The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 29, 1882, Page 15

[kad worked in Aunt Deborah’s | kitchen till nobody expected any- thing else of me. I had been re- tained in the house on sufferance, at first, because Aunt Deborah's broth- | er, my father, had run through all | his property, and was only remark- | able for his shiftlessness and the size of his family. never missed from that superabun- dant home circle; at any rate, they never came to see me, nor ever in- quired after me that I know ot. Aunt Deborah had a good deal of company, being arich and childless widow, and fond of society. But no one ever neticed me. I was not even snubbed, for 1t was not wertin while to snub a mere drudge like me My cousin, Elsie Alliston, also a member of my aunt’s family, but she very different treatment than that which fell to my lot. Her father was auntie’s favorite brother; therefore she was educated and understood to be certain of a home and its comforts always, and of a fortune at Aunt Deborah’s death. Yet I did not envy .ay tortunate cousin, for while I was let alone, and at least took pride in the con- sciousness that I earned my own living, Elsé was continually leing taunted with her dependence, and was received a was kept in abject servility by con- | stant threats of disinheritance. Elsie would have been kind to me if I had allowed it, but I had a sort of pride which forbade me to re- ceive patronage from any one. I must be received on an equal foot- ing or none at all. The only pleas- ure of my life was unlimiied liberty to use the books in my aunt’s great and ever increasing hbrary, My rough work unfitted my hands from sewing, a fact for which I was suf- ficiently thankful, as 1t increased my leisure hours. For the first two or three years ot my stay 1 read novels exclusively. But one of the novels happencd to have a noble and aspirmg woman fora herome. Somehow, the story ofthat hfe haunted me day and night, and I resolved to be some- j thing worthy of love and respect, whether I received my reward or not. My first step was to map outa line of thought and conduct, and a course of reading. My intellectual nature was to be moulded by some of the best books in my aunts library and that ideal woman of whom I had read was to be my moral lever, lifting me into a atmosphere of self- forgeting holiness and love. I be- heved that if Aunt Deborah’s drudge never had an opportunity of show- ing her devotion to the human race, herown soul should grow rick by! the quiet effort. rs It had been years since I tormed | this resolution when Mr. forming one « party of visitors, came Gleason, | to my aunts house. But having | company to cook for in the sun.mer had become a settled thing, and all ‘ company ment to me was more drudgery and less time to read. \ There was nu prophetic voice to | wh'sper to my heart, on the morn- ing of Mr. Gleason’s arrival, that | my fate, my hope and my despair, | and my misery, had | He was only one more | and waited | my blessing come to me. guest to be cooked for upon by the drudge. | One day Elsie came to me with | her sweet, weak face tearful and} pleading. “You must help sme, Hannah,”’ | she said. “Help you do what, child?’ “To keep Aunt Deborah’s will and marry Mr. Gleason. see, Mr. Gleason is very poor, and | if aunt threatens to disinherit me, it | may lessen my chances of getting | him.”’ good- You ! Ithink my astonishment and dis- | gust showed themselves in my face | as I answered, *‘Have you so little | fonfidence m your promised hus- bband? Se little taith, and yet ing to be his ite?" ‘ will- She made an impatent gesture. | |< “You don’t understand, she said, | Slowly and blushingly. *‘He hs Rot yet asked me to be his wife. but Ae will, Tam sure he will! He: I suppose I was | | your own living ‘ed in the volume I had j corner. | ened, and Mr. Gleason entered. He | troubled spirits. AUNT DEBORAH’S DRUDGE. | does not love me very much, but| itI hadthe book I saw here yester- | that I watched eagerly for his com- when we are married, and he sees! day.”” my devotion, it will be ditterent.’” I returned to the afore-mentioned Then she put her face in my apron | corner, and produced the volume I j and sobbed bitterly, and I knew bh | had been persuing with so much in- her tears that she had many misgiv- | terest. “This is pre 1 ings. bly what you were ‘How can I help you?’’§ I asked. | looking for, sir,”* said I. “I don’t know,’ she replied) He took the volume from my | through her tears: ‘but you can | hand with evident pleasure and just manage anything, I am sure. Aunt as evident surprise. plied, ‘*That 1s the first compliment | read his face. | I ever received, and I think it an ex- | | ceedingly doubtful one. It cannot | be expected that a kitchen drudge | can successfully intermeddle in so | emphatically delicate a matter asa love affair. | mdications of Why Elsie, I was never in love in! all my life, and I daily pray to be! preserved from such a calmity, be- cause the men I could love not notice sucha person as I seem to, all. In her an affection of pretty be.”* childlike simplicity is considered very “TI don’t know,” interesting, why need she aspire to biously, and for the time her troubles. ‘*There 1s about you different from vants—something strong centive to care for such things, be- discourages al] such to a woman whether the house she 1 Corinthian, Dor- lives in is built du- forgetting something said Elsie, become intelligent?” ‘I think you are mistaken, Miss other | Alliston. and ser- Promise ; past tense ”” “You area man of society and with morbid sensibilities. that you’ll help me if you can, Han- | nah.”’ | ought to know; but my small field “Yes, can make that promise | of observation has shown with perfect safety,” I replied. | some women, at least, affect frivol+ I formed a little plan of action very | ity and simplicity ae Ene ase ae oe speedily. That evening Rae A | SERPS a which I infer GE Agnt (Deborais. qoom,. and Seine, society admires that sort of wor Wine Ge, ee Ge Ce ‘Perhaps it does, after a fashion pat jhe replied witha smile. ‘‘But de- were, “I suppose you mean to leave ; 3 fh Elsie penniless, if she marries a poor | pend uponmit SES man?” | scepture of belleship was never yet a aa s 4 yrested from an intelligent conversa- aa m3 replied; “I have se- tionalist by an 1gnorant woman, even cured for her the offer of 4 very | though the brilhant woman has a eligible huspand. If she does not | much piscnert tance tewethe other | seeffit to accept him, Hee ETS EE People love to be entertained, and beaehee mas she EES Te _. | one who can offer wit and wisdom Then,”’ said I, “Elsie’s loss will | without pedantry is sure to be ad- be my gain, Ihope. Don’t fail to) consider me after she has flung away | mired, and if she can add genuine v4Y | unselfishness to her list of accom- her chances of some day becoming your heiress.”’ \ plisnments, to be loved also.”’ “‘Perhaps,”’ said 1. ‘‘But have A Deborah looked atme stead- | you not forgotten to return to the ily for a moment, as if she felt in- | drawing-room.”’ clined to think I was taking leave ot ‘Thank you tor the reminder, my senses; then she sat in her chair} Miss Alliston. May {I venture to and laughed long; laughed until her | hope that this will not be our last round face was very red indeed. | meeting?’ Assoon as she was in the condi-| *‘I am, as Itold you, a ny servant, | tion to speak, she said, *tyou had | and perfer not to be patronized. We better have practiced awhile on| met by accident. If we meet again someone else before you tried to/I shall not recognize you.”’ overcome my purpose with strategy. | He smiled good-humoredly, bow- Your face betrays you. You are | edand suid‘* We shall see,”’ and turn- ashamed of yourself. You know | ed away. that Iam contrary, and know that i I am always angry with the person | conversed so freely with a stranger who wrongs Elsie; therefore you and made sundry good resolutions by | thought that py making me angry | which my future deportment was to with yourself you could get me to) be governed. vow eternal fidelity to Elsie. Not) Ido not understand what there so. It is just as I have said. Elsie | was in the trifling event just narrated must okey me, or she will not re- ;to stir my nature to its depth, but ceive a penny from me. As for you ! that night I did not close my eyes you have strength and ability to earn | till three o’clock. I began to hate You know how myself for having remained so long | to work and do not care for the lux- | in menial position without « single uries that money brings. You do struggle to rise abeve it. A beautiful | not need my money, and further, I | thought came to me at last, with the suddenness of inspiration. I had in I turned away with a bitter smile, | many instances proven myself to be how uttle did my aunt know of my a good nurse for the sick. I had tastes, only because J was too proud more than once administered simple do not believe you want it.”’ to make them known. And my in- | remedies with success in the absence | tended aid to Elsie had proved a of a physician. [f had been fastinat- failure. The next afternoon, hav-| ed by the study of anatemy and pFy- ing a leisure hour, I went into the | siology: why not add to these the library, intending to carry a book up i knowledge of therapeutics? Why to my room; but becoming iterest-| not become a physician practicing selected, I: among the wonen and children? forgot my purpose, and seated my- There several lady physicians already in London. The healing oil to my and I soon selt near a window in an obscure in good practice Not long after the door op- , thought was the was spent some time searching among asleep, happily ignorant ot the long the books, and at last turned to the struggle entailed upon me by my door with empty hands and an air of | resolutions, of the cost of the medi- Then I rose and / cal course and the difficulty of per- suading patients that a woman can whatever he | D¢ 86 undertake a ‘case.’ ! I was wonderful how often Mr. ! Gleason found it necessary to come to the kitchen door fora drink, and how he persisted 1n not noticing the disappointment. suggested that I might perhaps b able to find tor him wanted. He turned and surveyed me for a briet moment; then inquired “Whom do T address?"" *‘Hannah Alliston, the kitchen maid.”” cook and come into the kitchen, no matter *T was searching for a werk on} how busy I was, and trouble me to architecture, and am disappointed | vet one for him, ‘aed pause awhile = it, because I wished to to talk. a warm argument, fast de- I found one thing. I could talk, scending to dispute, which I left in ne one had ever tned to draw me tull progress in the drawing roem. | out before. sh my point; I was not alarmed when I found ¢ I coula estal Deb says you seem to make every-! ‘Ladies do not usually care tor | thing run soomthly. this sort of literature,’’ he said apol- { could nut help smiling as I re- | ogetically.’’ when he saw that I had T replied, ‘*Ladies have little in- | cause society promptly and most | strong-mindedness. } Of course it can make no difference | would | ic or Gothic style, or has no style at | I think the days when a! mas- | Woman was admired for her ignor- | tertul; but I think you are troubled | ance may safely be named in the: me that } Alliston, the} I felt vexed with myself for having | glass which I had placed there tor | his accommodation, but must always | jing. I told myselt that no one | whose triendship was worth caring | for had ever before treated me like a \rational being and an equal, and \ that had this friend been a woman, | ;my love would have been just the same. We talked on every subject, from | the lore of legend to the internation- al politic. and I never dreamed that than the pleasure of | | speaking on subjects remote trom | pudding 2nd pies that made me care | for the society of Mr Gleason. I had a terrible awakening. One | day he was just leaving me, when a voice on the lawn was heara to call | | out, **Where’s Mr. Gleason?” ‘Down in the kitchen, 1 suppose. | courting the cook,’’ was the answer it was more more suggestive than ladylike. It was not the heat of the fire that made my face burn at that moment 'and the thought flashed into my mind that I had an unquestionable right to be courted, just as Mr. Glea- ison re-entered the room and said, that course jest on the lawn has made me resolve to ask you now what I had intended to defer to a ater day. I love you Mis Alliston; | i will you be my wife?” i | Oh, no, no, Mr. Glesson! | Where is your honor to trifle the affections of Elsie, then and wed me? I am_ surpri yond measure. I thought better of | you. Go!’’ “T cannot tell you what you may have heard,’” he replied with a pale H istern face, ‘‘but I haye been no more attentive to Miss Elsie than courtesy demanded. I had dared to hope for a different an- | swer. You have accused me of dis- | honor. We must now part.”’ | Then he was The same | day he left Aunt Deborah’s, “A sudden fancy to sketch among the} Welch mountains. Never thinks ot | anything but his art,’? complained the guests. 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