American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-11-22

thing? Who was the DIR. Parnell tina
came round here SO much?- Was he aftel
Sarah? Handsome is that handSom,
does, and Sarah wasn't to be had fol
the asking, she would have him t,
know.
'.Docs Sarah like him, do you know?'
she asked me one day.
Indeed, Miss Dehone, how can
say?"
"You can say very well if you will
But
al don't want to hear any thing about
but You think I'm chattering old
woman, and SO you won't speak. Very
well; [ can find out usually all | want
to in one way or another, and no thank,
to any body. I'll ask him.
Ask him! ''For goodness sake, Miss
Dehone-'' l began.
''Then there is something in it!' she
said, triumphantly. 81 thought 50.
He's in love with Sarah, and she's in
love with him. Why aren't they en-
gagged? Why don't they marry? Good
| gracious! it wasn't so when | was
young Love has turned his bow into &
money-bag. Well, hasn't he a profess
sion?"
:. Oh, yes, you know he's a physician
! But he practices in n country village
ten miles from here, and drives over To
see us. And, dear me, it's the healthiest
villagc,"
:. So l suppose. Why doesn't he set
tie here?''
"Because there's no opening. The
| towns full of doctors now
"And there's no hope of any thing
better-let me see, ought to say worse
in the village?'
"No. He doesn't earn enough to pay
for his salt, let alone Sarah's. No, it s
hopelesss," said L, "unless some angel
of mercy leaves us all fortune
/" You needn't look ut me. l sha'n't.
My will was made years ago. But |
should Think she added, reficctively,
that if II young man had any push, he
could find a way to support himself and
Il wife, too. If | wanted to marry Sarah,
I'd emigrate, but I'd do it. But there !
what do | care? What should do, TO
be sure, without her? No, let Arnold
Parnell marry En- or Kate, or any 9TH
er baggage. My Sarah's too good for
him.
81 quite agree with Miss Dehone,
said mamma, who had walked from her
nap on the lounge. elf II young man
is worth marrying, he will find out Il
way
81 suppose he WILL said l, ''by the
time they are both gray-headed."
sDear! dear!" said Miss Dehone.
"What world it ISL And when Ar
nold's gig stopped at the door shat night,
the old lady hitched her chair round and
deliberately turned her shoulder on him,
having first fitted on Il pair of dark blue
glasses for the protection of her eyes
from the fire, and leaned back to enjoy
nap. Arnold and Sarah sat down for
Il game of cribbage, and perhaps the
sound of the monotonous enumeration
and iteration lulled her off-and per-
haps it didn't. At any rate, she soon
gave audible testimony to being asleep
and went into the back parlor, where
mamma was playing whist with Kate
and two dummies-for En- and Fred
Mallows were so taken up with each
other as to be no better than dummies.
went and looked on at the play and
as they grew merry and forgetful, L
glanced into the little mirror that re-
Elected corner of the other room, l be-
ing the only one in the range of its pic
ture, and l saw Arnold's hand pause in
moving the peg, and close round Sarah's
half-suspended one-and there was no
more cribbage played in the front par
lor that night. And, by-and-by, when
Sarah came to bed, l pretended to be
asleep, but for all that l saw her cheeks
the color. of two carnations, and her eyes
shining with such sweet light in them
as she put down the lamp and stood
leaning her arms on the bureau and
looking in the glass. "Oh!'' she muir
INJURED to herself. 'sAnd it will be an
old, old woman's first" And l heard
her crying softly to herself whenever 1
woke up in the night, as l had never
heard her do before.
But the next morning there was
no time for sentiment. Miss Dehone
was i'll. And after no end of hot foot
baths, she declared it was a ease for a
doctor and / must send for one.
"Why not have Arnold?" said l.
Arnold" she cried, with contempt.
tDo you suppose 1 want to make a
clinical lecture of myself for that boyP
Do want to be a subject for young
mans experiments? No. / heard Ems
chattering Mallows there last night, af-
ter you went up, telling of Arnold's
taking of that Irish baby up to his own
rooms to get well; and of his transfus-
ing blood from his right arm for that
dying woman-but you see she died
and he hadn't any right to do it. And
can't say when / have felt more indig-
nant when he told of Arnold's taking
out a crew in life-boat in that Septen-
Der gale to rescue the people on the
SarIana. Suppose I'd been one of his
patients, and he'd risked his life so in
the very middle of my case
How did you hear all that, Miss De
hone? 1 thought you were asleep"
81 woke up"
Perhaps you heard something clse?"
81 heard n great deal else,' said
she, with some emphatic mods, and her
little black eyes sparkling like diamonds.
s' And saw too
81 don't see what there was to see"
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