The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-07-31


room, said /; and with that he whips
round TO the dining.room door, and goes
in.
When Nell came back, told her, and
she turned Just as red as fire.
Oh says I, laughing; 'he didn't
mean you. II you'd heard the way he
said it, you'd know he was calling some
one he was fond Of. l guess he thought
Henriette came out here; he seems to
take mostly TO her, lately
II 1 hadn't had somuch to do should
have noticed what was going on, after
that. To be sure 1 did see that Mr..
Washburn talked to Nell considerable,
and l saw her reading books which 1
knew he had lent her. And if l hadn't
been half dead with the headache, that
last week, 1 should have suspected
something from the way Nell looked,
for to tell the truth, Mr.. Washburn was
making love to her. 1t came over me all
Of O sudden to find out that Nell was
growing up, and that she was as good
and pretty as any girl agoing, with some
thing about her that attracted Mr.. Wash
burn. This was the way found it OUT
Kate came to nae one day, and said
she had something to tell me. She said
that she saw Nell, the night before,
talking with Mr.. Washburn Just outside
the door, and that before they came in
he put his arms around her and kissed
her.
Now, Aunt Hatch, says she, some
thing shameful is going on. That Nell
has deceived you; she is a bad girl, of
course. There is no other way of her
being familiar with q man like Mr..
Washburn. OF course you won't keep
her, and have her go on in this way.
But the matter will have to be arranged
carefully. 1t won't do to get Mr.. Wash
burL into a scrape, because he'll go
away, and that will spoil everything;
Henriette thinks he's most ready to pro-
pose. So if you'll just sent Nell up to
Andover to Uncle Johns (he'll take her,
for he wants girl,) she'll be nicely out
Of the way
She told me in the dairy, where I had
been making butter the day Mr.. Wash
burn called out so. 1 was so dumfound-
ed that didn't know what to say to
Kate, but right off l hears a stir, and in
comes Mr.. Washburn from his seat on
the bench under the vines.
Il beg your pardon, Miss Kate says
he, Il have already proposed to Nell,
and as she has accepted me, had rather
have q voice in the matter OF sending
her to Andover. 1 go next week if the
clergyman Of this village will marry us
first. 1 take Nell with me. If you will
allow me, I will speak alone with Mrs.
Hatch
Kate slipped out, turning all sorts Of
colors; and then Mr.. Washburn said that
he loved Nell for her innocence and
worth; that she was the loveliest girl he
ever seen aand that they were to be mar
ried anG then Nell was going to school
for a year; and he would like my ap-
proval.
Goodness knows / gave it, heartily
enough, though I hardly knew what to
say-a man like him marrying girl out
of the poorhousel
But he did marry her, and she went to
school a year, and then they went to his
house in Boston. It's s. lendid place.
was in it once, but declare to good.
ness Nell amt no more put out in it than
she used to be in my kitchen. She's
just as quite and gentle and pretty.ap-
pearing as ever she was; and the girls
got baby now, that's as pretty as o
picture.
So I says-as I've always said-that
it's what's in a person that makes them
noticed. Mr.. Washburn would have
married Henriette, if he hadn't found
out that Nell was more modest and pref
ty in the kitchen than Henriette was in
the parlor, or even could be anywhere.