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

one of them for3your collection fryou II
nod your tongue. And I'm glad you
think it's mean, too; but then it ism I
wise or respectful for you to say so,'
said the midget " Arnold? No, want
enough-oh, he's very well looking
handsome rs Sarah handsome like
King Saul. But like an ugly Doctor.
And my throat's all filling up. l wish
you'd hurry. Who is the best doctor
here-I mean the oldest? Who has the
widest practice? | want him So l
sent for DR. Burns; and the little crea-
ture insisted on seeing him alone, and n
sweet time, we thought, he had of it with
her. -
"He's an old man, Il We ~ nd man,
altogether too old to practicl s1!lnd l told
him so. If like an old doctor, don t
mean Methuselah," said she. s'But
he's done me good. | feel better al
ready. | shouldn't wonder if | could 90
| down stairs
DO you think you'd best?"
"Well, if Sarah'H come and read to
me, I'll sit up here till night-fall | al
ways like to leave my room, and change
the air any way, when ! can" And as
Sarah read interminable page after page
of Pollock's 90 Course of Time,'' her sad
sweet face II little turned away, the
mouth slightly dropping, and the lovely
lids cast down, / saw the little creature
eying her with q most singular cast of
! H. hy,,1- IL To
myself, g her life almost done with, and
their lives-my dear magnificent Sarah 5
life-just beginning, and just going to
ruin. And if they had her money, only
had half of it,
=" You just 90 away!' said Miss De
hone to me, sharply. 81 know exactly
what you're thinking of. Your face is
just like a jack-o'- lantern-the light
shines through. It's no use at all"
She came down stairs, before tea, on
Sarah's arm. 1t was blowing up quite
Il gale, and the rain was sweeping by
the freight of the windows like sparks.
She didn't look much asthough she had
had the doctor in the morning; Sarah
looked great deal more like it. The
little eyes of the old lady fairly danced :;
she kept looking toward the windows,
and wouldn't have the lamps lit; and,
as Arnold suddenly opened the door and
came in, shaking off the storm, and
bringing II gale with him, she laughed
like girl 81 DECLARE" | said to my
self, sc don't know what to make of
her. Is she Il fraud, or is she not?''
And all ut once, cold and ruddy us he
was, after throwing off his cloak, Ar
mold had stalked forward to that fire,
and had seized the little bundle of rags
and ribbons and eyes in his arms.
al always knew there was Il good
fairy at the HEARTH" he cried.
"Put me down, sir! put me down!
I'm sure | don't know what you mean.
never was treated with such indignity!"
81 never shall put you down. said
he, " till you promise to come and sit
by Sarah's fireside and NINE
Arnold,'' cried Sarah, white as n
white rose.
'Dr. Parnell!" said mamma, starting
to her feet with Us much dignity as the
amazement left her.
Yes, yes" he said, {" 1 mean it. We
are going to have a hearth of our own
ut last. And such hearth! Do you
remember that old gray house on the
hill, with the garden going up the hill
behind it, all terraces and grass-plots
and alleys and flower-beds?''
All, how sweetly such things sound
in fall weather, and when you don't have
to weed and water,'' cried Kate, clasp
ing her hands melodramatically, in order
to break the breathless spell.
land if you dol" he exclaimed.
" And all the year round and forever.'i
ado you mean DIR. Burns's house?" l
asked.
EXACTLY so. Sarah, that is going to
be our own house.. 1t is your wedding
present. And she has done it, the little
fairy godmother. And she has bought
DR.. Burns's practice, and that is mine.
And enter on the goodwill next week,
and we go into that house, you and /,
Sarah, the week after. Do you hear?"
" DO you hear, Sarah?" echoed Miss
Dehone.
''Oh, it can't be true,'' said Sarah,
with white lips, and seeming ready to
fall on her knees.
cit is true,', said Miss Dehone.
" And now | suppose you'll let me go,
young man?'
" Not,'' said he, 60 till you promise to
come with Sarah. We shall need the
fairy godmother ut our hearth there
they've got another here and if you'll
believe it, he looked at me. &C Not till
Them said he.
6 Very well, theI said she. Any
thing for peace. But if you believe for
a moment" said she, adjusting her
cap, after he had dropped her into
her chair, "that 1 had any other int
ton, you are mistaken. Leave my Sa
rah to the mercies of man, indeedi
Sarah, I'm determined you shall have
every thing | didn't. And I've ordered
you an ivory-tinted satin, and orange
blossoms, and veil" And all of sud
den the little creature burst into tears,
and we were all sobbing and laughing
round her, and when she at last emerged
from the dampness and disorder,
90 Dear mc,'' she said, 81 should think
| was the bride, after all,"-English
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