Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
OUR JANE.

Hy I'LL ouHoS or the BRUSH natlOna
song for the time being to these in
struments, but latterly she has beer
silent and even careful over her work
Indeed I would rejoice secretly
though it may be unmanly weakness
to admit it, even to hear Jane sing
daily" to learn that the period OF
brooding has come to an end.
Yet how we longed to hear the last
of James young man before we heard
the last of him!
The engagement lasted altogether
three years; yet how she got introduc
ed to William, and SO became thus
saturated with him, was always a
secret For my part, believe it was
at the street corner where the Rev.
Barnabas Paux used to hold an open
air service after evensong on Sun
days.
AS Mariana has reprehensiblew way
of letting servants talk to her, she
soon heard of him. "He is such a
respectable young man, ma'am," said
Jane, ssyou don't know"
Ignoring the slur cast on her ac
quaintance, my wife inquired further
about this William.
He is second porter at Maynard the
diapers, said Jane, and gets Is shil
liugs-nearly $5-a week MN and
when the head porter leaves he will
be head porter. His relatives are
quite superior people, MN. His father
was a greengrosher, MN, and had
chumor and was bankrupt twice. And
one of his sisters is in a home for the
dying. 1t will be very good match
for me, ma'am, said Jane, me being
an orphan girl.
Then you are engaged to him? ask
ed my wife.
Not engaged, ma'am, but he is saw
ing money to buy ring-hammyfist.
Presently the ametkystine ring was
with ostentation, and developed a
new way Of bringing in the joint so
that this gage was evident.
William, ma'am, said Jane, one day,
suddenly, with Ill concealed compla-
cency, as she counted out the beer
bottles, William, ma'am is teetotal-
err. Yes, ma'am and he don't smoke.
Smoking, ma Jam, said Jane, as one
who reads the heart, do make such a
dust about. Besides the waste of
money. And the smell. How ever I
suppose it's necessary to some.
William was at first rather shabby
young man Of the readymade black
coat school of costume. He had wa
terry gray eyes, and a complexion ap-
propriate to the brother Of one in a
home for the dying.
He goes to chapel said Jane. His pa
pa, ma'am-
His what, Jane?
His papa, ma'am was Church, but
Mr.. Maynard is a Plymouth brother
and William thinks it policy, ma'am
to go there too. Mr.. Maynard comes
and talks to him quite frequently,
when they amt busy, about using up
all the ends of string and about his
SOUL He takes lot of notice, do Mr..
uudy udIU, VI w 1HldtI, dId OliO way hO
saves string and his soul, ma'am.
Presently we heard that the head
porter at Maynard's had left, and that
William was head porter, at 1915
cents week.
She promised in the pride of her
heart to make interest for us with Will
liam to favor us SO that we might get
our parcels of drapery from Mayn-
ards with exceptional promptitude.
One Sunday afternoon about that
time I was sitting at my writing desk
possibly I was reading a good book
when something went by the win
dow.
[ heard startled exclamation be-
hind me, and saw Mariana with her
hands clasped together and her eyes
dilated.
George, she said in an awestricken
whisper, did you see?
Then we both spoke to one another |
at the same moment, slowly and SOL
menly:-
A silk hat! Yellow gloves! A new
umbrella!
1t may be my fancy, dear, said Mar
lana, but his tie was very much like
yours. believe Jane keeps him in ties.
She told me little while ago, in a
way that implied volumes about the
rest Of your costume. The master do |
wear pretty ties, ma'am. And he |
echoes all yOur novelties
They were arm in arm. Jane look
ed exquisitely proud, happy, and un-
comfortable, with new white cotton
gloves, and William, in the silk hat,