The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-06-12

Inc good old man failed. The mill wa
sold. There was nothing but anxiety a
home. Al last worse came-his fatheI
died soon after his mother. He wal
very sad he was poor, also but h,
had hope, for he was beloved by th,
one he loved.
Zone day he went to her for comfort
He remembered the day ever after. tn,
low built, old-fashioned house, the greai
oaks, flower garden, the girl in hel
white dress and blue ribbons who came
to greet him. He was full of life still
but that night, when he turned away
from the house, he was a ghost-the
miserable ghost Of his old self, for he
no longer had any faith in love.
Standing before him, pale and sad,
and with tears in her eyes, it is true, he
had heard her who had made the world
bright for him, say /: It is my fathers
will that we should part. cannot dis
obey my old parent
"Then she had told him that she
loved him as well as ever but he did
not believe her.
"He thought this poverty had turn
ed her heart from him, that she had
never felt tenderly towards him, and he
left her in anger, believing all that had
been said and written about the false
hood of women. Yes, he was turned
into ghost"
He might have known she was as
unhappy as he was," said Miss Carney,
from behind her handkerchief "but
what can girl do when her father
threatens to curse her, and she the only
child he has2 Only nothing could make
her marry any one else-nothing. That
she could do at least"
"But the poor ghost did not know
that, said the old man. "It wandered
away broken-hearted. 1t found its way
to the sea first, and then into the battle.
For years it was wretched ghost,
greatly to be pitied, and only wishing
to die; but at last it grew content,
though never happy, and worked in a
great city at trade it had until it had
made fortune.
"All the same, it was a miserable old
bachelor ghost, and never found mate;
and used to say, often and often, over
and over again to itself, that women
were all false, and that the woman he
loved had been utterly false to him. He
supposed her married to some one else,
and all this time he grew older and
older, and long years lay between him
and the happy time wh en- he was
boy"
"Long, long years." sighed Miss Car
noy, "Lons, long years"
"But one day." proceeded the old
gentleman, "one day there came to
him out of the past an old familiar face,
and amidst the whirl of the great city
this ghost talked to it of the green lanes
and ripping streams of the spot where
be was born, and asked of the house
under the oaks, and the girl who dwelt
there once-the girl who had been, as
he thought, false to him. And this old
friend told him something that made
him feel suddenly that he might come
to life again.
"tShe never married. she said-it
was a woman. 'She lives in the old
house now. Other men loved her, but
she never loved any other man but you.
We all know that o.,
"And then the ghost said to himself
= Forty years of life lost, and went
down to the green country place to haunt
his old love, and hear her say she was
sorry to see him.
"Oh, dear oh, dear" sighed the
little old lady in brown. Chow could
she help it? All her beauty gone, all
her youth; what could she feel but
sorry, and just ghost herself ?"
She arose and turned away. He arose
and followed her, putting his arm about
her waist.
"Priscy," he said, "you are the only
woman I ever loved. Is not that some
thing for man to say, when it is as true
rs gospel?"
eyes," said she; "and I almost be-
lieve you-for I never cared for anyone
else either"
"Then why not do our besto t be hap
py now, Priscy' why not marry each
other, and be living again, not two poor
"Well, because folks would call us
two old FOOLS" said she.
"Well, let them," said he.
"very we'll" said she; 81 don't
care"
Then the old gentleman in grey kissed
the old lady in brown, and said, "What
day shall we set, my dearP"
What her answer was may be guessed
when the village bells, one month later,
rang the wedding peal of the old lovers.
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