The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-26

dead. Her mother had died wber
Lilly was babe, while her father had
been dead some three years. MOI
having any near relative, after hel
fathers death, she, being the rightfu
owner of the little property, resolve,
to make it her own permanent home
Her friends were few. as her refined
manners we're 80 unlike her rude
neighbors SO she scarcely ever met
them, except in her walks. Lilly, as
you may suppose. sometimes felt rath
er lonesome on cold winter evenings,
when she drew her chair up close to
the fire, and listened to the bowling OF
the cold wind without. ., We, Lilly
did often feel just SO. And many a
weary night has she sat and listened
to the storm without, and thought OF
the time when she was a young. bash
ful maiden and often had she sighed
when recollection Of old times return
ed. when she aud her friends used to
have such merry times. D, yes. she
often remembers it. and she remem-
bers fair-haired lover, who loved her
with the greatest affection. But she
s,urned him from her presence, in a
fit Of jealousy, and forbid him ever to
love her ag2in-to consider her as one
dead. Yes, often she remembers him
to whom she gave her heart and hand
but broke her own with jealousy.
Yet Lilly loved him as warmly as one
can love, yet her angry passions over
rued her, and no longer she allowed
herself to think of him though oft
times, when she recalls the past, her
eyes are overrun with tears. when she
thinks OF the heart she so unkindly
crushed.
Twas like a death-blow to James
Barnard when he heard that his suit
was unfavorable. his love rejected.
And u, there are none that can tell
the sorrow and anguish of q rejected
lover. James sent his renewed prom
ises to his lady-love. and mis- letters
were burnt or returned unopened.
Day after day. week after week. he
still sent his prote tatiOns of his love.
but she needed them not, and trea ted
him with a cold. unfriendly manner.
When the rejected lover saw that
there was no hope Of ever regaining her
favor, he tried to forget her. and to
Danish her from his mind: but still
hat fond hope fingered upon his mind
that perhaps she would soon become
He waited one year, when
be saw that there was no hope, and
then left her for parts unknown. full
IF sorrow and grief.
Afterwards Lilly had mans su:lors
or her hand. yet she truly loved
James, and would have asked his for
yiveness, tie dark night he left the
title village of P, yet her own
pride forbade her. As year after year
oiled BY, she felt sure that James
would come again and claim her as
his bride; but still he came not, and
he forsook all her gay companions.
md resolved to lead the quiet life Of
IN old maid.
Lilly Weston, or Miss Weston. as
he was more generally called, lived
III alone without any companions. or
wen intimate friends. The solitary
ife which she led caused her to grow |
irm and exceeding particular. while |
Ter little house was kept as clean rs a |
lew pin. and it would have been quite |
rare thing to bove found any disor-
Ter about her premises.
Miss Weston still sat within her
room, beside the glowing
ire /; the clock hands moved quickly
round, and at last thew both pointed
o the hour of twelve. Throwing down
Ter sewing. Lilly opened the oven door
nd drew out the rich brown turkey,
turning it over and over, until at last
be considered it done, she placed it up
q the sideboard then drawing out of
er side-table q clean ,snow-white cloth,
hen covered its top. Suudry fancy
ishes then took their places upon the
title round table. then, last of all,
anne the cooked turkey. Her table
1as set and loaoed with delicacies
'hich perhaps no other table Of her
eighbors' around could afford And
be stood up and gazed upon her load
d table, not thinking, perhaps, of how
many of the suffering poor had no
Christmas dinner at all. Seating her
elf at the table, she commenced the
low operation of carving. Her sharp
nife had barely touched the turkeys
ing. when a low, delicate knock at
he door reached her ear. Dropping
er knife and fork, she brushed the
urls from her face. and FASTENED to
nswer the summons. II
Please. ma'am, will you give me