Litchfield enquirer., 1872-05-23
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 He promised to dine with them on 1; Miohaelmas day: and then Susan gave i him his greatest treat-some of Mendels- sohn,s music. He would sit and listen till the water came into his eyes; and this was not such very curious phenomen6n for though the girl was not any very bril- liant performer. treating her instrument like s musical trapeze, and going through all sorts of wonderful gymnastic feats up- on it, she played with rare feeling and ex- pression, sending the notes into the heart, 1 as it were. At half-past ten the party broke up. Harry Mapleson considered that as his sister rose early to look after domestic matters and get his breakfast 1 for him (for even small establishment requires considerable attention when you have only got the third part of servant to ''do" for you), she ought to be early at the other end of the day, too; so he inva- riably yawned and went up to his room at the top of the house before eleven But when he got there he made no preparations for going to bed, but put writing materi- als on a table. and drawing from his pock- ct the papers which he had received from one of the heads of departments before leaving the office. he sat down to work It was o'clock before his task was ac- complained
 "A slice of luck this, he said to himself on turning in at last; 'just as was won- dering how 1 should meet those payments l had overlooked with out cutting of some little expense, which would show Susan that was hard up, get this extra job of work, which will set me straight What q manager that girl is am afraid shs stints her self in dress and that, though, which must not be; it shall not be, mother, if can help it. And thinking of her who was gone he fell asleep.
 Susan's bedroom communicated with the parlor, and when her brother and MT. Nicholson went upstairs. she passed into it, returning again soon with a quantity of millinery materials, from which she proceeded to concoct one of those articles offeminin0 adornment which fathers and husbands pay so highly for.
 l Poor old Harry her thoughts run, as her nimble fingers worked. He thinks that do not see that his salary is too lit- tie for our expenses, and durst not re- monstrate with him when he wastes his money upon things really do not want; it would disappoint him so How fortu- nate it is that I have got this knack of making things. which secures me employ at my own home How little he thinks | that so often follow him into London, carrying my work to the shop when it is oompletedi The ordinary ssamstress ! work tried at first was not worth while, but they pay well for this. Iwish Harry would spend little more upon himself; I durst not give him new coat or hat in return for his mantillas and bonnets. The 1no n4h kln4 |. h0x surprised he would be to learn that made
 The air of Harrow-on- the Hill must be peculiarly bracing, if the proverbial sen- timent about the bird of St. Michael, at tributed to the boys educated there, be founded on anything like practical ex- perience The goose, they say,. is an awkward, dainty being, too much for one, and not enough for two. I know that if had two sons who ssasked for more" af- ter finishing goose at sitting, should write to the Times, It is true there are geese and geese, and the specimen sent to the Maplesons may have been exception ally fine; but though they had gone into training, as it were, by dining at 6 instead of l, and though they had the fellow lodgsr to help them, they left pickings; and if some Harrovian curls the lip of scorn, cannot help it; truth is my hob by. -z s1 e When they had got the. first glasses of sherry after the meal, Harry said: We must drink the health of Mir. Anonymous, please. @zf
 MT. Anonymous repeated Susan, sip ping.
 MT. Anonymous, echoed MT. Nichol- son, who drank and then added, Some relative?' &
 T don't know, replied Harry. He is deed oy satheT su6cessien of deeds, with out name. He sent us the goose; he sent us this sherry; he has made us more valuable presents. Do you think ought to receive benefits without knowing from whom they comeY
 Certainly said the fellow-lodger, T think you have told me that in one of his first letters this unknown professed him. self a friend of your-your mothers. :. Am not correct?'
 Yes. But why such mystery?'
 ooh, there are several probable reasons for that; he may be ashamed of not doing more. You may have substantial claims upon him as trustee of those funds which think you said had been unwisely invested, or ne may have morbid dislike of being thanked.
 1t is strange, anyhow said Harry, that our mysterious benefactor should not have come forward to assist us when we most needed 1t. szss s1sS-ss.ssze
 When you lost your mother2'
 Yes
 'Perhaps,' said Susan, he was not in England then, and knew nothing about what had happened.
 That is very kkely,' said Mir. Nichol- son, especially as you were supposed to De well provided Tor. Have you not said
 'Yes, replied Harry: sour poor mothers little properly was in bank which broke. but, thank Godl she did not know what had happened. She died in the bellef that her children were beyond the reach of sordid cares. - eS
 1t was about two years ago, I think you have said?' s'ss.s.z.,e
 Yes, two years last August. I was at college when summoned away to her bed side, for her 1lnesss was sudden and short. And just AS we were recovering & little from the shock, ruin came. HThad been alone in the world, think that I should have enlisted or smigrated, for I felt very desperate; but fortunately I had Susan to look after, and that steadied me. We'll, we must not complain. I was for tunate to get my clerkship. and we man. aged to says that piano, and.a few things which were sacred in our eyes. from the wreck sss,s
 Tt was Q sad blow and the cares of life have have fallen upon you early, my young friends, said Mir. Nicholson. But par don me for having led the conversation into such melancholy channel, he add ed, seeing that Susan had much ado to restrain her tears. T do not know how it happened s..sa 1aass tOh, Harry and I often talk over old times. like if aaid Gs1uan sTA ,vr,,I1