News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-16

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sights lnd sounds. As, singing soft
~ TO herself, she passed a great tree
whose shadow fell across her path,
she was startled for an instant to
find that some one was sitting at it's
roots on the side that had been away
from her. In another moment she
recognized Anne Hayden, whose face
darkened at the sight of her.
"Good morning!" said Emily, i'm
pulsively. 81 am glad that you have
such a beautiful day to rest on.
Have you forgotten me? | saw you
in the mill yesterday"
"No, / have not forgotten" said
Anne, briefly, making a move to go.
Il looked about for you in church, :"
Emily went on, "but you could not
have been there, | think. "
"No, | never am. You need not
bother to look for me again; | have
no time for church, and if l had |
wouldn't go.
Anne had not meant to say so
much. Provoked with herself, she
added, with a short laugh:
81 guess they will do very well
without me- l suppose [ am not
much missed" "
{" / missed you" said Emily, with a
direct heartiness, which softened
Anne somewhat in spite of herself
"Since | left you so hard at work in
the midst of all that flying machinery
and heat and noise | have thought
of you, till | feel as if we were old ac-
quaintances.
Anne looked at her curiously.
"And l have thought of you" she
began, but"
She did not finish. The ungracious
words would not be said.
"Then," said Emily, brightly, "we
must be friends. How shall we man
age it? May l go to see you some
evening, after mill hours? When dc
you get Out?"
" At six O'Clock. But | am afraid
you won't find us very much com
pany for yOu-grandmother anC
me"
1T must be delightful to have {
grandmother. Mine died long ago
| before l ever knew them"
Anne's face lit up with sudden
| transfguring smile.
Grandmother is the only gooC
thing I've got" she said, with an al
most rough energy. And she is al
my own. l work for her, take car,
of her, do everything for her. She''
mine.'
"Do you take care of her all BY
yourself?"
! Anne nodded
"Think of it! How proud and use
full you must feel. III did anything
like that l should consider mysel
worth while, indeed. However
am trying to have myself educated
out of longing after circumstance
which l probably would not know
what to do with if l had them. Prov
idence gives US each our own task
and if mine is not SO imOpsing a
yours, why it need not matter, if
am only found faithful. Don't yo1
love that word?"
"What?"
Faithful. 1t is such nice, whole
some, comprehensive word, not to-
fine tor everyday use and plenty fin
enough for Sundays. 1t means goo
measure, pres sed down, shaken tC
gether, andrunning over, for him VIII
gives and him who takes; it is blesse
ever so many times over; and a
of us are free 10 have it who will.
is so wonderful and comforting,
think, to rpme mber that the plainest
most hindered sort of life can b
found faithful, aud yet that God hin
self does not ask anything better fo
his own life, as it shines glOriously o
from everlasting to everlasting -
The two girls were silent for Il mC
ment; press ntly Emily asked, " Doe
your grandmother 90 out much ?"
"Never She cannot move frol
her room"
= There was another pause befOl
2 Emily asked the second question
with the color deepening in her fat
as she spoke: "DO you think 81
! would care to have me come and sin
to her sometimes? Is she fond
music?"
! ooh, yes, cried Anne, eagerl.
Sic Says she has not heard al