Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-05-19

MY fingers hurting drefful-
:, fpinched It in the doori
u | wish they'd get my needle
dropped it on the floor. ... .t..4 ,
There's Topsys dress to finish,
. And heaps Of work to do;
y guess IN clect my family t
And move In grandpa's shoe.
9 81 WILL, IF YOU WILL.
. The Kay house is a pleasant little hote
) standing half way up the side OF mountain J
: New Hampshire.
In the parlor there, one July evening, WEI
; our poople-Mrs. st. John and her dau .hte
Ely, Miss Emily May and Mr.. Millburn.
As ELY st. John went to the piano, these tw
) last slipped out on the balcony, and listened q
. ELY sung: ~ ........
"Codld we forget, could we forget!
Oh that Lcthe was running yet,
That past should fade like u mornn
: dream,
In single drop of tho holy stream,
| All we know what you would say
But we are too tired to hope or pray;
For, hurt with ceaseiess jar and fret,
Body and soul cannot forget.
"Can they forget, will they forget,
When they shall reach the boundary set,-
When with the final pang and strain
They are parted never to meet again?
Ever to them shall rest be given,
Senseless in earth, or happy in Heaven?
That which has been 1t might be yet
If we could on ly learn TO forget;
But the stars shall cease to rise and set
And fall from Heaven ere we forget"
Ely sung with an intensity and pathos which
borrowed none Of its force from within, for she
was good naturel, inconse1uent sort OF cir
| who never had trouble in her life. a,il
! The gift of musical expression is often quite
| independent of feeling or experience. "a ,
Elly's music hurt Emily cruelty, aud stirred
and reused the only sorrow which had but just
| begun to fall asleep. -,,r
She had loved deeply and fondly man who
| grew tired Of her and left her. because lac was
greatly her inferior.
Much as she suffered, reioced when her
| engagement with Lewis Leighton was broken.
| had known Lewis from his earliest childhood
and had always disliked him a. a selfish con-
ceited prig. t...
The last heard Of him he had turne Cath
olic, and Joined the Jesuits; and I only hop.
he GOT well snubbel during his novltiat'. Had
Miss May married him, her disappointment
would have been un5peakeble greater than it
was.
AS she leaned over the balcony while ELY
sung and looked ont into shadows and star
light, her heart was wrung rs with the first an
guish Of losr, the sickening sense Of her own
blind infatuation.
'Oh, God she said to herself, when will the
bitterness Of this death be past?' Then she
became conscious that Mr.. Millburn was speak
ing to her; but he had more than half finished
what he had to say before she realized that he
was asking her 10 be his wife.
He spoke at very unfortunate moment.-
lie and Emily had been very good friends that
summer. They had wandered in the woods,
ascended Mount Washington and been to Glen
Ellis together.
She had liked him, but she had never dream
ed of him as u lover; and when he presented
himself In that light, she was shocked, and
startled, and little provoked.
'0h hush" she said, sharply. 1T never can
be--neyer
do YOU then dislike Inc SD much p said
Eyert Milburn, trying very hard to speak quiet
ly.
no. she said, making an effort to collect
her thoughts. Il have liked you---you have
been good to me; but all the love had to give
is dead and buried, and there is no resurree-
tion.'
lie made no answer; but she felt that she
had hurt him.
Il am very sorry she fillered; Il never
meant-'
Il understood he said quickly. ri is no
ones fault but my own. Goodnight And
they touched hands and parted.
Evert went to his room, where his friend,
DICK BttS1, was Sllllng Ill Tue uarK.
Dick was a boy OF nineteen. lie had been
trying to work his way through college, and
had worn himself out in the effort, and Mr.
Millburn had brought him to the mountains
for his vacation.
Dick made hero of Evert, and ho had been
mortay jealous of Emily May.
Dick said Mr.. Mlllburn, after a little
pause, 'wo will go over to the Glen to-mor-
row.
And then Dick understood the case, and
mentally abused Miss May sas u cold-heartel
firt,' which epthet she did not in the least de-
serve.
Evert and Dick went away eally in the morn
ing. Emily heard the stage go away, and turn
ed her face to her pillow, and Thought bitterly
of the horrible perverseness of things In this
world. -'
She knew that Eveit was good and manly
and sensible. He was in fair way to win rep
utation at the bar, and, if not just handsome,
was attractive and gentlemanly.
There are dozens that would be proud snd
happy to accept his love; and nothing would do
but that he must throwit away on me- thought
Emily, impatientlX But it's never worth Will
to pity men very much Theymostly get over
troubles very easily, If there is no money lost
From which it may be inferred that Miss May
was perhaps bit of cynic.
Emily May lived with her mother, In an in-
land town in New York.
She had little property of her own, and
with what she could earn by her pen, she man |
aged to dress herself pay for summers
journey now and then, and keep her own house !
over her head.
1t was her way to look after her sick neigh |
bors poor or not to visit now and then, at the |
hospital and county house, and do what her /
hand found to do.
She made no fuss, and laid down no rules; |
and was under no ecclesiastical direction In
particular; but | am inclined to think she was |
as useful, and far more agreeable, than II she !
had made herself hideous In a bonnet, and COM
mitted mental suicide.
When her holidays was over that summer, she
came home and settled quietly down TO her
work. IT,. ...
She was busy at her desk, one day In Octo- |
ber, when carriage drove rapidly up the |
street and stopped at the door, and Dick Bush /
jumped hurridly cut and rang the bell. Emily |
went to the door herself, upon which Dicks i
hurry seemed suddenly to subside; and when |
he came into the parlor, he appeared to find
great difficulty in expressing himself and En- |
lily greatly wondering, asked after his friend
Mr.. Millburn. .f+=.
Dicks tongue was loosened
'Oh, Miss May he said, with shaking voice,
.Evert is dving.' ..:
'Whcref How?' said Emily, startled and sin
cerely sorry. f.. .5.-
Now Dick had bean rather mechanically
inclined. ...y-t
He meant to act like the hero of lady's
novel, and administer a severely infiexible re-
proof TO the woman who had trifed with Evert
but in Miss Mays presence he found this plan
'mpracticabie, and wisely refrained.