Year: 1859




You would make convenience of my
house, Anne Moss she said. :. You would
stay under my roof, although you have already
given me warning-fancy servant girl giving
warning, indeed-now, you will find your mis-
take. | don't know what your future husband
may be-Ia am not rich enough to keep sick
people and idlers. think you will remember
till the day of your death what good mistress
I have been All the servants who have left
my situation have wished themselves back
again" <4 49,


Anne attempted, in aslneek spirit, to discover
saad imagine all nAss as,saeiiss RECEIVED by her
from Mrs. Darah. It was hard and micro
scopic task however, she succeeded in it at
last


~ am sure, Smissus,' she said, Il thank
you heartily for all your kindnesses."


% 1t is no more than your duty, Anne"
answered the lady, with a gratifed smile and
folding of the hands.


"No, missus And if you see young man
walking about here on Saturday, looking up
and down at the house, ma am, would you be
50 very kind, ma am, as to send the new servant
and ask him if his name is William Griffin
and if it is William, ma am to ask him to 60
to my fathers, and l Will send him word where
am, ma am ?" And Anne waited, trembling
and blushing.


" Anne Moss, can't think how you dare to
take such a liberty with me and my house,"
answered her mistress " I have always warned
you of the folly and unftness of young women,
who have their living to get, keeping lovers
You know that my servants are not allowed to
have followers; and it is most likely that
shall send an officer after the young man, instead
Of my servant, if | see him prowlng up and
down, looking into these Windows So the
girl left, dispirted


Poor Anne feared to go and live with her
drunken father, lest she should be insulted by
any of his drunken associates. and lest he
should be tempted to lay his hands upon the
little store she had laid by for William and
herself. So she was obliged to seek lodging
in the town, where she could live decently until
that day next week, when William would take
her as his wife to her first and last real home.


The misfortune she most dreaded-namely,
the dissipation of her little capital-began the
moment she left her MISTRESS house. To save
expense she made up her mind to carry her own
trunk to her lodging. She tried to do SO, but
found herself too weak. She was obliged to
hire carrier and that involved dip into
Williams money!" as she delighted to call it.


So that the dip might be us shallow as posi-
BILE, she engaged a lad instead Of a man for her
porter. But before they had half reached the
quarter of the town where Anne's lodgings
were situated, his boyhocd began to evince itself
in a very visible manner. He painted, and drew
long breaths, and perspired greatly, and now
and then stumbled under the weight. His
pride tried to hide these signs. He endeavored
to stimulate himself with the thought of his
payment but his efforts at self-encouragement
came out very plainly IN certain noises, and in
his unconscious compression and biting of his
lips. The te ender hearted lass espied them a; she
could not endure to see him SO vexed and incon-
venenced; and SO, for the rest of the way, she
insisted on bearing half the weight.


When she had arrived in her room, and had
dismissed her young porter, and sat down to
rest herself, she began to feel the bitter results
of her efforts with the heavy trunk. She was
very ill when she started she was now ten
times worse. Her head ached fercely her
! breath was short, audible and gasping her
whole body was parched and feversh.
She called her landlady into the room, and
asked her for little cold water. The woman
had counted on providing supper for her; as
she had heard her stay was to last only week,
she meant to make the week paying one, SO
she had prepared some two-penny or three-half-
penny sausages, which were even then figuring
in their minds bill of fare at sixpence apiece.
In rather disappointed tone, therefore, she
asked Anne if she should bring her nothing to
eat The poor girl said she was sure she could
not swallow anything. The landlady said she
,, had some beautiful new-laid eggs-they were a
: kind that wonderfully cured headache and lever
indeed, she told her that if any of her neigh


bors were ill in that way, they always came
and begged. lone Of these eggs. Anne was
= credulous, and did not doubt her landlady's
possession of the medical hen which laid such


eggs but Anne was also resolute-no one
= could persuade her out Of her own methods
y :. She said she felta good long sleep was what
she needed the most, and that she should a,
. once go to bed.


But although she went to bed, she could Gel
no sleep; all the long night she was tossing
X restlessly over and over She remembered that
- William had promised if he could get away, tc
- call on her two or three times before Saturday
J" for which II friend had promised to lend him d
, = horse and cart. She began to picture to her
- self his astonshment when he heard that sht
~ was gone, and she wondered if her mistress
~ would relent, and be communicative. Sh,


made up her mind that, so soon as the morning
T. had come, she would llc in wait for the new
20 servant, as she went out shopping, and beg he
"a to watch Tor William and if he called, to tel
v him where his sweetheart had removed.
D. But, when the morning came, she knew no
e. thing of purposes and resolutions; she was il
le brain-fever, talking and rambling wildly.


The landlady wondered that she saw or heart


nothing of her at breakfast and going up tt


look after her, found her in that frghtful con