Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04


10 light, " and the lover fled.
But the eyes that burned in his head
! shot love through each and all,
For the ransy that bloomcd by tho wall
Shonu sweet i'll every place.
In the sky, the earth, aud the AIR.
And that lover saw never the faco
OF my dead violet there.
HlsI, Hush, Let no sorrow be spoken!
Though itpcrst', no pity shall tlout it.
Better to die heart-broken
OF love than to live without it!
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MISS TWITrER'S CONSPIRACY.
Years ago I had Il young person III
my service called Annabel Brown. The
Brown was not, of course, surprising
III a parlor.maid, but the Annabel was;
and the more so when the cook made
Hannibal of it, who, need not remark,
was gentleman and IL general. For
my part, would not encourage such a
name ut all in one in her position, but
called her plain ANNIE" with
which she was quite content
She was an orphan but had known
both her parents, and very honest, good
folks they were, with plenty of COM
mon sense too,s that it could not have
been they, but her godfather and her
godmothcr in her baptism" as the SER
vice says, who gave her such an out
Iandish name-for Christian can't call
it. She was a modest girl. who if she
had Il fault in dress, was given to ex-
treme simplicity indeed, some OF my
visitors used to say: $50 you have
got Quakercss, I see :" which was,
of course, ridiculous for though one
docs not want ones servant to be chat
terboxes, one likes ones questions to
be answered by something more than
Yes" or 6 No." to winch, / believe,
the vocabulary of the Friends is limit
cd. Moreover, though am not a
great lady. not anything like it, it was
not likely should permit my parlor.
maid to "thou and "thec " me, and
iar less my guests. However, what
with the meekness of her manners and
the simplicity of her attire, Annabel
Brown might have sat for Mrs. Fry,
supposing that good lady to have been
eighteen and beauty. Annie had
brown hair, very silken and plentiful ::
large brown eyes like those of a gazelle;
and a soft, rather alarmed expression
of face, which, if it did not suggest
modesty, was the most hypocritical
mask that ever woman we're. Her
movements were quick, but noiscless !;
and altogether she reminded one of a
mouse. Like a mouse, however, she
was not as regards purloining, even so
much as a rind of cheese. I could have
trusted her with untold gold and
| when had new bonnet or other piece
of finery, felt as certain that Annabel
Brown would never try them on, even
to see how she looked in my chevai
glass, as though I had kept them under
lock and key. Finally, and above all,
she had no followers; or, at all events,
they followed her at such q distance
that they never came in view of nv
windows, and I had pretty long sight
for such gentry.
/ need not say that Annie was a con-
slant church-g oer, and a. sure as Sun
day came round, always went I" to hear
the Word " (that was her phrase,
though she was by no means canter)
twice day whether it was wet or fine
In the evening she never went out, not
even on week days, which itself spoke
volumes in her praise. She bad nc
friends in town, she said, in explana.
ton Of this phenomenon. She was the
only maid ever had who never asked
to pass sa evening with her friends ,
or "cousins."
Well, being such a pattern of pro
priety, you may imagine, my astonish
ment on seeing her come home from
church one day accompanied by ,
young man, who left her at the from
door (my area gate is always locked
on Sunday with bow that would moi
have disgraced Lord Chesterfield.
Though fine morning it had turned
out wet, and noticed, with no littl,
distress of mind, that the umbrella
which he was holding over her will
much apparent solicitude, was hand
| some silk one the man himself, too
had an almighty good appearance.
this unprecedented circumstance with
out an inquiry on my part and when
some hours passed by without her do.
ing SO, the matter appeared to me all
the graver.
Accordingly at night when she was
assisting me in my room, I broachcd
"Annic," said !, 81 wts very much
surprised to see You come home from
church this morning accompanied by 8
stranger. How did it happen 2"
Well, ma am, it was very wet,
returned she with simplicity that
would have quite disarmcd me, even il
/ had entertained any Indignation
against her, which I did not :; I onl,
felt angry with the many &c and rs
had no umbrella, the gentleman. who
was at church himself, kindly offered
to see me home"
Annie," said I, solcmnly. edo not
imagine that man-and especially gen.
tleman-only 60 to church as you do,
to say their prayers. I once heard a
great preacher, Mr.. Spurgeon, divide
the cllurch-gocrs into number OF
classes, some Of which were a yer,
unsatisfactory sort. Among Others
there was the umbrella Christian as
, he termed it the man who goes into q
| church merely to save his hat, or gel
out Of the rain.'
But, please ma am, this gentleman
had an unlbrclla," observed Annabe1
Brown.
! thought it rather pert, and very
''nlik" herself, that she should argue
with me on this matter; but still,
was determined not to lose nv temper,
" in this particular case, that NAV
have been so said "but he mioht
have gone t" church with a wrong mo.
tive for all that. To my ewes lie did
not look suitable person for a vouno
woman in your position to he walk;nn
with. He left you ut tho front door
and he may have been mistaken q. +,
your condition in life. Did you inform
him OF it,
No ma am
Annabcl Brown was certainly too
Quakerish any other girl could have
seer with half in eye that was rcall,
solicitous tor her own sake) to know
what the man had said to her; vet NJ
that : could get out of Annie was -
No, ma'am." It was not treatiuf
me, ] thought, with the confidence tha
my conduct towards her had meritcd