Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-05-29
WOODSTOCK, VT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 90 1878


bloom, the Splendorlhat autumn wear
tho white .magnllicenoe boWowe
from winter II, twenty yeara age
liilly had loved Anson Seattle we
enough 10 die Tor hlm, Il need be, Vi
hal loved little Ton well enough (,
reaonnce happiness aud children an,
love for his sake, and TO live ol
through tho barren hopeless day
without q murmur, Tom had com,
to her arms iorlorn and helpless two
years old baby, without father or moth
crwhen lIitty was eighteen, and hel
love had grown with her strength
Toms mother had clopCi with hel
music teacher, aud had broken hcr fn-
Tiers heart aud when the old gentle
man died, he had left q respectable
fortune, the interest for the benefit ol
his living daughters, the principal
falling TO their children aud only
in case Liddy and IIitty died without
leaving any direct heirs could any
thing more than the mcrcst trine re-
vert TO poor little Toni IIiity had
been engaged 10 Arson Sea,lc year
when old Mr. Thorne Shuhled of the
mortal coil and this unjust will came
10 light, and Searlc himself was at
that time only young lawyer wrcs-
tling with circumstances. with no
great amount Of funds at his command.
And nothing for little Tom but this
paltry hundred dollars !! groaned
lIilty, when the will had been read
and the estate administered.
'Of course ! shall never marry,
said Liddy, who was plain aud old
looking for her years, and whose one
lover Tilted her years ago, when the
bloom Of youth, at least, had been
hers. There wasn't tfe smallest dan
ger that Llddy would threaten Tom's s
interests by marrying
NO, you may never marry, LidGy,
sighed her sister but II love An
sop, and oh ! | love little Tom, too
my little mo,herless Tom cannot
rob him Of his patrimony, and | can
not live without Arson. How can
wrong Tom to please myself, What
will lLe have to 60 out IN this hard
world with, if--if'--
'lIush, you silly girl he will have
his head and hands, like other men
and then-you may never have any
children to stand in his way
But how unhappy it would make
me to see them enriched at bis ex-
pensc to see him earning his bread
by the sweat of his brow, while they :.
Jared like the lilies of the field to
have Tom envy and prehaps hate
them, and feel bitter that life has been :
rendered 50 much easier for them by !
injustice : 4,
Perhaps they would share with
Tom ::
Ah, it wouldn't be quite safe to - =,
rust to that pleasant perhaps =,
You ought not to suspect your H.
children of being less generous than .,
But their mother must have been - y.
first, you see. :.
you have Anscn to thl.S of, Hitty "
q this affair, as well as Tom. If you
ont love Tom better.- "'
4 Jon't-I don't but the will has ~
lade it impossible for me to marry ''
.nson with q clear conscience-to ~
larry him and be happy If he were ="
lie of earning fortune, with which Nv ~
e could make amends to little Tom, ~"
woulb be different. But | cannot '''
'unt upon snch and improbable con- o''
,gency. As you say, Tom will t"(
we his head and hands to push his '''
ay, but the best head and the busiest wit
nds do not always compel fortune, "p'
d if any harm should come to him qua
I'M want of captalsit he should be '"e
npted to sin from lack of money, | A'''
| should have to answer for it it VIII
uld be my guilt.
Nonsense, Hltty: your conscience I. 1.
too tender Marry Anson and n
stIto fate, that's my advice. Sup -
'ing you REFUGE, and he marries ~
melody else, and-litlle Tom does
live to grow up!
l shall not have wronged him. :.
But you will have wronged An -
. shou
Not if he--it he marries another. YOU.
lany would, prehaps, approve Hit othe
Thorne's conduct at this crisis even
e would condemn but she walk. Do
according to her light in those one