The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-12-16

ioaker, answered Dora Maxwell, The rea
spot Ia esch check growing brighter.
Jast As you say, | am bot particular.
Thai i ihe fret time this evening that
you have nc, opposed me, she cried, ao-
gfily
Ills eyes blazod, bal be remained y
leul, wailing
II seems that We have made . mistake,
she went os, seeing that he did not In
tend 10 reply, that we ere net saiied-
thal We eanucs agree aud be happy 20.
zslaer, aud think ibe sooner we sepA.
rate The better,
sal Of tbe same opinion know DO
not wsat TO marry a vixen.
And "a not want TO i've with y.
rant
a ! am sure don't wan, you To-
Then yoa may consider yourself free,
she replied, With an imperious gesture,
aud turned to the piano as though she
could annul all the past with that one
sentence.
Wilson stepped into the han without
another word, waited moment, halt
hoping that Dora would call him back /,
then slammed the front door, and was
gone.
So there's the end of II, he muttered.
Big fool I've been TO be blind 80 long.
such a iemper-unreason too. No
man save Job could have patience TO live
with ber. Glad found her out before
was fied fast
lie strobe vici0usly down Tie street.
Dora sololiquized something after this
fashion:
l'm glad it's over. Hes perfect ty-
rant. II he can't haze has own way in ev-
I erything, there's fuse. ! won't be inn
posed upon by my husband &c have to
live aud die an old maid. So there.
Sac went to her room 10 finish prepara-
tions for the morrow. There was going
to be a grand excursion picnic the next
day TO the Tippecanoe battle-ground.
They had chartered train, and all
were expecting an unusually merry time.
Dora had been dreaming over ID for a
week she AVID Frank had planned little
ramble IN The woods; she had arranged
her dress in view OF looking as pretty as
possible for his sake, and more than one
Of his favorite delicacies had been pre-
pared for the lunch basket through her
agency. Aud now she aud Frank had
quarrelIed aud he was no more to her
than Dick Gray aud John Nelson.
don't care, she said deiantly, over
aud over again, determined TO make her.
self believe it. I'm going anyway, and
III have as much or more pleasure, too.
You see il was a regular lovers quar-
rel over some little thing. Both were self
willed, obstinate and hot-tempered, and
one word led to another, until each tho't
the other eelfisb, unreasonable and un-
just, aud The bitter, singing sentences
were uttered, aud all the love and trust
forgotten.
When they met in the depot the next
morning each was ready for dignhed
reconciliation, provided the other would
make the first advances. But Dora was
determined not to be imposed upon, and
would not even give Frank friendly
glance, and SO they devoted themselves
TO others, and stole long, cautious glanees
at each other in the train and on the
grounds, aud flowing with wit and mer-
riment, were the life of the party, while
their hearts aehed as If they would break,
and the blue sky seemed black, and the
bright sunshine gIooHy, and the twtter.
ing birds and fragrant flowers, mock
cry, aud life, burden OF bitterness.
know very well this sounds absurd, but
it is just the way they did aud felt.
In the afternoon Dora sent all her cav.
alters of on various pretexts, that she
might have quiet and nerve herself anew
While sitting alone, her seyen-y year-ole
z brother came running mp.
rs kind Of humbug, ISM it, Dodei
he asked, with the air Of DISCONTINUED
octogeuarian.
don't know. Haven't you been enjoy
ing yourseill
Only lofrably.
What's the matter!
Why, first, Bob Norris couldn't come
: His mother said be was too little, and be-
Is half head taller thau me, most as big q
j. bis pa. saw him in the depot this morn
a in. lie was notion TO come anyhow,
!. be did have bis every day clothes on, on
~ he was 'fraid the train would run oi
the track, OF somethin' awful happen
- cause bis last Sunday school book lob
him about boy that runBed oil whe
bis mother wouldn't le, him go, aud wen
out In boat with some folks, and th
boat struck on a rock, aud went TO tn
bottom clean ont Of sight, and nobod
ever knew what became of that boy.
What il The humbag!
Why, the battle-ground. ll's tust lik
:, any other grove. | thought there woul
., he iort6ca,ious, and arrars, aud lnji
" bones, aud p'rsps 10 Gud somethil
mother that b'longed 70 Central flarr
o sou,
IL hss been a loug time since the bA
tie.
know that, found An Old geu,iemn
while ago. aud be told me al sbout
lie was jolly old telier.
Don't be disrespeeifal.
II. Aln'i. lie was joiiy. he showed q
where ibe injans head, and where 4
soldiers threw np breAstwofks; they ali
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