The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-06-22

. back, and leave her alone.
Is tina. all be saidY
No; not quite. some one brought Il
hoar aud salt. aud be put il on your fin
er, aud said. there. tie rag around 1T
A rag
should certainly hate this young maj
After that he had become such an obie,
OF interest to me that ! could scarcel
keep my mind OF him an hour at time.
vas not long in learning something ,
bis history II seemed that lore Of az
ventures had sent him on q cruise aroun
the world, when he was boy Of about sil
teen. both his parents being dead. II
had been absent from his native countr
four years without interruption. and o
his return had decided TO 20 10 the acade
my short time TO correct certain lacks il
his education. This explained why MAJ
OF his advanced age should DO attending
school--ior he was twenty -one II be was
day, Belle assured me. Imyself was abou
seventeen. / was the only female studen
Of German at the academy, and it was OF
that account that Mr.. Harrison manifested
some degree Of interest in me. l suppose
for he was almost enthusiastic in his ad
miration OF that scholastic tongue. So
saw good deal Of him, after all.
The following winter, at a party at Mrs.
Sands in Sanfordi one bitter cold night,
chsnced to be alone with Nellie Wells one
moment in an upper room for the lady
guests. There was furious fire in the
stove and its sides were red.hot. Nellie
was a very pretty girl, but rather dull.
She wore dress of some gauzy fabric, and
going too near the stove. il took fl re. /
ran out Of the room, screaming at the top
OF my voice.
Mr. Harrisonl Mr.. Harrisonl Oh, Mr..
Harrison!
He came quickly into the hall; saw me;
was up the stairway in bound; and AZ /
was running back into the room, he went
past me, pushing me asidesrather rudely,
md took IN all with 3 quick, cool glance.
Nellie had hauled quilt from bed that
vas in the room and was trying to stifle
he flames. He threw her on the floor,
oiled her over IN the quilt, ike mummy,
rugged her. too. She. was not very badly
'urned after all; and her face was not
ouehed by the fipmes, 30 that she remain
d as pretty as ever
Remarkablyisensible girl said Mr. Har-
ison, afterward, to group that clustered
bout him in the parlor. Most girls would |
ave rushed headlong into the hall.
cream like-he looked at me-like mad,
e added with u quiet smile. If ever
larry. said he. which 1 probably never
iall, ! shall marry o sensible womau--a
oman who would not set up scream if
lr youngest should fall into tub OF l. 1t
ater, but would pull tln' child ont ns
iva ~ I'sn''fs "At' Ibt = |
Somehow, was vain enough to ulilii
is sarcastic speech was Intended solely
rebnk- me knew ] should certainly
ream in such case. 1t was my nature
scream, and how could | help my IA
re?
As for that poor little Nellie Wells, i
ted her, and always wished that it b ad
en- my dress that had caught fre-only'
ould certainly have burned to death be-
re Mr.. Harrison would have wrapped me
quilt and hugged me.
From that day forward some powerful
iuence was at work upon me. stru-
I'd after that cool manner in danger
lich Mr. Harrison possessed in so emil
ut a degree. l even ventured, in the 4
rsuit of perfection, to ask him how Inc {
aid do it, Il
j suppose, said he, il is because natur
y have such an extreme terror OF danger
every shape-such lively sympathy
th those III peril that feel very str ong-
the necessity Of beI1g calm when 9th
are excited think that whatever ,,x-
'e Lady may have for losing her wits = I
that is, at the best, very little---a mar
: little excuse whatever. always try 20
p my wits about me.
70 be calm, then, said /, with the with
ng irony common to girls OF from four
Il to eighteen, one only nc eds to have c
wits about him.
1xactly, said he: or, to change the sex,
wits about her.
ust as. added, the secret Of wealth isi
get money.
md to keep it. said he.
)n one thing was fully determined
never should hear me scream again.
iowever, he left the school soon afters u
did likewise in abont six months. ID
had effected great change in myself s.
or | met him again. II
was in the summer OF the year whick "
me pass my twentieth birthday, that :
met at Niagara Falls. He vas there =
b his cousin, my dear friend Belle Har- |,
N, and ! with my sister and mother. i
In certain day we were all taking r. ;,
k on Goat Island, when mother drop-- :,
her parasol. and it slid down the bank !,
Ie fifteen or twenty feet. aud and out Of !,
ID Mr.. Harrison descended after il. 4,
though he used proper caution, his !,
slipped on the treacherous soil. rs he !.
returning. and he slid rapidly down To- :,
very verge OF the precipice. ! expect 4
nothing else than to see him 90 over. :,
be dashed TO pieces on the rocks !,
Idred feet below; but though the othe !,
.e ladies screamed loudly, did not. :,
see was pretty thoroughly.drilled b.y n
time. However. as Mr.. Harrison !,
red the precipice, he threw out his u
Il hand-stiIl holding the parasol in \ a