Year: 1878

One evening, not long after sophy
had recovered from the dangerous ILL.,
ness, the young doctor came, in an es-
pecialIy happy state of mind, to tell
his friends of his having at last got an
appointment he had long coveted, with
a very remunerative salary. They
congratulated him heartily on his good
luck; the squire was only sorry to
lose such an agreeable neighbor. The
mother thought:


How vexatious that Clara would
60 to the Cassno to-day, when the
doctor would most likely have wished
to have made her an Offer and pom
derod in her mind whether she should
have the people at the hall work for
Clara's outfit, or send everything out
to be done. Sophy had escaped away
unobserved, most likely because she
thought it would be proper to con-
gratulate the doctor, and did not know
how to do so; and it was rot until he
was prepared to depart, after having
fingered much longer than was proper,
that she turned up. She lighted him
down stairs, and then the still hesita-
ting visitor begged her to show him
her young hares. (Sophy always had
little menagerie) Although it was
rather late Sophy good naturally com,
piled, and vert down with him to the
little room where she kept them. The
mother thought it was not quite suit
able, but the squire only laughed and
told her to let them alone.


Not long altogward they hcerl the
doctor shut the front door and gallop
away as fast as he could although he
had come on foot. But Sophy rushed
up stairs with checks hot and glowing
and dashed into the room.


What is it? What is the matter?
What has happened to You?' asked
the squire.


oh, such a thing never happened
to me in ali my I.fe :. screamed So
ply.


We'll, what then ? asked her moth
cr.


The doctor wants to marry NE
Sophy burst out and began TO cry be-
cause she did not know what to do.


We'll, that is o nice fellow said
the squire, pretending TO be very an
CRY, talking Of marriage to oo irno-
cent child, and making j. weep auoh
bitter tears. I VIII tell nil1 directly
What l think OF it. | VIII write him
such letter that - won't sttc., up
in lis looking glass, cnd CT he vent
to his roora in a great rage.


lie had not been there very long
when sophy came N; a'.o Lad already
dried up her tcarc.


Father, she began very timidly, I
think you 4Aould net exactly send an
express messenger to t.-9 doctor; IL
it


Why? Why net? You poov III
jured child?


1T would cost too mucl,' said So
ply, in the greatest embarrassment.


Oh, you careful child laughed the
delighted squire. What good house
wife you will make. Well, we'll, we
will leave it for the present, until we
can tell The doctor face to face that he
must rot talk Of marriage to children
Oh SCFeutSel


yes, but grandmamma was only
sixteen, said Sophy, and she took to
her heels as fast as she could.


Well, tic lcctor came, and they
talked over the matter face to face,
and he did not order any more leech-
es, though her face had still deeper
crimson than before.


The marriage was very properly
delayed a little, but there was mer-
ry betrothing feast before the doctor
leaft Clara was of course very much
astonished, but still contrived to bear
the loss Of her lover with dignity and
resignation; she made pretty brides
maid, and soon after comforted her
self by the side Of a long-legged con-
veyancer.


l don't know if the doctor got So
ply to read Schiller or Goethe; but
this I do know, that she never regret
ted the unheard of event which hap
pened in her rabbit room, and that she
never repeuted having spared that