The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-03

well the family history you force me to
relate to our friends here. You will par
don me for obtruding my private affairs
upon you; but since Miss Pierson has
attacked my veracity, must defend it.
My parents were married against the
wishes of my mothers father, who car
ried his resentment to thegrave, and cut
my mother out of his will. When was a
babe, my father died; and my mother,
i'll, feeble, penniless, was taken to the
workhouse where she, too, died. He
sister, Mrs. Mortimer, was in Cana
da at the time, andIunaware of my exist
ence.
"What Miss Pierson has so delicately
told you of my childhood is quite true.
1 was taken from the workhouse to fill
servants place; but my employers were
kind, and l was allowed to attend school
in the winter. think they will testify
that if my duties were menial, they were.
faithfully performed. When l was thir-
teen, my aunt returned home and found
me out. Since then 1 have been her
charge, and the kindest love was lavish
ed upon me me until, at her death, / be-
came the guest of my friend, Mrs. Hur-
sey. L hope you will pardon me for TAX
ing up so much of your time; and if you
desire, with Miss Pierson, to decline the
further acquaintance of a workhouse
girl, l can only accept your decision with
some regret for deceit that was only in
accordance with the wishes of the dead. !"
"Stay q moment" said Lord Frede-
rick Seymour, as the friends of the
beautiful girl would have pressed more
warmly than ever around her; "let me
speak one word. By the request of Miss
Worthington, 1 have retained from men
tioning the honor she has conferred upon
me, and which is the crowning pride and
happiness of my life. When 1 asked
her become my wife, to give me the
priceless treasure of her love, she told
me the story you have just heard, and 1,
too, joined my entreaties to those of her
aunt. "Not, he added, haughtily, that
valued my future wife the less, but
that I understood that, even in our So
ciety there are some ignoble enough to
count her early misfortunes as q shame
full fact, and is more the beauty of char
acter that could keep her noble, pure
and true, even in the lowlY home to
which the misfortunes of her parents
condemned her. Miss Worthington will
you take my arm to the conservatory p
you are pale, and need rest"
With an air of tender affection, of fond
pride, he led her through the group of
friends who spoke warmest words as she
passed. - a..
Finding her a seatinearl the fountain,
he said, in low tone 81 am glad they
all know it, Essie, for secret is a
troublesome burden"
"But, you-oh, Fred, if it shames
you -
"Hush I never honored you so
highly, or loved you SO fondly, as did
when that girl found insulting taunts
answered by your own dignifed frank
ness. We will not speak of it again.
Rest here till l bring you an ice, and we
will return to our friends"
Maude," Cora said, as the girls un-
bound their hair in their own room be-
fore retiring, 81 don't think your little
scene was altogether success. From
the warmth of her friends, when Esther
Worthington returned to the drawing
room, and Lord Frederick Seymour's
devotion, really imagine you placed
that lady upon higher pedestal of favor
than ever, in your amiable endeavor to
take her down."