Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-11-25

was waited through the open windows
| lrelghted with the delicious sweets oI
the season.
| Luxe Palmer, the major -domo on
the majors establishment, brought In
| ilrst, TO his employers order, a bottle
| Oh native wine and glasses. after which
he went forth TO the fruit orchard will
three small baskets. When he returned
ne brought with him a plentiful supply
Oh plums, gooseberries and cherries.
we drank wine in a coZy way, and
partook of the ripe, delicious fruit,
fresh plucked from tree and bush, chat.
ting away In the meantime In the most
| pleasant and unrestrained fashion.
L limited, at length, to Agnes whai
she had said in reference to the romance
| interviewer with the varied warp OF
Aunt Deborah's existence. My cur
loslty was excited, and I WAS anxious
to hear the llfe-dream of one who had
so strongly awakened my sympathy and
seneration.
"Oh, Aunt Deborahl' cried Cousin
Agnes, taking her cue from the hint !
had given her, 81 want you to tell
Cousin Maurice that story of your own
life experience which you have SO
often told US. There is no one that can
tsll it as you can, if they had heard 1t a
hundred times 1 am sure, for one.
that couldn't"
'My darling" said Aunt Deborah,
laying her soft, plump hand caressingly
on Agnes shoulder, and glancing affec-
tlonately at the major, sit seem to me
that you must have the patience of a
martyr to listen so often to that homely,
threadbars story OF the years OF sorrow
and blight in the life of one whose soul
has since been constant overflow of
sunshine and content. But ifit Is home
ly and unadorned, 1t may serve to in
terest for want Of better-possibly to
point moral; and as 1t will be new to
the young gentleman, your cousin
unless some one Of the many to whom
it has previously been told should have
forestalled mel will repeat it in my
rnpolished way, knowing that in my
little Aggie L can never fail to have one
patient. if not interested. listener.
"Plain, p!ebeian Deborah Clark was
considered, at eighteen, very pretty, and
for that concomitant, tolerably human.
That, as l have often told you, was the
name L bore before my marriage to my
husband here, thirtyfve years ago.
ALBERT was young and thriving
trader at that time in Newmarket, hav-
Ing been started in business two years
before by his father, who was a man Of
considerable wealth and social influence,
but who died suddenly from heart dis
ease few months before our marriage.
He purchased and laid out these
grounds, and built this cottage just a
year before he died; and to-day we can
relish the fruits OF the lsbors that he
never lived to enjoy.
~ was poor girl compared to Al
bert, but of family as old and re-
spectacle as any in the place. And here
i may safely say that after brief ac-
quaintance learned to love him with
a devotion and earnestness that could
suffer no change or abatement-as sober,
enduring, elevated passion, calculated
for the full period of q life time, where
some rich harvest seeds would be waited
into heaven, to germinate there into
more full and perfect understanding OF
the inner life.
when Albert and were married he
decided me this cottage, and the twenty
acres of land surrounding it, saying IL
would be something to fall back upon
in case of any misfortune or business
reverses. He had already completed
for my reception fine two-story front
in the centre of the village, which was
furnished with all the elegance and
luxury that young bride could desire.
l entered the new establishment happy
In its possession, happy In my husbands
love; but fear, too vain-too selfish
and narrow In my estimate Of the bless
ingS of life, to continue on without
some drawback, calculated to open my
eyes and purify my soul. Idonot think
! was ever bad-hearted-only proud and
in my sentiments toward
those whom fortune had placed be-
meath me, or dealt with less kindly. l
did not ask whether 1 was possessed of
any intrinsic talents or virtues, aside
from my social position, calculated to
elevate me above many-perhaps in
Gods eyes my super1ors-Or to the
social level of others who might be-
the interiors of the former;
and it did not seem to me in my ig-
norance Of truth, though though my
self Christian, that there should be
silver, golden lines of de-
drawn IN society; but had
no thought or idea of sounding the hu-
man soul to discover the kind of ore it
before instituting those
social classifications. 1 went no deeper
than the pocket in my ideas OF what
these social abuses were, and how they
should be removed and caste establish
I'D. And how many are there who 60
blindly cropping through life in vain
search after what they never discover
truth humility and charity
"When the gift deed Of the cottage
was made out to me, the business was
at the office OF young
lawyer lately established in the town,
named Dalton-Richard Dalton, or
Dick Dalton, as he was more frequently
had somehow contrlved to
himself into the friendship and
confidence of Albert, and from the hour
Of our first meeting at his Office is to be
raced the rise, or dawn, of the one
great trouble that subsequently over
spread like a gannt black shadow the
horizon of our young lives.
"Dick Dalton was a dashing, hand
some, long headed man, gifted with
some intellectual ability. and a clever
amount of worldly tact-of insinuat'ng
address aud oily smile, with wick, d
lark eyes that had something of the
of the serpent about them.
He was older than Albert, and more
with the world and its
manifest springs of action, and sue
;eeded after a brief acquaintance in
an unlimited influence over
lim.
ION all possible occasions, whenever
,ir cumstances threw me into his soci-
,ty, he never omitted to bestow upon
ne the most assiduous sattentions-rare-
y neglecting to follow me with the
most insidious compliments. under the
,uise of especial friendship and affec-
ton for AlbeI t, and Albert at that time
IirmIy believed In his sincerity and
lonor, But, as is often the case, 1t ul-