Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-08

added rather doubtfuly, as he remembered
Pauline's aversion to the kitchen and her
sewing.
"All right" she answered cheerfully
"I'Il be settled down then, and won't
feel as though | must get into the fresh
bright air, and just race about for the very
fun of it. You see, although | enjoy
school and my books, it is rather too bad
to be shut up over those long seams while
the sun. and the wind. and the birds and
flowers seem 10 be just calling me all the
time" and with a toss of her long brown
hair, she rushed off like young deer ,chal-
ltnging Rob, who was nothing 10th, to
race through the lane.
That girl will break her neck yet"
said her father fretfully to his wife one
day. There she was this morning in the
horse pasture, riding old Charley round at
the top of his speed, with nothing but the
halter to guide him. aud astrde of him
Ike boy. | shouted to her from the
road, but she just waved her hand to me
ana ratified across the pasture as though
she didn't hear me. | don't see what you
are thinking about not to keep her more
in doors and busy like the other girls"
Because" answered the anxious look
iny mother. who was quite used to being
blamed on Paulines account, shes not at
all like the other girls, who could not he
induced to do half the things which She
delights in. 1t isn't because | haven't
tried hard enough with her. | don't see
where she ge.s all those ways from, and
yet there's nothing mean or small about
her. and she is never wilfully disobedent."
II knew the moment ! set eyes on her
Shed be bother; she might as well have
been boy clear through. Now she's
neither one nor the other" grumbled her
| father.
Yet when Pauline appeared few min
utes later with her school books under
her arm, and a great bouquet of wild ilow
cr> for her mother, which She had gone
quite ont of her way to gather, her cheeks
all aglow with her rapid walk. and her
deep blue eyes bright with health the
mother who dearly loved this trouble
some child could not say a word as to h"r
| recent e>Capadc with old Charley. but
thanked her with a Kiss which the girl re-
turned with 3 loving hug.
shes got such good heart she can't
bat come out all right" thought the moth
or silently as she placed the flowers in " a.
ter
The years went by. and Pauline and n
somew hat delicate sister were all of the
once large family of children left at
| home. The second daughter was also
married. and Rob had persuaded his father
to let him enter n technical school in the
same city where John was, from which he
could soon graduate a. civil engineer.
! Pauline had missed her brother very much
al first but she had been the contidant OF
| all his hopes and plans, and a. she realized
/ how far his advanced education was tax
/ lng him out of one part of her life, She
easily persuaded him to repeat his Ger
! man lessons with her when at home aud
/ a. she developed decided taste for Ian
| guages, she included in her high school
| course Latin and French, ant thus felt
! that the beloved brother was not getting
( too far away from studies of mutual inter
] est.
At seventeen She had lost most of her
| tomboy ways. though she still dearly lik
/ ed long ramble or row on the pond with
| Rob in his vacations, and always looked
| forward TO a skating match with him in
| the Christmas holidays. Old Charley had
! been replaced by much younger steed.
which her mother and sister regarded with
considerable trepidation, and consequently
Pauline was more frequently her fathers
companion in His Irives, sharing She
did his love for "A spirited horse
Mr.. Williams had long since accepted
| the situation as regarded his >uperiluous
/ daughter. aud in the absence Of both sons
/ had learned to depend u, on her for many
! little scrt ices which increasing years and
some iniirmtles rendered necessary. He
had been good manager, and had lived
I prudently on a moderate income for years
without any regular business the care of
some real estate and HE cultivation of sey
eral Inherited fields just outside the town
taking most of his time. The latter pro-
| vided the hay for a horse and COW, and the
/ vegetables for family use.
While the boys were at home little help
wa, Lired about the place, but now
/ stout, somew hat stold young German had
| charge o: the grounds and Stable, who
was greatly delighted that Pauline could
understand him in his native tongue The
Fraulein,' as Han, called her, was to him
the most wonderful lady he knew of, and
he admired the deft way In which She as
sisted in harue>sing Prince. when in too
much of hurry TO wait for his slow
movements.
| Her early out-of- door life and exercise
had given her an erect, graceful figure, and
her bright intelligent face and frank Why's
made her general favorite. Her Old i'm
petuous manner and almost restless ener-
gy were no longer apparent. \ deeper
| life aid more earnest purpose were str
| ring the currents OF the young glIls
! dawning womanhood, and her mothers
| heart silently rcjoced over this daughte
4 whom She secretly acknowledged as the
! dearest OF her children. if she could posi-
/ bly, allow herself to make any discrmina
/ ton. The day she graduated from has
\ high school as the valedictorian Of her
| class, looking 50 radiantly fresh and fair
| as she came forward to receive her we'll
/ earned diploma, her father, WnO had sat
/ earnestly regarding her with feeling Of
/ pride and a new realization of what she
really ~as to him, suddenly found him
self recalling the day of her birth and his
answer to the nurse who had brought him
the unwelcome news. God forgive me-
he thought what would we all he with
out her: She brightens up the whole
| house,
Pauline was no longer the supertluous
girl, and when in less than year from
that time her idolized mother was sudden
ly Snatched from them and the confirmed
| nvalidism of her sister, obliged her to
| take full charge of the household, her
stricken father, who had never known be-
fore what his gentle, patient wife had been
to him, leaned on her as if their positions
we're wholly reversed. Obliged to keep
back her own grief for his sake, and Civ
ing way to it only hen by herself, She
felt as if she could never have met the de-
mands made Upon her had she not sought
in the silent communion of her chamber
the strength which can alone come from
a trusting reliance on Him who doth not
willingly atfiict. Robs tender sympathy
was also tower of strength
She's just the dearest and pluckiest
girl you ever saw said the latter to his
cla-smate and chum. Rufus Hosman, land
you'll say SO when you see her."
Rufus thought so, if he did not say so
when he did see her, as curiosity at first
led him to do, but it was sometime after
that when he asked her to be his wife.
Her sister had soon followed her moth
er, and her fathers health seemed COM
pletely shattered. Il can never leave him
while he lives she answered tearfully,
when Rufus plead his suit II am his
youngest child. and the only daughter at
liberty to give him the special care he
needs. and he shall never feel want that
l can supply"
II will gladly welcome him to our
home," said her lover earnestly, land
promise you will be as son to him.
"He would never be contented anywhere
but here" she replied, land he is peculiar
and would be miscrably unhappy to share
my love and care with another. Besides,
we are both young, and you have hardly
entered upon your profession"
Rufus sought Rob, and begged him to
| convince Pauline that her father wOuld he