The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-11-25
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Ihas.s made by isa Willow Splcer wtr
siugularly lehi pastry beforr toe honey
moon was over she forgot she bal MAD
any sal lAeneaforih har maternal care q
lae vas dead letter
~ father Vas IA embarrassed nan
Mrs spicas brought him nothing but
rtady made family one SOP, Jack spior
Alrsady ia The army, And tvo daueh,ers
When they brst joined or domestic eirel,
Coruelia aud Adelaide spioor looked (,
my iuyeaile eyes full grown womeo aud
yet il was curious fact that FIVE years Is
Ter, shea had changed from child to 4
''naissy" Of twelve. they were still in their
teens aud five additional years only seemed
e have The effect oi making them Young.
or
The spicer girls were no beauties. Ther
took after their mother they we're large.
nosed, shrill-tongued women like her
! they spent their lives dressing and dream.
| ing q possible marriage, bat each year
seemed to make the struggle more hope.
less, Between them they led my poor
father miserable life He had always
been meek !iitle man, but from the mo.
ment be fell under the yoke Of the spicers
be seemed 70 lose his identity and to he
merged IN them. II was quite enough for
Mrs. spicer TO say in her stentorian voice.
My girls must have season in town.
William. Cindy's schooling must stand
over for year and so it stood over alto.
gether. How picked up desultory ed.
ucation Heaven only knows. Tho only
branch that received any attention was
millinery the Miss Spieers conceived
that lad a nice taste for trimming, and
kept mo pretty busy, and by-and.by Glenn
entlne, the French maid transferred her
work TO me She could not stand the
temper Of ices risles fRes, she said, and
after she left it was not found convenient
fill her place The constant drain made
by the Spicers generally upon my fathers
purse were beginning TO empty that long
enduring article. The seasons in town
were becoming matters of great difficulty |
and each took a slice out of the poor resi-
due My stepmother was killing the goose
with yengeace, and the golden eggs
were spent for no good. Each season saw
the return of the Miss Spicers crosser, old
err thinner, sourer. Sometimes they would
bring with them some man who was sup
posed to have taken fancy to Cornelia or
Adelaide, and it was hoped that country.
house life might fan the Innguid fame into
healthy fire but the old saying: "op-
portunity and importantly seemed TO
have the contrary effect on the Miss Spi.
GERS admirers they made great inroad on
the laFdeE, but no progress toward matri-
mony.
During these visits had strict orders
to remain in my own room. MY step.sis. !
ters had strong dislike to any Of their $
so-ealled admirers seeing me Men have 9
unfortunately, preference for fresh q
young faces, and, in spite OF oil the nos n
runs that the Spicers spent little for
une upon, each day increased the difficult 5
y OF keeping up the fiction of girlhood.
to do them justice they worked hard. If e
hey had been a little more kind to me I L
ould have found it in my heart to pity
hem, for surely no laborers put in a sever Y
days toll. Morning, noon, and night
-.
hey were digging in ungrateful soil, and g
be harvest seemed never ripe.
Adelaide, being the youngest, was the q
lost gushing she adored dancing, lawn.
innis, picnics, and billiards. Cornelia pl
the contrary, was, as her mother re- al
arked, steady as church. She haunted le
le Rectory, where the Rev A. PrinQle
welt, solitary widower She made his W
e burden to him, and marriage with o'
= almost a necessity it was miraculous
Nv he held out iol
My eldest girl is such help in the ~
IRISH my stepmother would say, her ~
de nostrils snufling the air "she leads 20
choir, and teaches the infant school, ~
q Is president Of the mothers meeting.
. coal bag, and the Christmas dinner "S
nd find it hard to get on without her,
T. Pringle." ioF
1T Is wonder how the children obey ie
ss Cindy, the Rev Alfred SAYS sbvly. rec
do You mean Sir Williams nnfortn- bic
e daughter, Mr.. Pringle? That girls kn'
art break, answers my amiable second TIN
'ther. "All the pains my glrls take the
N to do no good tur
She's perfectly incorrigible, I" saws Cor and
IA with The air OF martyr I'll
= perfect tomboy," eliimos in Ade- my
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a horrid little bcar, continued Cor. the
% with more aerimony than before for
has M intuitiyo feeling that the rect. and
does not agree in these structures ano
aething IN his expression rouses the in a
lousy which Is always burning in sueh toni
ares as hers. No sooner il the door thel
i upon the rector than she burst out A
Mamma that odious girl has been toil'
lpering With pringle e qua
Nonsense, cornelia as il he would quie
Z al such child Men Of his age like pie
nsi1le woman for wife grea
They do no such thing, aud you know to Il
very well What's The use Of making step
oi Of me that wayyg fsve
Cindy Is as forward a. she can be. re- The
Ks Adelaide yiciously and she's not the
I'D either noticed old PriuQIe inue
ching her At the school feast" ligh
And why didn't You tell mey'' resorts was
nslia iiercciy, ''and would have sent Lon