Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-09-13
A Spirited Girl.
A st. Paul Paper Tells the story.

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Some days ago a respectable matron
of st. Paul, Mimi, who advertised in a
paper of that city for a girl to do gen.
eral Homework, was aghast at finding
in the first applicant fer employment a
ine-looking young woman, not only
dressed in the latest fashions, but also
having the manners of the best society.
Anticipating at least a demand for the
use of piano and sewing machine, not
to speak of hot and cold water and sta
tionary wash-tubs, from a handmaiden
of this superlative description, the dis
comfted old lady was beginning an
agitated rejection of her visitor, when,
to her increased embarrassment, the
latter suddenly burst into tears and
fairly begged to be employed. She
asked it only for few days, she said,
until she could write to her friends, and
then poured her whole story into the
ears of the astonished matron. Her
home was near st. Louis, where recent
parental intirmities made it necessary
for her to contribute something to the
maintenance of the family; and, having
seen in st. Louis journal an adver-
tlsement for O governess, which some
unknown friend sent marked to her, she
had answered the same with an applica-
ton. To her delight she was at once
accepted by the gentleman advertising,
who wrote, however, that it would be
necessary for her to go up the river to
st. Paul, where his family were spend
ing the summer, and directed her to
take the steamboat from st. Louis on a
certain day, that he might meet her
thereon further up the country, where
ne was tarrying on business. In the
flush and expectancy of her first effort
away from home she had taken no ac-
count of the popularity of this pre-
liminary arrangement, but gone upon
the boat as told. At the upper landing
designated her employer did come
aboard as promised, and proved, to her
CONSERVATION, to be certain eccentric
and rich old widower of her acquaint-
ance, whom, under his true name, she
had several times checked in matri-
monial overtures.
Noting her dismay when he intro
duced himself as her late advertising
correspondent, he reminded her that
any sensational demonstration on her
part would only make her a subject of
scandal to the other passengers, and
volunteered to refrain from addressing
her again until ST. Paul was reached.
At the latter place, wheH, in her help
less bewilderment, she followed some
of her fellow-voyagers to the nearest
hotel, she was politely but firmly in
formed by her daring abductor that if
she did not now listen to his often-re-
peated suit and consent to an immediate
marriage with him her situation was
such that she must be gravely compro-
missed for life. By this time, however,
she had recovered her self-possession
and, fercely indignant at the plot prac-
tised upon her, she so spurned and up
braided the dotard that he left her pres
ence in towering passion. Then, see
ing in the newspaper the advertisement
for servant-girl, she hastily decided to
make that medium of appeal for help
to some motherly soul, who might be
willing to grant her shelter and protec-
ton until she could write to her family.
Upon hearing her story, thus related,
the matron readily granted the harbor
and guardianship asked. Inquiry on
the st. Louis boat and at the hotel re.
suited in the substantiation of essential
points of the narrative, and in a few
days there came a brother from st.
Louis, to rescue his sister from hel
painful situation and vow condign flu
ture vengeance upon her fugitive perse.
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