18
THE WEST SHORE.
September, 1878.
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mic. I MMd BCt ay I a MM a l.achiilor.
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tl..- (iiIiIiiik tliM.ra ahull ilivideil the front from
ilm WL lot.iu olMtd .
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briUuvnt iplwidot w rtrMaUdj mi ItsbrMiobM
am- Iiiiiik ijifta. Wiirketl anil MnbfoidMM ly
tin' obildlW for their parent". The three little
Kirla .ml their gnveriieaa hail .lone it all.
Whilom; fnnd ami bit wit were embrao
bafMid UMnking tin- ohUdrwi, I had time to
totiM tin' lormuM Slje wu very young, ll
mint ebUd h. rai lf. A M "f hrivjlit hair
u (..tlii rt il up in (,'re.it waves at each ni.leof
In r In ul. ami IMtld in a I (MM thick loop he
bittd. The bright Otlril were no UlaUlgtd an to
nu ll I lie car. The ear ami check were, I
.1 hi rather any they are, like thOM Paintad
bt I i.M'.ii in Ilia Piiottr'l lliiueynioon."
Nn . I I m) mort "i tin ir ritriibuig IovUom!
Hut tin- i.rt tty bhal IjrM lookad an if they cried
.i h'ri-.t ileal, ami there hail heen recent team,
tot the ytiidl were aumewhat iVolUn. iSho
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piMM fur the ohildrMI ami fur mi, their oltl
tjoilf.lher, to ilance to, ami nhc jnineil with lot
in a gMM of liliml man . bsK When thechihl
m li Viii'il, "he ri tircil alao.
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' lUthowrh ahe . an yotirig, ,jih is the
hrcail ir,ivnler tti lu r family. Her father ami
in. it her li.iM-, KaMrdina tu the cant phrase,
n n L iter oa"t hi f.ct, they are (uuiple of
I birth, .ml DAM bad aunil fortune. Tlioy
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Ml IMM, Itiith the too ami daughter givl the
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til ..i.iiii... ibe ii oaly if (mvohildranMeaa
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Mill " iloM mora with her Mlirv madiiitwa in. il
k tbu in i brotbor bm do with hit bud work.
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'I" I. ' -r alie ta full gj reticence ami reacrve
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up .11 light, .ml work like a boM all ilav, to
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script from the youthful writer who had sent
me no more, was recalled to me.
Unconsciously the manuscript I held laded
from my mind, ad the other was present with
me. Wondered what had become of her; had
she written any more, where and how was
she!
Every moment 1 became more and more pos
sessed with the memory. I was so happy my
self that I felt for all who seemed to have care
and straggle in their lives, I looked out the ad
dress to which I had written before, and wrote
to the unknown a few lines. I said that timo
had passed, that the youthful inexperience
which had prevented the paper she had sent
(rom lx:inj! accepted, must now be corrected,
ami that I should be "lad and willing to see
enything else she had written, if she had writ
ten anything since then.
Within a few days I had an answer. The
writing was in u feigned haml, quite unlike tho
round, hesitating, girlish haml I remembered.
The words were, however, as sweet and inno
cent as the lirst had been. The noto ran as
follows:
"It is gootl of you to remember me, hut I do
nut write any more. I am so happy. I have a
go .1, noble husband. Oh, these womanly ex
aggerations, 1 thought, as 1 Bat in my editorial
chair. Ami such darling babies! I wrote, for
I wanted to help my dear ones, but they bave
been better helped by others than I could ever
have hoped to help them, (iod has given them
a li.ti.-r friend than I could be. If you seek to
know me, you shall do so. If when you go
home you see a woman with a rose in her hand,
bold out yours. You will know me."
I smiled at the romantic fervor of this reply,
and a faint desire arose that my wife and the
writer of the letters should know each other,
and then I went on with my sttipifying avoca
tions. As I went home, I confess I looked about for
a woman with a rose in her hand, but, as
Blight naturally be supposed, neither in cabs
pot omuibuea did such an apparition manifest
itself.
As I entered my own door I gave an impa
tient shrug at the idea nf having been the sub
)eot of a loutish jest. Hut whom did 1 see
standing within the threshold of my home?
My darBng, with her fair, child-like faco and
bright hair; love, ami joy, and youth crowning
her with a triple crown, ami in her hand was a
rose !
"I'tar husband," ho said, as I kissed her,
1 think I loved you from the moment I had
o..r kind, indulgent, thoughtful note. 1 had
written that ebenrd little try for 1 sadly
MMted a Utile money to pay for Herald's re
urn ho. at Christmas, to lie with papa and
nd I had a foolish notion f could
w nlv.
"And yon were disappointed my pet. What
aange 1 must have seemed I"
"N0 I f, It how foolish I had been, and I
al I n sai ' V'1,', t",,,!ht"" K..l and kind
w lT "' Qjeld got home, too, and
"cl uda lmppyi hnstmas after all "
I KlHHIll irf.
ins'! "" "lv,'r,K"'K to write a etory for
iu uia-'a o. a., -ui, J
'Mean-
I do ,,t know," she uirl amM.
ours, il y,u lilt.:. " tiny.
while, ynu can write
Mat 'ilirr.
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't'latiiin. TheUstiuitni.l n"gl 6t
''mplimenUrv tha T Pf"Vl" 10 bo moro
lift w. y L ,'" ' expected.
nU&k. astonish-
Ph M IMMthlrtl to do viinl ii ', ,WT 4 yU
MAdatkmr )"urself on Mat recom-
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