Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-08-19
Sybil Nugent and the Artist.

C0nsln Emily, WISH you were twenty
years younger"
so do l, my dear"
You would be Just as good a chaper-
one. and you would enjoy little time IN
London"
Il do not think, Sybil, that l am quite
past that yet" /
! Then we will go We will take lodg
mos in a nice part, near everything; and
we will shop all the morning, and lunch /
at "A pastry-cook's. and shop all the after /
noon. and 90 to the theatre in the evening.
And. when we are tired of all that, we will
come back to dear Nutting, and the dogs
AMI mare and COWS"
a little change will be very nice,
sad Miss Emily Needham, who always
acouie,ced, and was generally loved in
consequences That she had not been par
i.ularlv loved, was loss to some one, for
sh, would have made an admirable wife.
II + husband would have got his own way
in everything; but perhaps that would
have been bad for him too, and Miss
Emily's celibacy was probably all for the
best.
1t was very convenient for Sybils step
flther. General Won Flopdollingen, a Ger
man soldier and politician. who had mar
ried an English widow with one encum-
brance. and when he lost the former, felt
rather hampered by the latter. He kept
her at school As long as possible; but when
she reached the age of twenty-one she was
/ iudepend,nt, rs she inherited her own ftth-
e,'s fortune, which was nice little prop
ertv. The general, indeed, would have
liked her to live with him, become natura-
lied, and bestow her hand AMI what was
in it on one of his nephews; and to this
end she spent several holidays in Prussia
and might have left school some years
sooner if she had shown a wish to live
abroad. But she called the soil of the leu
ton. Step -Fatherland, and did not care
much for her cousins-german. SO General
Won Flopdollingen. who had promised to
look after her interests, and who was Il
conscientious nun in private life, was puz-
zled, till Miss Emily Needham was sug-
gested rs a fitting companion for her
Young and sprightly relative, when he
gladly accepted her services.
As for Sybil Nugent herself. she was
nleased enough to have cousin Emily, who
hal ALWAYS been Il favorite, to live with
her. She made IN effort ut first to promote
her into an aunt, but the familiar = cousin
Emily rose to her lips, and the attempt
!, had to be given up. Lastly, the opposition
suited the elder lady capitally. She wa:
y poor and lonely, and she liked comfor
y and companionship. A trip to Londor
:, would be very agreeable; and SO they re
solved ON the excursion. There was a diff
6culty. Svbil asked Emily if she knew
anv one at all in London.
=, Cousin Emily thought while, and thel
{ said: There is Jane, Mrs. Hinchbrooke'
-. laCv's maid, who married and settled IL
y = London, where she lets lodgings. l hav
:. her address somewhere"
y LETS lodgingsr' cried Sybil. Perhap
>. thev are vacant, and we can have them
il Find out where she lives, at once, there
# Il dear"
- - Cousin EmiIy's huge rosewood des
- - Welded up card which announced tina
y Mrs. Rogers had genteel apartments, re
- - plete with every comfort, in Cover street
- 1T must be in quite a fashionable part
II said Svbil, consulting map, " because
VI is near Oxford street and the British Mt
scum"
- So cousin Emily wrote TO Mrs. Rogers
~. ~ who had been many years In the serve
) of the principal crony in the cathedral cit.
- and to whom she had presented workoo
e on her marriage; and received reply .
at return of post to the effect that' Dy u
.s ,' most extraordinary. accident IN Inc wofl'
IN her draWlnS-fooiu nool was
IN So, one fine October day. the youn
In In maid and the old one found themselv'
Oh transferred from their bright roomy hon
u in the country to dingy London lodging
in which Sybil commenced at once 10 orls'
70 They then commenced a life which Il
Ie a male mind shudders to contemplate
II ~ life life of shopping. Not that Sybil had mar
ae ae wants. or made many purchases, but tho
US US which she did make went a prodigio
=. As way. Supposing she determined to get
q. mantilla, do YOU think they went to u
= nearest shop for such things and boug
y " one? Not bit of it. They looked IN
y, the windows which displayed such thin
us in ST. Paul's Churchyard, Oxford sire
Il and Regent street, and when they s.
,s. &c, something which pleased them, they we
inside and overhisuled the whole stoc