Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-01
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Modification, she was certainly Kinder.
Bat what words couIi paint the strangerb
bomcsics nez Is she ber. over q piece o<
crochet - hide her tears that evening. Shs
wss outside tie family circle. They spoks .
language almost unknown to her. and tley
were interes;el in things she had lever heard
Of No one alidreased word or look to her,
Is she sat at some distance from them, feeling
herself too wretched to 1--we.
Sae was startled at Gobis voice in her ear.
II say, Lacy, you look awfuAy lonesome
here
''Loneomer' she repeated; what you ean
datf Alb. yes, ssule' Yes, yea Ii Is to brsak
de heart to be lonesome"
well, IL is hard; but when you can talk
English you won't mind, you know
II will talk Eagi.sh nevaire, neyaireF she
cried. raisin. her hands with despairsng
gesture. 1T Is too difheils. Ali, but my
tongue refuse to learn
Boo laughed Hero was one inmate OF the
family more wresched and more bel IL8 than
himself.
Il say, Lucy he began, sheepishly- You
didn't mind when l ho.lered at you becaite
you wanted to help met You don't know my
ways yet. but III rather fall and break my
neck than have any one help me-
She Understood enough to know that be
was making a kind OF apology for his rough
ness.
"Ah, nor she cried, Il don't mind not:n II
you vii me help TO learn dat dreadful Eng
iish dat ties up my tongue"
All do 1t" and the compact was sealed
Lucille dill not know that Boo's English was
the worst Of its kind, for the Hart family
we're isrIor ant, and had known little OF
s.s1~ f,tsf
what she was yearnin3 for.
In her quiet, unobtrusive way. the girl
made herself useful to ali the family To
her aunt her ready. cheerful service was in
valuable. and even her uncle would sho1, for
Lucy when O button was wanted Oh his
shirts or q message must be sent to q neigh
BORN. farm She was SO gentle, SO courteous,
50 unseish and ready to obLge, that a house
hold which had known nothing OF those
qualities before began to find them very nee
essary To their comfort
As for Bob, he often wondered how he had
lived without his cousin, TO Interest him In
her bright stories Of foreign countries, to
beat up lis pillows and battle his head wnen
he was i'll, and make herself q slave To his
sick whims. But much as Lucille had grown
into the hea: Is Of the Hart household, they
were not denonstratlve, and In the next two
years hef aunt Iau never caTessed her' anu
not even from boo mao sne ever hea-d one
word Of affection.
How the poor, sore little heart longed for
loving "orus anu iooAsi now iihpo~sio'e 10
her emotional French nature dld 1t seem ior
people to lee! an affection they were neither
able nor willing to expressl Th'y did not
notice that the pale, THU g.rl became daily
major and thinner a,i no neslcl...~.s crew
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Hiac, io'iSn'a ioi D1"1iA ID io' Tue 'oN ,ue
words and tender caresses OF her humble
friends there.
Taere are tender, simple natures ike
I.uciIes in the world. but. thank Col,
,,oy ara ea.v for ,h,ir ,,,v, sol.,s Evan
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Lao'Aes III e-, oea"s uo.'e-
lnat cruei IoS'aieia "Hicn was CONSUMING
her LIFE. Sic would lbs BAG. at D.n2rd. and
with the inurmur O. the waves VOID mix
tue sweet, s..,ll voices Of her coIapa alons, a.
they sauc, the ruute;
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