The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-09-05

hsrsngued bsrself. punetusiing her leciu
ye' With emphatic stabs Of her needle.
20. Annie Diamond. you are an old eoos
ne What on earth s the use Of raking up /
ne sonesi Will il make you grain hsppi'
8 or better or useiullsrf Here you've got
ne good paying business. nice home. 0.
. for company. and neishbor next door /
iy chop your wood sod pass the time OF ds
as with you. and yeL you. you. with ypu
" gpy hairs pulled out and more coming
10 and 40 old maid down 10 you fingers snt
ID toes ends. sin't you shsmed to be setting
IT here rsking up old by gones' suppos,
" Jack Adds does come home. 10 II going Il
make mite OF difference 10 you? Not
~ grain. Nov Ill tell you what, you write
TO Jane this afternoon and tell her you
o will come over to Griggsvills TO spend
d Thanksgiving with her. You're getting
: morbid. aud II her six children don't hol-
= Ter the nonsense out Of you inside Of %
: hour. salipetre won't save you. So she
wrote the letter that day. and wheu II had
grown too dusky for customers TO come
Q in. she put on her gray shawl and second
best bonnet, tying the strings in severe
bow under her chin. and went ont 10 post
} lit
She had sharp wrestle with TEN ptaton
when she was getting ready. to put on her
best bonnet with two becoming knots Of
red on IL, and her crimson shawl, because
the stage had just come 10, and there was
no telling what might happen; but this
was weakness snd conscience frowned II |
down
| ln . very few minutes poor little Miss
Annie came running back with Q white
frightened face Is though she bad seen o
ghost. as indeed she hsd-the ghost Of
her old time love. Jack Adds. She had
fsirly blown up against him As he was
coming out OF the post Office. for the wind
was blowing 10 great gusts; she bad known
him ct once, and after her little startled
ofy. he had recognized her aud had said |
Annie, is it your and Is she turned and
fairly ran away, he had let her go aud had d
never come after her.
No one knocked ut the door that even |,
ing, and Annie sat long before her fire, u
with idle hands folded in her lap. while 8,
Maltese Tom worried himself Into fever
trying TO find out what allied his ROSY h
bustiing little mistress, who paid no at "
tention to his Establishments, hut always T.
looked straight before her into the FIRE, Vi
The next morning Mr. Wilkios's SOU, in
was troubled within him at the 8 ght Of th
ais neighbor's white face and quiet re. to
ponse to bis CHEEKY greeting. What can
lsve happened. be wondered. II it's only al
me of her sister James young 'uns that's th
ilin don't think she'd look SO smitten we
ike as the fowers do after the first frost to
Sides. continued the kind -hearter shoe.
,aker thoughtfulIy. II it had been one Of to,
ane's young 'uns she'd likely told me. gel
Well. / wisht could held her, for /, | b
,ere's anybody sets . store by its Miss for
nnie Diamond, town Of MaryvilIe. state q s
lllinoy. This had such legal sound
lat there was something In it, SO several ute
mes that day the good man repeated frie
Iiss Annie Diamond, town OF MaryvilIe, cry
.te OF Illinoy, esch time with unbound Mr.
satisfaction. ino
Meantime his little neishbor was 10 q jus,
amer fortifying herself against the flood thai
gossip and questions she was sure she ,ul,
'uld hear that day. you
Directly after breakfast came Mrs. mar
ubbs for her bonnet, and when il was thin
oduced. she found little fault with the thin
mining snd tnen followed Miss Annie stay
hind the curtain to wait until il was al pros
ed. As she sst down heavily 10 Miss N,
MES rocking chair. she rocked on Toms muc
J, causing an instantaneous enlargement his {
The feature. and dreadful howl OF rage sens
Great his mistress put him out. Poor yout
n felt injured beyond expression. and reasc
ipg Mrs. dfubbs with all his might, lionel
ted off on mad career OF dissi patton coul,
leanwhile Mrs. Grubs was com mfortably from
ting Miss Annie on the rack. MARI
I'D you know Jack Adds was to hump Here
opeoed the ball with. as her knitting | tell
lies flew back and forth the construo- red r
OF stocking ior young Grubbs. like 4
es. know u answered the victim. Anni'
Wy you /
u tell de come up to see you? asked bitter
eagerly. Jog d
,, met him down street was all. Do Of mi
like the way these loops are put on, night
ufubos, said Annie. holding up the you &
'et Wiki
.. make EN- high. Mis- Cecil had auenc
30 Sunday, week ego. that came from Aur
ity. aud it's regular SKY scraper; about
akin bout Jack Adds, be was down not 4
Z house les night.An blm and Grubbs much
p most the whole night through cause Mes
anxious to git bis paws business fired ual. I
could git of this morning He made Morni
b sort Of agent like. / 'spose be was We
'ou bout bis wife snd babies. didn't ing Nj
'eering iuqaisisively At Annie. exactly
didn't talk to him at oil. she sns. how d
J. growing pale. and with . queer Miss A
IN around her heart, which she felt uai.
give way almost sny moment. sir?
re. this is sbout done; think It's ped.
y yi'sh' dont your she continued in we're 81
hort 10 sEm the tide ther. -
MS right peArt noS; bat about peared
Adds. seems so be told us that be This
srit back here. right smart o, ton frc
al never hesrn = word from here but The
'e by be got kind OF Wild reckon, caused
J fell sick where be WAS bosrdin' heart.
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