Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-07-13

sometimes when / entered room
where she sat at her embroidery work.
/ used to stink away as soon as posi-
Bile when my mother turned her star
tied blue eyes upon me in such wise.
that she might regain her peace, and
sometimes | used to send my brother
John to her on some errand, if could
manage it, knowing that he could soon
drive me from her mind. Que learns
early such little tricks with women.
They are such tender things, and II
stirs ones heart to Impotence to see
them troubled However, l will not
deny that | may have been at times
disturbed with some bitterness and
jealousy at the sight of my brother
and my stepfather having that which
l naturally eraved, for the heart OF
little lad is hungry thing for love,
and has pangs of nature which will not
be stilled. though they are to be borne
like all else of pain on earth.
But after | saw Mary Cayendish all
that passed, for / got, through loving
so entirely. such knowledge of love in
others that | saw that the excuse of
love, for its weaknesses and its own
crimes even, is such as to pass under
standing. Looking at nay mother ca
ressing my brother instead of myself.
entered so fully into her own spirit Of
tenderness that no longer rebelled nor
wondered. The knowledge of the weak
ness of ones own heart goes far to set
ono a + RIGHTS with q ofhopc
When | first saw Mary Cavendish
she was, as said before. little baby
maid of two and | a loutish lad of
fourteen, and | was going through tina
park of Cavendish Hall, which lay next
ours, one morning in May. when all the
hedges were white and pink and the
blue was full of wings and songs.
Cavendish Hall had been vacant. save
for a caretaker, that many a day
Francis Cavendish, the owner, had
been for years in India, but he had
lately died, and now the younger
brother. Geoffry, Mary's father, had
come home from America to take pos
session of the estate, and he brought
with him his daughter Catherine by
than 5; his second wife, a delicate lady
scarce more than girl. and bis little
daughter Mary.
And they had left to come thither
two fine estates in Virginia namely,
these two Laurel Greek, which was
Mary's mothers In her own right, and
Drake Hill and the second wife had
ed by a whole troop of black slaves,
which made all our country fall agog
at once with awe and ridieule and ad
nliration was myself full of interest
in this unwonted folk and prone to
linger about the park for q sight and
maybe chance word with them, hav
ing ever from a child had desire to
look further into that which has been
hitherto unknown. whether 1t be In
books or In the world at large.
So ], with my book lesson done. but
my mind still athirst for more knowl
edge, and maybe curious. for all thirst
is not for the noblest ends, craWied
through gap in the snowy May hedge
and was Sinking across the park OF
Cavenflish Hall with long. loose jointed
lopes ike d stray puppy. and maybe
with some sense of being where
should not. though could not have
rightly told why, since there We're No
warnings up against trespassers and
had no designs upon any hare or deer
Be that as It may. was going along
in such fashion through the greenness
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