The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-01

she Kept herself down by repeatino as
last as she could, "Charity hopetb ali
thlngs, endureth all things. is NOT easi1v
PROVOKED. Then she went home. mt
On tne brightest dress she had. and
%Tenc % 10 nurse sick neighbor who could
ODIaln no assistance for money. and
therefore must have it for love.
Inc bright dress had almost time TO
Iade before Miss Phrygia saw the wav
clear TO go home again. II wag n lone
! pun, and neither she nor the invalid
knew how they would have got tbrouoh
had AZ not been for the strength and
comfort of the doctors daiIv visits.
PIX feet IN height, two hundred y.Sbds
IN weight, strong as a tower, firms as a
rCcA' cool as a hygTogTaph, and vet
Wnen pam or dlscourageinent called for
IL, quick with a brooding tenderness.
more beautiful, Miss Phrypia tbouobt
| even than a woman's.
Twilight in the sick room seemed
lonely to Miss Phrygia, and she fell in
TO the way of watching for a light to
gleam through the elms that shaded
the doctors house just opposite, but no
hight ever appeared, and she had lust
made up her mind that he was never at
home IN the evening"; when she had to
send for him two or three times after
the stars were out, and there he was.
"Oh dear !" she said, "I hope he
doesn't sit there without SO much as
candle lighted, thinking about those
children of his that were drowned, and
the wife in the insane asylum that only
died year and a half ago. He can't
or he never could como over here on a
moments call, all ready to cheer us up
and be such comfort !" This " cheer
hhnrf1
tlnued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would geem
without it, when her season of duty
should be ended. What the doctor
thought about losing his nurse, he did
not say, but he insisted upon seeing her
home, when the time came, although
the moon was as large as a cart-wheel,
and shining clear.
As they came out, they both invol-
UNFAIRLY glanced up at the house under
the shadow of the elms.
Dark, " said Miss Phrygia; " it al
ways is. "
Yes" said the doctor, &" it has been
for good many years now, very dark"
"I know it, " said Miss Phrygia, soft
ly, feeling as if she ought to have on
her black gloves again.
"Don't You think, said the doctor,
adjusting her hand trife more closely
to his arm, don't you think I might
bring in a bright, warm light before
long, if could find it?"
Immediately p said Miss Phrygia.
Even, and the doctor stopped to
come as near as he could to a look un-
der Miss Phrygia's hat" even if
should leave your house empty and
dark to do it ?"
What Miss Phrygia said, or. what
either or both of them said after that,
will never be revealed but certain it is
that when Miss Phrygia ought to have
been going TO sleep that night, she
wasn't going to sleep at all, but saying
over and over to herself "Ob, what
have I done? What have done? How
could ever do it? What am going
to do ?"
The perplexity-thickened and dark
ened, to the peril of Miss Phrygia's
night, when suddenly ray of light
flashed forth upon it.
"Why, of coursel" she said. "He
isn't exactly a man, after all he's a
doctor and that's just how 1 came to
do it !" and with this satisfactory con-
clusion in her SOUL and a wonderful
whirl of new sensations in her heart,
Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow, and
went 70 sleep like kitten.
The village was so astir with the news
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk,-leaning on an
arm that wasn't hers, and yet claimed
to became in the twilight.
The shadows deepened as she wan
dered on, listening to a great many
things the doctor had to say, until at
last, Just as Miss Phrygia spoke for the
first time, glow-worm came in sight.
81 must stop and tie up my shoe !"
was what Miss Phrygia said, and
whether the doctor heard it or not,
he stepped forward a few PAGES to see
about the glOw-worm, and Miss Phrygia
put up her foot on a stone by the way
side. AS she stopped, a noiseless step,
accompanied by one a trifie heavier,
came behind her; something misty
touched her cheek, and voice whisper
ed in her ear:
"Is that your mortality puff"
"Hush-Sh - said Miss Phrygia.
"Yes, for a breath might blow him
away. Bring him round to visit my
grave, won't you? Some evening about
tea time and we'll have-puffs I"
Immediately !" said Miss Phrygia.
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