Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-11

But now can no more:
Oh bark! so tossed by every bitter breath,
Drift idly from the shore,
And touch the cool, dark, wavtless sea OF |
Death!
A Flood and What Came of 1t.
Once upon a time, not very long ago,
there was young damsel called.
But perhaps I'd better not mention her
name; she's changed it now, in any case,
and to save everybody's feelings, I'll call
her Mollie Muldoon-sweet Mollie Null
doom. Now more delightful creature it
would be hard to find, for she had that in
comparable nature that blends the child
with the woman; and whereas she could
play like kitten in seasons of frivolity,
you might in dire and serious extremi
ty search the wide world over for a wiser
or maturer judgment. She had the
most wonderful knack Of taking shah
by house, and going over it from top to
bottom, with touch here and brush
there, and little adornment over yon-
der, so that, when she was through, the
metamorphosis would be startling, and
one would declare that under the kilt
DldllS VI ucl IlOuSC OlCSS SllC OOACCHACI
wand OF fairy.
Everybody knows that poverty and
pride are like oil and water, and won't go
together very well; and it could not be
denied that Mollie's beauty and grace
were sadly suited to the stinted means
of life doled out to the widow Muldoon
and her two children. When Mr.. Null
doom was living they had all the luxuries
that his handsome salary and Generous
heart could devise; but the bountiful
heart became cold in death, and the
handsome salary ceased long before
Mollie was old enough fully to enjoy
either the one or the other It was only
a mercy from heaven that Mrs. Muldoon's
father outlived her husb band, and was able
to allow her small income, or heaven
knows what would have become of sweet
little Mollie, with her yearnings after
fashionable furbelows and surroundings,
Poor little Mollie! Many time I've
seen her beautiful eyes filled with tears OF
rage and modification over an abortive
attempt at making dress with puffs and
frills out Of a small pattern; but out she
came presently with some old 'under-skirt
of her mothers, or aunt's on :grandmoth-
ers, and with few touchesof her magic
fingers the whole fabric would fall to
gether colors and all as gracefully as a
rainbow, and then her eyes would shine
again, and her dimpled chin 60 up in the
air with the true pride of genius.
'Just look at that Mollie Muldoon,
said Fanny Sharp, as MolEie went by
"shc's running her mother, the way she
dresses
'Pride goeth before fall" croakec
old Granny Sharp.
) It was only week or SO after that
heard from Mrs Muldoon's own lips the
} confirmation of rumor that been going
about for months-that Mollie was actu.
ally engaged to be married to youne
Adolphus Dacre. The Dacres had beer
given over by our whole community long
since. They had treated the chuncl
scandalously, hiring the best pew, an6
; never paying a penny on it; the gro
Ger had refused to give them any furthe
credit; the butchers cart drove right b,
! their door; and Mallory, the milkman
had been seen sitting upon the from
stoop of the Dacres,' waiting, he said, TO
one or two things-his money Or the live
f of MI. Dacre.
7 "And of course" said Mollie, $50 lon!
? as these miserable tradespeople held on
and treated the Dacres with respect, tn
l whole aristocracy of Babbleton followed
suit; but now that the butcher and bake
and candlestickmaker have given then
| up
ats case of the rotten potato" sait
< her seventeen year-old brother Jack.
"Have you too turned against Dolph?
| said Mollie.
I'll" replied the lad, with noel
' tragedy. "Never! AS a friend of mine
he's A 1, and no mistake; but 1 dom
take much stock in Dolph as brother
in-law. It's all he can do to keep him
: self in chuck''
: Mamma, will you make Jack sto]
talking slang?"
Y II beg PARDON said Jack; sswhat
: meant to say was that under existing cir
l cumstances Mr. Adolphus Dacre finds
. exceedingly difficult to supply his owl
: individual necessities, and positively de
Y clines any inducement to take in the mat
rimonialr racket
'sDeclines mel" said Mollie, with scorn
full emphasis.
''Declines the whole feminine genera
: tion," said Jack.
4 That very day, which was freezin!
g one in December, Mollie was seen dow
7 upon the skating pond executing witt
| marvellous grace and facility the intricat
I evolutions Of the outer edge, and witt
e her was Dolph Dacre. Whatever Nigh
S have been his inclination toward the fem
l mime generation in general, it was plainl,
evident that to Mollie in particular hi
y whole heart and soul went out in font
l emotion. His face was of the sam
mobile tendency as Mollie's, and love, adj
: miration, devotion, idolatry, beamed il
: every line Of it.
Is cts a shame to part them," said tn
romantic lookers-on.
$ cts ruinous to have them so much to
e gether," said the prudent; but Mollie AM
e Dolph went gliding on. their hand
q | locked f0oether their clad hearts carin.