Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1871, Page 2

too. May we drive on to see Mrs. Cowen? She “ Never 5 , Pen *, re. Nie is best forbs with Ker now ‘best to be with her always, if she did but know it.” “* Not better than Walter,” Charlie, she re- | Ber eyes all aflame in their sorrow; “not A PUBITAN MAIDEN. | from the Boston Commonweaith.! Church bells were summoning pious folk ‘To penitential services, When grave-eyed Jane walked forth to search For bitter herbs upon the leas. such a dear, dear, pleasant fellow. by any doubt; undisturbed by any quarrel; un- | Scot is pot the very ido! of mother’s heart— It was a goodly holiday, : “ pep ceo derrmey stn blae, | touched by any passion; fresh ‘and gay,and glad, | like Walter H troubled shadow whic! “No; tn. uence of the mother's t And in the ancient oreharde gras the lonely path that it forever crossed, | being sat him.” But | stopped with a Giod children played and sotans Sow. | Tter's widowed mother lived ‘about two Inna for ‘would not vex Pennie to-day’ with Bro" ‘Im trees hung their jewels out ' miles from us, at Easter-Hil!, and a very ar; of ours. Sree Sine AO ESP Ontase Gea uee, Comfortable property of her’ owas which of | cow, Chart, arate said, her face s@hapny course, Walter would inherit. Pepe Bost, hor 80 wistful and tender in its first pain ed forth le scep-ron, had fifty pounds @ year of his own: but 9 Sn ON lieth he had wealth enough in hia deep, clear head, | Scot's goodness and of Waltcr's thoughtless It was a goodly holiday and shere was as much truth in Mrs. Cowen’s | ness, you know very well that ever! And merry eity-folk did throng indifferent opinion, “ Ob, Scot is sure to get on, | Walter best. They can’t help it. No more can ‘The viliage-street, and roamed about, penniless a» he is,” as there wasin the proud | L- As though to do s0 were not wrong. | addition, « Dear Walter would never have done She reemed to miss Walter very much, and : i t» be poor.” 1 do not think Mrs. Cowen di But sober Jane walked onalone, ked Scot at all, she was only utterly indiffer Aid maples wore fall coral sets, she was just her own wilful selt all the time— | atwave waiting on me, teasing Scot, and. acting Cowpanioned by ber thoughts not mild, ent about him, and neglectful of him. Her | the pleasant, demure little mistress of the house Until, beneath a lilac hedge, heart was so entirely filled by Walter, that she when our father came home at night. Often I She spied green tansy growing will. | really had no room tor anyone else: not even | felt very angry with her; and at last one day ” Half grown, thus early, were the leaves, for Pennie, jh 1 do believe she tried to love | when Scot bad one of his hard Eraguling er And sweet they did yield ' her because Walter loved her. mornings, ! followed her out and told I Unto her pronigans go be oa When Scot left Oaford. where, with his tal- | could not stand by and see his brave, pation That could a Roneysuckle field. | ents,and £50 ayear,be had won himself glo- rious honors, he became iy tutor for a time, and You ought never to come in to study with Quoth Jane, “1 do rejoice to see, | lived with us entirely. All my life I shall bo | 99,” Lsaid, hotly. “ You should learn nothin Upon this ancient holy day, | giad and gratefat for tuis, for he has tanght me | al’ your life rather than learn ftom him now. Which godless people so profane & no one else could Lave done; making my | -‘‘ But there is vo one else to learn from,” sho With their unholy work and play. studics pleatant and bealthfal to me, and ron- | ponted. “So [ must.” ven he would caré lass ‘Their foasting when ordained to fast ing me cheerily trom the languid, idle life | | hen L wish te He 2 | which. in my weakness and inactvity,1 might my good, ani go away for his own sake.” And bow in penitential prarer”— | roensily have led. Hct during ail Scot's acon PhAL gOund be very coking: tater E aie Quoth she, “I do rejoice tosce | Lhadone sore heartache, and this was through | ay that he will do it soon,” said Pennie. ‘Thess Bitter taney leaves eo fale. rex ie’s det-rmination to have lessons with me; |“ Yon Stal the word! ought tb, Judge Boot ee fled arn all 1 learnt, and tor Scot to teach it to | most tenderly an ¥, Peunie.” | eried. M Sack praca tetastacee aoe her. And she would no: guess what i knew so |." And so1.do, dear Charlie,” she answered, ! 4 Z ck earnestness, : well. Would not understand with what a dan- | with WSnes beter bento eu oa = ows mixture Of pain and pieasure,and joy | ‘Then leave him to himself. I shall miss om Angnieh, she troubled, all hie days. Poor | you woefully, as you know; but I would rather ‘Then Jane returned to her lone home, Se It would have been difficult work toteach you vever came until our work is over, and we And though she fasted all the day, her (with her puazling questions and frequent | a!l meet on equal grouml.”” Her spirit fainted not, nor quailed, inattention) ii he had nai loved her; but, loving | _ ‘ Charlie,”’ she said, in a voice of utter soli- For conscious virtue was ber st ' her as he did, and knowing what he ai a tariness, ‘1 am always lonely aud restless and Fast Day, 1571. E.W. — did not wonder at the old, still look which was | mischievous away from you; but I will not come | a peek creeping into his young face; my own watching | in again.” Sebi Pasr aban Ge Gi - =3 < grew dim as I rea; unwhispered strag- mi en of yu wae erable. th j A WISE LITTLE WOMAN. { es. ‘And still, in defiance of all m: eatreatics. | bad gained what I wished. | ‘ennie would insist on being taught with me. = | Mastering quickly’ and rilliwutly. what ‘my Day after day she forgot to join our studies, for- > witenstedl Scot wer . slower nature could not grasp; entering into itin the most and natural manner im- | 1 Taare, one Linaaen for my haar’ Scot's opinions, and reading rapidiy bis only | agiuable, oflering no lerved seqaens, showing to rest before luncheon. Pennie was leaving with , D2lfformed thoughts. Turning round and | conscious embartassment, and day after day, folded arms on the back of my sofa, provoking | !8ugbing at his pedantry; flashing seornful, pro- | She grew quieter and quieter to Scot; not kinder Scot as industriously as she could, while he YOking words and glances at him; then daintily | exactly, or more conceding, Dut more thought- slowly closed and put y ‘books and proudly, tm his very presence, parading the | ‘ul. e went alone very often to see Mes. table. This room in usting love she gave his brother. ¥ which we studied was no regular school-room, things I was thinking over, as I had | mother’s blind ani voted | idolizat of the | Se "i¢ ht them over many and many a lonely | “00, coutrasted with the son’s easy carelessnes~ | but the pretty moi room, muich, Fennic— time before, when the luncheon bell tang, ani | ot the mother, fretted Pennies toader heart sole mistress and sole daughter in the sisted on my appropriati Pennte danced in, that Waiter might give me I lay the wall was mirr : an arm. low windows. Inthis inirror 1 could see just | ,""Uknew Scot was out, because 1 saw him nec ee oie ee plodding up Easter Hil,"Tshesaid. «* What har the contrast in our three faces struck me then | D4 €one home for: almost as it had never struck me before. d her I did not know, and she looked Pennie’s came first, (one could hardly help —— Walter, rather puzzled. Then she i . rhs a ee plaant face we | 'Lknow, Walter. Iteis afraid your mother metry nilschiewous lips, and laughing dark blue , ™4y be frightened about Satanclla, and be las eyes, that seemed to know no shadow no | Sone to resewure her. peer pain. Yet though no one else in all the house | ),¢;,1 hope he may saccoed,” replied Walter, a had seen the gay eyes melt to Infinite tender- | Mttleemeeringly. Satanella himself,” 1 ph oP gamete y eee Gent aeaae said. Not walked all that disty, up. till oad. strolled into the study, there he was waitin low this radiant little fuce lay my own upon the | 9, Y Uma’ det the sort of thing poor Scot would | gladly, “I didn’texpect you bac sorely. ITeaw how her thoughts ran apon it after her visits, and at those times I never spoke one word against Walter. Yet sometimes, when Pennie told me how he said he had not time t write home, and so she must go and teil his mother about him, my impatient words would escape; and I said thata man who could not take a few minutes’ trouble to please a mother | who loved him so dearly, was not worthy to win | any other love. i ‘alter had been away about three mont! when one day Scot was sent tor home in lle was away all fg. eanie eoting him | bright blue cushions; thin ud languid, bat i u rtaluty not | fuched & Tittle just _now-—aot treme way etadios, | P07 EO + sngiad’” e¢hood Walters And | Me Gem Tn ee Teer How ie | ee canes a mans widathonchts | 5 s1650-6 my haid froma Kis are, aed wend Alon, |‘ A wite better, thank you.” hesatd, tar belure mer eumonateee Moet Gomme my tuior, | into the dining-room, aowly from me to'take Pennie’s oflercd bang yet scarcely older than Pwith ins pale, grave, Scot did not appear through the meal, but,“ Tbreaktasted long ago." + Have you sent for Waiter? [just as Pennie had declared her determinati thoughtful face, and slight, nervous figure. He her eyes xed upon his face. ** Yes,” was looking across me into Pennie’s eyes, and ‘9 drive me irstead of Fiding, he came up ¢ iclling ae 1 | Ms face was very white, as it always was when tettir eet ieee — een he was tired or hot. 3 And then he sat down calmly in his place, and | tif she wanted Ler translation to be cor. _““!7™ glad to see you back to-day, Scot,” We read together; while Pennic stood stient, ted, she must re-write it legibly for bint. said Waller, with a bearty cumphasis, as le or- leaning against the window trame I didi not | shall have to write it out legibly after you “ered Peynic’s horse; for we were nearly miss | know whether she was glad that sie should s corrected it,” she said. “Surely that is iP€0ur fide. Come, Penuie, it will be doubly | Waiter so soon, or sorry for lis pleasant exc enough labor to bestow oa the tamest bit of all , Valuable to ns now.” sion to be interrupted. the book.” tev Chart es" wluspered Pennic, an old wist Each day Bow, AB soon as our studios were “1 it it as it is, o s olness er Dig, brighteyes, “vou look as if Over, Scot went home; and in the atvernoon corrected Liaeetts at Sete Fone ae eat + you dnt want nele gor Shall wave vik, | Pemile Grove me to Easter Hull, and leaving me tow, Mics Brett, you will, 1 think, Lave pre. ¥0U instead? in the carriage at the gate, went up to the house pared a readable copy forme.” eigianghed @ negatives end yet I did fori | onfoct tosceW alter's mother. She never staphed . y ae strangely unwilling for ber to go, guessing that | Yery long, thougl am sure that if Mrs. Nez eres Seabed pen him an he went quietly fhis rite would bring them ness together than Cowen ad luke fo have had her she woul 's Charlie’ 21 hey liad ever been before watched them bave taken up her abode there to w PR ag nan ory serine eked: off” Then Best took the Teinsend we followed | Hurec by uigut'and day.” But the mo! now.” them Imoigic he Open gates; ta the oppo cared for no one; ovly counting the hours be- she replied, toaching my hand ‘!t¢ way. Wesrpoke very-little to each otier— | fore her son shoald come, aud fretting that oftly, “and I give you a good deal, you mea: we were friends enough to be silent to- , Scot had not bade ifm hasten. Tho day w tiet me assure you that you give me in. gether Wlemwe would—and bremomber feal- | Walter might have Arrived bad p: ; Snitely more, Scot. “If it were not that you are IPE Oddly relieved when Scot drew the pony up 2 J see how unquestiv Pennie odd dwith the power of bringing dead | ®8@!M betore the door, aud L saw Walter loung led on MiB coming. She seemed be facia (chietly hictions) intetus mod, hg there with his cigar. ‘unable to believe he was not in the ne, for my omail brain to grasps T “ Charlie, Charlie,” whispered Pennie, com ise stood on the plattorm as it rolled come and try to learn from you at a ing in to me as I rested, and putting ner arm- her yearning eyes following it F So stift you ate, aud stern, and exacting.” round ay neck and her eyes clowe to iine. ines were so many hindrances co's Li, . “some @ay Iam going to—marry Walter. Are « ee ars an ae Meaeeeet wae shat Se TS cet? Bey dar” dear baetteae, aro foaiceae and glad for Walter, and gla tor your- asked Pennie. come in any more, Pennie.’ fF th sell went by and tii! he did not come, her silence =o Mutle, Dongh F spoke in | ist com l tell her bet that ( was giad? | grew more distreseing to me Chan passionate 1 must, bo , How could { but be glad for ber, with the danc. gvief or anger. © fare” ae pone ge vain bowen ing, love-filled eyes so near to How On the last day the post bronzht two letters. ‘o kiss me—a little act of hers which always Could I but be giad for Walter, knowing what | (ne for Pennie, which she r ith cold, tight 1 ips, then threw across to me; and one for Scat, which he bul (aken away with him mnopened The old lady was so fidgetty, Walter wrote, e did it im this ber love made tay own homs? Me with pain w! leet wan wi there was enough to prevent th while Scot was with If vou had been anxtou: for instraction, 18 when J told her I was glad : ‘ roy? Really, Charlie that it would be ridiculous to suppose that she nt a stechool, Ishould think, | 1 iced the quivering lips, andi told her Wal- | reaily weant bim to come home trom such adis- , iadies eaunot teach.” in her ef would be avety happy fellow, aut I 1 little assump. ™issher sorely. The tears gathered in he u ‘dictatenniee no lady prc poche ing eves, and { think we must bora li | sided. She wanted him with her, he supposed haved very child'shly for #tew minutes, ae she tes het eign —- ve vety “ + alone, in the tender evening sansh fond ot him: and in a month or two he should ‘ gel Snare T begged Waitar to leave early that night, tor | be back with Ler. In the meantime he had . Leannet teach you for that fear his mother should be nervous about the ten to her and it would be all rigut. “Why, Scot,” said Pennie, raising young, searce broken horse he had brought: | 1 read nomore. 1 folded the letter,and passed brows, and pursing up her small, red lips, 1 be dectiaed. He was so happy, and gay. aac, it back to Pennie, asking her if she did not On intensely, Talwavs fecl-a kena of Wleasant, that his refasal did not sound think it would ter ter Scot to have a hoit- shadowing me when you are near. | '€38t barsh or unkind; and j | ior @ time, that be might not feel bis daties uid hardly dare to venture inte your pre- He and Pennie was so entirely engrowed by | pulling him two diferent ways. ence, only I mus! be as clever as Charlie; to J €2¢0 Other that—my father being ont, and | No, Charlie,” she said at once. © Papa P taught by Charlie's tator.” : having left the dining-room early and not ap- | and 1 Voth think (a# you would id you bad been ‘arlie’s tutor is alwaysat your service,” d since—I to see Miss. Cowen) that it is better for Scot to webertod ase wig Chek aioe teen have bis old work. If ke were constantly with van ton eae Uke ak” eT teak her, fretting a8 she always is tor Walter, it inat fs all L sak. When lemons are ever, 1 Scot ciawnd | would harass and weary him more than this bes ° nd still change woes. She never expresses a wish to a Tach and your , }aning back in bis low ebatr. ra Satan- | bavehnui alwaysthere; yet he is atender, cheer- e . 4 | ella’s footsteps as she was being led down trom purse, Chale.” ber! gmat rom Tew think eS ten tguag | the yard. andsoon after Pennie opened thedoot | 1 did not anawer, for just then Scot came in, you wil! not have it.” T and came up to me. his book without ranging for hal eeting us both with his gentle smile. He bad i ‘ re you so tired, Charlie, that you could | been to the station—a fruitless errand uow, and Pe A ney tod site ae anather | pot stay with us!” she asked, bendiag over | Pennie had never been since that frst hopetal nah he baagheae male.” * mine a face op which still lingered the parting | day—and I eould see by her glance at bis so\i- ‘All rig ‘only you see I have learned , *mile which had been given and received a few | try figure as be came up that the old hopehad (among elbatter.pgs of dead languages) te kaow | minutes before. heen with her this morning. I bad *hoaght it . “You did not want me, dear,” 1 said, half- | would be so, because by this time Walter miz’ pace pe al Se = = B shlg ak says half-jestingly. bave arrived in answer to the letter she herself Looking at Scot, and waiting for lis answer, | BéSly, fancying, perhaps, that her own loving pial pone pitoines? aw Nis face change, while 5 bands were . feelings must be shared by Walter, too. + We ppt gen ked, with a quiet wistrulness. Duse. A pationt fret Tork eaeds Cte | always sball, Am I not your own and only ave eyes: and I knew without turning. se isnot Walter —> © who Lad opened the oor behind me. Walter Coweu. bis half-brother, came ty and leaned ‘Oh, he Would be sure to come.” Scot said, ‘ooking yuickly away from her. face. light I could see Scot raise | 28 nO Placing dependenge on fur. desta rome loshing, never once ‘at us, giving pom question! face; — eS Po hee Were to write again’ me no mishake, no ught, until be bag Vr e io sh. ‘ feasted bis i hes on, @ Ute winning ipa. Then I laughed nervously at her astonish- ace whie ened so wonderfally at | ™e’ his coming. Betore I turned, f glanced a ‘mo. i Seot is waiting to hear your secret trém uking. bere must have leon some mistake in the last * Wouldn't it have come back in that case’ ment inte the mirror again, aud romehow 1 | JOOF OwD lin’) t said, wishing with al my | a vpostcd. could not help fancy t'the whote e | Heart that! bad told him myself while we sat | " euggested. aS = — — jan sine fen the whole pictur: there im the twilight. Not yet, peghaps; not yet, would it” asked face, and Inzy, lour'ging figure had brought Oh, Seo! @ began, with shy hesitation, | Pennie, readi ig Scots face eages some pew element into the scene—a quick, |‘! didn’'tsee {Lous else 1 would have told you. | _™ We cortai ought uot to expect it buck 9 threw . At least I think <0, 1f—if Walter hasn't soon, he decided. But'he would not wait for it; oe ne “You have kept’ Walter so entirely to your- | he would write again at once. ‘ Scot«few quiet words bad au oldelecn ee” self little lady,” I putin, hurriedly, “that he | | And after be had left us, T could not beip « How is my mether to-day, Walter?” canot have told anyone telling Pennie what} had heard at the pust- | * Complaining a little, as usualjold fetlow, , “ He—and 1.” said Penni oftice--that every night a letter went from &s usual, very unwilling forme to leave | SMe*, but with timid, sbrinking eves as she cot tohis brother with a large * Immediate’ on in slow, happy i looked at him, “‘are—eng sged, Scot.” | the envelope. a pidekesmalnied a ro sey. said Scot, quiets | Peale tiraed away trom me in auls Lat 4 « a B tS) ans inute, waiting for him to * What es he write, ui? Why pot | soo nae See Be Qnds patting prazer te | a 506; lace tumsaback her Bright little heed, | he write what wilt bring Walter home, aad not | “And I suppese you mounted her imme- | *24 looked down comically at me. fret and worry him, yet keep him there wiil diately” I * ogia: an ue Jught not Scot to say he is glad, or some- | his mother is—dying?”” Then her wrath | tired. and wishing thestwond gor °°! * “© | ting of that kind, Circle? Isn't it considered | courage broke down, and slic leauod her tired | “S'No: for | wasin the paddle when she spoke. Fight?” little head againet me, and sobbed out all the | ‘ ride . faw that she was speaking at random, and | fear, and love, am pointment which she | Fee ap ride with me this afterncce, YOU, | enst her checks had. fushed tod bor way and | tdden so long. - And Pennie, who loved these rides Wal- With tears as she read what was so sadly fa- After that fie was very petulant with Scot; © face ith ser meee Chan H : more petulant even than in old times. An Gay, blushed glediy ac ee rain ee rae! ber | T Ustuk sou need no congratulations, dear Bente eS when the . i ta a tg a fob “~ Come stro: faid, vaguely; “you have eno: in your o1 uppermost in her thou; ‘was mentioned, she carly on verpore for tat,” mai Waiver, ifas —- ake a? ” | wouldsay impatiently that we all made a. ridi- bh 4 rt loving tone of appropriation which led Pennie | _, Mer little Singers closed tightly or mine, yet | culowe tus; that Mr. Cowen was not reall ‘he bad recourse to her old peiulant defiance | very ill, only fancying it; that Walter, of course, | “She wnlcperea Good-bye to we, and they | immediately. ‘a idee Soald come ap soon Se he cout; aud that she went off together through the low, open window, _ “Scot is hard amd stern and cold to me, as | was tired to death of the there was in thi ibeir happy veices Ing back'to us on the + brere m = Correa ee SS Just because Ped through the stupidity of Scot's let. | atew a translation.” u | setter ed cage | Suet ean ela ge ig | ung uingo rowan oe ha 4 , - ed 3 eq una 4 ot thcin when we two were let behind POR’ | white and prow” SC@ | ner to read with me, or play, or drive: but she me, ““f shall leave you now, Charlte, for your t “it ppm oprk sy stern and Cold to AAT | would only refuse me quick “ No,” and shall be | re to, arive 709 af our usual time. weet then let child, i leave me suddenly; coming back presently to ~ Where are you going?” I asked, for Scot tbrow her arms round me and #ob that she was | Sougraby sat with me readivg through this | this | say Nakiat, dent fellow,” he anawered, setting went on, she went sae tae ¥ pillows comfortably for me. hande, and grew always harder and moré contradic- | | Lait to i ewig teg Gears es Blggeest tor us al, tating in to let a quiet trast creep into ‘eenrt aed aie the restiess anziety which 4 ite constant she ee, ize Bboy. yoo ‘ennie gaesed—no; hardly an- my sister better (sare he had no came Jove: but if he among ‘a ,when— leesons, but never - re we ed an ‘unconscious of ome half- i i ie perpetually, that he grew to seem a cur bome lite. He was such a pleasant win: pt very vanity seemed excusable; ‘am Sse Segre Tad mentite et % Hien: i rest i j i , i wap ae m Walter om i - down Eo hat. and coming forward, grand hatidsome in the glowin, dating ieee i arms open to receive her. After that, Peunie’s behavior to Scot changed. | shall be old and sutter | not like to feel that whon f su | Tshould pot like all throu, | a wealth of love on on her hand on Scot’s chair, and st) ith her eyes clear and undrooping. You hav it all to me during the: it is my turn, and T am try: seems as if I could not say mac) what ness: and by him no dete was own pleasure; didhe fai! in anv one ot iis da ties, through all the time Ww tng his pleasnre ceaselessis, and tall one chief duty? into Walter's vexed duty to you, Charlie, beca: wearily fortuch @ lov covered! { could hai step?” asked | explained the conductor | terruptions :—“D’il tell you what itis, young fang | feller,’ said he contidingiy, ‘ | down; to I could rush on a crowd of a dozen,, before. — across at me with his own smile. Come, Chartie, we have been idle too long, dear fellow.” jnue I had risen and was sauntering towards him, | {0 gr when the oof was opened and a familiar face wae sunshine. 5 where I aut?” Asano was’ close beside we one look into his face, so swift that she only seemed to Lave moved her eyes from the garden into the room. of Common Cown: 2”) she said. | the sam of twenty. “Where are you going, Sco “ Please don’t go away. ‘his is your room, not ours. Iam going myself when Ihave spoken ty | Snnhig thes Approved, March 21. 1871 you aud Walter. « Pennie, are you angry, dearest?” whispered, | er. “No, not at all,” she answered, moving trom | down again. “I cannot no ven angry with you, Walter.” | Thank you. Thank you, dear,”he said joy- | parts fully. + Come, out with me. I want to tell | Offices! ** Teil me here,’ ahe answered very quietly. | “That's hardly fair,” be complained, (with reason I thought) “but, of course, my darling I never fancied my mother was reatly 80 ill." na told you,” returned Pennie, still more | quiet’y. | “ ¥éa, you did say 80,” replied Walter, look Ing for tbe first thne ait: 1 ious; but I knew she was a’ ways fal, and I thought this was one of ter talee alarcis. ought to be sorry tor m2, Pennie, L thou: you would feel for me in this grief. She did not look inte lis face, where wa: a shade of real gricf; and be went on passion: in her silence. . “ Pennie, I want to speak to you. Co away. Why do you stay her “ Because,” she said, moving a little, ving her hand on the tack of Scot's ¢ ‘because J would rather speak here. will you listen to me; and teach me once again —teach me what to do She paused for. few moments. Walter. leaning against the tavle, looked down wu her ip astonishment. “Scot, if 1 bave leained that I have madea great, great mistake in Uunking that 1 loved your brother more than—any one cise, isn't it best and kindest to tel! Lim so now, betore it is too late?” Scot did not answer her. and she repeated the question, her beautital eyes childlike in their | plead * Would it be right to teil him go, Scot, or to go on im the faisehoed’’” “ Right to tell him so,” answered Scot, in tones low and quict “* Then, Walter,” she said, raising her face to him as it Hushed and paled 1) +1 will tell youof my mistake now, bet brother aud my own. There were ouc ifs Of love within my reach; and the on tay eacar ignorant hand gra-ped. becau: emed most bright and winning to my «ar € , Was not the one which could satiety my i did wot understand either then; | wasas powerless to of the onc, as hide its dirappointment. Some dav 1m perbaps—fan ve inch tov re: and L so moned you te ed the summa: Tife to pour laugh at me ‘And so 4 too, I dare say: those whi win but little in return, of on wy dying bed you would not for the exacting intensity of thc am very, very gratefal that ! my heart before it was tor Int ‘This is nonsense, P Walter. with a forced « expiain to you. You have done so interru and il with ained s@ List lew weeks. Now 19 59; only tt OW OL nmy own heart. Your mother had 2 N her itt faithtu!, careful nrrse. Walter pleasure sought. Chache. «id Se ot om * £ answered, as Pennie lookid eagerly actors at me. ' + the 1 vert Did any rem baud, or ch * Never,” 1 said aga’ BA MVGdY fe “Never,” she thought at bimselt x ways tia: b left her to die #lor © Not o1 Y} ght what to do now that my turned away not long ‘ot a word did Scot hidden in his hand« I am waiting for your » ‘The hand that had been o its hold; the little s'and.ng snd kneeled upon th both ban the trema! a bas lear, iting tor rane er been obe. , white ot, -wer,” she breathed. tient to you before, m : but | am waiting to That w face it was th now. ntle touc y ather g: i in its wondering, bew! plainly of the angui Through. Peunie’s iow cry trom her staking lips wLe O, Scot, forgive me tor it aii Walter left the room. { bave not seen biut ites to me O-casionaliy—short, gay, | t month atter month he delay and the house at Kaster-Hiil | mains Without its master. Mor some time | Scot tived there alone, sttling Walter's affairs | tor him, and still coming me for our old | morning studtes; but Seot bas won his own | home now, Yesterduy he was chosen for tha new beadwaster of the Easterwood Grammar School; and it is the youngoat headmaster who | has been elected for a contnry, they say. To- | night we are expecting him back from Cam- bridge, and Pennie is standing at the window watching for him, the evening sunaline linger- | ngon her bright bead, and avother restful, happy sunshine in ‘her eyes. know that the restive littie pa give him so much pain has given him now 4 jeeper and nore giaddening iove than wine. — | Srortrxe a Horse Cag ©Coxpveron sy | MaCHINERY.—-'What’s the mati reporter as he boarde street car. “You see thesten bobs down when | ws stepped On, and some sori ot a queer ar- rangement connects with that ‘ere box in the | : aan what gets on off, That’s to keep us tr \nocking down’? During the trip the reporter elicited the follow- ing from the condu between frequent in- aye he seoncnale. boss thinks it's ami ami ‘$0 clup that ’ere a) on to three of these ‘ere “twont work. hg it 2. I'll jest tell vou. Now you see that internu! fvol that jeat on. When he felt the step bol under him he put ids foot back and tried it over again jest four times. What difference dit that make ? it made a b—ll of @ sight ef difference Every time he put Bis foot on ft the darned u dotted one for @ pass nger— five dots for one fare, you see. Ain*t there any wuy of beat- ing it? You jest bet there is: only I wouldn't doit When aerowd of woinen folks goton { can stand one foot down on the step and help them into the car. How vocs that work? Why, 7 as shpping Offa log. «t course, the. rr thing can’t dot while the step is held and only one dot for the lot. We're obliged to io en book, and we catch biaxes if it Is Awwa Dickinson Mamninp?—( From Syracuse Journal. = ines 1’ veen asked and as often deni a ceoeut rt to tially whe dataety wate toa man » presence hearing o¢ nother, that she had meet her ‘ Vin thle ett hand at a certain hotel - Bho is ently concealing the fet of her taatringe, ut sna le Is are to have but one ses- 87" A New Orleans ca of | i eget Cte naes risigiontes: ([OFFICIAL.| oe Of Wesker jootway and gutter on the ‘west, at ite tm | An Act to take ap the fi side of street steranc- ue, and torelay the of those atrects. weet yentieth fion with Connectient avent coeform with the, b Be tt enacted by the Board of Ald-rmen ant Board of Common Cowncsi af the City of Wasaingion, That | the eum of one bundred thereot as may be a Laws Passed Collars. or 6) mach a etet tse . end tI ‘out of the funds of je the Mayor te cause the f xuver acruse Connecticut relief of Thomas Kirby. eel Se boot of Aldermen ‘and Board City af Wasarngton, That ber: cod ay ET toby 0 Sag toctes er sronteant he dirard of ¥ rom Comm af ihe € 2 t re. | sthect weet, be laid acrows Twenty fifth AS Act for the relief of William Sayre Beat enacied by the Board of Aldermen and Board toot Pooueyivanis arepaé mtibis wet tic the expense of the game t ae Lo of which a sufficient s March de, tart AN Act to constract a = Letweep Seventeenth and f the Criy f Wassimston, aed ‘h Ward fand to Sayre for rent of rr “Bitte streets oat S HeeUth se rocts Tye t enavted by The Board ef Ader men ant Board aS mom Ce mmet ew Yasar, » The the eum of sx hundred 41 yh} | ne may be necessary 0 pitol etieet to Meventh street cast ap Aw Act for the relief of Paitick Farqashor. | er Goansirons Chantett ef the ois ae Week That him aud standi: beside the §table at oy ron yet af the Cory ‘ashington, 1 yoo dellars be, sud is hereby, appro: viated, pavablo out of the faade of the F W ard, for the purpose of enabl Sher for four ponttis reut of room " Diissloper of said. w: you how it wea, Comber 48. 1563, to April IS, Ist. Approved, March 21. AN Act for the relief of @ men and Board Ute acer ts Rerely make | thesum of fort wavle the Mayor to o structed sree ween Beyc nt em! work to be cowtracted tor with the L and to be done wader the eupersisioo of streete, eowers Ke. th iT the First Ward abd to assis amt cou Spovinted by the Mayor Bi by relict of Barnard < Jew) . © sum of ninetren dollar *. and the same is hereby, appropris 1 the First Werd to'enable (ue Mavor to re said awronnt to Mrs S t by } fur re aud uinety P Mayor to refand to heittio the said amount, it being an by him on atronut tle sewer Inid tn Tw Approved, Mar for the reiiel of Andrew McKenna, Beet enacted by 1h Board af Alderon | certhwest, between streets, tho same being for dirt. procurm! | the line of smi #treet.m d also ow t Swith for superiutending the fitting wp ant farais e Conrt as per bili ren [Aporoved, March 21, 171 AN Act for the relief of enacted by the Bodrd of Alder mcr! ol the City of Washemeton, T the suo of four hunarcd and eiehty-six oth be, aii the same ts hereby. appropriated, ral frind.to pay Heury White ting tosome ten the maid ereet im the year Ise: the tad. be paid ont of the First Ward funds. ing the rectus fc dered Uctob. + 25, 1 AN Act toveom nitty cen im! a the balance du Vin and colle-ted the act approx et October AX Act for the reiie! of Michas! &mith aN * ef Common ¢ vet of the Coty of Wee the Mayor ir. and is.bereby, author quested to co. se M street somth, between F | Seventh streets east, to aded t sto baextended ao ANd oe 96 further macted, That a tax auMcint to the cost thereof ts ms | See t easel ow all to ee AN Act t L Pear order of the secretary of Cs eto t ri 4 hereby, aushorized and te: | ‘ovary Te pairs to be mute | of by the come the same ig herel od Dewenth etreots fof Aid-rmem wat osam!) pave the footway have taught | 5 outincted for and execated in ee ee ee the manner and o the expense of sai + paid for ont of th . ia 4, March 21, kil. errs hereby in po With the angry scarlet burning in his face, | Smdering ont is Bebrans menand Board vot Wasarneton, That jollars ang twenty-four iis provistous of th ‘Approved, Mi sud pave ibe footw th Cagitol ant Fon t i proved, March AN Act te close du a Bie stenortad oy the Bi seb Ber 12, baod, hortz re alley in Byoxre # 8nd pave the foot a'eide ut be stevet wouthe ‘st. S snd T, inctues cf George &. Warr and James hereby authorized and nquented tu can e the eurbstones tobe wet mud the fovtwaye sud Kuitee paved 2 the uorvh side ot T rt Berouty stirets W the Board of Aldermen and Board + Common Canncs! ef the Cry ol Waskemston, Phat he sum of sever hundred col appraprialed. payalie out vf the fonds of Ward, to rembures Dulin and art fox the copstruction-ot a public Uiheset to Noth Caroling proved, March 31,4571. conse a water main tobe laid in a ssepue,trow Ninth to Teath strect a ¥ * be. and the eame The work +o Lo comtracte 0 th ‘on all tote or parte of of the improvement: ths ‘said (ax io be aresaed apd collected in cont unity sol the act approved October (Approved, Maroh 28,127) is y IGOR At tots border iv on the line with the pro\ tsiou: 1385. rt emacted by the Board ef Aldes mon Covner! of the Cy of IW be, wad they are hereoy, and requested to cause 9 wi ¥ the expenses ti Topriated. payable be. by peiplrarecd 7 Hin of std water mars men and Board em neavnd pave the foot: td of Thirteen a! jatylead avenue and We srreet, Beit enacted by the Bowed of Alternien and Goard 4 Common Counc of the Ory of We the Mayor be, aud wirect weer, be tw "ret, he is beroby. eu to cacee the curbston: pai Approved, April t. 1571. AN Act tocavse @ water-mai in to be Init in Fours teenth street cart frum D ‘woctoaest "ts a of the improvement: the said voc te ee with the provisions of “Approved, March 35. 1871 “am Act to end gutters on the north chusotts aventie, between, set the curbstones and pave the footw th Wart Th tue reper of the Thiet hereby nds of the Tai to be done Under the dite-thoe of ft of Fewers and the U-cmisstone (Approved, April 4, Is AN AcT toamend an act for the construction of » sewer im B street porthe monin Ceres " on, Tha ® tentided “Am act to copstroct a sewer inh orth, betwece Bieventh and Teri Sy AcE te frade and gravel i strect northeast “ from North eet to Sorenth trent mast be vt ema LLrmes and tev ferns Be don led: the work t be ton « ne rc tie horeby the Foartt Ware ington Boa at. be on euch €romed pot « ret the 9 dur tou oF ite etecersor AN ACT to set the Corbstones and pare the footwaye ‘Son beth aides of Rhode Island a: th to Twelfth streets mortbe est 2 Aitermrn ant Bony «7 and cute ti e Brved on both from Beventh t ats d, April 4, 1 ed, Apri Sixt Bertone sonth, berwean itheast mnandt Boart April él AX Act for the rellef cf Jos L. 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