The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-04

do love children and young folks.
But a chill fell on the kindly old
heart when home was reached at last,
and four fashionably dressed ladies
gave her strictly courteous greeting.
But for the warm clasp Of Fred's hand
/ think she would have returned to the
station by the same carriage she came
in, so wounded and sore she felt.
Not one kiss" she thought, '' and
Fred kissed me at the train, right be-
fore all the people"
Fred slipped q silver coin into the
hands of the servant girl who wss to
wait upon his aunt, promising another
If she was very attentive, and himself
escorted the old lady to her room. It
was not often the young mans indigna-
tion found voice, though it grew hot
over the many shams and acts of hard
selfshness in the house Of his mother,
but he said some words that called a
blush TO the cheeks of the worldly
woman.
It was not a very busy season, and
finding that Sabina was likely to have
a sorry time If left TO the other mem
bers of the family, Fred asked for a
holiday and appointed himself the old
lady's escort. He was too proud to care
for the fact that the quaint little
figure on his arm attracted many an
amused glance, but gravely stood by
while new dress for Dolly, the dairy
maid, and a "city necktie" for Bob,
the ploughman, was purchased.
He gave undivided attention to the
more important selection of q new black
silk for auntie, herself and pleasantly
accepted blue silk scarf, with large
red spots, that was presented to him,
hot sav-Nsa 4
the gift and mentally resolving to wear
it when he paid a promised visit to the
farm. He drove Aunt Sabina to the
park. He took her to see all the sights.
Once or twice, meeting some of his
gentlemen friends, they had thought
"the queer old party is some rich rela-
tion, Gorham is so very attentive, and
had delighted Sabina by their deferen-
tial attentions.
Once-Fred had not counted on that
in a picture gallery, Cordelia Cald-
well saUntered in alone. She had heard
of Sabina through the disgusted COM
ments of Lucilla, and she had no prop
erty but miserable farm" but she
greeted Fred with a smile far more cor
dial than she usually gave her admirers.
A little lump came into Fred's throat.
Then he gravely introduced the stately
beauty, in her rustling silk, to the old
fashioned figure on his arm.
MY aunt, Miss Gorham, Miss Cald-
well. -
They admired the pictures together,
and the young lady was cordial and
chatty.
After they came down the steps, Miss
Caldwell said
''You must let your aunt drive an
hour or two with me, Mr.. Gorham. /
am going to do some shopping, so l
shall not tax your patience by asking
You to join us, but 1 shall be pleased If
Miss Gorham will dine with me, and
You Will call for her this evening""
Then she smiled again, made Sabina
comfortable in the carriage and drove
of, leaving Fred 'orty times deeper in
love than ever, as she intended he should
be.
"He is a very prince of a man." she
thought, and III give him one day g
| rest. Bless the dear old soul, she has
just such blue eyes as my dear grand
| mother"
Then she won Sabina's confidence,
and found she was worrying about the
purchase of certain household matters,
| that would not go in the black leather
| trunk, and that she did not like to worry
Fred about it.
She drove to the places where the
! best goods could be had, keeping guard
over the slender purse against all i'm
| position, till the last towel was satisfac-
| torily chosen and directed. Then she
drove her home, and brought her to the
room where " graDdmother" was queen,
knowing the stately old lady would
make the countrywOman welcome.
| In the evening that followed, Fred'f
! heart was touched and warmed, till,
scarcely conscious of his own words, he
told his long-cheTished secret, and knew
that he had won love for love.
Aunt Sabina stayed two weeks and
then went home, to the immense relief
of the Gorhams, and carrying no regret
of leaving any but Fred and CoTdelia
II was not even suspected that Cor
della spent four weeks in the height o.
the summer season listening to the
praise of Fred at SabinR's farmhouse
! and even Fred did not know it until h'
came, too, after she was gone, and haC
his share of the pleasure of hearing Low
ing commendatiOn of one he loved.
He wore the necktie, and made him
! self so much at home that Sabina wep
some of the bitlerest tears of her lift
when he left.
"To have you both, and lose you I
she sobbed.
"Next time we Will come together,
Fred whispered, and so consoled her.
But alas The next time Fred cam
was to superintend the funeral of tn
gentle old lady, and though Cordeli
came too, his happy wife, there was n,
welcome in the pale lips or the blu
eyes closed forever.
But the will the old lady left gave al
her worldly posseGsions to her " dea
nephew, Frederick Gorham," the farm
and the farmhouse.
1t was apparently no very great leg
acy, and Cordelia smiled at many of tn
old-fashioned treasures, as she touchet
all with the tender reverence deatl
leaves.
Ten years ago Sabina was laid TO res
in her narrow coffin, and there Is a busy
hourishing town round the site of tn
old farm.
Mr.. Frederick Gorham lives ther
now, and handles immense sums c
money, the rents of stately buildings
4" Made his money, sir, by speculG
tions," you viii be told if yOu inquiT
IS to his source of income "fortunRt
purchase of ground before the town wa
thought of. "
But I, who know, tell you that tn
only speculation he made was, in tn
kindness Of his heart, extending lOvin
attentions to his fathers sister, and this
the only land he ever owned was AuI
, Sabina's farm.
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