The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-08-29
WHOLE NO. 1,139


Never saw him againP Never saw him
againS How many times she saw him in
that doorway, when the feline family were
purring contentedly and the little carthen-
ware teapot was singing cheerfully on the
hearth, only Miss Nan knew. How many
times that last reproachful glance looked
in upon her ON the lonely nights of the
long years that followed, when the whole
bitter truth was before her, only Miss Nan
knew How utterly dreary the tidy little
parlor was ut times during tho long, long
hours, when the thought of that last
night came back to her, how often the
soft gray eyes wept bitterly when she
thought Of the wrong that she had done
him, and that she never could undo now,
Miss Nan, and only Miss Nan, knew
And that was the story of her romance.
A late train west bound carried Silas
Grantley away that night-carried him
away so completely that Tiffin neither saw
nor heard of him again and soon forgot
him. She lived her life as best she could,
and before her little world the thorns In
her path were trodden unflinchingly.
Wherever womans hand was needed,
there was Miss Nan; wherever charitable
duties were tho hardest in the hardest
pie, there was Miss Nan, and though her
purse was not large one it was open
constantly 1 think it was this constant
doing of good, this constant healing of
minds and hearts and bodies, that kept
the hard lines off her face, oven when the
early gray strands glistened in her brown
hair If there was one weakness for which
she had no compassion, 1t was the weak
ness of drunkenness IL there were any
mendicants who left her door empty hand
ed, they were those who went there with
the fumes of alcohol ON their BREATH Tru-
ly the drunkard in her eyes was detestable.
And SO the summers passed and the
winters passed until the time when my
story opens, and Miss Nan had become an
old maid beyond question or dispute.
New lives came into the little town, and
old lives went out. Girls in pinafores and
small boys in short trousers grew to be
men and women, married and set up for
themselves and had children of their own,
but to Miss Nan one year was but repe-
tition of another, and Ii sometimes SEEM
ed to her that she was continually going
around In circle that had long since be-
come monotonous II Miss Nan ever
thought that she might have made her
life happier, she guarded the thought well,
and If tho smiling matrons ever occasion
ed the slightest envy in her breast they
could as easily have learned 1t from the
exterior of the neat cottage as from its
prim mistress.
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out with n basket on her arm to visit a
sick family, when she noticed small
crowd of mon and boys short distance
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