The Lincoln County herald., 1873-01-22

tions, for they were rich and influential.
. school Was made up for Mrs. Elliot, 10
which she was assisted by the gentle
Cecile, who was then nearly nineteen.
Their comfortable and luxuriously
furnished residence was obliged to be
sold to meet claims due, end only few
articles endeared by association, could be
retained to carry to thoir humble dwell.
ing. Their great loss in the death Of
Captain Elliot made them insensible at
6rst to their minor misfOrtunes-loss Of
property and Of caste-but when time
began to heal, a. he ever does, this great
wound, then the base ingrati tude oftheir
pseudo friends forced itself upon them
and gave rise to many regrets fro m the
guileless Cecile.
Their school however Aourished, aud
Cscile possessed the buoyant spirit Of
youth. Though she certainly missed
the attention to her wishes that vas
formerly paid, yet the had become
used to that, while every little pleasing
event became enhanced by the gloss Of
novelty. She began to look to higher
source for comfort under affliotion, to
prove "that God tompers the wind to tho
shorn lamb" A mine Of pure happi-
ness, too, happiness far greater than any
attendant on her past wealth, had opened
upon her views and | may safely affirm
that Ceclle Elliot the teacher, 10 the
midst Of hor poverty, and the thousand
little trials attended on her lot, was pos
sessed Of purer and greater happiness
than ever the pettsd Cccile knew ia her
palmiest days.
CHAPTER II.
"Hold your head still lower, Miss
Cecile. till whisper my message" said
little Emily Spencer, as Miss Elliot bent
over the little girls copy book. ''Sis.er
Mary says that you must come home with
me after school, aud spend long even
ing. aud Claude told me to be certain and
bring you"
"You must ask mamma. Don't you
know that am mamma's little girl, Em p
"Oh yes, l will ask her, but young
ladies can do as they wish. will be so
glad when l grow up; l will never ask
anybody, but will 60 wherever l please.
Why don't you, Miss Cecile ?"
because It's naughty to do SO, dear
Sister Mary always asks mamma, and she
is a young lady, and ask my mamma
when wish to do anything, because she
is the proper person, and l belong to
her."
But Miss Ella Howard does not"
"How do you know that, En-? am
surc she is we'll behaved young lady"
, "Oh! not always, Miss Ce.ile, for one
afternoon I went there to play with
Saida. and heard her tell her MANN,
she would 60 where she pleased and tha
she need not say another word and she
went too I"
"Well, you must not do so If Miss
Howard does, but take your own sister
Mary for an example. Now 60 on with
your writing, Emily, and l will ash
mamma to let me 60 with you to SCI
, sister Mary"
She went, for Mrs. Elliot knew vel
the pleasure visit to the Speucer's al
ways gave to her child, aud was yer,
willing to allow her such relaxation
She found Mary the same social, atfec
, tionate companion, and tho old people
were delighted to have the gentle sir
beneath their roof.tree. This evening
too, Claud came early from the counting
room, aud to Cecils there was no hour o
the twenty -four so delightful as this
The dusky light of twilight was the YER,
time at which they all seemed drawn
: more closely together. Claude was sc
dutiful and respectful to his parents-s
, loving and attentive to Mary and herself
, Aud at that sweet hour, too, when th'
heart 10 qaiet always feels devotional
the family knelt in prayer, SO true, 9,
: heartfelt, that she rose from her knee
t with her soul nerved by faith to endur
? ancs, and her heart expanded by love to
wards the whole human family.
The Speucer's we're truly religious il
word and deed, uttering no lip prayers
0 as the hearts of their hearers felt-an'
0 twas echoed back from theirs in lik
, sincerity. They followed after ,h
maxims, and en1eavored to tread in tn
footsteps of the divine master raising
. up the poor in spirit, helping the op
8 pressed, and having that charity whicl
''sutfsreth long aud is kind {; which euvi
> eth not, which vauuteth not itself nor i
puffsd up; doth not behave itself un
i secmly; seeketh not its own; is no
easily provoked think.th no evil, re
4 joiceth not in iuiqu,ty, but rejoiceth il
, the truth beareth all things, hopeth al
:, things. endureth all things"
q And Cecile and her mother had reaso
. to lsve and be grateful to them. No
J. content with sidiag them BY their pa
o tIouage, they let no opportunity slip b
10 which they could cheer their hearts b.
some attention to their wishes, which me
% its full appreciation. Will any on
+! wonder then that Cscile always looke'
4 forward to these social evenings, spent i
that delightful family circle? Music
70 books and sprightly conversation len
= w;nus ia tha hours 40 that neither Mar