Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-02-12

heavenly flash. direful to be encountered
is fit type of Miss Ph,ygia's face, as gaz
ing at the open page, her thoughts turnet
first to the gentle heart that would ponde
it's buildings, and then to the man int
whose keeping that hearts happiness wa
to be con6ded.
"Poor thing! Sweet hearth" she murmur
cd, with tender moisture in her eyes, ant
then, with dangerous flash, s'Horrid crea
ture wonder what he looks like ?''
The alterations went on for few min
utes, and then sudden CLEAN of humol
lighted up her face, as if some stray bella
ted sunbeam had tipped the cloud will
pink.
ga trifie light as air." she said, cpl
write it for her and Selling a pen Mis-.
Phrygia wrote:
/ Mortality Puffs-never known to fail.
Eggs (cockatrice), 1.
Milk human kindness), just ready tt
sour, 1 drop.
Cream Of tartar-catgut, 2 large spoons
heaping.
Flower (of an hour, full cup.
Salt (of the earthly very small pinch
mere busting.
Raise with lamentations brewed as fol.
lows
Hopes realized, 1.
&C disappointed, SO.
| Sweeten with faith and submission.
| Spice with variety.
Bake in earthen vessels. under slow
fire. till the vessels crack.
A week later, Miss Phrygia put on a
pair Of black gloves, black bonnet and a
black lace veil to let down in case she
should cry, and went to the church to see
plain gold ring take precedence Of the
diamond she had pressed, and to hear the
hymeneal blessing pronounced over the
mist Of golden hair.
She had to drop her veil once OF twice d
she gazed at the cloud of lace and orange
blossom before the altar, and when she
couldn't help seeing the new broadcloth
suit that stood beside it, she kept herself
down by repeating as fast as she could,
"Charity hopeth all things, endureth all
things, is not easily provoked Then she
went home, put on the brightest dress she
had, and went to nurse sick neighbor
who could obtain no assist lance for money,
and therefore must have it for love.
The bright dress had almost time to fade
before Miss Phrygia saw the way clear to
60 home again. 1t was long pull, and
neither she nor the invalid knew how they
would have got through had it not been
for the strength and comfort Of the DOCTORS
daily visits. Six feet in height, two hun
dred lbs. in weight, strong as tower, firm
as rock, cool as hydrograph, and yet,
when pain or Encouragement called for it,
quick with a brooding tenderness, more
beautiful, Miss Phrygia thought, even than
woman's.
Twilight in the sick room seemed lonely
to Miss Phrygia, and she fell into the way
OF watching for a light to CLEAN through
the elms that shaded the doctors house
just opposite, but no light ever appeared,
and she had just made up her mind that
he was never at home in the evening,
when she had to send for him two or three
times after the stars were out, and there
he was.
ooh, dear ~ she said, II hope he doesn't
sit there without so much as a candle
lighted, thinking about those children of
his that were drowned, and the wife in the
insane asylum that only died year and a
half ago. He can't, or he never could come
over here at a minutes call, all ready to
cheer up and be as comfort" This
cheering them up and being 'scomfort'
continued until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what days at home would seem
without it, when her season of duty should
be ended. What the doctor thought about
losing his nurse, he did not say, but he in
sisted on seeing her home, when the time
came, although the moon was as large as a
cart-wheel. and shining clear.
AS they came out, they both involuntar-
ily glanced at the house under the shadow
of the elms.
Ozark, said Miss Phrygia; cit always
ISL
eyes," said the doctor, sit has been for
a good many years now very dark"
II know it,'' said Miss Phrygia, softly,
feeling as if she ought to have her black
gloves on again.
'sDon't you think,'' said the doctor, ad-
justing her hand trife more closely to his
arm ''don't you think might bring in.
bright, warm light before long, if could
find it?''
"Immediately!'' said Miss Phrygia.
"Even''-and the doctor stopped to come
as near as he could to look under Miss
Phrygia's hat-''even if I should leave
your house empty and dark to do it?'
What Phrygia said, or what either or
both Of them said after that, will never be
revealed; but certain it is that when Miss
Phrygia ought to have been going to sleep
that night, she wasn't going to sleep at all,
but saying over and over to herself: "Oh,
what have I done? What have I done?
How could I ever do it? What am 1 going
to do?
The perplexity thickened and darkened,
to the peril of Miss Phrygia's night, when
suddenly ray of light flashed upon it.
'sWhy, of counsel" said she, he isn't ex-
actly a man, after all; he's doctor; and
that's how came to doit!' And with this
satisfactory conclusion in her soul, and a
wonderful whirl of new sensations in her
heart, Miss Phrygia turned on her pillow,
and went to sleep like a kitten.
The village was so astir with the news
the next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk-leaning on an arm
that wasn't hers, and yet claimed to be-
came in the twilight.
The shadows deepened as she wandered