Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-08-12
Weaverville, August 10, 1876
MISS HALIDAY'S PLATE.

MISS HALIDAY'S PLATE.
Miss Halliday, setting down her coffee
cup, unfolded her morning paper, and
read aloud, with an air of satisfaction,
the following announcement
1.-TWO single ladies can accommodate
gentleman and his wife with suite of
handsomely furnished apartments, with
attendance. Unexceptionable references
required. Plate, if desired, extra"
"Pate I" said Miss Milicent, why
we said nothing about plate"
" 1t was an atterthought of my own,"
replied the elder sister, complacently,
~ wished it to be understood by appli-
cants that we have plate. 1t shows that
we have plate. 1t shows that the adver-
tisers are persons of gentility, and we
may thus secure more desirable inmates"
"To be sure. No one but you, Phoebe,
would have thought of that" remarked
M lSS hlilCeIl, huibil H'SH' p"0 Scu
were always so clever and acute"
"Please, ma'am," said Nancy, the
female tactotum of the Misses Haliday's
establishment, as she thrust her head in
at the door of the breakfast-room-
"please, ma am, a gentleman to see you,
ma am, about the rooms"
nf /
said Miss Halliday, adjusting her iron
gray frizzles. You will come to tho
parlor, Milicent; and you Katie" turn
ing to the pretty young girl who had
been all this time tearfully gazing out of
the window, "you may as well begin
packing The train leaves at, 6 to-mor-
row morning--so all must be ready over
night"
Katie went slowly up stairs to her
room, where, throwing herself upon
lounge, she burst into tears.
80, dear !" she sighed pitoousy. 81
almost wish | could die !"
Let no one blame her too severely
L
than those of age and experience and a
girl of II, disappointed or crossed in her
first love, imagines that the future holds
no recompense. Life. she believes, can
henceforth be to her only desert, and
the world only waste and bowling will
dorness. A least such was Katie's i'm
preston and then Aunt Phoebe was so
hard hearted and cruel to send her away
to the country, on n two months visit to
that awful Aunt Stricken, only because
-becnuse Charlie loved her and wanted
to marry her.
Aunt Phoebe said she was too young,
and Charlie too poor. AS if people must
wait until they grow old and rich before
they are fit to be married What if
Charlie was only poor young clerk in
lawyers office, wouldn't he make money
by-and by? Wasn't he smart enough
and good enough to succeed in anything
he might undertaken o, if Aunt Phoebe
and Aunt Milicent would only be kind
and help them little
Meantime Miss Halliday, in the par
lor below, was making an arrangement
with the gentleman who had called, quite
to her own satisfaction.
lie had introduced himsefas the Rev
erend Mr.. Hewlett, late missionary to
Beloobuehoo, China, whence he had re-
turned on account of his wite's health,
the climate not agreeing with her. He
had come TO B 10 make arrangements
for editing new religious newspaper to
be called "The Awakener," and also tc
assume the Office OF Secretary OF the
metropolitan Union Bible and Tract
Society"
He had letters which he drew forth
from black morocco pocketbook-an
could refer Miss Halliday to the Rev. -;
but she had here interrupted him by de-
claring that it was not all necessary
Would Mr.. Hewlett like to look at the
rooms
SO the two ladies, accompanied by Nan
cy, conducted their visitor up stairs,
where he examined and approved of the
apartments, only regretting the eastern
exposure, and suggesting certain little
changes, such ms might be easily made,
as more conducive to Mrs. HOwlett's
comfort.
"An invalid, you know, my dear
madam, is generally fastidious in little
matters such as these. Mrs. Hewlett is
especially sensitive to draught. / hope
the doors and windows are all close"
Here he examined them.
" We shall be glad TO engage a servant;
and as to plate, though it is a thing to
which | am myself perfectly Indifferent,
yet as Mrs. Hewlett has, confess,
weakness in that direction. / would not
object to crafty her. Indeed she is to
be excused, having been brought up by
her father in style quite different from
that to which, as d missionary's wife, she
has been more recently accustomed.-
Perhaps, ma'am, you would allow me to
see the plate, as / should like TO make
all arrangements and have things in per-
feet order before the arrival Of Mrs. How