News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-13

That year, October was brighter tina
that bright month usually seems.
used generally to get. home sometime.
during the shortened twilight, and per
haps once or twice a week I was able tC
reach it time enough to enjoy the sight
of the gorgeous Autumn sunset. One
afternoon [ came quite early, intending
TO take Margaret out in the chaise tc
witness the glory of the frightening
woods.
l came softly into the room, and with
Margaret lady was sitting by the win
dow, reading aloud. Her voice was
clear and musical; her intonation per-
feet. [ stepped forward, after listening
to the siIvery chime for a while, and
Margaret introduced me to Miss Leigh
ton.
She had scarcely acknowledged my
awkward bow before she was gone. [
did not see how, noT when she went,
but [ knew that, in the brief glimpse [
took of her, 1 thought her the ugliest
woman [ ever saw. As I turned round
from depositing my hat and coat, there
was no one there but Margaret.
Il told you so" said gravely.
"Told me what % said Margaret.
THAT your friend was only creature
of your imagination" I replied; "a
shadow, an ig1aus .fat,sus-and could
never be identified. How otherwise
could she have disappeared
NATURALLY enough" said Margaret,
'out OF the window"
"And this is the woman you have been
calling handsome all the summer p
said I.
Margaret fairly cried at my badinage
and my contempt for the beauty she had
been praising. I could not tell her what
particular feature I thought ugly, in the
brief glimpse I had taken. It was the
general impression of the whole face.
''Why, she looks, beside you, Mar.
garet, e-like-forgive me-like a
tiger lily by the beautiful pale thing
that we drag, with its long, slender
stem, from the deep ponds where it
hides"
"She was Albert Thornton's friend, -
said Margaret softly.
so she was" I responded, "and I
Will never tease you again about her,
She shall, henceforth, be as beautiful as
You choose to think her Gan I say any
thing more?'
That night Margaret and sat up long
the lovely October moon-the |
glorious harvest mOon-as she sailed |
through the magnificent blue arch over
head. We talked long of the living and |
the dead-of those whom distance had |
separated from us, and of those whose |
was still more sacred because |
leath had set its seal there.
We talked Of Albert Thornton; and
hen Margaret told me, for the first time,
What peace and resignation had come
nto her heart; and how patiently she
raitei for the hour which should unite
hon ne5srin.
Then she talked OF A8.nrt's cousin,
Iora, and told me how earnestly she
lad hoped, all through the summer,
hat | should see and become interested in
Ter; that it would have been so pleasant
O her TO feel that, should she leave Inc,
Is she sonnet ms thought she should be
,alled to do, she should not leave me
,omfortless. I was touched by her
.enaer care of me, which thus pointed
% my welfare, even when she should be
10 more.
1t might have been ten o'clock, when
some one knocked at the front door, and
sslzed if that was Mrs. Lcighton's house.
Hannah directed them, e@d We heard |
footsteps on Mrs. Leighton's gravelled |
walk, then q joyful cry OF recognition,
and the low hum of conversation sue
eeeding.
We were both siIeGt-I, from strange |
curiosity to know who was this stranger;
Margaret, because something, as she |
lfterward toldme, struck her as strangely |
familiar in the voice that asked for Mrs. |
leighton. Then came a step to the
our garden window, and Flora's voice
called us quickly and impatiently.
"Come in. come in, Miss Leighton"
T said. Margaret must not face this
,iobt air"
She came in. and seemed to hesitate
as to what she should say ordo. Woman
like. she only burst into tears and sob
bing.
7Toroorat was trembling on nv arm,
h,,+ sbo did NOT weep. voice said
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