The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-09
"How They Kept Company"
TWO PLAIN STORIES OF -FOUR YOUNG PEoPI

TWO PLAIN STORIES OF -FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE
Harry Morse and Louise EIlery were
introduced at a fashionable party.
Louise had a ''seashell complexion"
wavy golden hair, and wore low
necked silk dress, the exact shade of
her beautiful blue eyes. Harry was
enchanted with her. She was opposite
him in quadrille, danced the second
with him, and gave him two waltzes
and a galop before the evening was
over. He helped her fold her snowy
wrappings around her head, pressed
her hand as she entered her carriage,
and thought of her till he fell asleep.
The next day he called, as he had
asked permission to do. The lady lived
in a Twenty-third street mansion. Her
father owned an immense paper factory,
and kept cll.aeiy hidden in his down
town Office. Her mother was a plain
woman, who loved her daughter and
devoted her life to making her COM
Portable. Louise had her own way in
everything, but as it was very pleas
ant way, it disturbed nobody. She
came to her eighteenth birthday, with
good spirits and serene temper, for life
had always been easy and satisfactory.
Miss Ellery kept her guest waiting
but few moments She met him gra-
ciOusly and with heavenly smile. She
was dressed in soft dove-color, with
blue and gold ornaments at her throat
and ears. She offered to play for him,
and, seated at the grand piano, was a
picture of graceful beauty. The music
was of the opera bOufe order, but to
Harry seemed divine. At his request
she sang-a love song, "The Stars
Shine on His Pathways little thin
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listener, charming beyond anything he
had ever heard. He went away more
in love than ever, with an invitation to
call again. He sent flowers a day or
two after, then note, asking her to ac-
company him to the opera. They
| laughed together over the antics of Mile.
Aimee, enjoyed the music, and after
wards had Refreshments" at a fashion,
able saloon near by.
'She is an angel" thought the young
man.
"He is the most elegant fellow I
know" thought the angel.
/ He called a few times more. One
evening she had on the blue silk dress
she had worn at the party. There were
/ tea-rosebuds nesting in the lace on her
bosom. She was lovely, bewitching.
| Harry Morse suddenly found that he
had caught her in his arms and was
kissing the sweet, dimpling face over
and over.
"My darling" he said, thickly, az
love you to distraction, l cannot live
without you;" and he held her close to
| his heart till she murmured her reply
in his ear, and made him happy.
Harry Morse belonged to a "good
family" His father was bank presi-
dent and lived in good style i'll Univer-
sity Place. There could be no objection
to the match, and few months later
there was a grand wedding in Twenty
third street, with five hundred invita-
tions, and "all that sort of thing"
Harry and Louise were married under
a big bell of flowers, and tue dress of
the bride was a marvel of white silk
and lace. Later, it was exchanged for
an exquisite silver-gray travelling suit,
and the young couple went of for fort
night to Saratoga aud Niagara.
Alice Robinson was the daughter of a
New England farmer. There were four
younger children to be fed, clothed and
educated. Alice had graduated at the
village academy; helped her mother
with the hOusewOrk in summer while
there were three hired men for the hay
ing, and taughta little school, two miles
from home, in the winter. She had
never been handsome, and never could
be, and had "a good face" full of char
acter, frank, fearless, and bearing the
stamp of a noble soul.
Roger Bond was the Robinson's near
est neighbor. He entered the academ y
with Alice, but his fathers death made
it necessary to give up all further ideas
of an education, and he made no COM
plaint. He lived alone with his mother
in the old homestead, and carried on
the farm. He worked increasingly, try
ing to clear the mortgage from the prop
erty, and denied himself everything
but the bare necessaries of life.
Mrs. Robinson died suddenly of heart
= disease, and Alice was obliged to devote
, herself to the care of the house and the
children. A few weeks later her father
was stricken with infiammatory rheu-
matism, and heart and. hands were
fuller than ever. Her neighbor came
+ to make one of his occasional calls. His
heart beat furiOusly at the sight of the
worn, white face; the hands that grasped
3 hers trembled, and perhaps there were
S tears in his eyes. She met him with
+ outward calmness. They could not re-
member, these two, when they had moi
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. were sOrrowful woman and weary mar
e now.
7 "Oh, Alice, If you knew how my
= heart aches for YOUR
81 do know it, Roger, and you com
8 fort me-"
e That was all that was said. There
was something more to be done, anC
during the winter and following spring
Roger had the care of two farms on hil
= hands.
e Early in the summer came fresh trou
BILE. Mrs. Bond fell sick with partia
paralysis and trouble with her head
becoming not only helpless, but exact
4 ing and impatient as child. Severa
f hundred dollars were lost by the rascal.
ity of man who owed the money, anC
u the season of bloom and bird-song
: brought to Roger Bond only discourage
j ment and dependency.
. Alice Robinson threw on her sun
> bonnet and fastened "across lots" tt
' Mrs. Bonds. She walked with heaC
z bent down, and the tears were in he
o eyes this time.
J, "Roger, rve come to tell you" anC
: then she stopped, trembling, and witt
a great sob.
s "Oh, Alice" he grasped her hands
S then threw them from him. "It's NJ
use, Alice, but I've loved you so lont
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