Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-07-16

have been a wall-1owerw
"The flower that all arc praising."
"No; nobody but you"
mol 1 fancy you resemble the woman
heard a clergyman praise in his sermon
last Sunday, with whom he said IL was
pleasanter TO meet than a poem of Brown
ings, Paurs Epistle, or a chapter Of Epict-
eusp'
al shan't listen TO such flaitery. Our
meeting will be one of tlisillusions."
Sometimes the kilograms were aller this
fashion:
"Pearl: "What are the latest things out
in suits at Niueveh2"
Lucy: "The young men,"
"No trifing. How are over-skirts r.
Every much puiTed up"
"Perhaps you can tell how they dress the
hair now?"
"With brush and comb STILL"
'I mean is II worn of the forehead now7"
at is very muck worn Off the forehcads
of the young ladies who crimp. and off the
crowns of the men who live in their hats"
"How do you wear your own, pray?"
"Curled."
splendid! Have you such thing as a
lover2"
81 have one devoted lover for surety"
"Splendid! I've sometimes thought
but no you'll tell him."
"You won't mind when / assure you
that my lover is only myself, Lucy Loril-
lard. Now you've sometimes thought"
at would be delightful to be first in
somebody's heart"
"No matter whose?"
"What plague you arel II seems TO me
it would be so delightful to love somebody
better than yourself-so well you could die
for hmw
"He would be a fine 'figger of a man TO
let you die for him."
"You do know how TO put an extinguish-
er upon sentiment.
Later.
pearl: "Tve got something dreadful to
tell you"
"And bad news travels fast"
"Tve got a lover"
81 knew that before. What's dreadful
about it?"
"Oh, 1 don't want him he's old. He
might be my grandfather.
"Saints and ministers Of grace defend
usr'
"And Aunt Hidden says it's my duty TO
marry him."
"And say you shan't."
"IIe walks with a crutch, but Aunt Hid
den says l can ride in my carriage. lie is
deaf, but she reminds me that am not
II l., IL.
me that 'scratcL' is only masculine for
chignon."
"Did l understand that you were willing
to die for him? ?"
"I'd sooner die than marry him."
"Good. But you won't do either"
"But l must decide to queen ii at Gable
Hall or be turned out of house and home"
my arms are open 10 you, as well as my
doors"
elbow well that would sound, dear Lu-
cy, If you were only a nice young man
whom / might love! | hope you don't
think I'm improper"
II think you are an angel, and the pink
of propriety."
esquire Gable brought down the family
jewels to dazzle me. Liz tried them all on.
l couldn't touch one. felt that the dead
woman who had shone in them would rise
up and curse me ir should purchase them
at such Il price, aud so cheaper love and all
womankind. Squire Gable has a grand
nephew who will come into his property If
he marries no one, but he takes no notice
of the young man, because his mother mar
ried against the squire's wish. This is all
hearsay, however; it may not be true. But
in the meantime the nephew is quite poor,
they say. pity him."
"And pity is akin TO love-"
"Yes-love's poor relation"
Still later.
Pearl: advise me, dear Lucy. Aunt
Hidden warns me that If refuse Squire
Gable, she will wash her hands of me. So
temporize, like a fool"
"And the woman who hesitates is lost"
~ demand a month for reelection. But
when the month is ended, what am to do?
My salary here as an operator wouldn't
buy my salt. l don't know how to do any
thing else nobody would give me board
as a cook, sewing-girls are a drug in the
market, and to beg am ashamed"
"If you marry him, I'll forbid the banns.
All that have is yours"
''But the trouble is, you haven't got any
thing TO speak OF, you dear old goose"
''Not much, to be sure; but enough for
us two."
'I can't take even your bounty. You
know the old story-Poor aud proud"
"You would rather take my heart and
make no return2"
ITO tell the truth, I'm afraid TO meet you.
Now you can believe me everything that
is beautiful then there'll be no more illu-
sion, and you may not like the result. And
l should die if you turned against me-"
"Then promise not to marry the squire
take his poor granddaughter instead"
"If you'll forward the young man. They
say he lives in Nineveh, and that he's one
of natures noblemen. Do you know him?"
al doubt ifyOu'd agree to the description
if you knew him as well as do. Howev-
er you might prefer him TO his grandun-
cle."
81 should prefer the King Of the Canni-
bal Islands"
"Then why reflect so long2"
"TO gain time"
"To waste 1t, 1 should say"
$50 be it. I'll refuse him tomorrow,
and trust 10 luck"
"Never put Off ill to morrow what can
be done 10 day."
Later.
~ feel so wicked 1 shall not refuse the
squire, and l shall not marry him. He
was found in his library chair stiff and
cold last night. Aunt Hidden says no
doubt he has left me something handsome,