The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-03-31

a LOVE STORY.

No, Miss JesSamine aspired to select
ness and exclusiveness in the EXTREMIST
degree
81 have but six boardcrs," said Miss
Jessamine, with nod of the lavender
cap ribbons, which she always wore at
ter the clock had marked the hour OF
noon. Mrs. Pounccr, a most ge1ateet
widow lady, living upon an income OF
her own, occupies my second floor. Ny
third islet to young ladies. Miss Mark
ham occupies the front room; Miss
Markham teaches III select school on
Cheesbury Square. The two Miss
App1efleid's at the back, are III Stop
ford's fancy store on Sixth avenue
Sarah Everett, in the hall bedroom, does
the fashionable articles for the City
Recorder. Aud the extension room
down stairs is occupied by my brother,
Mr.. Gerard Jessamine, who is in the
Office of the Commissioner of Chimney
tops, down town. You can see for your
self, ma'am how gentel and refined my
circle is. A piano in the back parlor,
ice-cream for dessert twice week, and
select readings from the poets, by my
brother, Mr.. Gerard Jessamine, ia the.
parlor, every Tuesday evening"
And it was in this eStabl shinent that
Sara Everett lived when Mr.. Jacking-
ton fell in love w.tf her.
Mr. Jackington boarded just around
the corner. Mr.. Jackington was tired
of 'slife in human menagerie," as he
| called existence i'll boarding house.
/ \ housekeeper can't be got for less
than twenty dollars month"; . said Mr.
Jackington, counting up expenses on
his fingers. ''And then she'd want a
sclllery maid under her. Costs too
much I'd better get married"
Mr.. Jackington rode mp one day i'll
an omnibus, and was pleased at the
valiant manner in which Miss Everett
contested dubious twenty five cent
piece with the driver. The driver was
an old hand at the business, but Miss
Everett was too much for him, and
routed him with great slaughter. Dir.
Jackington watched her get out and
enter the .Jassamine establishment.
s'I know Jerry Jessamine," thought
he. "Paid my chimney-top taxes to
him, only the other day. y good tel
low, but cracked little on Shakespeare
and Tennyson. I'll call there, and gel
an introduction. l think She'd suit me
by George! how she did double NJ
that omnibus drixerr' s.,
And Mr.. Jackington hugged hunsel
: at the recollection.
That was the way in which Mis-
Everett came to be engaged 10 Mr.
Jackirgton. 1t is quite needless to say
that all the other boarlers were iiIsanel,
Jealous of her. The widow Pouncer
who was fat, fair, and forty, thought ;
"maturer female would have suiteG
SIR Jackington's years SO much bette
than a chit like Sara Everett, though
: to be sure,n she added viclously, ssA
w9s five-and-tllirty, if :he was day.
Tie Miss Appiefield's, were sure sh
painted, and wore false hair. Such
r bright complexion, and such glimmeI
ing gel,len hair conldn't be real, the
were quite certain. And Miss Markham
who feigned to be intellectual, remafke'
grimly, that "no man could long FeSpec
woman who thought only of dress ain
fashions'
= But Miss Sara having got the iiasid
( tracks could afford to look down o
them with aSerele superiority, Whic
was Infinitely more aggIavating tha
any other system of treatment coul
have been She thought herself SAX
but size did not reckon on the thousan
little undercurrents of the stream {
love.
s.I say, Jack . said Mr. Gerard Jess
= mine one day as he met his friend o
the street, 6 the girls at our house ar
saying odd things about your youn
woman"
"Odd things! What things ~ sflarI
Iy demanded Mr.. Jackington.
stIt isn't my fault. Ididn't say 'em,
pleaded Mr.. Jessamille, rather awcd
the fierce tcintiIlatioIls Of his friend
little blue eyes.
III IS WI -you.haye the goodne SIS To le
me what they are ?' questioned Jacl
ing:on.
ssI'd rather not. Ask my sister
!, that Pouncer woman"
ssNow look here, old fellow" sa
.Jackington, button-holiDg the nnfort
nate clerk of chimney-tops ut ono
eyoalsye said A, and you've got to sa
= b. don't cackle with & lot of b
woman. ask yoas what all this means
: Thus corDered, the votary Of Tenn
8. son and the muses. vas forced teexpla
himself more explicitly.
e. 81 isn't me- I'ce.no fault % fin
aud Poe seen pothis said e. e b
s they do say there's man comes the
to see her."
is a naan''
asGoes right mp to her room twice
week 4 fellow with long black VIII
ii ii kers. and coat of black tabhy velvet
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