The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-06-19

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mashiHg hCr thamb And perhaps good
Mrs Mayue was not altogether displea.ed
when, minute Of two Aflsrward she
saw hcr He~ lord sucking his index
finger a. &c II were pieos Of sugar.
cane.
They were standing, a. II was said, on
the veranda that run along the shady side
of the house. where Mr.. Mayne aud Rosy
were wont 10 do their ohurning It was
here that, one fine morning, when the
spring was opening aud the iiaes were
IN bad. four or 1--WE months ago, a strong
aud pleasant lace appeared through the
lattice, and stranger asked If Mrs.
Maync would take il summer boarder
The farmer was away on jury; and
Mrs Mayne, looking At the stranger, aud
thinking Of her empty room aud Of the
7 added money rolling her hands Into her
spron and rolling them out again, think.
ing she liked his face, thinking there was
that halt-melancholy something Ia il that
she had noticed in The dumb creatures,
a. of soul struggling with its express
sion, finally decided in the affirmative
aud the stranger had said his namc was
Rodney Monteith, aud the minister knew
him; aud he had taken his knapsack
and himself up stairs aud into her front
room.
The minister did know him; he had
paid his board regularly, she had grown
fond of his still grave ways; and when
Farmer Mayne came home he found his
wife and daughter watching the new
conner build some strange contriyauce
for the model of an improved lifting
loek, down at the falls Of the brook, aud
he grumbled tho rest of the summer.
Bat Mrs, Mayne aud Rosy had no
thought Of grnmbing. To Mrs. Mayne
her lodger was superior being, who
knew more than the minister; and to
Rosy-he was lover. The handsome.
stately girl, who knew how to behave
like witch with all her statelincss, could
have told the exact moment when she
took her place, with eogs and wheels and
screws. in the phantasmagoria of his
dreams, and she had at first mischiey-
Gus delight in making him feel her pow.
er.
She was aware, certainly, that there
was a charming quality in his gentle and
deierential manner which assumed that
she knew every thing of which she was
ignorant-was aware, too, that beside
her ignorance he was learning's self;
but he seemed to her so dreamy and flr
away, seemed to live in such remote
region from every day, that she said to
herself she would as soon think of falling
in love, in return, with one Of the town
paupers as with Rodney Monteith, and,
indeed, there would be no great differ
ence between the two If she did, she said,
for he was no more fit to take care OF
himself than child; aud under that
: conviction she Immediately took his we'll
worn wardrobe under her protection
piece by piece, and in his absence, till
she had IL in complete order, and he new
er any the wiser. But as Rosy darned
and patched in that superior manner OF
which her father was SO proud, and which
had taken so many prizes at so many
fairs, she could not but feel that she was
at work on the garments of gentleman,
aud there dawned upon her sense OF
, her supreme Stiffness in laughing at the
absent.minded ways of man who stood
as much above her as the hills that lift
, their heads among the stars Of God, are
above the plains.
But for all that She was a woman, and
could not help coquettng with him lit
tie, She had to pnt on her new print,
+ and make herself rayishing with apple
, blossoms; and then when she had com.
/ pleted the work OF enclmntmeni, go 70
walk with George ltiyes along the bank,
Of The brook, where he lay studying out
I the faults Of his design, aud appear to
, forget his existence IN her interest con
, ccrniug George Rycs'. Sometimes
, though, she would walk over the fields Il
p church with Mr. Mouteith himself, of 8
. Sunday, and she could remember fOi
q years, as fit were YESTERDAY, how softly
the distant bells sounded, and how swee
the wind came across the grass, as they
walked side by side; aud when she heard
q his voice in the hymn, deep and power
: iul base, shc forgot dress aud lovers, aud
4 everything else, aud her soul seemed los
i in that rich sound, like a leaf floating o.
a stream.
You are complex little being, Rosy
: be said, one day. Sometimes YOU seeu
a to me u spirit just resdy to take flight
: and presently see that you are d part o
The earth itself
Z. What did yon think / wa,f answered
n Rosy Did yoa suppose Wasn't as com
# mon clay O. the restf Yoa thought
!. was Of lhe esrth earthly, when gave lh,
l. rose 10 George lives. But you knew
z before that | was child Of the soil! An,
}, then she tossed q rose 10 him
), She found the rose year, aherward
+. shut away ii uu Old analytical geometry
z aud be found her crying over il.
Ouc day, 1T length, when ROSY, 10 ID
y top Of hcf beut, was playing her part 4
: queen oi hearts, aud enjoying tie torture
D. Of her knaves, there came the great par
p ish excursion 70 the Beach eo,.e AaI
dozen mites disisat ~ annual gaiheriu,
q. all llle conntrY-sIde and mlghty Mef