Rockland Gazette : March 29, 1872

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PORTER. will receive careful attention. transactions, which I shall be glad to body would suppose there was but one he should And her lovelier and more her so much; but Madeleine shook her nothing. A man in my position has no ot these, designated Laird Baird, remains SPRING STYLES place in your hands, if you can under woman in tha world.’ loveable than Hebe, he was perfectly head, and as he felt that she knew best, right to ask anything of a woman in clearly daguerreotyped on my memory, well aware that she could be nothing to yours. I can come here no longer as take the ease in the midst of your ab ‘There is but one to you,’ beat his lie quietly waited for Mrs. Reymond your friend. While I could serve you, 1 —a tall, bony, grim old man, with blue For the Rockland Gazette. sorbing business.’ heart. him; for the difference in their circum to proceed. did so. I did not come to tell you of this rig-and-fur stockings rolled half-way up OUR L IT T L E JOVZU15 The last phrase caused a bitter smile ‘If I should ever have a larger busi stances forbade. lie was a gentleman ‘Do you remember these circumstan folly. I had sworn to myself it should his liiighs, and a very umbrageous bine .-he a lady ; so far they were abso bonnet. Ilis secular business consisted to flicker for a moment over Mr. Greg ness—which the gods g ra n t!—I shall ces, Mr. Gregory?’ she asked present- never pass my lips. Good bye.’ m thatching houses; his inner life was a If she had walked all day here, would her feet ory’s handsome face ; for it was hand scarcely be able to waste so many lutely equal; beside that they had lit >y • Without looking at her he turned to ejnstant brooding over the sins of a per Have been as white when evening brought her res t thoughts and speculations and dreams tle in common. He had no money be ‘Indeed I do, madam. Although I ward the door, and only when a light jured and sinful nation, and the various But in his arms the Shepherd folds the lambs, some, despite its worried exression. ‘She evidently knows nothing about on every feminine client, as 1 have on yond what he earned, and his prospect of had nearly forgotten the occurrences, touch fell upon his arm, did he pause. turns ot public affairs, in which he traced And carries them forever on his breast. supporting himself was gloomy enough. •Lucius,’ said a low sweet voice behind the punishments inflicted upon us by an So, safely in his arms our lambkin dwells, me,’ he thought, as he turned the page (his one.’ your words bring them vividly to mind.’ him; ‘have you any right to go till you ‘Nor will you want to,’ throbbed out The luxury of a wife was utterly unat ‘After the war was over, we settled outraged Deity, for our laving aside the And never shall her pure feet go astray; and read on. know that it is my wish you should? Solemn League and Covenant. He came Dust shall not. stain them, nor these earthly thorns tainable to him, at least for the pres- up our affairs in South Carolina, and, F o r 1 8 7 2 . ’ ‘I shall be unable to offer yon more liis heart. Have you not deemed it possible that in up to my mother one summer evening, as Pierce them with cruel woundings. on the way. than a trilliug pecuniary inducement if ‘Pshaw ! This unknown girl—for of e u t; and he was too honorable to bind with the remnant of our once large for these weeks when you have been our on she was standing at her door with her Al. E. II. Everett. we fail in getting what is my rig h t; course she must be a girl, or she would a woman to a long, semi-hopeless en tune, came here to live. Our old home ly friend, and have been so faithful, good first-born in her arms. ‘Ye’re mickle Also, a variety of New Styli but if we should be successful, it will not write such a pretty b aud;—has gagement. became hateful to me, so much suffering and true to us, that I should learn to love pleased wi’ that bairn, woman,’ said the Moutclkery and La Rochelle. completely bewitched me ! It’s fortun lie thought these things over and over, had I endured there; and I was glad to you also? You have, you say, uo friend laird gruffly. ‘If the French come, what lie my great pleasure to compensate in the world; I have none, but my moth you liberally for your labor. ate for the world that all my sex don t though he had ever seen Madeleine Ray come away, and be among people who will ye do wi’him? I trow ye’ll be deem" S O P 771 ITS A w o r th y man of Paris town er. Yon have declared that you woulu wi’ him tc the tap o’ the Pentland Hill“. Came to the bishop there; Yon will pardon me for not calling make such asses of themselves. There, mond, the young ; and when one of the knew nothing of my past. We are al not marry a wealthy woman. I have JL familiar, scented notes summoned him most as much strangers here Mr. Greg But ye should rather pray that they may His face, o’erclouded with dismay, upon you in person ; mydelicate health I will think of something else!’ nothing that is my own. All that I have, come. Yes hould pray lor judgments, Betrayed a fixed despair. to 34th Street a week later, he went ory, as when we first arrived.’ forbids any unwonted exertion. If you With this wise resolve Mr. Gregory my mother gives me. Lucius, will you woman,—judgments on a sintul land. with the feeling of a mau about to re ‘At least that is a bond between us, go now?’ ‘Father,’ said he, ‘a sinner vile decide to accept my case, I shall be proceeded on his way, and continued Pray that the Lord rnay pour out the vials marveling with unabated curiosity as sign forever all that had made life sweet thought Lucius. Lucius Gregory, opening wide his arms Am J, against jny will; glad to hear from you, nt 14—West clasped in an embrace so overwhelming ot his wrath upon us.—it would be for Each hour I humbly pray for faith, 34lb Street, when I will ut once for to who and what Madeleine Reymond and dear to him. ‘It is only within a short time that our guid.’ And then he went on his way, ly tender, that it was almost painful, tin leaving the pretty young mother heart- But am a doubter still.’ ward the documents.’ Then followed might be. I f Lucius Gregory had been a man the idea of getting back the property e one dear woman of all the world—thi with many friends, whose society he owned occurred to me. Having no chilled by his terrible words. Having ‘Sure, were I not despised of God, the ‘Very respectfully,’ the graceful An unbiased observer might have sweet spirit—the other soul whom Des constantly frequented, or if he had led friends whom I could go to for advice, I known something of old-town worthies He would not leave me so, signature, and that was all. suspected that this occasion was not the tiny seemed to have given to he his com ol this kind, there was no novelty or sur To struggle thus, in constant strife, As if half believing himself in. a first upon which the lawyerhad wended a busy, out-door life, his imagination determined to consult a lawyer; and panion for life, for death, for all eternity. prise to me, a few years thereafter, when Against the deadly foe.’ dream, Mr. Gregory rubbed his eyes, his way in the direction of No. 14— would never have run such sentimental then the question arose, whom ? In look I read of llabakkuk Mueklowrath in The bishop to his sorrowing son and read the lettter through again, tie West 34th Street. And, with unusual riot about the first young girl he was ing over the directory one day, for SCOTCH STORIES.

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