News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-27

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eP III One bur was not accustofned to kee
=, by her No money is mssinf'ald
! live with il the house was disturbed Il il in
" aesfs 2 So - sa i Is "a e,
h-.s...S,s'su suDDer
Dor Barton's. His wife s s-tio soslre
snap in herl | declare it's clear dis
couragin' for a man to be dragged
back all the time by a shiftless and
lazy wifel"
A big round drop FLASHED down in
to the frying-pan which Mrs. Sadley
was just preparing to receive sundry
slices of well-cured ham which she
had been cutting; she made no ver
bal reply, however.
"Eh?" said the squire, why don't
you say something? Sulking, |
s'pose, as usual?"
At this, poor Mrs. Sadley burst in
to tears.
"No, Titus said she, Il amt
sulking. But | feel awful bad to-day,
and it don't take much to upset me.
It's all true what you say. [ am a
poor, worn-out, feeble creature, and
| don't blame you for gettin' out of
patience. But if hadn't worked so
hard all these years"
'Oh, yes, there's always some ex-
cuse," growled the squire; and TAX
| ing a stray sample number OF a
fashion paper, he went out to sit in
the honeysuckle shade.
Il can't stand that roasting fire, }"
said he.
"Then," said Kitty, chow do you
suppose mother likes it?'
In an instant, however, her tickle,
childish attention was diverted.
"See!' she cried "There comes
Cousin Mary and Mr.. Dallas over the
hill Oh, father, they are engaged.
Did you know it?''
Yes" absently answered the
squire, intent on his paper.
II was in the parlor that night; it
thundered and rained SO hard" said
Kitty, with II twinkling eye, land
they didn't know it. And | heard
them talking to each other. And he
called her his darling love-
''Humph'' grunted the squire.
GA reg lar case O spOOning.
"And she said he was her dearest,
dearest one," added Kitty the cir
cumStantial.
"Young fools!" snapped Squire
Sadley.
; Father" said Kitty, leaning or
his shGalderz~she was she onEg one
in the house who was not afraid o
the stern despot-" don't all lovers
talk SOP"
"They're fools for their pains, i
they do
: Didn't you love mother when sh'
was a Girl like Cousin Mary? Didn'1
YOU say lust such things to her ~
The squire moved uneasily in hi
, chair under the calm, searching ligh
of Kitty's eyes.
"I might ha' done," he owned a
, last. 81 s'pose l was just as grea
4 an idiot as other folks be"
: 81 don't see why people ever leav
1 it off, said Kitty, abstractedly
+, "Was mother a pretty girl?'
J, "Don't talk nonsense" said tn
S squire, almost angrily; and he go
: up and walked around to the oil
$ wooden bench beside the we'll curb.
: Had Kitty's mother been prett
=. pirl? ? Yes, that she had-rosy-cheeke
and limpid eyed, with laugh swee
Y as the note of a thrush, and til
liyhtest foot in a Virginia reel, c
If any Girl iu the neighbOrhood. An
now, 81 am a poor, wOrn-out, feebl
@ creature;" she said, in the faint
5 weary accents, looking at him out {
the dim, faded eyes; land l don
A blame you for getting out of pf
d tience.n Yes; it was all true. Bu
IT what had wrought the change
:, Whose fault was it?
II 81 don't know" said the squir
r staring at Heavens blue eye refec
ed far down in the heart OF the deel
D cool well, but [ almost think "
le been too hard on her. Now | con
j. to study on it, PVe had lots OF hire
D. help about the farm, and she hS
n done all the housework herself. An
"a she never was very strong. Was 81
I a. pretty girl? There wasn't nol
y pretter in a radius of twenty mill
:. around Kingsley Church. And
~ look at her nOw!'
IL The squire got up and stamped u
;, easily around the we'll
give been Il br.tGe' he mutter'
l0 to himself. Worse than q dun
T. brute-for they ain'6 HEposed
x klnow any better. IT5n !, kno s,
,t what I've been thinLlo. Of, -all the
It, vaars Leave offfHI HIinsher? / hair
u7Ls.-S,. -lasts--;++--r4GF.i \ WE her. no
att, bless her faithftf ,sIysient soul,
!, .9se. hse al as over 7 ratS . SeI've fell in
m the way of bein' csCiarslse. "a negle'
to full But I'll turn over a new le
1T this very day, see if | don't?'
rd He kept his word.
y Engaged, Mary? Is it really
it settled thing?' said Mrs. Sadie
to oh, hope you'll be happy! l ho
,n, after twelve years of marriage, de
m. Mary, you'll be as happy as
re nowp'
ese Her eyes shone; faint color glo
as ed on her ordinarily pale chee
e / Mary Sadley looked at her IN
rry prise.
"Would you believe" went on
ear suuire's wife, she has hired girl
md come here and do all the rough VIC
the so as to spare me? And there
the such an easy, sprlng-upholste
to sofa in the hall, in place of the lun
old lounge; and there's one OF
int hav-hands splitting "a pile of woot
4 a last from now to Michaelmas.
we are to keep our wedding ami
as sary in real Old-fashiOned style, 1
0 of week; and Titus has ordered n d
YOU trimmed with white ribbons, just
and the one | was married in. He sa..
in shall look as young and pretty
did then. Such nonsense, you lln
lev, and yet it is nice of him to say
to now, isn't il? ?"
un- And Mrs. Sadley laughed thro
her tears.
larl- Poor SOUL The sunshine had C
Iery late in life, yet it filed her whole
Pve ing with blessedness.
|, of "I'm so glad!" said Mary. &"
|, old YOU deserve it all, Cousin Eunice
And the newly betrothed lo
', q whispered to each other that
ing! millennium must surely be at b
n up For what else could so have cha
hing the squire?