The Morning herald., 1876-08-28
coyr,v,rrn FROM YESTERDAYS EDITION

R(eCtcd JOT "'o A""'' '''''J
c,,r,v,rrn FROM YESTERDAYS EDITION.
There are sometimes long pauses in
oO.s lile-deep rests or sleeps OF years
En, IN which month after month, and season
al ,1er @ season float on each the same; during
r' which the soul lies either quiet or torpid,
,s nav be. Thus, without any trouble,
% ;ov, OF or change, we lived for several years
.0l' INV mother, Zillah LIE Poer, and l. One
morning found with curious surprise,
but without any Of the horror which most
women are supposed to feel at that fact,
that was thirty years old! We discoy-
srad s bv the same reckoning that Zillah
was i,,st nineteen. remember she put
her laughing face beside mine in the
glass, There was great difference truly.
7 do not mean tie difference in her from
me- for never compared that, but in her
from her former self. She had grown up
into woman, and, as that glass told her,
and my own eyes told me, a very striking
woman too. I was little Of a judge IN
beauty myself still, l knew well that
everybody we met thought her handsome
Likewise, she had grown up beautiful In
mind as we'll as in body. l was very
proud of my dear child. l well remem,-
ber this day, when she was nineteen and
thiuy. | remember it, l say, because our
kind friend in India had remembered II
likewise and sent us each magnificent
shawl far too magnificent it was tor
little body like me, but it became Ml!ah
spleudidly. She tucked me under her
arm as If | had been little girl, ana
walked me up and down the room; for she
wa, of cheerful, gay temper now-Just
The one to make an old heart young again,
TO flash uponia worn spirit with the
brightness Of its. own long past morning: l
recollect thinking this at the time-l wish
had thought so oftener! But 1t matter,
little; | onI chronicle this day, as being
the first when Zillah unconscioHsly put
herself on a level with me, becoming
,henceforward my equal-no longer a
mere pet and child.
About this time-I may as well just
state the fact to comfort other maldens o.
thirty years standing! received an Offer
Of ofmarriage, the first ever had. tie whe
asked me was gentleman Of my own age
an old acquaintance, though never very
intimate friend. / examined myself well
with great humility and regret, for ne wa
an excellent mar; but l found could no
marry him. 1t was very strange that ~
should ask me, 1 thought. My mother
proud and pleased-frst, because l ha'
had the honor of proposal: secondiy,tha,
twas refused, and she kept her child SILL
would have it that the circumstance wa
not strange at all. She said many wome
were handsomer and more attractive,
thirty than they had ever been IN thel
lives. My poor, fond, deluded and tell
ding mother, in whose sight even J W.
air That night was foolish enough
look long into the glass, at my quiet liItl
face, and my pale, gray-blue eyes|n'
dark, like Zillah's-foolish enough
count narrowly the white threads tn
were coming one by one into my hal
This trouble-I mean the offer OF ma
rlage-I did not quite get over Tor mar
weeks, even months. i,
The following year Of my lie there
fell me a great pang. Of thls--a grl
never to be forgotten, loss never to
restored-I cannot even now say me-
than is implied in three words
mother diedn' After that Zillah and
lived together alone for twelve months
more.
There are some scenes in our life-laI
,Fcape scenes, mean-that we remems
ven clearly: one strikes me now.
quiet >oft May.day; the hedges just,
their frs, Green, the hcrse-ch eStnuts wh
with lowers.' the long, silent country-Ia'
swept through by travelling carnage, carr. e.,
which two womesn, equaily slien', sa "a.
Zillah LIE Poer and j. 1t wu' the MOI
before her coming Of age, a1 q sne J !;
going to meet her guardian, VII o ma nau ~ )
returned from India. Mrs. s utherls
had received letter from South 'anp0
and Immediately sent for us ! usT ",
country to meet her son, her % ~,
Andrew" merely repeat the wort % 80
remember Zillah's doing 80, o,and laughh =
the ugly name. Inever thought 1t u
When we. had really started, howeV
Allah ceased laughing, and became gra'
probably at the recollection OF that Il
initiating circumstance which first broul
her acquainted with her guardian. !
despite this ill-omened beginning, J
youth had blossomed into great perfectl
As she sat there before me, fair in pers'
well.cultured in mind, and pure and vir