Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-04-08
DORASTRlAI.

moment over the course Blue sock sh
a.. mendiag. n DO Ssh yoa eoai'
.ee ,oar ~ay clear 90 marry seth hal.e'
He ~an's yoa ,he worst kind. and he''
BE- ,sch = good proviior.
bat I ion't ike him vel enough
Prady and I want some,hing oesii'
meat asl drink. add tso calico dresses 4
year
NJ. Prudence Hall h.d ,P'siaed bel
ankls. aad wss forced much against BET
vii io 40 day after DAY ia an urps
,hamb,I. ~iih terrible cons,iol'ae'
that everything .boa, The farm va ID,
lsp..us .nt, ohao. All o.d uish'. fol
~, o. hsr oversight Her pretty ''''e
D1ra hsi come 10 siay ~iih her bat 'a'
90. onl, child. yoa knos
"Thcrc arc t~o kinds q lo'e m ihi
~ofli. a.l Nr Hall. after pause be-
-h.eh sie had bcen taking counsel vi
herself ~hsther Dora ~as Oh enoaga d
be talked o. on such matters a. AL ana
s a.sbed upon her that ihe child va
nearly ,~sn,y year, Oh. perhaps lo'
love SEN wsi. enough 20 marry him. oa'
ly you don, koo- ii.
Tel me aboli iae tao k.nds oi io'e'
"a a Dora into,ently. II thought ios'
49, l1,s the soiid osci
Il have never knosn bat oac Kind.
tA.ak. Dora. Whsn I maff.sd pA'i.
Hal. be w. the most ~sl . DO yoan.
nan IN these parts. aad We never hs4
quarrel uli.c be lived. he wa' . good
practical sort of man. aad be ne's'
askcd me 70 do anything unreasonable.
what Il be- bad asked Dora
"well. I gaes, coad have a'saeo
aim oat q b. Bai there b. = kina o
love ,hat uiil draw women through hf'
and ~a,sf Il makes them throw them
selves away 90 poor, .hsii.ess mea taa'
~il never Pro,,ds ior them nor thea
ehildr,n. anl they kaoS ii a. vel -
sci - aayboiy else doos. IL j. ih,
creates, woalsr to me ~hy saca use.
lss. feelias ,Aoali ever have been Great
ed."
Dora lad bent low over hsT -oik %
hlds her rousish smiles u her sister
discourse bat a. this point she hsed he'
SeeP gray eyes On Prudence. no' 'milias
ou, simply earnest,
"Saeh love brings haPPiness' some
times. I suppose. saii Dora.
"NsH, 10 never" said Pudenee' VII
grea, decision. I'VE Aia't made % b.
happy. snI anything ,hai'' too gooi al
ways leaves BAD taste Ia the moaih
Comfor, j. bird in the hand and 20.
Do no, gain anything BY ls,'ias l. ty OF
The chance u haPPinoss
Did you ever Know anyone seoa
here Prudence. that threw herself a~al
f5r love Il seems % me they won
look a. a maa uale.s be has house An'
farm I'll ready iof then"
"Ths.s shsrs they are right. "i-
Pfad nee. "lol are rather given O.
high iyias notions. aud il time yo'
found that bread doa't grow battered
Ne. I dil kno~ ons girl Who was Pre'i!
and smart. and had no eni Of chances %
ssi married. I ,hiak my David eouits'
her . spell. ba, be never would o~a r.
.nd she woala have that shifslsss erii'er
Joe Raymond. ~ho could never max
oae hand wash the other Even whei
she was dying. she pretended that 81
had been happy. and ~oaldn'' hav'
done 20 other way Il shs had TO do !
over again.'
EVA. she our Joe. mother ? aske1
Dora quickly.
"Yes. 20 Be sure aud when she die
we took him TO bring up and work o
the farm. He's more than paid bis way
bu, hs's a rolling stone. like hs faihe'
and woa't ever come to anything. ior
~, to tell yoa he's gOiag to-mOrro~'
"Goias to.morro~ eried Dora With
sre., start II thoigh, bis time wasa'
oa, for another moaih ?
"wsn. il ain, rightly ,ill he's twenty
one bit be vas in such berry 10 Be of
that I gave hi,a the last m0n,h.
Then silence fell upon them
The .Ams women had the same faihs
and mother. ,hOags a s.sfs Of years Ia
between them Prudence vas bora il
the early married life Of her parents
when they struggled With a stony Ne
England farm and there Was even wOr'
f0f baby hands. The lines OF ds'y an
paiienoe we're deep gravea in her rugge
face. -hich ys, beamed with commo'
sense. Bat Dora had come to her moth
er late in life. As old trees someiims
blossom into lOvhness after every on
forxossrn nt Her htil. feet had wake
in easy paths. and Prudence yearne
over her like . mother.
A shs sat no~ by the open fire. bend
ing her graceful head over some dsliea'