The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-06-26
JAMES JILTiNG.

AS l SIT writing III my study | can
hear cur Jano humping her way down
stairs with q brush and a dustpan. She
used in the old days to sing hymn tunes,
or the British national song for tho
time being, to these instruments, but
latterly she has been silent and ever
careful over her work. Time was when
/ prayed with feryor for such silence.
and my wife with sighs for such care,
but low they have come We are not So
glad as wo might have anticipated We
should be. Indeed, I would rejoice Sc
cretly, though it may be unmanlv weak
ness &c admit it, even to hear Jane sing
Daisy or by the fracture of any plate
but u of Mariana's best green ones
to learn that the period CT brooding has
come to an end.
Yet how We longed to hear the last
of James young man before we head
the last Ct lin. Jane was always Very
free with her conversation to ny wife
and disco1rsed admirably in the kitchen
on a variety Of topics, so well, in
deed, that I sometimes left my study
door open-cEr house is d small one
70 partake cf it. But after William
came it was always William. nothing
but William, William this and William
that, ard when we thought William
was worked out and exhausted altogeth-
CT then William all over again. The
engagement lasted altogether three
years, yet how she got introduced to
William and SO became thus saturated
with him Uas always q secret. For my
part | believe it was at the street cor
ner where the Rev. Barnabas Baux used
to hold an open air service after even
song Gu Sundays. Young Cupids were
wont to fit Ike moths roand the paraf-
fin fare Of that center OF high church
hymn singing. fancy she stood singing
hymns there ont of memory and her inn
agination instead Of coming home to
get supper, and William came up beside
her and said, ''Hello!" Hello your
self, she said. Aud etiquette being sat
isfed they proceeded to talk together.
As Mariana had a reprehensible way
of letting her servants talk to her she
soon heard of him. HE is such Il re-
spectacle young man, ma'am,' said
Jane. you don't know" Ignoring the
slur cast on her acquaintance, MY wife
inquired further about this William.
He is second porter at Maynard, the
Diapers, said Jane, "and gets IS shil-
~lings-nearly d pound-a week, ma'arn,
and when the head porter leaves he will
be head porter. His relatives are quite
superior people, ma'am. Not laloring
people at all. His father was a green
grosher, ma'arn, and had a chumor, and
he was bankrup' twice. hrI one OF bis
sisters is III q home fer the dying. 1t
will be a very coed match for me,
ma'an1," sail Jane. ''me being an or
phan girl"
"Then you are engaged to him?" ask
ed my wife.
"Not engaged, ma'am. but he is saw
ing money to buy q ring-hammyfist.
well, Jane, when yen are properly
engaged to him, you may ask him round
here on Sunday afternoons and have tea
with him in the kitchen For my Mar
lana has a motherly conception of her
duty toward her maidservants. And
presently the amethystine ring was be-
ing worn about the house even with
ostentation, and Jane developed a new
way of bringing in the joint SO that
this gage was evident. The elder Miss
Maitland was aggrieved by it and told
my wife that servants ought not to wear