Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-11-14
My Filtration.

had plenty of beaux when was young.
and liked that very well. However, had
heart enough at bottom, and when Stephen
Lashley asked me to marry him, in the end
consented though kept him in suspense
along at first
Neither Steve nor was rich My father
mad sufficient income to keep the family
in good style of living but he saved nothing
and | could expect nothing from him when
| married. Steve had Just begun to prac-
tice medicine, and was struggling as young
doctors must. There was pretty house
just outside the town, that Steve and had
our eye on for a long time, and | had prom
lsed to become his wife as soon as he would
call it his own.
BY dint of such struggling and economy
as | never could have guessed, he had put
by enough for the first payment and was
plodding patiently on towards the second
and last.
can see now what selfish creature |
was what wretch, indeed, to please myself
with the batteries of others while Steve
was working so faithfully for me.
That sounds as though | wasn't going to
marry Steve for love, but was.
Our town was something of fashionable
resort for summer boardeIs, and many of the
people We're i'll the habit of taking boarders
then. Father had always objected to our
,loing so ; but this summer of which speak
he fell in with stranger as he was return
ing from long ride in the country, who,
having shared his phaeton with him during
the homeward drive, succeeded in so ingra-
tiating himself with my father that he al
lowed him to board with us
The stranger was very much in my line
guished-ooking, possessing an elo-
quent pair of eyes nearly the color of my
own, and having propensity for saying
pretty things that was Just delicious to a
girl of my turn. 1t was such fun to draw
him out, and then laugh at him; to pretend
pleasure, then shyness; to invite and repulse
IN the same breath. 1t was genuine flrta-
tion, as much so to him as to me-
Steve came often to see me, but he did not
see me alone, and he never stayed late.
Steve's sister Marian and | were intimate,
and spent much time together Poor Steve
enjoyed my visits to Marian better than he
did seeing me anywhere else, and liked it
too, as much because of seeing him as Ma
rian. 1t was then miserable piece of
heartessness for me to permit Mr.. Fordyce,
the stranger" to accompany me thither,
thus parading, as it were, my conquest and
the accomplishments and attractions of
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Steve was good.natured, and kept his dis
appointment to himself but he did not like
Mr.. Fordyce, and he was quite alone in that.
Everybody liked Mr.. Fordyce but Steve.
lie was an immensely popular man in our
small community, entering as he did with
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