Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-31
fairly altogether. And you? How are

larry dltOSttueI. Anu you hOM are
you getting on, Addie ?"
sob, very well. The children tease
sometimes, but Mrs. Jameson is very
kind, and always upholds my authority.
And then the girls are really fond OF
me, and the whole family made me SUCH
pretty presents. / must show them TO
you as soon as my trunk arrives"
We were alone in the world, we two
sisters Patience Carr, the school
mistress, and 1. Adelaide, the gov
erness. Ten years before we had
known the extreme of luxury-a house
in fashionable quarter of New York,
horses, carriages, servants, French
dresses and diamonds for Patience,
broad sashes, worked muslins and vel
vet suits for me. That was when
Antarctic Mail was selling at $50, and
Richard Carr, our father, was consid-
cred one of the shrewdest and most
successful of Wall street spectators.
Then, one bright day, Antarctic Mail
took downward leap, and carried my
fathers fortune with it his reason fol-
lowed, and in the end, his life. So one
morning, a woman and a child (Pa-
| thence and y set forth into the world
to seek, not our fortunes, but our daily
bread. There was difference of twelve
years between Patience aud myself
years that were expressed by neat row
of five little graves with elegantly
carved tombstones out at Greenwood,
where our brothers and sisters slept a
calm slumber that no depreciation in
Antarctic Mail had power to disturb.
Our mother had died when 1 was only
two years old; she, too, had gone
where Wall street ceases from troubling,
and the bulls and bears are at rest. So
Patience took care of me for six long
years, and then I, being eighteen, went
forth to win my own breaa as gov
erneSs.
/ cannot say that the usual advent
ures which novel writer's describe as
Detailing every young woman, whether
attractive or otherwise, who goes out as
governess, ever happened to me. Nc
handsome youth, the only son of the
family in which I taught English,
French, the rudiments of German,
music and drawing, ever fell at my feet
and besought permission to remove me
to a more congenial sphere. found
out no dark and deadly mysteries, nc
hidden maniac or undiscovered crimes
nor was / ever subjected to series Of
petty sights and injuries from narrow,
minded nleres de fanaille. was usually
very well treated and fairly paid, so
never had chance of posing myself
either asavictim or aheroine of romance
at the time of which write I was in
deed as pleasantly situated as it is pos
| cf1,In s.. b.
ployers were cultivated, kind-heartei
people, my eldest pupils intelligent
well-hrought-up girls, and the rest o.
the children not more unruly or torment
ing than healthy children, especially
boys, are apt to be. So that particular
Christmas eve of which I write found
me very much inclined to enjoy my
holiday, and fully prepared to enter in
to all the little festivities of the season
which might fall 60 my share.
"We are to have roast turkey fol
dinner tomorrow" remarked Patienc,
after brief silence.
GOurnaonde, "a :"
"And what do you say to a matine,
as a pleasant method of passing tn,
day."
"You know 1 love play above al
things. Where shall we ?-to Wal
lacks? Booths? the Fifth Avenue?"
"Choose for yourself, Addie you ar,
company, you know. There is the news
paper ON the table"
l sat down to pore over the advertise
ments with as much eagerness and ex
element as though my twenty-five
years had been suddenly diminished b,
ten at the very least. At last looked
up: Patience -
"Well, dear?"
Don't you wish that somethin,
would happen to us, as often happen
in plays ?-that is, don't you wish tina
some unknown relative or rich old uncl,
would make his appearance and shove,
untold wealth upon us?''
am sure we are very comfortabl.
now. And what is the use of wishins
such things ?"
"Not much use, only some amuse
ment. Castles in the air are very easil,
terected, and cost nothing for bricks
mortar or laborers' hire"
eyes, but when they tumble down
as they invariably do, you may chanc,
to get rap on the head from some O.
the flying timbers. Best stay on teri,
firma, Addie."
/ laughed, and bent again over my
paper. But the momentous question
of the Christmas matinee once settlet
and the newspaper thrown aside, m,
thoughts reverted to my airy castles
and instinctively began to rear then
again. We were both silent. Patienct
leaned back, half asleep, in her rocking
! chair, whilst sat on low seat at he
feet and gazed dreamily into the glow
ing Goals of the CRATE. I saw myself {
, lively, laughing child again, flying
down the broad staircase of our FIFTH
: avenue mansion in embroidered musli,
and floating silk sash, en- route for som,
childish party or other; and then I re
membered certain dinner-party which
my father had once given, and how 1
peeping slyly through the chink of thu
dining-room door, had thought private
~ that Sister Patience, in her mauv'
silk and pearls, was the prettiest lad,
. there. Poor, dear Patience the pref
: test still remained, though the silk ant
!, the pearls were things of the past. Sud
9 denly thought struck me, recollec