team The wagon he drove
n to of singular construction being fitted up
her. the back to hold sewing machines He b
raw. been stopping at her fathers hotel, and
and had not taken him long to make ready
ken leave. He sprang INTO the Vehlcie lioh
-ked his whip upward IN the dlrecton OF her
i'd" dow, and was off at full spetd
When he had gone she began to real
not the wounds invisible which loves kt
did arrows make" Day after day and we
said after week she hoped he would relent a
write. but he did not grief and pride ha'
veil. fierce battle and pride would have bt
con. worsted had Carrie known where to wrl
one She would in her agony, have humbly owl
ind her love, and entreated him to return to b
and The sweet poetess Mrs. Merton says that y
shot lightest heart makes sometimes heav'
for mourning" Even so it was with me
Miss Carrie. Six months wore on and new
rows came to press aside the old 'Old D
door Moffat' died, and alter the estate was ~,
had Carrie found herself with only few hund
vet dollars-her fortune all told. Mrs. Hall
dare saved something, and they determined 10 g
Ii. Chicago to seek employment, ana 10 keep
b oed pether as long as they could. IL was d'i
ls a.. 4Lan fra M alTpQnV