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    VOL. VIII.
THE PEOPLE'.i JOURNAL.
rrimisimo 1:V 1:11Y TIIURSAY MoIINI4G. 1
Terms—in Advance,
on opy pc :razum,
TERMS OF ADVERTISING
I square, of 1..;
or :ess, I inier.ion, .9 1 ,511
" " 3 .1,50 ,
every sao3e•liv:u. in,er.ion, 25
I; nit. and liir,dt wins, per :9., 3 inier:iett,3,fli)
Every subse y
co:ltani, t3;•ti year,
eo'nala, tati:rdt.t,
.Iduini-drino:t' or Exec:rors' No2iceit, 2, 1 10
Sc-.tt! per ;ritt•,
Prole ti , iona, Carl= no: exceeding lines
vier ed for : 7 ,3 . ..flu per :amino.
rTi" All !et .era to reenre
leu:ion, shoold h nii.lre,:.trid (pus:pith]) to 11'2
Orir,inat Vortri)
Tor Pa;aii'e.3.Journ:Al
WINTZI9. KUM
Tbc Krug N up,
W• .o go away ;
Arid She adruu d ge. fairy
'Oh, wint a g or.oui day !
11 , . has been :ong so very rade,
No one %via b
Or c_re ItiOwd a pv.r.ing .e:.r
Upon hit: iey track
I've Fee:l 12111 now for Inloy to year,
I. mt.; and rigid; inn;
Btu L'an soioc.itnas be wore a saii:3,
fLc cht:lN hear. to ‘v_rin.
His heat grown so e tt:onf, now
- hitt the pre,tent
Fur a.l 11 . 0 e r hering of the poor
He 11.0‘ et .hed a tear.
Many t s zei xnd !oney wife.
Her nigh y igih; kept,
•S gaow
icrinch:iCcltn-L,ad
or en a , I Ll , : nk of i•,
It CVO . tr. ke4 We sail
To know b..w ut.ny fa.ber'ess
Ale poor, anti c•ad—
Iltitig:y, 'it.
NV here ;aim e0111'?;
No stiti:lle: • in .heir e
Nor pir,c , •irc i:} their L• i.lie • ;
g':de ,p'onk;or t.y
wont of cheor ;
To cha-4 a c from ~.iron'' = Wye
frurtql
Tht• pour are a!‘vay , .; La re,
Aud our .wile: eAe;
God give h etc uuy give
J need a !I :re
Erci:domi, Fel)
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111:ALLNO .P.2OY,EN
Ellen a
very :•wc'et. fait, frz g,:k. girl
of
make a a..th tart
cn , .o:lt t:i3Le a 1/1.1):,lar 071 e, .5 1 .1;
lraa f 1:1(1,e titan) • II tNi
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ut IWetil
t:l2 ii;;) ViCT:e.\ 111 !t! e
“I” haS, as it I , lC'aSL'il
Ole 1 ilrellt,ill i;:111 :UV gull lu•1;1 tk?
Schn.it tl..t .1:ly it luta. :7311e l‘ a ;
i;Mticie:sS c.: 1g.., and had mi place
to tile to, t cse•aloa front her ti 1 tkltai.s;
1-11 l oi s:o.• )2za;.s.t stay
anti glind 'fife at the pvim:
mill (4- :cat c 1
iur;:i.sheil her the Litter
g:Il ii U_l; ackclt•ll,, :firtl Uie WtCt9':ata
61:e:tvr or imveity
wit i:er \viie, nor bravv,nin
et; ; and yet fattrs roiemie.ss eon
sciii :ion Mid di ivem her periiiice into
;hu ietti ui " battle of life, - all manned
as ..,he tvas, and alone ! Poor Ellen !
She was the only child of parents
she had never knowo, and like other
such orphan's, imagined (poor child !)
that Father ;mil Mother. and Brothers
and Sisters and ri Paradise;
and she longed for the deligliti ul /cu.
idea of hwae, never dreaming that
there bas( liardl ever en cat tit been
such a place.
I saw her an the clay she came to
tke place, us she passed into the touttt
wh.te the tchuol directors were to
befog yet mole their own already
misty intellects, in trying to "iopseut".
half a dozen frightened girls who were
to ttach the children in that township,
Ellen was nt; pale us her own white
dress, and looked as though she were
going to the scaffold, but 'she got a
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"cei tificate." ayul went, to teaching the
next onday.
I knew she was doomed to " board
n.O ad," and though I had never spoken
to her, .1 fUt _he could not endure it;
so I scut Albeit to school with a note
to Mits Walden begging her I n come
home with hint that night. Slie.canntr,
. the little fellow, or rather
Lltn !cad her, tlirt:ugh the back
gate, ‘vhich h•ti into the yard irom the
shout. meadoW pith I by the river,
which ‘1 c alll, - ays went when an foot.
Agy, 1 (7/(7 Ming home my
teacher,,a:: you bade : me cried Al :
bei t ddlivering his
charge into toy keq.i.ig., a; I met
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thcni tit t he (101/1
I male her vt.ry n•elcnme, and tried
to mak:, her f.n..et that slie era; a
stranger: ac i d alter tea, when she was
It little re.,tt d, I :sh ,wed her the dear
little guest chamber upeNing Irma the
sitting- rimmonni showed her the wend
bine aad ciimhia rose.. over the win
dow, and, tax !lei- eyes rest _ gratefully
en the loca , t and aspen trees that.
shaded tLat coiner, and then look
dreamily through tini willnw.; and
elms by the liver, at the Glue smuLe
from :lie widow Forrest's cottage be
yond.
•This is a beautiful place," she said
at 1,1,4
"lt is, a dear, beautiful place!" I
answered, and if you will licit feel
Lowly here, with only Aliiert and me,
I will be so glad if you will oceuliy
tbi. room all Sommer, and riot board
anywhcie else, I , ut. hive tliis for your
'lima,. all dn.: Li Irk'!"
4 4 Lilt (lie U . oilbfler: ObjeCled L:le❑
ey'oS 1. , 1 My
\V,;,.1.1 1 n.,k you, iF it-would 6,2..3.
Ellen 81)(11:0
it; tz.iewrn IS I wai, anti
•dit (111 c - 1].1t.r.:,.,?1,:ie tea; euneiu•
,
c•_t 1. Site intl.:A.—No; Inc/ ted —intitteats,
11. " too guoil." 1 put
iifi; is r r i h:.r p aor Iv,nld-Iv;:ar)
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tltuit;
Ne\t ut4e.'ni:;g I put iiu :11y sunbon
net ;wit %relit kith thew, out at the
tviulzet gate ti wy came iu
El=
at the clod I,oilre, and d nvti the inn;,
WL .,, t! l :n . " . ‘ , Vlt Ni,Udi‘n
to the grastl landing ‘vhere I did my
wat.hings, high foot bridge
that httrL,• , over the dart: t;trcain
frzte.ment of some huge spider's web,
and then down the treato, throuL , .h
my long intadow, over the stile, and
1.1;} CIO domain 411 - th e Fur
reAs, to their cottage door.
rur Jorao tl
1 - • ..C,one in with we, Ei!en, it is not
hehoid in yet," said I.; and she went
V.ll, to Lau Isild.llV
Oct' toyo : 3 1111:: and 1111 d
‘v e lctlttletl t hum with the wltide
tcti \rat 1:1;!I 111A2 the
thtlll CA. ieeds . ill Elwood.
t tc tic:Co:ate a .d lady
like Ellen w. a.,1 Le slo•eked the on-
Carteiislilless o f my . Id
Chat ; stood
stout feet of I.tunall timber, clad
ilieLked li, cu!•rnck and ~veral!, crown
t•it %ritli au u:odecjally
Inane, which made dicers pallicidar
nwthers anti tnaidi Vt,\\* that Charlie
Forrest t•; a; any part ur theit belong
the,",,..,,ittd (lip lir singe him it
they eti;.l th 4 wake hint bh . ave
hilt
sell. Fur toysulr 1 was lather senst
live about Charlie's peculatities, a:A
hated to Lave them iticized ; 1
Illd as lief :rc a lio:i snaved as
Charlie Fut r st.
, " But Ellen mas no critic, and saw
at once Nvhy 1 liked them ail—tl n
were cordial and soullul.
" 1 ant going, to keep'Ellen ft,r try
own use and heltool this ;warner" said
1, " and as you come back from town
Charlie, if pw can as well as not, wilt
you fetch up her trunk tai my houre,
and so save her two or three pilgrim
ages and a w. ,•k'.; waiting for .some
slow-motioned body to tiling it 1
Lt. 'Squire 11rady's.l'.
Of e,;urse he %% multi hi ing it, I knew
he troulit if it hall weighed half u ton
instead °Hess than Intlfhundred ! And
so it was all settled and Ellen came to
DEVOTED Ti) THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY', AND TUE DISsnmtNATIoN OF 31.0IIALIF1, IJTERATURE,
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COUDERSPORT; POTTER COUNTY, PA„ MARCIT. 13, 1856.
live with me iti my own
,dear wood
brown cottage among its many trees.
. It was new life to 11er, and we were .
all new revelations ; for she had been
brougla"up, a " potr relatitin" in a
house in one of the most absurdly up
per-tenish of central Now York villa
vs, and had never dreamed that hard
Murk and refinement could live togeth
er except as set vant and employer.
Brady's \% ife's rich cousin's
poor cou.,in Ellen, thanked the Lord
and 'Squire Brady fur transplanting,
her front her ohnfortloss •dopmidence
to a leas imolerable independence, (if
jul-...e,c1 Ellen could be i;:dependent)
and life, \ had before beet tel
haggard and ghostly . a nigl.tmare to
her, began to grow rose-tinged and
heart ‘varm.
One day xvilen the roses were bunt
ing into bloom ia my dernense, Ellen
and I sat sewing in the long, low south
porch, up %vhostr square, unpainted
pillars trained a rare drup,Ty of wild
grapes and ruse,; and thought each
our own thoughts to ourselves awhile ;
aad thou she spoke is her dreamy,
tirnia way :
Agues, 1. wish you would tell me
how you came to live here alone with
your little brother. What ever made
you thiuk ut it? And how did S'ou and
Chu, 1e and John, and Fanny Forrest
ever get you kw,wledize ut !multi and
men white you nave t, wui k so much ?
You aid all beautiful mysteries' tu me,
and 1. want the myNtery explained. I
always though . .--" and she came to
a fun stub, and 1 took up Ler thougots.
•• You ware . always taupe, teat ro
finemeof ‘va, horn- et lattry wad ells
ga..ce, a id ',nut ticliri bobgat
Inouel
edge. You Lee you were taught
wrong. 11:;r0:1. Haim kt,wledg - and'
etioemebt i., inhuin, and cao conic
miry 'Arum the helm. :.t
Brady ! She could nev,...r be relined by
ark tile tialuing is thewo. Id ; tor s:le-
ei.‘entially vulgar tutiu. iica.:l:-,curL.;
but Afrs. Fotreq wutild till ho an in-
natclvliae wowa .if
furin lib_ %vitt' rud,,;
r:annot nrike lwr
coal:As ; ;;)r :hey
her 1. ttcr..;
notate. Bat y , .0 a,k nro wh
here, and why 1 th , ,ng:tt, of it. .1 irwer
riv.d any wi:ereekc, whyslpo2ltl
1. leave nty dear oltl bottle bet::.:nze I
lost my parents ? tme
enough ! tl , esides my Father's will
left me guardian of my little, mother
le-ss brother his property. Hi::;
farm lies the other side of the ro.nt
The 014 home and the mo t h en d of
the !al 01 are mitie. My part supports
us nicely, and 1 am saving all I can
make from his, to educate hint with by
and by. How could I live so happily
? enarlie and Jotin
any other «a_
wot k ow. place in ad.lition to their.;,
awl IL ~ very plia.ala!"
.Vtitt Nvere a vary youag Guardia i.
Ag:ir- r.
1 xvzei just oue and twenty %Viten
my lather died, alinost tour• t•eara ~,
1. Lope 1 ant old. initiUgh to be 'it good
my hnotucr."
1 :,/tuaki feel crushed tvith the
weiget•ef ru.spulitinilities if I had
chui . gu of a etiiio, and two hurtle, and
tiolpitly me; but you Geein tt;
like it !" said gut:,
likt u, " 1 replied, " it
tetthi!i..iiti; to feel
Tuen it life be hitter, hew ititem.e
inuA be it 3 bittetuess !" tr..uttriured
looked iiito her sail, tvhito face
awitiit—.‘ Life is not bitter. It very
heautiful'and hulv!"
Sue ruse and laid aside her
and sat down on a low .tool dt my feet,
and leaning her head against my knee.
she said gently, ." Then teach me life,
,Agnes; for I have never learned it." l i
I laid my hand oft her bowed (lead.
young and tiLantifill, and yet.sori
sad, and felt as though my own soul's
strrigthand cheer inieht pass through
my fingers' ends, like electricity, and
fill her ivith , new life; for 'I know Welt: I
is a won leant magnatisni in this con.
tact of btreLgth and weakness.
Have a purpose in lire and live foi
it, Nay !"
ean.l 1" murrnuact she, "life
is all empty !. I have no one to ;Ivo for
ai you lave !" •
" That is ;mother of tht. cruel mis
takes you have Ireen taught, Ellen!"
said I, " it is not
.Iluce , saty to a true
rich, beautiful life'—that you
should live tiU: any body in i.a:ticular,
but Ellen Walden. 1 cuald live \yell
,and worthily u•itht:ut my iuhelitance
or my brother r
//ow cr,uld volt ?" tt..ked Ellen,
" Where_ %Vimhi be pair p.liTose ot
yotiluipoli.;ibilitit:6 then?"
- "If ther,2 is that in mu which mules
dear, iinvildeved ohes like- you, E.i-Jo,
colue,to me fo: help to grow strung,
zgarely :night he very deep acid
without ally one to live for !" •
. But 1 have nut that in inc,. Agues,"
paid Ellen with a deep :Jig), " How
eau I live 1" .
Live for God and the world, Nelly,
and
. .our life will be wolth having," I
replied
1 were a man I could be a min
ister of the Cr,isrel, but a woman—
b4), Jl . 4gy 1" .
'‘ All Chi are in soina v..ny
Ini:nisters of Ow G,:sp , .•i," I reidLti,
"and a school teacher ha.i'more.spirltu
al power than a cilergyman."
n. '• But I am etuphle4 to teach read
ing, and %•.'rit-ing, and gt...q . ...aphy, and
arithmetic," said Eden, I had few
element, of spirit to th Se. Can I
tt.aeu Cutiztiaany out of a gip.tlllnal
ur a r poling book 1"
" Perioys nut, buL 'when yuu Lave
t>ettle tliipute.s zunung . yuur
yittl ihiVe LiIC - ery bent ut uppurtuni-
Lll'a LU IUMCIi tav
Ivl:lLit I.i Ut (kw! 1.:h!
—and , z:v•-'l' j ' loullor of 11,-
( ~ ,j!{,•tS it Lill iS11:1:1
•are !.4:1811t ;Is ti,cy Gtts to
tra3 ‘1..:1(2 ;11u: C Ikt!: 04al,
lit::
Lai - :lt.!} VCOIII C
)re tJ (if lic:i
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nrn sc.: Ve
But, ()deli:at, 2i.gg- . !-, I %I.,:t(!.111:c
! 1 c uldt!
1, '.l
eta
iJO r;L: Li!iti 11.!.t1
have ki!lud pu9r
Yes, EIV:n ,/“.fs a chlta—a NVCA,
•".
her ch..ally, aut.!, it \ - 8.r...et" m e to
body suy inst.
to l:Cat tllcin call
ur a gtizz!y! beAr:
I 1) , ..g.i:i tt t
1 . 1
51ie kept t.) Lot I:et-
su!r is private ; • 1;n•
dist stunk:times,
thutigh bilk: had -tfn.A.: entinah nut tu talk
nb,ut it, and tot) mach btt
autudliu iu her :Ale
r,ts, us,sto3 said, 111(11 d tol. ttloom . y.
1 Her symptoms ruthui.
ditnitt4lted as the seatAiti wore un, and
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ea fly eyes
I. It WiLi ili.the height of Laying time,
that very early rum ning,
Lad my hrcaktlist tire kind Itftl 1 licard
LL.:; lie ' s voieu frutit val.d
j Agnes! pkase bting me - the gate
key-!" Ikt...it: the yard gate locked at
night, because Charlie's old black
Kate Ivotdd open it with her teeth,
when -I did nig, and. would come in
and committlepredation on my °rebut d
clover patch. Last -night f:he had
again escaped from her own 'plac e ,
and rindit.g my gate locked,- she had
jumped thc rt.ings al:d was bruwalug
one of the apple trees when her ()Mi
er found her, but a 3 alit would not
jump btu* again over the fence, he
!Old to call for the key which now
locked her in instead aunt.
I unlocked the barrier, and Charlie
led out the trespassing tt:itritil, •and
turned to tell me that the men were to
begin my field that day, and I might
get their luncheon ready. The con
versation was prolonged to some length
in the di,cussiun of some contrivance
ier keeping the birds °lithe wheat un
til it was harvested ; and perhaps BON"-
1 al other romantic items of interest.
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'Ellen was up when I got back, and
to 1-.1.; utter astonishment bantl 2 lz<l
about my havitig such early. m runt, F
calk ! Ellen Waldea joking ! 1 dared
at her to see if it was EIICVI, Gr
her phantorh'" <lambic" playing some
ranta:,tie tact. on my sen,,c.i. It %vas
herself however, and I an , , , ,vered that
nobody ever had a finer recei.tiou
room than the one I used - that murn-
I thougllt it was rourtutic said :.
Ellen, ".when I haw ynu
the honey:4l6;Jc that 111.111 V fun:
chestnut tree - ovcr the caw I."
a laugh, " and
4 Ye ,"
what a r um !mitt thing it ',vas, to :!anil
in the wet grass talking On (lug!' that
Fame top-:;ided old gate!" . i
'Fiat faint - e,liir , t' of a laugh freed
itself through %%like lips, :Ma
its accompanying phantom smile trail
ed 1/1:1' pa:e thee, but
1 did 'ilia think until afterward how
ghte,fly they were, so I tr,.:ut - on as
gaily as belore. •
And tltc cenversation IV,IS quite
a; I . :10;4,16c as the tine and place I"
" ail ! what wj it 1" ti,,hud
w1:11 a Voice, like
" tile lilt di might hear it
Pi I should tepeht it, atid woo bit
tide iiiy I:arvet.hotiie:"
" Agucs !"- • :\fy name 'lovei sound
ed so sepulchral b;ifoie. Tile giri'a
efforts to Lon:tilos: the - pleasantry w o r e
becoming too feur-stt uck and ghastly to
be concealed, and 1. abluptly brolto
nil the dialogue by going wit to
the c.,w3.-
" ails Ellea V 1 a..slica
huntlrcd 1.1. a:: clay,
out gue:-.,lpg ‘vii.lllil
of in 4
C.tit day, yi.aic v(11. 1 tun
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or for :4.u11)..7r, Ivaco
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of all the reA, forwa
Levey pa u , ..1 tu,,lueut, L,clt pi
it.ti) aid g •
iii_;
oti lcr 1ime12.4
ituci fell , r,v put I,i, a: a:1
ai,utit, het. neck . , i.vJLI. tiwzi
::ut owit3kl. Gaqi-
lie n•a.4 shalsing the %rater
gari:ielit.4
(lug, betwe;A: Albc: t a.“. 1 ,:s
( - hew near, he smiled atitl paid :
Nuthing has I.app6ued but a brae(
of ducks !'
1 coulifil't laugh ri Lit. i wanted to
cry, and the teal!' did c,,me int•: my
eyes us I faltered out, " Thank you!
ad bless you, eltarlic !"
Ile to,:k bath my It enthling hand::
in his, and looked right into. ray eyes,
and through theM.into Illy SOU!, away .
down, down into the bottom of my
heart, which felt strangely ttirred by
those searching:lilt:illy visitants.
"I -am bit.-,,t when - y ou .::ty so,
Agcy !" I hardly knew he said it
and even now it seems more like the
....tiggestions t!lp.:: no nctualiy
uttered saying ; lint he did say it. A
minute. had not elapsed si:ice they left,
the water, and we Lad no time to sen
timentalize ; for with a low half-audi
ble moan; Elleu sank away from the
encircling arms of her rescued pupil,
and lay senseless on the griss. •
*be was terribly frightened, and
the reaction was too great for her,"
I said as we tried to recall her to eon
r.4,:ionsuoss, though Ift/it:len, and kacw
atleetvard that I gave a false reason
for the great emotion—but 1 would
1:(1% - e denied it fiercely if any body 1)31
said so—l woidd tathey.slte
thought ‘reak as she was "nut, than a,‘
she was, and I knew .the would too.
e,MSCit/lIST I C 99 came back Charlio
wad .Toles (the other men hud gone
back t, - .) woik) proliosed to carry her
to their' mother's c.,ll , igc close by, 411:
§he objected.
1 :;hall soon be quite well and
Avant to go - home !"
John carried Albert, and Charlio
and 1 half led, half earried• Ellen be
tweca home, and they went away
and lei\ us alone. She lay down on.
the loutige and I. dressed Albert, anti
gat snp li p.:r, and then she tried to oat
and talk as usual, and 1 pied not to
,ee'wiiat a miserable fu: ari the
at
te.ni;t was ; anti I kept accusing my
self with all soli:, Of "terriblo *selfish:l
nes,, - be - cause my heart kept rising . up•
with such tumultuous- and rehelliouc
happiness, when I. wished to mourn
with her.
:end yet I do beli . cve teat I won't'
have been •glad then, to give her
all my 11911'3 new joy, taking he r
I,;tier cap in exchange, ifi only Could;
for in:, life Waj ulriady ricli without
its new wealth, and I was brave and,
strop,;—:wd her life was barren a•'ti
ME
puny, unfi site wai r fainting with. 44.
dearth bclui•e this new poverty cam.:
upon her. It would not have inipov- .
erished ine ; for my soul's wealth grew
with toy own love t'ur others; but whe.i
she gave and rce.vived nut, she gre'w
poor. Ilia' wealth was to be beloved_
knew that she knew this, when L
heard her murmur that night,
"'l'•' hirn that bath *hall be givra„
and he have )n.ire abundance:
hut• from him that hath not, shall b.
t.. 1;. !I) evc:: thal Whien he hail] !"
wlitedaway to a shailuw,inic
cho ttti i but ed it to the unwonted !abet:
tit hail I alone knew Lcttcr.
1 hea!t brcaltiag, if
i 5 I;oi,ible, and I Nr.1.1 - 11'..A
%N11(.11 :;:le luceived a letter frotti a licit
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I.li;t
I . , iila,l.
•vrat of iiero, to go and atteiiii
her in her for ailer her school
W 2.6 uut., futlud it eve - a moru
soino to sew than to teach ; -for it did
11 t erriii:oy her mind.
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She v.'ent away in the stage, and I .
d,2 not ree her again in a long time—
not ul mid-v,inter—and then I wen:.
I.) 1.:10 whero her aunt resided.
sa mo all-important errands fur
~::1' and all my noiglibors . , and so 1
I. , uppn , l in - upon her Quo day. una-
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v. - a 3 changeil. Stijl palo, thin e
glio.tly—hut not so morbid
and de:Tailing, she was purer and
more spiritual. I thought I might se , t
thro igh her as through a phantom, it
pa..,s between mo and the
ME
But [. syeater change ysrai about in
take place, ane; rate seemed to hare bre' t
mit there to see its baginhing. I must
have felt the angel troubling the vrate
iu .....h;cla she- to Int healed ; for
som e ethervrim_t inexplicable fit ton):
poit.e:.siba of me that bight to g.
billd(;11 into her aunt's chamber. I
found 1.1, 3 door unlatched, arid I visit ;
ed it (1):.!11 anti ell:cred very softly, ax
on chici enter an invalitla rnum. ,Thtx
deep 61intlow et the bed curtainilay
acro:is that end ~r the room. and befi)ro
I had manifitste(l my presetice. I mt.+
mitgneti:ted into silence by the dia7
logue going, on.
• You are very kind," said the in
valid, "and for your sake, I . would be
oven willing to live; bin my iiseaso
is incurable."
--" OIL I hope not 1"
n You need not hope ; there ie no
cure for a broken heart."
Ellen ivas kneeling on an ottnman
at the bed ;Aide, and at That w‘wil slur
looked up with such a amaze light
on her face !
"Auntie! you dying of a.broken
heart I Who has (bank your heart's
fuiluess, and fluhg you back the emp,
ty cup to break in your hands 1 Wh -
was it, Auntie ?"
Tits aunt's great, aark oyes lonka
up front the it st4ensocketi, full in
caber bluo ernes as •
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