Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-11-22

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WMee..saM,gy9NfE>S pride in it than
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erbocker, or an T. Z. ", or anything
of that sort.
/ was rather sunny, glnring sort
OF IL plncc when first planted my legs
here, but that is quite altered now.
The shadow Of Il grent tree falls over
me, and other trees lie beyond; and
between the road, with its rolling car.
riagcs, and my blessed little path, are
ever so many bushes green and fresh,
through which one can Just catch
glimpses of the ladies' dresses.
Farther on, you 30 down somo steps,
aud come TO IL little winding path,
where there is IL spring, aud where one
can lose ones self in the most charm
ingIy natural manner. Just MS though
ono were i'll the country. Not that
ever lost myself there. But [ heard
folks say SO.
The men often stalk by, paying no
attention to me, but women generally
stop and try me.
! have plenty of acquaintances, and
some dear friends. There nrc the two
girls, twins, always dressed alike; The
mother and her four children tho old
lady who brings her knitting IL plump
young woman who always eats ha.
MANS and sponge cake, and leaves the
crumbs and skins Oil me in paper.
And my married courle-my oldest
Iripnflc | ngn1 u, /.
they walked SO slowly, and why TINT
broad shoultlerod fellow took TINT lit.
tic womOn' arm. Now | know. lie
is blind.
stout lady and stout gentleman
sat down ON Inc ono bright summer
evening, making me creak dreadtullv.
and the stout gentleman said TO the
stout lady:
"Gnbriclln is nj idict!"
"Gabriella is girl" snid the stout
lady.
ut is ali the same thing" said the
gentleman.
81 was II glrl once" said the lady
rcproachfully.
"Bless my soul So You were" said
The gentleman "hud L was boy.
Dear, dear And precious fools we
mado of ourselves. "
Alter that neither of them said much
for while.
"rhc Rev. Mr.. Spinner is one of
the best men that ever lived" said the
old gentleman.
"But just little older than Gabri-
ella, said the old lady.
GA very young man yet; not cirht
and forty" said the old gentleman.
"And Gabrielle il Just eighteen >,
said the old lady, "and Charles is
three and twenty, and so hand.
some ~
"Stuff and nonscnsol What's hand.
some in Il mqu?"
81 thought good deal OF it once, /"
said the old lady.
so did 1; and look ut us now, =
said the old gcntlcmnn. 81 tell Won
Spinner is just the man for Gabrielle !:
md wont hear another word about
Charles baldwin"
Then the old lady got up and trot.
ted away, md the old gentleman trot-
ted after her. And half mn hour went
by, when just the loveliest Girl I ever
saw, with the hnndsomest youno
man by her side, stopped just before
me.
"Sit down and rest, Gabrielle. "
said The young man.
"Oh, If papa and mamma should be
up here. said the girl.
1.-The last place where we need fear
to meet them. Now, tell me all.
lovc!"
There's not much to tell" said
Gabrielle. ''Pn is determined that |
shall accept Mr.. Spinner, and I'm
afraid tho dear, good man will be
brought to propose, and | know he
doesn't love Inc ono bit. All the con.
grcgation expect it, and aunt AID un-
Gle, and-Oh, what shall do?"
You know what 1 havo always
urged you to do"
"And have always said that
though I'll never marry anyone else
can't marry even you clandestinely.
Don't bc cross with me, Charlie"
"lf you loved me MS l love you,
began Charlie.
nuI JUST then Gabrielle began to
Somebody is coming" she said
ooh, dearl it's ma and pal"
And i'll moment more the shadows
OF those stout parents fell upon me as
they walked past arm in arm, the old
gentleman talking emrhatically, the
Old lady shaking her head, and Meth.
or OF them looking toward my young
lovers. When they were gone, Charlie
gave his arm to Gabrielle, and away
they went in the opposite direction.
Then asleft alone, and alone |
renamed for an hour. at the end oil
mat time there came up the path &
iady oiforty, very prim. very plain,
and very neat, who busted me off Will
her Observation-Disclosures that that Of
Tended me-befores she would sit down
and then sbnn,. bnr keod o,1 .;..l