Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-03-23

boxes; and almost immediately here
she was at the door, very injured and
/ angry and insisting on leaving the rec
tory at that very instant.
After that no reproaches had the
effect of damping Maryis ardor. In
the flush Of victory she did the work Of
two people, and did it in such thor
ough fashion as no two people ut the
rectory had every done it before. She
arose before daybreak that, her own
| Legitimate labors being over, the coveted
privilege of washing, dressing and nurs-
ing the infant till il slept again might
be hers. Hour after hour Of nights
when the weakly child was fretful she
carried it about, untired, in her arms.
In such fashion her months notice"
crept away, and the day came on
which she must leave US. We talked
among ourselves of how she would
bring herself to part from her precious
charge.
Let her stay" pleaded the rector,
always tempted to do the easy thing,
always yielding to pressure had TO
remind him that Mary in many things
had behaved badly; that while she re-
manned | could not uphold authority
that in the end it would be bad for
-toA ESei1t. ~ kOu NAllN1l REPRESENTATIVES,
he turned his back, as his habit is in
all controversy, and went out Of the
room. | had once or twice attempted
a word with Mary herself on the sub
ject of her approaching departure. She
heard me in stolid silence as far rs her
tongue was concerned, but it must be
confessed she made the plates and
dishes, the kitchen doors and the tim
ware TO sneak
Margaret, grown year old row, was
unusually fretful on the eyentful day
which was to see the last of the
general. 1t is humiliating fact
that in spite of all my love and devoted
care, my anxious desire to please, the
child would always turn from my
Establishments to the rough arms, the
hard bosom of Mary--a curious freak
of preference little difficult to bear.
She was sitting on my lap, resisting
all my efforts to amuse her, when
Mary, announced by her habitual at
tack on the door, appeared. The gen
eral'' was attired in the green merino,
grown shorter now, the black hat and
white feather which on Sunday after
moons, in the rectory servants pew,
we're such an offence in my eyes, but
which Mary had stoutly refused to re-
linquish. She was equipped for her
! journey, down to her white COTTON
gloves and her horn handled umbrella.
So she stood for minute silent in
the doorway, and in her eyes was a
great scorn of my Intellectual efforts to
comfort the fractions child--a great
longing was in them too.
In my own eyes, somewhat to my
establishment, the tears rose. The girl
| hnI haat, nop,fo,r ~,
although so impossible in others. TIC
be going away from Dulditch, to be
leaving for ever little Margaret, was
not that fate to awake compassion in
the hardest heart?
You have been a good girl, Mary,
| said. I'VE shall be glad to hear
that you are doing well. We shall moi
forget you. ~
On Mary's part ungracious silence
on that of little Margaret loud cries,
and passionate struggle to get out oil
my arms and to escape to Mary.
Put 'er down and let Ter Grape -
Mary cried with a kind of contemp.
tuous authority. "Yew be q hurtin' or
Ter like that
You'll have your mothers little
: Ethel, you know | reminded her,
determined not to show offence: while
Margaret being put upon the floor hac
hushed her crying and was putting
much energy and enthusiasm into the
; exercise of "eraping. =" 1 had hold oil
her dress, but she had bolted under
the table, and, finding it inconvenient
) to follow, L, perforce, let her go. Run
: ming round to catch the child as she
! emerged, | found myself too late
' With crow of delight the little thins
had made for Mary, and clutched the
, green merino dress.
umbrella and clawed the baby to he
Q heart
, II ha' got 'er," she cried with ;
defiant look at me. She held tine chilt
e tightly with one arm and pulled of
, her hat and feather. II baint a goin
to lave her, nayther,'' she declared
e glaring at me. 'Nothin' 'ont max
, me lave her; and so L tell yer. -
: And, although this was by no mean
y the only effort made to get rid OF on
, Mary, she never did leave US.
: ''rime little Margaret live I'm
agoin to stop along of her." she al
e ways said. when She be gona I'll q
: il yer like.
But although Margaret has been eon
u this many year. Mary is with u
g still.
! She is u hard featured, middle-age,
y woman now, speaking always of her
self as gall still. She has contrive,
q to save money in our service, the gree
g merino having had few successors, an,
: Mary being always "wunnerful keer
" full over her things. When savings ar
% spoken of suitors will appear, and NOR
10 than once the household has peen dis
r turbed to its foundations by the an
'e nouncement chat its prop and mainsta
sr was about to be wrenched from it-tha
L our Mary was going to be married.
3. Experience of the worth of such init
lie nations enables us now to treat til
?, news with outward respect, but with
" out any undue disturbance of eauani
y nifty.
II ha' got another young man. l b
10 goin' to git married, come Michas
n mas, is sentence with which we ar
now pretty familiar.
d Mary's counting exercises run abou
]. the same course, and W. can watch tb
,e proceedings without any too lively a
it interest, knowing we'll what will b
IN the end. They generally begin, as i
q the case OF Teddy Pyman, yonng ma
to of blameless character, but of rath,
ar weak intellect, over the chickens in I'll
spring. Mary is clever in the reariu
to of fowls, and in the spring of the We,
80 good deal of her time is spent on I'll
20 drying ground, where the hen eooI
OF are. Teddy, who makes a short CT
through the small enclosed meadow O
SO his way home from work, sits on Il
gate beneath the April sky and, wit
ed an distracted air, pulls off n tvi