Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-10-01

glass.
doctor says l be going on fine says
he never see such a change, and so quick
but he be full Of the squirc's coming home
that's what the bells be s-risging for and
they ro a-gOing up to the house to read an
address, aud great dOiugs; and doctor says
! may get up while to-morrOw-get up
to tea"
"lt makes me happy to hear you talk
so cheerfully, aud to SEQ you looking so
much BETTER" said Kate, patting the old
wOman's hand as it lay outside ths cOun-
terpane.
"And doctor says he'll ask squire if he's
heard any thing Of our poor TOu in his
travels. oh, Kate, my love, | do think
I'D get up and live thirty years yet if 1
could see my boy again"
Kate arranged the medicine bottles on
the mantel-shslf.
My poor boy All, he were very fond
of you, Kate; aud DO wonder, no wonder" +"
You have had breakfast, thea" said
Kate; 4" what a lazy nurse am not TO
have been up 10 give it you!"
Yes, I've had it; my good man gave
it to me but you bain't listening about
poor Tom. All, if could only have seen
you his wife,"
"My dear Mrs. North, you must not
talk so much, you are ovcrtaxing your
strength. There, dear now YOU must be
quiet; you must obey your nurse you
know-your nurse and the doctor that is
the way to get better"
We'll. well, do as he likes with me,
bless e, do as e likes but come and sit
by me, aud let me feel thy hand
Kat sat down and laid her hand in the
old woman's. and wondered what the end
of last nights sad business would be. Ii
they took Tom, and the knowledge of the
thing came to Mrs. NortA's ear, it would
kill her If she could snly see HIM, the
heart-broken mother had said. Itappalled
Kate to think if his mother had onl seen
HIM last night as she saw him. The sun.
beam which had been on the window-pane
came into the room, and wandered all over
it like ray Of good promise from heaven ;
and the bells still rung, stopping now and
then for few minutes, rs if they were
listening to the music of the mill-wheel
close by. Kate heard the ripping Of the
water now and then, and il sounded to her
like the voice of some close familiar friend
who knew her secrets and pited her.
They shall ring when my boy comes
back said the sick woman, talking to
herself and pressing Kato's hand The
master has promised tAot he'il forgive him
for my sake, whatever he has DONE
:" Your husband is a good SOUL, said
Kate.
"God bless him b'ain't he? And
they called him Tyrant North; but they
never knowed him; it was they agitating
folk as turned his heart Lord love e,
when he wor young man accounting me,
why there were not finer young fellow
in the county!
ole promised you that he would for.
give him?'
ny, tHdi HG uiu'
ASK him to repeat that tonight on his
knees said Kate.
Why, do 'e think the lad has such
need Of it? said the old woman, quickly
Let him dc it,, said Kate, firmly. But
we must not talk about matters that excite
you, my dear; if you must talk, tell me
what more the doctor said about the squire
coming back. How does he lookT
Lock! why he be bronzed, they say,
like a foreigner but looking main we'll
and handsomer than ever
Looks stout and well p said Kate,
That he do. Doctor says the ladies
will be after him now. wonder they
kave not hooked him in them foreign
lands
They have not, then ? said Kate.
Il suppose not. All. he be difficult tc
manage ho be SO suspicious. remem
ber him saying to me that he didn't be-
lieve in having lady Of the manor, no
not he; and laughing at me, as much al
to say, they don. catch the squire will
their ribbons and fine ways, The farmer
and squire could never get on; no, it wa'
pity, them nasty politics. That be the
masters foot
While she was yet speaking, the farme,
tapped at the. door and entered.
Mrs. Smith has sent up to ask If yol
would step in home presently said th'
farmer.
The char-woman 2 said Kate. Yes
l think may go for an hour by-and-by
Ell, Mrs. North p
DO e, by all means, but don't % hi
long, love F; l likes to hear ye in the hous'
even if | do not see ye.'
I'll stay when she goes, missus, III
stay; they have been and asked me t.
sign an address to squire on his return
home
Did &c do it?' asked Mrs. North
quickly.
Il did, said the farmer, l did l'v'
10 ill-will to the squire as a man; ant
perhaps be has learned something in hi
travels that will give him wider views o
things, for we may learn from our neigh
bors, they say. All the wisdom and lib
erty does not lie in England, nor the re
ligion either, for that matter.
The religion Of doing good is the tru
religion, and kind hearts are better thai
wise heads, said Kate.
Bless the child, she d&talk better thai
parsen, said Mrs. North.
She is good girl, and If we had al
hearts like her | expect there would no
be much quarreling,' said the farmer.
!, And no politics, said the invalid.