The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-05-08
parlors we're filed with the whirl of the

parlors were filled with the whirl of the
dance.
Mrs. Edgeley, dumb with Indignation,
attempted to ascend the stairs, but mid
way she was almost upset by two. chill
dren in high state of excitement com
ing down abreast. "Who are you ?"
gasped the matron, coming to dead
stop.
I'VE are Miss Rainor's orphans, "
said they, or said one for both, who
were exactly alike in brown stuff gowns
and blue capes.
" Miss Rainor's what ?"
"We go to the L. School, and
Miss Rainor has no mother; so she takes
care of us, for our mother is dead too.
Miss Rainor makes our frocks for us,
and our capes; and we have been to hear
the music, and now we are going home;
and we are to have oranges to take with
us, and plum cake"
"Mercy !" cried the lady, pushing
past them with hasty steps, but pausing
again on the landing with another dead
stop. Not because the rooms on this
floor too, with the exception of her own
"wing room," were blaze of light and
half full of guests, but because the dance
music had stopped and some one was
singing: love song, a serenade-one of
"the old, old songs"
A mans voice 1t carried Mrs. Edge
ley back ten years-yes, fifteen years
back to the gray parsonage by the stone
mill where, night after night, that sum-
mer agone, some one came courting, no
one knew which, till the one sister was
taken and the other left. Mr.. Rainor was
singing. Heaven only knew how, out of
that grave of fifteen years, he had got
back his voice.
1t is year from the day when Amy
Jennings went out as governess from her
brothers house, and now she is back,
only for a month, for at the end of that
time she is to be bride, and her room
is strewn with bridal stuffs, and the we'd
ding gown is this moment being trim
med with its pearly border of lace.
We had hoped to keep you longer"
said the affectionate Dick; and I" It's to
bad in you to go off just as you've come
back" said the affectionate Jack. But
Matilda remarked " How ridiculous it is
for girl Like you, Amy, to marry an old
man like that I'
"He is not an old man," said Amy,
Indignantly, and if he were, I'd make
him young again. / love him so much
love and respect and bless his kind
heart so deeply and so much There is
no old age to forever kind heart"
"And then that girl Very much
fitted you are to be a mother to big
girl like tnat p
"She'l be mother to me-" said
Amy, laughing her merriest little laugh.
" assure you Matte is equal to that.
"And to be married SO soon, too /;
only engaged for a month Mr.. Raj
nor" Matilda changed from the sarcastic
to the angelic in trice, for Mr.. Rainor
had entered as she spoke-"Mr Rainor,
why don't you marry a mature woman
instead of this giddy girl or why do
Vou not at least wait a year or two before
you commit the rash act ?"
Because" said Mr.. Rainor, not ac-
cepting as badinge what he knew Matilda
at heart did not consider jest" be-
cause Amy, just as she is his arm was
around her, and with hands clasped
upon his shoulders she was looking up
joyously and lovingly to his face-"Amy
satisfies my mind and my heart; because
she has brought sunlight to my life
because in my house, and by every one
in it, she is wanted-wanted at once r'