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ti. ' ofithe year 1814, the heart of Ales
N•, 1!!t N motile!' WAS gladdened in the
c'; - • -dr , I,f. t. it small legacy Turning
r mitel t6c varion4 rites to whi c h th e
might he put, the ,li-ereet old lady finally
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the t., • -d .r an l the .iecoud fl aor of her house
in He t,, st and on hanging a card in the
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t,, take poaaeastion in a
f, I Tee • i 1.. r•mttige in black wa s
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rt, .1 inten—t ,ditch Mrs Nlowletn felt
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k.•• v I wv,t to ktv.w whit yon were think
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'•T will never deceive you.,
• ' n the veriest trifle \lv eyem ti , rve
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that yr;tit Irmeh flit. to tell you,
a••' n• v , . nnwnrthy my trust—
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I .hall never lief* again. L have fort my sight
mum than a year, now, and yet tt Was like the
shock of ti ties discovery to me to wake up last
night from my dream, and r. ui. tuber suddenly
tbat I urn. blind "
t , What dream was it, Lenny
"Only a dream of the place where I first met
you when we were both children I saw the
glen, as it wigs years ag.., with the great twisted
root of the tree tea he blackberry blushes
twiniti2 :Join• them in a still shadowed light that
came through thick lesvesltnm the rainy sky.
I saw the mud on the walk in the middle of the
glen, with the marks of the cows' hoofs in some
places, and the sharp eirelesin others where some
countrywoman bad been lately trudging by nn
patens I saw the muddy water running down
on either side of the path after the shower ; and
I saw you. Rosamond, a naughty girl, all cover
ed with clay and wet jest as you were in the
reality—soiling your bright blue pelisse and your
pretty little chubby hands, by making a dam to
step the rnnning water, and laughing at the in
dignation of your nursemaid when she triad to
pull you away and take you home. I saw all
that, exactly as it really Ras in the bygone time,
hot strange enough I did not myself as the
boy I then was You were a little girl, and the
glen was in its old neglected state, and yet, the'
I was all in the past so far, I VIVA in the present
as r ;arils myself Throughout the whole dream
I was uneasily einkeious of being a grown min
---nf being, t 6 short, exactly what I am now,
excepting always that I was not blind."
What a memory you must have, live, to Ire
able to retell all those little eireuinstanees, after
the years that have passed since that wet day in
the glen ! llow well you recilleet when I was
as a 1)1 vuu remember in the same riv
el way. what I looked like a year ago, when you
, •1w 1/Ic—O, Lenny, it almost breaks my heart
Yo think ..f it'—when you saw me for the last
time
'.1)) I remember, lloaamowl ! My last look
at your face b.sA painted your portrait on my
mt.mory in c dorm t hat man neap change. I here
many pictures in my mind, but your picture i +
i!i•• and brighteet of all
• I,n litis t lecture of me a• my best—pain.
ted it my youth. tar, when my face ars+ always
c ! 'ye I you, (bough my lip+ sal"!
ti Titer• i rn nr dati in in that
years have panse.l.ivitr u. b
and when hegira. hi Qest hie mirk
rat y . ‘ i y•titese:f. 'My R•t.am and
1., l oon 114 t 14 , 1-; • 1 1,. gr.lw4 I es an d
w.“ witott 1 married her ' I ehall never
grow nld, love, flr you! The bright young pie•
tun• in your min I- will -till be my picture wh tn
my eheoks are wrinkled and my hair t., grey."
• :•ttili your pieture—slways the same, grow as
old •“.I may
'lily aro you •orro it 1.4 rioar in ovory part?—
Aro !lion n .‘l , othrfut lime, no unfinishod vorner4
anrwlh-r- I hire rho rlrt re.] Net, stoce
. vou
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"Yee. hut ihnv have a fault. Cnmf , m
what th , fault ?"
.•They are n .trongly marked as thry
might he "
, •11 12 ht ! Aryl my Pre.'"
"Brown nyea, later rye'. wakeful tyro. thlt
are alwar+ I , k)kinz, about than EyAA that can
he very ' , oft , ne titn 111 I very bri4ht at itn
nthor ton , l , r .in I c'••tr. jut at th , pro
ent TI , T7I"II ° , )1 , 1. e'lrl l,l , ry alight pr , wo.
mt i o ,. o f ~,•„,„,p , tun widely, and Inrkrnr
rather toP h ill aptly reqnlute."
Mini v .11 .1 )n't them look s , n..w "--
What i , thcr h !ow the rye.;..'
• th• i • is u m qu it e hi ennu , h t. 1) , in
(ironer pr,,p)roi• M with them A uri.a e th a t
a glizht ten.lene v to be----"
“Dan't 4fir the horrid English word ! Spare
my feelings by patting it in French SKr r.l
- and skip over my nose as fast as post.ible
"I must stop at the mouth, then, anti own that
it is as nesr perfection as possible. Thn lips are
lovely in shape. fresh in e•dnr, and irresistible in
expression They smile in my portrait, mid
am 1 , 1 tire they are smiling at ton now.”
" How could they do otherwise when they are
getting much praise? My vanity whispers to
m' that I hal hotter stop the catechism here
If I talk abate my complexion, I shall only hear
that i t i. o f O w d u -k v and that there is
never red enough in it, except when I am walk
ing or riding, r confused, or angry. If I risk
in• - •stion about my figure, 1 shall receive the
dreadful answer, 'You are dangerously inclined
to be fat.' If I say, Ilow do I dress! I shall he
told. Not soberly enough? you are as find as a
child of gray c dors. No! I w:11 venture no
mor • questions lint, vanity apart, Lenny, lam
at, glad, o proud. so happy to find that you can
keep the image of me clearly in rim. mind. I
shall do my beat now to look and dress like your
last remembrance of me My love of loves: I
will do you credit—l will try if I oan't make
you trivipd for your wife. You deserve a hundred
thou - sand kisses for saving your chatecisto 4.) well
—and there they are!"
Willie 711 r.. Frankland wita conferring the re•
ward of merit nn her husband, the aonnti of a
faint, small, courteouslc•signifieant cough, made
itself timidly audible in a corner of the room.
Turning round iustintly with the quickness that
eh , rieteri.e , l all her action., Mn.. Franklin& to
her horror and iodignit;on, confronted Miss
Mowhere itindinc just inside the door with a let
ter in her hind, and a hlueh of sentimental
agitation on her simpering face.
wroch! hop' dare ynu come in witbont
n ,, ckin , at th , Inor?" cri••kl 11 , )samno , l, starting
to 11.. r font with x stsmp, and rigging in an in
.hint from thr• height nr f ndnaaa to the height
of past:inn.
Mii4 Mowlen, , book-guiltily before the brick,
angry eye. that 1 , It r. ,- 1 through and through her,
turned very palo, int. the I , tter apologeti•
^al' v, and .:ti lin r nt..‘ ki•-' t , lne4 that site was
.rr *tirry
Snrre." exelnitnei Itt).tam:lnti, rotting even
t intut , trrihteti by the aptittly than mho bad been
hy-the ietrusinn, and rbowiturit by anotbor stamp;
"who carr, whether you are sorry or Do? Z dent,
, wait your gorrow—r ..0% have it I Deep.
I was so itsnlte•l in my life—never, you meal,
inquisitive creature!"
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"It eianiond, Rotiainonda. pray don't forget
rourtelf!"• interposed the quiet voice of Mr
Frankland
" Lenny, dear, I can't help it! That creature
would drive a saint mad. She has been prying
after us ever since we have been here—yon have,
y o u ill-bred, indelicate woman! I suspected it be:
fore—l 1M certaiu of it now! Must we lock our
doors to keep you out?—we won't lock our doors
Fetch he bill! We give you warning Mr
Frankland giyt a you warning—don't you, Lenny?
I'll pack up all your things, dear; she than t
touch one of then,. Go down stairs and make
out yoar bill, and give your mother warning.—
Mr. Frankland says he won't have iii. rooms
burst, into and his doors listened at by inquisitive
women—and I say so too Put that letter down
on the table—unless you want to open it and rend
it—put it down, you audacious woman, and fetch
the hill, and tell your mother we are going t,
leave the house directly "
At this dreadful threat, Miss Mowiem, who
was soft and timid, as well as curious, by nature,
wrung her hands in despair, and overflowed
me, kly in a shower of tears.
" Oh! good! g , 0 , 1 gracious Heavens atior,
cried Miss M.iarlem,aildressing herself distract«lly
to the ceiling. "what will mother say! Whatever
will Is , eome ~f me now! 0 Mani, I thought I
knocked—l Ind, indeed: 0 Main, I humbly
le pinion, awl never intrude again 0,
Mare! mother's a widow, and this is the first
time we have let the lodgings, and the furniture's
swallowed up all our money, and, 0, Alain :
M. how I shall catch it if you g ,'" !fere
words failed Miss Mowlem, and hyst,•rical sobs
pathetically supplied their place
Rosamond: — said Mr Frankland There
was, an akicent of sorrow in his vo ice this ti m e,
as well Its an accent of remonstrance Rosamond's
quick ear caught. the alteration in his tone As
she looked round at him, her color chang, , d, her
head dr siped a little, and her whole expression
altered nn her instant She stole gently to her
hushan , l's side with 'softened, saddened eyes. and
put her lips caressingly dose to his ear
" Lenny: . she whispered, "have I made you
angry with me 9"
" I ean't he angry with you. Rosamond," was
the qui , n answer ••II only wish, love, that you
e oibl have controlled y iurself a little sor,ner "
'• lam Q., anirv—=i very, v.yry sorry'' The
- .ft lip- elm , ' ,•!,,,r still t, his ear a. th..y
whi.pered the penitent w0r.14; and the eunning
little li•ind crept up tremblinedy roan I hi+ nevk
an 1 t, play with hic hair '-So sorry, and
3.hant, tnpo If' But it was enough to
tuake almost anyboly angry, jus at first—wasn't
it, dt at? And yon will forgive me—wont you,
Loony?—if I promise never to behave so badly
again! Never mind that wretched whimpering
fool at the door," said Rosamond, undergoing a
sli t tht relap,e as she looked round at Mow
letn, standing immovably repentant against the
wall, with her face buried in adingy white poek , •t
ban ikereinef ••I'll link° it up with her; I'll
.top her eryin, , ,!: I• 11 take to.r out of the room;
11l do anything in the world 01.11'4 ktml to her,
if will only
rwltt , anni .r two i+ all that 14 wsinto I
nothme nu,n , than a woni or two," Paid
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r an.l th , Ulbt I Wa. v•.r
run i; I'i to angry ab t ha' Tako to rih•
1.. n “trt . Tillj, tf v. - ,u won ' t L.
prp4rnt Yon 11/0/ 1 ! !Ike i , " N.., I t• , n ' t rno•in
---1 taix It: Thrr I ' v-plnn -1
• , T 1 n , l now, an•l 1
•npl ,up—oltr4 an.l see io l vr it tho i.a
With thew:. worda. Mr. Frankiltu! I tlp•
adminiattered, under the pretence of a pat
in the ahlnider, a comi•hnmored phnve to tb^
amazed and embarraiseti )(tag elnqed
the thor stain, and resumei her place in a moment
on her hu-band'a knee
" made it up with h , r, dear I've Pent
11,r ',yip with my bright greet] lihhnn, au.l it
make. , Ler look as yellow am a vii!oen, and a.
nuly as Rommmond stonp , d, and looked
anal ',lsla into Mr Franklan , i's fie. , "Lenny,"
.6 maid, sadly, putting' h.'r e l l- -k ankn.t hi..
, r. you anzry with me
My loci.. I never gin. fin Try with you T
nr•cer can be.-
will alway+ keep my temper l.bwn f.,r , th e
future, Lenny. -
am .iure you will, I: igamomi But neYer
filial that. lam not thinkim: of ynur temper
now '
"Of what then?
Of the ari-Inzv y..li made to Mi Mow
lem -
" Did I n t gay enrewh? I'll call lwr bark if
you like—l'l! make another penitent speceh—
I'll do anything but ki4,s her. I really can't do
that—l can't ki•ii any body new but you "
" My dear, dear love, how very much like a
child you are still, in some of your ways! You
said more than enough to Mist) Mowlem—far
more. And if you will pardon me for making
the remark, I think, in your generosity sod good
nature, you a little forgot yourself with the
young woman. I don't so much allude to your
giving her the ribbon—though, perhaps, that
might have been done a little less familiarly—
hut, from what l i heard you say, I infer that you
aeually went the length of shaking hands with
her
WLS that wrong?' I thought it AR the kindest
way of making it up."
" My dear, it is an excellent way of making
it up between equals. But consider the difference
between your station in society and Miss Mow.
lem's."
" I will try and consider it, if you wish, my
lave. But I think I, take after my father, who
never troubles his 'head (dear old man!) about
differences of station. I can't help liking people
who are kind to me, without thinking whether
they are above my rank or below it: and when I
got cool, I most confess I felt just as vexed with
myself for frightening and distressing that on.
lucky Miss Mowlem, as if her station had been
, qual to mine. 1 will try to think as you do,
Lenny; but I am very much afraid that 1 have
gilt, without knowing exactly how, to be what
the newspapers calla Radical."
" My dear R)samoutl! don't talk of yourself
in that way, even in a joke. You ought to be
the last person in the world to conf use t b ose
Unctions in rank on which the whole well-being
of society depends."
" Does it really? And yet, asar, we don't
.0•• m to have been created with anvil very wide
distinctions between us. We have all got the
same number of arms soi lege; we are all hungry
and thirsty, and tint in the suconrcr and cold in
the winter;, we all laugh when we are pleased,
sod cry when are distressed; and, surely, we
haseall got vtry much the same feeliega, whether
we are high or whether we are low. I could not
have loved you better, Lenny, than. I do now, if
I had been a duchess, or less than I do now, if I
had been a i.eraant girl."
"My love, you are not a servant• girl. And
as to what you say about a duchess, let me remind
you that you are not so much below a duchess as
you seem to think Many a lady of high title,
cannot 1..0k back on such a line of ancestors as
yours. Tour father's family, Rosamond, is one
of the ohle,t in England—even my father's
family hardly dates back .n far; and we were
landed gentry when many a name in the Peerage
was not heard of. It is really almost laughably
absurd to hear you talking of yourself as a Radi
cal
I won't talk of myself so again. Lenny--
only don't look so Furious. I'll be a Tory, dear,
if you will give me a kiss, and lct me sit on your
knee a little longer.",
Mr. Frankland's gravity was proof against his
wife's changes of politinal principles, sod the
conditions which she annexed to it His face
cleared up, and he Isulzheti almost as gaily as
Rosamond herself
"By the bre," wild h after an interval of
ailenee had given him time to enlleet hi' though ta,
"did I not hear vnu tell Nlt4+ Vlnwlem to put a
letter •lown on Ow 1., letter for yin nr
f mer'
f , rgo- ! .1 1 ) ,u , , the letter, - said
Tlvir i n w n 1, running to the tab! , '•T, 14 for you,
le , uny —and, goodurs. try' here': th Port hgenna
p , —trnark ! , n
"11! must 1••• froin the bud 1, , r whom f srnt
d, , wn h al, ut tti. repairs Load
try! v An•l 't heqr what h.' has t
rt ) 4 MA .111 •Lie I t!i• !otter, Irew ak: tool to
her hu4hand's feet, •kri I. 4itting; down with her
anus on Lip kne;... fo`.l )w4
"Sir—Affm-ribly the inornetion+ with
whir 3 l vnu farcirel inn, I have prneended to anr•
re; Pirthmnnn't T with 3 view to seePrtain
itr• whir rep h in fzenrirli, and the
n-rtli in ritrti,.nlir. in iv -titirl in nncil
r...,zarl. 1.. t littl• and
n..w all-that the buililltt.• want. Thy
wall. and f oanilrtiou' tnal.. tr. last for ever
such .tr”ng ..11 I w•.rk t n•vcr t e v •. ! + on be.
'• the houl canoe• report sit fay ira•
bly The rooms in ill , west front, having been
inhabited during pen id of Captain Trever•
ton's ••ecupanon, and been looked after
••ioce, by the person• left in charge of the house,
are in tolerably sound c indition I should say
two hundred pounds would cover the expense or
all repairs in Inv line, which these rooms need .
This sntst would not ine:ude the restoration of
th. west stairease, which has given a little in
tome places, and the banisters of which are deep
1• llc insecnr•', from the first to the second land-
ins. From twenty five to thirty pounds would
stuffier to set this all right
In the rooms on the north front, the state of
ditaniflation, from top to bottom, is as bad as can
ho From all that I could ascertain, nobody
• w e n t near those rooms in Captain Trever
ton's timo, n- has ever entered them since. The
po•pl •wb now keep rho house have a superstiti•
ems dread oponino any of the north doors, in
• noo thf• tint. that has elapsed since
body w •ul 1 vo!unt• or to I,•eompany me in my
sury v, and n •b lv o•ffil 1 tell ine which keys
fiff..l r •••te I,e•rs in any part of the north
silo. I ...cal 'n•pl in e •ntaining the names
Tl'lllll/ , I , of tti , r OU.; 11 'r, ti my surprise,
wi r • •re an) labels at tuAit.l --parately to the
kft% -. They wer.• t • in.., all banging to
• r ra .t rut. with an ivory label to it,
whioli was .nly marked. Keys of the North
R •oins I mkt' the I.borty of mentioning these
part. full-. in ft-der 1•• •uut for my having, as
volt nilzht think. d timed my sta. , ' at I'orthgenna
Tower 'one , r thin is needful I lost nearly tilt)
whole day in taking the keys off the ring and
fitting them at hazard to the right doors. Anti
I 0,•,'
pl(v1 s "MI hours o f another day in marking
e a ch d.,or with a number on the outside, and put•
tro t ,' a eorfespondino label to each key. before I
replaced ii ffn the ring, in order to prevent the
possibility of future errors and delays.
As I hope to furnish you, in a few days, with
a detailed estimate of the repairs needed in the
north part of the honse, from basement to roof,
I need only say here that they will occupy some
time, and will he of the most extensive nature.
The beams of the staircase and the flooring of
the first story have g-.t the dry rot. The damp
in slme room., and the rats in others, have al
mfott .1..-'roved the wainscoatings Four of the
mautelpirees have given out from the walls, and
.•11 th oeinngs art either stained, cracked, (A.
po. .1 +ay in large patches The flooring is,
iu getier.ll, in a better eouditi in than I had anti
eip ,ted; but, the shutters and window sashes are
. • wirp..n a s t• Ic uself.ss It is only fair to
aeknowledge that the expense of setting all these
thinz,s t•• rights—that is to say, of making the
rooms safe and habitable, and ••f putting them in
proper eond,tron f tr the upholsterer—will be con•
siderable. If would respectfully suggest, in the
event o f sour feeling any surprise or dissatisfac
tion it the amount of my estimate, that you
should name a ftiend in whom you place confidence
t.• go over the norqi rooms with me, keeping my
estimate in his hand. I will undertake to prove,
if nee df u l, th e necessity of each separate repair,
and th, , justice of each separate charge for roe
same, to the satisfaction of any competent and
impartial person whom you may please to
WI! 11 kW
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" T remain, sir.
" Your humble mervant,
"Trtmrss HoRLOCK
" A very honest. .traightforward letter," said
Mr. Franklaad
" I wish he had sent the estimate with it,"
s a id Ro4amond, "Why could not the provoking
man tell us at once in round numbers what this
repairs will really eost?"
"i suspect, my dear, he was afraid of shock
ing us, if he mentioned the amount in round
nu misers."
" That horrid money! It is always getting in
one's wry and upsetting one's plans. If we
haven't got enough, let us go and borrow money
of somebody who has. Do you mean to dispatch
a friend to Porthgenna to go over the house with
kr. Horlock? if you do, I know who I wish
you would send."
" Who?"
4 1 '
" Me, if you please—under your escort, of
course. D..n't laugh, Lenny. I would be very
sharp with Mr. Ilorlock; I wotild object to every
one of his charges, and best him down without
mercy I once saw a survey , ir go over a house,
and I know exactly what to do Yon siamp on
the fi 41r, and knock at the walls, and serape at
the brickwork, and look up all the ohitneyi and
out of all the windows.ometimes you make
notes in'a little book, son tetimes .you measure
with a font-rule, sometime s you sit down all of •
sudden and think profoundly—and the end of it
is that you say the house will do very well inde
ed, if the tenant will pull out his purse and put
it in proper repair."
" Well done, &Insane You have one more
secom • hment than I knew of; and I i Suppose
ha o choice now. but to give you oppor
tu of displaying it. If you don' object,
my dear, to being associated with a fontanel
assistant in the =portant business of checking
Mr. Eselook's estimate, I won't object to paying
Ni LIWNARD FRAOKLAND EA4
‘Trivitim to , iend you the Pt timate in a few
B. F. SLOAN, EDITOR.
NUMBER 43•
a short visit to Porthgenna whenever you please
—especially now I know that the west rooms are
still habitable."
"0, bow kind of you: How pleased I shall
be: How I shall enjoy seeing the old place actin
before it is altered: - I was only bee years old,
Lenny, when we left l'orthgenna and lam so
anxious to see what I can remember of it, after
such a long, long abeenee as mine. Do you know,
I never taw anything of that ruinous north side
of the house—and I do-so dote 'on old rooms?
We will o all through them, Lenny. Y0'34111 , 11
have hol dof my bandeand look with masses,
and make as many discoveries as I do. I praphoet
that we shall ace ghosts, and find treostersmtind
hear mysterious noises —and, oh heavens! mist
clouds of dust we shall have to go tiniest
Pouf. the very anticipation of them ebsAmirtms
already!"
"Now we are on the subject of Porthgensa,
Rosamond, let us be serious for one momost... It
is clear to me that these repairs of the with
rooms will cost a large sum of money. Nbw,
my love, I consider no sum of money wienpent,
however large it may be, if it procures youpkaa
ure lam with you heart and soul--"
Ile paused. Ills wife's caressing arms were
twining round his neck again, and her cheek
WILS laid gently against his "Go an, Lawny,"
-aid, with such an accent of tendeiseso in
the utterance of those three simple words,ihiet
his speech failed him for the moment and all his
-4.-osstions seemed absorbed in the 000 lentell of
li:tening. "Rosamond." be whispered, "there
is no music in the world that touches ma uyonr
voice tenches m" now: I feel it all through me
as I used sometimes to feel the sky at night, in
the time when I could see " As be spoke, the
caressing arms tightened round his neek,at:d the
fervent lips softly took the place which the
cheek had occupied. ..t;o on, Lenny," they
repeated happily as well as tenderly now, you
said you were with IT).' heart and soul. Wa
ffle in what?"
'ln your project, love, for ioducing youtfuth
er to retire troth his profession atter this last
cruise, and in your hope of prevailing on him to,
pio.s the evening of his slays happily with ms at
l'ortligentia If thkrnoney spew, in restoring
the north room', so that wo may all liveia the*
fir the future. does indeed s o alter the look of
the place to his eyes as to dissipate his old sor
rowful associations with it, and to make his He
ioc there again a pleasure instead of a pain to
him, I shall r..car.l it as money well laid out.—
Rut, Rosamond, are you sure of the success of
Your plan before we undertake it' Have you
dropped any hint of the P rthgeuna proien to
your fatly r?"
"I told him, Loony, tha. I should thew be
quite r..infortable unless he left the sea, and he
said that he would. I did not mention a word
about Ptirthgenna—nor did he; but he knows
that we libell live there, when we &resettled, and
he made no couditions when he promised that
our home should be his home."
"Is the loss of your mother the only pd natio.
elation he has with the place!"
'Not quite There is another association which
has never been menti , ned. but which .I may tell
von, because there arc no secrets between es.—
My mother had a favorite maid, who livia - with
her from the time of her marriage, and who was
th'i "II! ) prr...on present in her
room when soe atea. I just rememuct sots
may, in a dim childish way, 34 being odd in her
Look and manner, and no great favorite with any
body in the Louse but her mistress Well, on
the morning of my mother'. death, situ disap
peared frlm the hue in the strangest way,
leaving behind her a most singular and Inyaiteri
on. letter to my father asserting that is my
mother's dying moments a secret had been con
fided to her, which she was charged to divulge to
her master when her mistress was no more, tied
adding that she was Afraid to mention this secret
and that, to avoid bein otte.ti.ined aixsat it, she
had resolved on leaving the house for ever. She
had been gone some hours when the letter was
opened, and sire ha' never been seen or heard of
since that time This circumstance seemed to
make almost 3.4 strong an impreacton en my
father's mind as the shock of my mottier'aireath.
Our neighbors and servants alt thought as (I
think) that the woman was „Triad; but be never
agreed with them, and I know that he has neith
er destroyed nor forgotten the letter from that
time to this "
"A strange event, It isamond—a very stmt.
event I don't wonder that it has made a lasting__
impression on bim "
"Depend upon it, Lenny, the servants adii the
neighbors were right—the woman was mad.—
Any way, however, it was certainly a singular
event in our family All old houses haveotheir
romanee—and that is the romance of our house.
But years and years have passed since then; and,
what with time, and what with the (granges we
are going to make, I have no fear that lily dear,
rod father will spoil our plans. • Give him a
new n irth garden at Porthgenna, where be can
walk the decks, as I call it—give him new north
rooms to live iu, and I will answer for therCsult.
But all this is in the future, let us get Van to
the present time. When shall we pay our !tying
visit to Portligenna, Lenny, and plunge into the
important business of checking Mr. Eforloek's
estimate for the repairs?''
"We have three weelot inure to star here,
Itosamontl.
"Yes; and then we most go back to Long
Beckley I promised that best sod biggest of
men, the vicar, that we ssould pay our rat visit
him. lie is sure not to let us off under three
weeks or a month "
"In that case, the 6, r e had better sly two
months hence for the visit to Porthgesna. Is
your writing ease in the room Rosamond?"'
"Yes; close by us, (m the table "
'Write to Mr Ilorlock then, love, and ap ,
point a meeting in two months' time at the old
house Tell him, also, as we must not trust our
selves on unlafe stairs—especially considering
how dependent I'am on bannisters—to hut the
west staircase repaired immediately. Andorbile
you have your pen in your hand, perhaps frisay
•ave trouble if yon write a second note t 6 the
housekeeper of Portbgenna, to tell her whop she
may expect n•
Rosamond sat down gaily at the tailln and
dipped her pen in the ink with a little fairish
of triumph.
"In two months," she esclaime4 joytay.—
"I shall see the dear old place agate! la two
:mouths, Lenny, our profane feet will be raising
the dust in the solitudes of the North Room."
( )
LANDLonn —" flood. morning, Mr. Jews
Five day, Sir. I've takes the liberty Of brisig
jog s reeept for the quarter's rent "
Ts.Narrr.—" Rent! Oh, eh! Due last week—
you're quick on quarter day, Mr Brows. By
the-way, do you know that none of tha doors in
this house will shot?"
LANDLORD.—" New house, you knew,gir.—
Mao. have time to settle."
TENArrr.--" And so mat I, Mr. Brows.—
Goodanorning "
[Exit Landlord, unpaid, but unceterhored
mi. Since the garotte has been introduced
into thicity, it Is dangerous to 'rah out o'nights.
" I say, Bill," said one coachman to another,
" this 'eren is bad baguet" " Not
_gairoti
bad at all ; lads it uneonnnou good' lilt my
hominess, &Yell she shed old genie derided to
walk takes a back , it works well for
El