Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-05-23
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Dalfymple,s pew steam-thresher when
got there it was locked up. and he away
with the key in hispocket. And what dc
you think. Margaret he had gone to be
married !" .s....s
Not really :"
REALLY. tried to pump old Sally as
to the age and antecedents of the bride,
but she was taken deaf at once, and not q
word could extract. Master David had
told her 10 have q good fire and boil a
ham-that was all and she wasn't one to
ask questions about things as didn't con
sarn her. Then she pinched her lips
tight and began to poke the fire; and as it
struck me that the remark about things
which didn't 'consarn' people was meant
TO be personal, gave it up and came
away"
"Oh dear What dreadful woman do
you suppose has pouneed on that poor
little David An old maid, of course, or
some barpy of a widow"
Il can't say as to that but | imagine
she's good looking, and that David is in
love with her"
Dear, what makes you think that p
"Oh. because OF the pains be has taken
dUOut lIt iOuSts Ltbs VI new tui
and every thing redded up. He's bought
a carry-all, Sally said"
who is this person that you are
talking abou u" asked Felicia.
.A1neighbor of ours-seven miles off,
TO be sure, but that counts AS neighbour
hood in the country Such IA nice, clever
man, Felicia, good tamrer too, and
thoroughly respectable in every way; but,
poor fellow SO unfortunate in his appear
ance--a dwarf almost, with the head aud
shoulders of a grown person, and stunted
legs no bigger than childs."
'.Oh y almost shrieked Miss Mallows,
THAT must be my little man in the ear.
came nearly all the way from New Ha-
ven with him and his BRIDE" and she
plunged into description which left Mrs.
Lenox as much excited as her friend.
IL must see herr she cried. Wen
drive over in a day or two"
Weather was unpropitious, however,
and the day or two proved nearly fort
night. Mrs. Lenox had double errand,
being provided with basketiul of ZJnale
geraniums TO be exchanged for cuttings
from old Sally's famous chrysanthemum
but when, after knocking u long time at
the seldom-used front door OF the farm
house, they made their way round to the
Kitchen, and from thence To the family
sittingroom. no one WAS visible, and the
fireless hearth and neatly piled books aud
papers on the table made it evident that
the apartment had not been used OF late.
While they fingered and wondered,
creaking step came down the stairs. and
old Sally, with tea-cup IN her hand, en-
tered the room. She saluted the ladies
grimly.
Thank ye, Miss Lenox. Id like the
geraniums we'll enough ii I'D time TO get
round with 'em, but jest now my hands is
full, without taking care OF plants, anus
sing Miss Dalrymple."
''Mr. Dalrympes wifeP Is she i'll ?"
ayes, she is and she amt. faint no
pertiklar hind OF sickness as can see !;
but she's weak as water, and looks bad.
give her pennyroyal when she fust come,
thinkin' il might be she'd ketched an
inside cold on the journey but 1t didn't
nothin' aud getlin, more and more peak
in, til finally she took 10 her bed, aud to-
day Mr.. Davids gone over Tor the doctor.
He set up with her last night. Sne
didn't want him to, but he said he
sHoulun sleep ahynoW, anu nc u tutueT.
1t don't seem as if it need take up any
time a-waitin' on her. Tor She don't ask for
any thing from days end to days end {;
but sickness takes steps any way you fix it,
and I hain't done much except 60 up
stairs and down again these Tour days
Dear me" began Mrs. Lenox. But
Felicia. moved by an impulse, broke in.
Il think l must have come ON in the
same train with Mrs Dalrymple. | won
der if might go up and see her ?'
Rather to her surprise, Sally made no
objection.
'.She hain't said she wouldn't see no.
body, and mebbe il'ii rouse her up Bit
was her ultlmalum, aud Mss Mallows ran
lightly up. A door stood hall open she
tapped, and in answer To a faint Come
in" entered the bedroom, where, covered
with Respondent slar-palterned patch
work quit, lay her late fellow-travellcr.
The pale cheeks, from which much of
the childish roundness had wasted, flushed
at sight OF her.