Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-13

Won come for? I've got my dinner to
TEND to snapped out Mary Ann.
:" i am raising funds Tor the POM
heather children Of
"He was interrupted by Mary Ann
exclaiming:
.ssOh, know now. You say you're
going to preach the gospel to folks Ia
some foreign place. May be you are,
But if you're in earnest about II, ABOUT
preaching, you jest go down to EastVlIle;
and you'll find folks as wants the gospel
as bad there as anywhere. But II them
Eastvillians don't like you they will raise
too much fun for you. Them Jay boys
down there
ssJust then heard the blinds slammed
and voice gruff enough exclaim
"'A perfect IDIOT.
"And moment after, the door closed
on whatever more he might have said.
'sWhen Charley came in, Olive related
this conversation, and joined his hearty
laugh with the first smiles for many
weeks. We afterward learned the man
was an impester, and were glad he had
met his match.
''Olive went home that evening, and
Mary Ann came up to keep me company.
Charley returned earlier than usual, and
drew his chair up to the bedside to try
and amuse me with some news he had
heard Mary Ann sat still, although |
made some excuses to get her out. Dur
ing a pause in Charleys story she aston
ished us by asking:
"'Mr. Dale, do you know any nice
Young man that wants a nice young wo-
man for his wife?'
Charley looked at her a moment,
and then asked very seriously:
"'Why, Mary Ann, do you know the
nice young woman as wants the hus-
band? Perhaps I might find her one ?
La, now, Mr.. Dale. You know who
I am eluding to. I'm thinking about it
myself, she said, simpering.
g 1T! that means the husband, sup
pOse?' said Charley. Very well, Mary
Ann. | wonder that you have not mar
ried long ago. You are a pretty fine
looking woman. | will keep lookout
in your behalf.
Long ago. she muttered, looking
not so smiling as before. 'Tan't so
long ago that l was old enough to think
of such things as husbands But could
have married. if | had not been young
and foolish, but | knows better now.
''Mary Ann was at least fOrty-eight,
I'm sure. | was tired of her talk, and
made her go to bed, and was really pro-
voked at Charley for seeming to ENJOY
her foolish talk.
"a few days after that, Olive was
with me again. | was bluer than ever.
She was putting away my furs and win
ter clothing.
II spoke of never wearing them again,
and expressed my wishes concerning the
disposal of different articles. had no
idea of Mary AIMS presence until she
asked:
'Areyou disposingo of all your clothes,
and everything?'
Neither Olive or | gave her any re-
ply; but she did not feel at all sighted,
and went on to ask, in that simpering
manner that really enraged me:
"'Well, now, who are you going to
leave your husband to? May be Miss
Olive wants to have him herself?'
Il wish you could have seen Olives
face. | thought she would fly at her.
And Mary Ann must have had some
such impression, for she held up her hand
=" Don't, Miss Olive, Indeed I didn't
mean no harm. Jest let me tell you. l
had a friend who lived with jest SIGH q
nice lady as Miss Dale, and the lady was
sick, Jest like Miss Dale, and she had jest
SIGH a affeCtionit husband as Mr.. Dale;
and this lady knowcd how SIGH a nice
man couldn't be contented alone in the
world: so before she died, she left her
husband to my friend. La. don't !
wish | could meet with Jest sick luck
And his name was Charles too. When
this nice lady was dying, says she:
Charles, my dear
MARY AIMS pathetic tones were cut
short by Olives catching her by the
shoulders and pushing her ont of the
room. shutting and locking the door to
keep her so.
almost every day brought forth
something very ludicrous, or dreadfully
aggravating. | did not want for excite
ment constantly.
''She had been with me two months
when our boy born, and contrary to my
expectations, | lived on. | convalesced
slowly. When baby was two weeks old,
| was propped up in the easy chair, feel
ing only we'll enough to allow my nurse
to 90 home for an hour or so. Olive /
had sent out with some little commits
sion. | was left to Mary AIMS care
She came in, and finding me quite alone
with the baby, said:
Dear me . Jest to think of every
body going off and leaving you! So mis-
cradle sick too.
There was tone of sympathy in
her words, and my eyes filled, as l
said:
, Yes, am sick, and shall never be
better, know
you if l could be spared to 90 to a
friends funeral. She was sick Jest like
you; not bit worse. Well. her friends
left her, and, poor dear. when they
came back she was gone
"'Dead ? | gasped.
Yes, clear dead. And that's Jest
the way they'll find you some one Of
these days.
9 Go away. Go! co. l cried. You
win kin me right now
:" La, now, don't get excited. lest
come up to entertain you, seeing how
you was left alone. La, YOU better let
me stay, she urged. With difficulty
got her out of the room. / told Charley
about it, and insisted he should send her
off. But no, he seemed anxious to keep
her, and | cannot tell you the horrible
ideas that came into my poor weak brain.
''Well, the crisis came when our babe
was two months old. | was still in nv
room. Mary Ann occupied the entry
chamber, to be near, if I needed her in
the night.
.'She came in one afternoon, bringing
friend and asking if she might go out
to do little shopping. | gave her per
mission, and together they went to her
room. | think it was to close the door
that | went, and in time to hear the
stranger say:
She looks o1gftu delicate, and
staid to hear Mary AIMS reply.
"'That's so. She is going fast, lest
like Miss Brown, you know, Jane Mar
tins husbands first wife. La, Mag.
wouldn't be in luck if the same thing !
happened to me? You remember Jane
lived there was chambermaid. Mr. /.
Dale is jest SIGH affectionit kind of
man, and | know he couldn't live alone +.
in this world. And ! say, Mag. don't .
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