Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-02-04

si1i nave 70 speak ol you as party.
For really don't dare to 60 SO far as to
call YOU a single gentleman :"
Th'> set the little widow laughing and |
she looAed prettjer than ever-her smile |
cleaning through her tears as she stood |
Oh tTptoc and kissed the faded check
that Lad not been kissed before for |
years
70 tie young widow and her lovely |
! hlue.eycd, golden haired boy-'.tL per
! feet model cf little angel" Ursula de |
/ clfrel him were Installed in the front |
attic room that very evening. And a
cosy room it was, too with eheery fire
| III tins >toHe, and warm crimson cur
tain, 1ifapipg Hlc corner window that |
overlooked the broad. busy street,
Il think YOU viii find it real snug
quarters lie c, Mr., Brown said Dan
! Lewis rs &c SIT down the partvs trunk
/ H had been friend # her husband
and nas always ready 10 do her good
4 turn.j ~ "u won't see the old lady as
lons as she is lame, and guess that may /
be for years, or it may lie forever, as
the song ty- and the daughter. though
haven't spoken to her more'n half a
dozen times, strikes me as nice sort Of
woman. Pretty, too, if she wasn't SO
awful thin
And, as time went on, Mrs. Brown
found her a nice sort Of woman in fact
J a very nice sort of woman. True, she
only saw her for about an hour every
afternoon, when old Tabitha Shape was
taking her after dinner nap but given
an hour every afternoon for few weeks
and two women can become very
well acquainted And soon-Ursula tell
ing it in chapters, as it were--thc little
widow kew the whole history Of her
landlady and her iand!adys daughter
OF which history it is only neccssary5that
should repeat that portion relating to
Ursula's only brothers wife and child
And | viii repeat it in Ursula's own
words
My mother fairly idolized my
brother she said, "and hoped and
praved that he would never marry.
But, shortly after my fathers death,
when he was but twenty-thrcc years old,
he died And in two Years his wife
deserted him and her baby-hoy. lie
lived only > Nc"r after She left him.
8 Then nv mother gave all her love
TO his chi,l. Hhe loo = IS much like
an angel a yota Waite does. We'll,
when the box Wa > wears OF ace his
wicked mother >toie him from US and
in spite Of al pur efforts we never saw
him again until one evening VIE found
him at our door dylag from privation
? and ili-usagr And when he passed to
the summer land, Never cried my
mother, never shall woman or child
enter my house again Then we left our
home, which is miles and miles away. and
came here where my life has been lonely
enough eal tel YOU, for my mothers
whole nature seemed to change on the
day of my little nephev's death, and
from being a Kind and loving woman
she he1amea very a very arbitrary one.
Your coming Las made it oh 30 much
brighter. but | 1--we il constant dread
that She vii ind out
',Ol no she won't" interrupted tho
little w,lov. $50 one but Dan knows
! I'm here and ;'lor5.'s 10 fear Of his telling.
Hes a good lylIow, pan is and Ursula
faucie,! there WA, a blush Oh her cheek
as Size SAID $.
..1c~ ne Gems TO be q ol fellow, :
sad the landIady's daughter witn>s
sigh
/ Well, the widow had been installed il
the front attic room fora r:ort.l-lnda
a hal, when she aHole morning to say {
Il herself: "near ne, This IS The day be
i fore Waltpr> holiday, aid LII have t
5 lelye hin hoasc While 20 cut to hu,
r him ~omc t9ys i must Try and 90 while
e the old lat Is taking hcr ma. 81 that
4 Ursula can say VITA HIM
! .ut III couldn't g., the work on tn
payment for hl.h ,!crca,;ca The buying
q III toys done Il time 10 carry on
thi~ Ia, 81 .hp WIS q, ,'I.rpl t. ~tlrt MS