The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-06

wv ell, castles III Jne air are poor Dullu-
ing, unless you can put in the under
pinningn said Joram, gazing at her
tenderly, so sweet and fair and moving to
the heart in the dark starshine. And we
can't do it. l wonder what Mr.. Prounce
thinks his money is for, what he means to
do with it wonder if he thinks you won't
have it in the end that he can't let you
have the good of just that little of it
| now
mo, it's no use, Joram," sobbed Pauliny.
"There isn't the poorest person that hires
out to do chores that would put up with
fathers ways! Pd-Pd be ashamed to tell
you some thihss-but there's many day
I'd have been faint if it wasn't for the eggs
of the hen | got Matched myself out of the
egg you gave me once in joke. Father says
folks that can t live on bread oughtn to live
| at all, that bread is natural food, and meat
is cannibalism, and things that grow are
! what the Lord provides, and other things
are murder; and he goes against his con-
| science in allowing relish of dried fish
once in awhile; and the cows milk, he
says, is a compromise, and he doesn't be-
lieve in compromises continued Pauliny,
accommodating headlong impetus with the
| rush of her thoughts. 'And if | didn't
pasture her myself beside the road in sum-
mer while I'm knitting my sale socks, Isup-
| pose we shouldn't have the COW. And as
for our knitting, it's that gets mother and
me every stitch we have to wear-oh,
oughtn't to be speaking sop And she
paused her cheeks scarlet with her indig-
nant thoughts and words, ashamed and
frightened to think she had said so much,
| and her lover loving her better than ever.
Don't you mind, Pauliny, don't you
mind You needn't mind what you say to
me anyway, for you and l have been one
person ever since we could go alone" he
said "And it's a long lane that has no
turning; and | mean to try every traverse
| and save every dollar to get ahead so that
| the time when W. have the
| home of our own"
80, no, no, no." cried Pauliny. sTd
| rather we stayed as we are forever, the
whole of our lives, than have you get to be
| like father. And that's what it would end
| in. o yes, it would He wasn't always
SO. When he was boy he used to fling his
| money about and a beautiful woman, a
| Quaker preacher that he met, reproved
him, and said when there was such world
| of misery and ignorance about us the fling
ing away of money that would found
| schools and academies and make the pity
| of the world less, was work that pleased
| the powers of darkness. And it struck
poor father all of a heap, he says he felt
as if he'd been made ove1 again that min
| ute; and he's never wasted cent since
then. wish he'd never met that woman ~
| cried Pauliny, wistfully.
| she's the only woman that ever touched
that old heart of his-if he's got heart
said Joram and then repented him i'm
mediately, for after all it was Pauliny's
father, and he might be troubled by his
faults, but admit them never ''Well, he
sticks to thing, anyway" he said, land
that's a good quality. You come in for
some of that, too, | guess, Pauliny, or
you'd never have stood so long for me,
without cent to my namel"
so, Joram! You're all | want-you're
everything to mel" sobbed Pauliny. Il
should die if l didn't have you to love.
You're so good, so noble, so kind so true,
and l know my fathers daughter don't
deserve you. But l love you, l do love
you, dear, with all my HEARTH
We'll" said Joram, II don't know what
We're waiting and hoping for. Well be old
folks presently before we know it, and the
boys and girls will be laughing at us for a
pair of old fools. Let me see them!n And
he grew red and angry at the thought.
81 suppose it's what Heavens for" said
Pauliny simply, 'To fill out the begin
nings here. o, Joram, just think of it, to
be together through all eternity! It's worth
living all this life for it's worth dying for ~
Pauliny had occasion to wish again that
her father had never seen the heart-com-
polling Quaker preacher, when her lover
left her at the gate. Her father was out
there in the snow Juggling away with a
| crowbar at the door stone. He had lost a
nickel piece that had slipped down under
the sill, and he was bound to get it again,
| as he whistled between his teeth.
'Well, father" said Pauliny, there's no.
body can get it tonight, if you can't. So it
| Will be there tomorrow. And you won +
be wasting strength and losing sleep, if we
don't trouble about it any more now. A
| nickel, anyway"
"a nickel, anyway cried her father.
you talk as if l was made of money! Let
me tell you that a nickel is coin of the
| country. And there's no coin of the
country that isn't value. A nickel is the
| price of loaf of bread to the poor The
1 xf.N,,a IS IL, i
makes as much as five dollars, and I've no
idea of throwing five dollars away. |
should think you'd be ashamed to speak of
such thing! But there, I've no idea of
losing my sleep, either So we'll go in,
| Pauliny"
But Pauliny loitered moment at the
door; there was something to her more
| home-like than home in the depths of that
| tingling armament to which she turned her
gaze, and in its vastness her fathers
thoughts and words had an infinite little
ness. whats this smell!" she heard her
| father exclaiming as she shut the door: IN
be bound your mothers either been cooking
something to please that gluttonous APP
petite of hers or she's just blown out
another candle. That's it," with some
thing like compromising exultation in the
| discovery at any rate. who's been in
here, Mrs. Prounce! Strange-company
| always comes when I'm out and never
when I'm in Miss Purcell and the minis
ter! | don't care if they have! They are
no better than other company that there
needs to be an illumination got up when
they come. thought | told you that when
company comes and you're doing nothing
in particular, one candle is enough Here
you've been burning two, and you've just
blown the other one out Don't tell me;
| know you have by the smell! ~
Truly, father" said the meek, pale
| wrath of wife, whom long course of
privation and starvation and tyranny had
robbed of the little sense she had in the
beginning I've only been burning one
candle. | cut it in two, and lighted both
pieces. That's all, really. It's only one
solitary candle. And blew the other piece
out as soon as they went l did, indeed.
do try to be just as economical"
"By gracious, but | knew it, wonder
you've sconce enough to carry food to your
mouth
II haven't, sometimes said the poor
woman, slightly turning.
"Well, you go to bed, now-rll shake
down this fre-sitting here and wasting
heat as if you lived over a coal mine
You've no need of candle any way-you
ought to know the feeling well enough by
this time to do your knitting by freight
The firelight's quite sufficient, and that
costs more than the knitting comes to
only knitting anyway to buy finery and
foster wicked vanity. | ought to take
the knitting money away from you by
rights grumbled Mr.. Prounce potterine