Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-04-23

asked Tie mother. becoming vayuely
conscious, a, this late day, that her
pretty treasure was no longer child.
but budding maiden, with all
n maiden's sweet possibilities before
her.
''iIe's very handsome. mamma.
Dark and tai, with as,raight, military
way Of CARRYING himself, and the
p.easantcst voice you ever heard"
docs lac 10 talk to you much:'
''Oh, often, mamma," declared
Sara
Mrs. Aubrey was silent for few
minutes. A7vague fear was entering
into her heart.
Sara" said she ut last, 81 do not
think it is best for you to be too
much at liazclton Court"
"Why not. mamma?' Sara opened
her big blue eyes in innocent surprise.
"It's go pleasant there, and l like
them all so~mnch."
Mrs. Aubrey hesitated. She could
not answer: because Colonel Hazel
ton is widower, and people will
talk and gossip" SO she equivocated
little, and made reply: "They live
so differently from what we do,
darling. 1t is scarcely a good or
wise preparation for your new life."
Sara pondered the matter over.
II don't see what difference it makes,
mamma said she; "but, Of course,
when get situation shall have no
time for visiting; and Helen is going
to Paris with her father in the spring,
20 there will be an end Of ull my init
macy there
Brave little Sara. She was hero
inc, for she wore the old washed-over
muslin dress, standing among the fair
Young girls in soft mcrino and dust
rou~ dead white silk.
..Mnnma cannot afford it, she
answered. quietly, to all the criticism
| that was uttered.
! ! Helen IIazelton brought her home
That evening in the sleigh, with box
Of cut rose buds and East India ferns,
and left her with her mother.
Mrs. Aubrey looked up from he,
sewing.
"My darling" said she, ''you,
checks are like clrnations!"
''lts the winter air." ] suppose, >
said Sara, flinging down her bonnet
mamma, put aside that hateful nee
die. You are never to rev any more
| We made up my mind not to teach ii
the New York public schools!"
"Sara!"
81 am going to Hazleton Court!" :
Mrs. Aubrey's faded eyes sparkled
"To be Helen's governess?" crie(
she.
"IIelen's governess, indeed!" criet
Sara. "IIclcn knows AS much as
do; mamma, you have guessed wron!
this time."
She knelt down on the floor an,
laid her cheek on her mother knee. |
"Mamma, Colonch Uazleton Id
asked me to marry him." said she
land have said yes"
asked YOU to marry him, Sara
tut YOU are such child!" cried Mrs
Aubrey.
"Thats the reason he likes me h
says" confessed blushing Sara.
"And you, dearest-do you lov
him.
"Mamma, he's the one man in a
the world to me-" whispered I'll
girl.
And child and mother wept te
gc,her shower Of happy tears.
But, sweetest whispered Mr.
. Aubrey, "you seem such child to |
married"
"Ycs, mamma, | know said Sart
| gravely. "Bu, if am to be happ,
, the sooner begin the better" ]
, Which was an incontrovertible pic
t of logic. Tie Ledger.
/ so General European Famine Possibl
| Improved facilities for transport
e ton are the greatest preventatives
:. famine. and so a general Europe
/ famine could never occur again, b
e there was one in 1915. There ha
: been many in England. In 139 /
hunger extended throughout Engian
Wales and Scotland. and again in s
/ and e23, the last named disaster la
ing four years. In 1857, the twen'
first year Of Willian L., fsmine aga
8 afflicted England, and in 1898 pes,ile
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