The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-04
MISS ARNOLD.
Another Story of Love that was True,
but Didn't Run Smooth.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "TWo OLD MEMS
TALES" ETC.
CHAPTER IV.-(CoNTINUED.)

| SI1AI En- lN.-NNONllNO OED.
"Stuff!-love!-love A humble friend
love her unhumble friend; for | suppose
one must not venture to call ones mis-
tress a tyrant. Oh, no, friend! a dear
friend" in a taunting, ironical voice.
"Whomever it mi ght be my fate to
live with, should try to love; for | be-
lieye, if one tries to love people, one soon
finds something lovable about them;
and Mrs. Melvyn, l feel sure, / should
soon love very much"
$50 like you! So ready to love any
thing and everything. l verify believe,
if there was nothing else to love but the
little chimney-sweeper boy, you'd fall
to loving him, rather than love no.
body"
"Pm sure that's true enough" said
Lettice, laughing; 81 have more than
once felt very much inclined to love the
little boy who carries the soot-bag for
the man who sweeps these chimneys,
such saucy looking little soOty rogue"
GAS if persons love could be worth
having" continued her sister, "who is so
ready to love anybody"
"No, that l deny. Some few people
do find it hard TO love-"
me for one"
ooh, Myra."
"Well, l beg your pardon. You're
very kind to me. But Pll tell you who
it will be impossible for you to love, if
such a thing can be, that's that testy,
cross, old general"
81 don't suppose shall have much to
do with the old general if go"
of you go. Oh, you're sure to GO
You're so sanguine; every new prospect
is so promising. But pardon me, you
seem quite to have frgotten that reading
to the old general, and playing back
CANNON with him, are among your
special cmployments."
"WelI, | don't see much harm in it if
they are. A man can't be very cross
with ones reading to him; as for
backgammon, mean to lose every game,
if that will please him"
"Oh, man can't be cross with a read
er? | wish you knew as much of the
world as ! do, and had heard people read.
Why, nothing on earth puts one in such
tidget. Pm sure I've been put in such
a worry by peoples way Of reading, that
l could have pinched them. Really,
Lettice, your simplicity would shame a
child five years old"
"Well, | shall do my best, and besides
| shall take care to set nay chair SO far of
that | cant get pinched, at least; and as
for the poor, ailing, suffering old man
being little impatient and cross, why
one can't expect to get fifty pounds a
year for just doing nothing. do sup
pose it is expected that | should bear a
few of these things in place of Mrs. Mel
wyn; and don't see why | should net" "
ooh, dear! Well, my love, you're
quite made for the place, see; you
always had something of the spaniel in
you, or the walnut-tree, or any of those
Things which are better for being ilI-used.
Ii was quite proverb with our poor
mother, u worm vii! t;;11n .11:n. but not Let
tice"
Lettice felt very much inclined to
turn now. But the mention of her
mother-that mother whose mismanage-
ment and foolish indulgence had con
tributed so much to poor Myra's faults,
faults Tor which she now paid so heavy a
penalty, silenced the generous girl, and
She made no answer.
No answer, let it proceed from never
so good a motive, makes cross people
often more cross; though perhaps upoI
the whole it is the best plan.
So Myra in astillmore querulous voice
, went on:
"This room will be rather dismal al
by ones self, and don't know how I'm
> to go about, up and down, fetch anc
{ carry. and work as you are able to do
i | was never used to it. |
Z comes very hard upon me-" And sh
. began to cry.
'Poor Myra! dear Myra! don't cry;
! never intended to leave you. Though
j talked as if I did, it was only in the wa,
u of argument, because thought NOR
y might be said for the kind of life tha
, YOU thought; and | felt sure if peopl
were tolerably kind and candid, | coul
{ get along very well and make mysel
> quite comfortable. Dear me! after sue
u hardships we have gone through, a littl
/ would do that. But do you think, pool
u dear girl could have moments peace
% and know you were here alone? Nc
- no."
;, And so, when she went in the evenin
u ! to carry her answer to Mrs Danver
IL who had conveyed to her GATHERINGS prt
. posal, Lettice said "that she should hav
= liked exceedingly to accept Catherine
u offer, and was sure she should have bee
y y very happy herself, andlwould have don
u u everything in her power to make Mr.
u Melwyn happy, but that it was impo
. sible to leave her sister"
le "If that is your only difficulty, m
. dear, don't make yourself uneasy abot
IL that. | have found place for your 81
= ter, which | think she will like ver
20 % we'll. 1t is with Mrs. Fisher, the grei
y y milliner in Dover street, where she wi
"a u be taken care of, and may be very cor
u Portable. Mrs. Fisher is most excellel
~ a. person, and very anxious, not onl y abol
" the health and comfort of those she Ell
~ ploys, but about their good behavior ar
~ ~ their security from evil temptatio
a. as Such beautiful girl as your sister
"a "a lives in perpetual danger, exposed
- , she is without protection in this gre
~ town."
"But Myra has such an adherence
:, servitude, as she calls it-such an ind
~ N pendent high spirit fear she will new
no like it.
ne sI+ u;lI ba varv GOOD for her wheth