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Huron Record, 1881-11-18, Page 21011AGE CEIMMONS* me nigh four yearago, of his brat wagett It was on by this time, a perfect bower of roses roundthe honest, Crine- ety•face ; and tbese• two guests were ushered in for Airs. Goldsmith and Mist Roberts to entertain, while Pottle anewered another rap. Thie was Mol- ly Bent; her little, gentle, wrinkled face rosy as a winter apple, and the cap (from which her little flat gray purlpeeped) of • so substantial a nature Yes; and you goat, wonm, too— thillt it bore the big black bonnet over Do }NM Viotikro your word die day, Dat you will .take di* husband here, it, and was quite fresh when that wee ono alit Situ aiwaYa alltay takeeoff, with broad black ribbon Dat you will bet and board mit with him, Wok, iron and mend hie clothe* 4 round it, as if Molly had felt the wind - ekjoys anti roue, Laugh yen he smiles, veep ren ho 0108, in her ears•after she had put it on, Und are Ilia , ash Good itle Molly ent1 Ae rosy she was in face and in heart, eis if she had not a poor titd bedridden husband et home for whom he had toiled all day, and: who, never left off groaning and fretting from sunrise to seneet. Am warm and genial as if she had never at over an empty grate, or got up in those bitter nights to give her thin, blanket to the poor old ehivering who never shivered the lees for this one only possiblentddtion .to his ergo- , fort -or rather subtraction from hie discomfort. As cheerfully brisk and active:1a if the days were not keg houre of hard, rough wort, and the nights often longer Inters of Wakeful nee and nursing. As brave and hope- ful still as if her eoverity years bed taught her nothing but a sweet and • glad content ; a hunthle patzent,. rest- ing on the love of gim who heti said, ,' Bleed he ye poor, • - Following closely to the heels of lit- tle Molly ceple AtartheTotees, with her' bobbing courtesjet•which had made • Rettee fency shn had intended to "flap,".like Alm Jerry Gruncher, end changed her Miednitaldmily ; with her long black 'bonnet-tethe material in which Pollie reckoned would make her and Hester eleven each -t -and with the long bineadoth toat which 'had been given her tWeety years ago, • aed ween throegh OVe.'y winter siece, eand the remembrance of width had shamed. ....A.nietePhylits thatevery, autumn .when. elle had begun -to think she required it water-nroof' The following is .t), Marritigt, formula done up in verses as •enacted by German settlement out wet - anti told pleatiojoin.your 4/0 .4a440.) You promise now, You fltootIriatt dare, Yo t ,tmds upon der nuor; To take dia woman fur your vreWA And tut her cleaners ; You'll teed hor well on sauericroult, Beano, buttermilk and choose, A.pd in all dings to lend yov Sot wW promOtO hor ease. V.all 1 Voll, don, main dose saered Mt joy anti not mit eviet,, do bronouneo you man and vito , Von name, von bone, von beet t - I hobnail now d090 ettered bOodO, Deso matrimonial die, l'efore mine Gotx mine vrow, ininftetr, Und all deco gazing eyoa. Und now you bridegroom stand'''. Alert), X'Urjot la 1p your collar, Until! o,, dell 'no von ding more Dab is ; veto lsh misc. THE ARUNDEL liOTTO, BY MARY CECtl, HAY,. ' • 4w4or ef "Old Mitddloton't -Money ;" "Itiddett ; " I'lto Slitoreo Logt4cy ;" " Victor and rooquiok61;" " Nora's I.aro Testi." ",,A Sluttioto tett Threshold ;" "Bade to Oto Ilputo ;" 010,, 00. WXAPTER XXX. ---Continued. At last the two girls -looked round. oomplacently to. see everythingready. Hester stirre the fire to a brighter blaze ; Pollie lighted .the lamps. ' Hest ter said : " Will it do now 1" , • And Pollie, ein the. same breath, said : " Now it will do." ' • : Then there was nothing More to' bo said or done till the guests arrived, • " Or.00uree," said Pollie, the 'first rap will announee two.guests. I • nev. er rewomber a solitary one coming first, and I'm sure there is some mitieretand- ing among them. to this effect." ' r. • .e So they did'. Two of thent:'entaieg in-pettens, ambrelles, and el.1.11ke genial breath of the Wide, - 'frosty,. woridewithout, carrying, eochone, a basket gingerly covered • with. a- cleae tendlterchief, under.whieh lay, in care- ful preservetion, the cap: 'Sometimes se preserved from. year to 'year, for Pollie said she had known the,•sanie oat) arrive so for nine years to'gether. stiftl not look seriously- ego(' in the ninth. • Pre-erhinently, •the first great feature of the New -year's eve wesatbe brtng- ingto light of the cap. . If it chanced to be. a new one, the burden of hope and eritcietY was to great to: „be: bterna hy the 'possessor, and her intensely conscioue expression added. ,teafold to its striking appearanee. If the cap chanced to be anoldt one,. or rather one from which the .gleert: of novelty had departed, . there was a shade DE pique discernible tratlieglance which the • wearer 'woeld throw upon ethers of moro recent date: .. Old Mrs. Choosan ,firet began the niiiiikertnent of of her • Cap, on . this' night ; slowly folding the red handlrer-' chief which bad servedservoda an awning,. that she -might prolong the 'exeirneot of Pollie, who hovered over the hatikett taking cautious iieeps into, the corners: " Why, 1 declare,- .01mosao, it's • 'ttette one 1" she exclaimed, with the ut. meet surprise, as it came ferth a hay- ing read that fact long' .ago in ,Choos- alit; beaming face • , . • " • a new Ain this time, Miss Mary," she answered, with an abortive• . attempt at sang/rad; do youlike it 1" Now, as all Choosant3 caps' had boen Linde on the.same prineiple for all the ytiar'S Pollie had - known here. -viz., • with two: breed, oblong blocks of border, sticking well nut with a esolid- ity of their own, andlotMing a margin to each cheek. the back. 'being; very secondary . coneieleCrteion, end • not worthy of any amount of serious. thought, Pollie had great difficulty, • in ehowing herself stuck by its novelty. But she decided empliatierdly that it. wan becoming ; a.ntitas ,Clieoettn• knew Abet comprehended 'all tlitittie deatred a it) a cap, the glanced across rattier plty- ingly at Airs Breeze -bright, bearning, tethiciend Sutran Iteeetee-whoee basket Was still uncovered under Hester's •• • hand, and who declined to hear Che- a» at tale •• • Hut her iitothentary Claud ofjealotsy' termed to'.it'perfeet ripple of delight when, as tle,'tree-year-old .cap' was* dieplayed; tickAer entelaireed upon ite brill;ance. " Do yppi: IctieW2, res," said • Susan, ')eilling out the :loops. , tvith ineffable teedernese, it it's ere old cap." . • " Do Van redly .flit „hi° .S.Alt-ed 'Mater, oxtnniiiin it 'Witte her I've& on met side; by, .ti uitc, fancied fell a nmi, eap when .r saw it." • " it does leek ahn(st Jiko e, new cap; 110.1% it, miss But my, boy bought it 0 Come, Itileft Kimble," shouted Pol- Ue, ger jemitea pulled out and arrang- ed the six short yellow curls which trembled on her teelplees " they are only waiting for you." Andvirlien she was that in, the girls .began to work in -earneet. Mr. Delahoyile's curate sant of Sir. Randall Platt Wet he had 'rather a high .eomplexion,' Pollie. I° wonder what he would have called mine now ?" anginal Renter ; but she clung to the toasting fork, while Pollie bettered the cakes as fast as they were reedy,. The pyramids wereapiled, and in went the girls with the tea and the hot cakes, at sight of which Rester no- ticed the mouths water, ,and heard en expectant spill' from ies Jernima. But Rester -wide and quizzical as hor eyes were that evening -saw noth. fng of then 'wonder and admiration caused by ele. attendance and attention of the beautiful. lady Who had such pleasant words tosay to thern. eV,: and whew tiny white hands were so witlieg .te welt Cu them. . , If a smoking bortrd means a table etitli hot dishes upon it (which very rarely do arriokee) theta it • was. round the molting board that the flee gnosis arreembled, witth Annie at their head, the htdios waiting to see them settled. Hester saw Annie tryina to put her mother ( Mr% Breeze) into the back- ground, as if she felt the responeibility of her position ; and s.ew, too, the per- fect imposeihiliey of eeccerse in the manceuvre. Susan Would, crop up everywhere , as the Mora prominent : figure in the group. She saw poor old *retaliate draw her easy -chair to.. the tebleeepread a large pocket handker- chief on her highly developed • chint,,. knee, and eXprese,13y an easy staff, thet.sliethad nothing tOcompleier of, so fen.. thee Ute, saw her obligingly help herself, to muffins,. regardlese of Anne's pantothintio reminders of "grace before meek' Mrs. Goldsmith did not stand among . her •standing -compieny, frit at the eriicis wen •the to .woliki bra the hottest and strongeet, and sing. with theta:. A,yerse o a )Tymi.,_ metre by nature, lour Metre by sus- eusion ;• but iteletlfte.etozen words she egte,ed a blegeing on there ell, leaving. out of the question ; and hen that 'Was Over, they sat down in uiot content; teed Pellie•shat the door ceitlet upbn theta Then the girls est hack to the kitehen . and Mrs. -oldernith and Aunt Phyllise ,restedint a: draw itig rode), where) Rohl: sulked mjesticellyon the ?u, that.beinn the eineerit end most undisturbed spot he c)d eeleet for the purpestt • . Steeping in their. talk; every :, now d thea, to listen .delightedly• ; to the • voluntary laughter or low •chnckles at reached -them from the next moat 011ie and fiestereatoistine still-sa, over the fire, eliecuseing their' guest No need to tell how manyeennet Pnlli wenain.to roplenish the plates, or Hee took fit fresh Supplies of teat• Suffie it to say,.that when the meal was ova and the teueste.had. gathered•ratind •th fire again, Mrs Chooeten„. . who wa more outspoken and independent -ilia the others., •confided to Hester that "i jeae a:good tea, and so had .atight t be ; air it lasted'there a whole year and they'd never • like . . Wnen the :six“ebaire ere .Comfort ably :arranged. Around e. . fire, am Anne NV)1 Playing th hostess, 'met taking care of every 'one, Limier an Pollie carried their. own tea into the diatVingertiona, Much to:Atiei'Phyllie's enjoyment ; read there they .all par took of it merrily, 'Rester balapciag her saucer on her finger in imitation of Choosan,'and Polliodelightedly eettine the - In he canie, ne her pettena telatterth ing equallea with theta and trer hues little tong:eon deftly .taking oft' her .v` „eloak and -pattens with her..left brad, q areshe had tearreeti to do everything. g since her right, had been cat off' tome fewtsail Yearn inlet -Se A rate:ells.. that tei had bCen 'left in curtain was, tt washing leed.workeit ittrtway into 'her n 'Paler ; and; :after months of agony, es she told: }este' that.itightt the regent- ace ary sitrgeen'heal taken it earetally of4 and it was-bettnr and the Was Stow- at jug " quite handy," • •• • in Of cOurse„, Martha'se bonnet was a Pollie fixture tl'he extensive satin bovr r the top proclainte•d this at otioa; and Rester took her into the dining -meat, while Perlin ushered in-leett but 'eM- phatically. . not: aeast-._'T jernietia' Kiinble a tell, stately, deaf, and waver- ing in her mind. • t. - Peer Mies Kimble was in 'what she celled reduced, eiectunstareces ; . but if= tineh a redtictiott exteMie to the valuer of °nee self, it was a• very doubtful ..the in her case, "" Shohod seen •ito ranch better days,". than .Of course, that sat- isfitetory thought' iffettietially• blinded her to the good of these. • . No one knew what these better deers of Jeinireree. had been ; hut tthe :roe niamee gavaher such gloomy satisfac- tion, and ..ele:vated her .to 'ungeestiont :ahly in the eyes of beiself, that no etre disputed it. And the low-borne:neigh!. hoes (whotre " hetter dare" perhaps, were only to come l) kindly and gently bore her patrol:lege-though they toight laugh .sotnetimes at the poor thing's ecceritridtien-and never hest - tete(' to help her ; haver grumbled lait that her thanks were not ferthoomin nee though now and then one of them would give her e nfew aharti worth.. fini Many a time. Would little Molly, tired gro and aching in every limb, call in and hay de Mho Kimble's heavy:work, while i she lay in bed. And hearty, kindly Mrs. Breeze 00 etany a Sunday :morre- ing,,would divide the little dinner 0, home ; pretend to eat her Aare While' the youngenouths were burry, and the eager,. lovingeyee were watching her then quietly slip it in to poor eternity's; little • bit 610 was too 'nisch, that we put away for you to taste haw you like it cooked hothie way." ' • Mise Kiwi:tee having relinquithed her shawl and hennete stood oppoeite. the girls taith folded &retie ; a'Very ex- traordinary figure, indeed ; just the erode width all the way down, and rob- ed in a short, chintz muslin skirt of an uncertain age,and a long, tight, rusty alpaca jacket, edged with a limp tuck- ers which refused to stick up and cot - mod her long, thin neck. But the lit- tle yellow knot ot hair Oh the top of her bead,, about the size of a crown (inulliere we wen Id be understood to tee tri a five -shilling ,piece,) though it looked err uneetnially Jolty, teas •not tut atom inghee than were Pollie's and Itester's Chignon, t t verse at every pause, followed invar- e. tably. • e Stelae wae, les usull, requested to be- . . t gite, and (after 'some difficulty) induced e to canse'rit. Slowly plaiting her apron. r in eler fieners, 'end gazing. at eine par -- a dealer coal in thp grate, eh told (as it i s was her ctistoin to tell the. antioallett: n how •she and some /me, wh was never t particularly nientionetla•met-'tteae in, o a.crowd ; how she'loet her breath When is eyes wore upon her eaodeltew welt aware she was of what ho fat, by tiie. . etTect on his deep -toned voice ;•ending 1 each verso by energetically' rtesuring 1 the compeller that her mother Was •the ) cause of the anguish which did not 'ap- pear to he affecting her in thetlightest.. •After'vorione cenipliment,s' azid era eouraging ref:narks, Martha was pre- vailed upon tesing her standard song; sorely *Reheat her ptineiple, it would .eeern, while she had at; Hale- idea of going home without . having sung it as she' had of going Without her eappee. •• Martha sat beret* •down clone fleeter, her bead ou mut nide like little cock-eparrowe, the big how. n ding at any pause in the eoriversati Seeing this, Jetnima nodded, tee; er though they might not be at app priate interval% the nods were ( eided improvement on the Darin • rigidity. Boman, still prominent, tile her position practically arid metapho icefiy to advantage ; and, as the ell, Ing advanced, Hester fancied that t flowers in her cap literally expand( and opened an the genial eon. 'Qui in ono corner, on the other side Hester, placid and quiet, eat litt Molly, }merman thin heads folded i her lep, and her big cloth boots set the first position below her short °alio irt, • So they san sometimes chatting i group; sometimes talkieg altogether' little more earnestly, sometimes whi anettartateateteate, to Then, Polite being called uperti, a hluebed and Neighed, and would not, a. having a strange 'feeling of ellynees be - on fore Lester; though she only rement- id, bored the child's quick talent and in- • ro- tense love for recde, and how she lie to sing so pOrely about the eooms et nt Lorne House, shocking the elder girls •d with her daring lighteheartednese. r- Hester seeing that, however lauglithle n- it might be, Poilie was thoroughly in he earnetia left otl' persuading her, and al agreed readily when the eager:rem:rept te WeR made (rather more humbly) to her - of itelf. She eurig at once, with a ph:i— le • ancy Tiede thein all lough over • n the words, while they tried to keep a n 'breathless silence, that they might nn 0 miss a single note: And al the re- frairt came again and agein the first u note was greeted ray a pleased little a nod from each, • •" Tor there's tap Nek about, the halm pering a few serioure heart -felt word eontetimee pending ae joke through ti circle, and brea.king into a heart laugh, which might have been, wee and •unealled-for in women whoettive had so roueh eareest in them ;toile little play, but which wade the wor nee harder perhaps on the wort -ow, au certainly made the play more healtbfer for this one day. Of'course, the ;nave came in the coerse, the old, old songs, for it was very rarely, indeed, that a new ee. .wits attempted. Now and then it hap paned that an ittribitiotor radical (tees would volunteer a new song-; and g switemihgly througb the lira and sec- ond versete--perbaps, jerked, the third -vrhen synaptorne of floundering be- came eykleot, and the faces of the cern party woultt groW anxious and, conceit tratod, as they ransacked their motion, tee or Inventeons for a nexe Be to give the necessary irupetns it wan advisable to go bark to the very begin. ning Of the song, so that the introdee- tory Stanzas tvere generally rendered ,as Many titnes as there were gireeta ana grew painfully familiar to the audience, oeth one, with perhaps a faint ex- c'ePti.Pni tolaltttl ttt@ft9titttal.„,/tititing' • place in the, niklitle of the vers; "tT Iteint exception tiosSittly passing thet; and. then efletlinierieg more hopelessly and irretrievably than all. ' 'So the old songs still aemainod pre- ernineet, though they : never . creme epOetaeeously by any reeaus. Thqe. was more pressing and persumling re- quired. than Hester had 'ever seen in any 'party before, and utorp coughing alai • clearing' of the throat from each Mite than Mr. Letlititeahoir „ever tn- dulged in as a body., 7 Beet they always came laet-the old songs, which the sinte,ere pretended they weld not sing ; and the chorus, consisting of a repitition of the: Gest 8, * eriv.thrEtteArLiatoceleatnalLt.wittee.,eteet e y •And then, at Oleic pleattingresquette, 0, sphce,lisiou.ng a quaint old Christmas carol, . . e- ithich charmed. them all, especially . k After the songs, it Was nearlyaiaia d for Mrs. Golderoith ta read and pray i with them, tete the alwaYm did before supper ; but just at this particalar crie. 0..1. tt,i9vhsrshetih:e,vrotehiceteeysas whites:7rd all eilp80:goiqdtellariiidentt:11.70:huigltt4It e her capacity of waitress, went to °pea 7 ereteruaturetly grane, "Two tete viei- ing at the outer door, and Pattie, he • • ' t She seemed to he a long time away, - it. . meen. When she eporied the door ae , had, it' was to announce, in a voice If t, Sager. Styletes, ited G had suddenly •walked into the reidetit: ' • OL .these gnote, they .could aot hevebt" • oeir more taken by sue -prize than they : • were when • errey saw tine of theme visit t(int-the great earl, whom caoy all knew by sight, and tvhotio beautiful castle they had. eeetatin thoh. rare holt , . stride eereniony, and taking her tea to rug: . • " Tontare eningit much Pollie," -Rester listeued eitheetpe attetitiou • ., • *tete* !a voled:: DO you thx.p.tuk 'tia 1:4 r! the bight is coming gone: . .1 . ghed her mother,. " that I shall er get you back to your gneste.» 'Come, eaid•Ileeterahe.ving shed her on tea,: 44 y041e *nosit wingbeilliantly red, anti Will: soon e an 4 incomprehensible sheen' up. t, like Dieken's Italian friend, if you stay theta encouregiag the warmth • EVTAL soninolenoe of Vit.:deb that will bo an emblem., Cerne.'" Then PTran thetevening's usual en• tertalament ; and gay ate the ..gneets roight.bave been while left alone, ettes- ter.notieed that they. looked eagerly for the ladiee Or go back, and .0hOoSati, as Spokeswoman, welcomed theme • "Ah 1 we like it a deal better with ye amortgtee told I'll let ye have year own chair, missie,-4- . • But.tratesie. would »not hear of this, and Cheoeitte, fl() Wray uniVilling, sat on ;•its easy as the chair arr moth at home ration it me if they hatigrow.n old together. • Theo thtnima rose. majestically out of the other arrn:eteir, out still leen would Mrs. Goltneith take tliat, attd she, too, slowly costumed her positioti, W/11011 WAS stiff and upright a one as could well be imagined, and ovule Rester faney the rusty 'jacket might be e o rent -iron, and ant the erne) earls miglit come oft with *any bead of "erk • • . 'Brea nee -reale the eventootter, tee°, (S'aute of ebveral moments.) 'fnilwlijegigt:),Zegienlvgefel:L'elt5'4,111,4 Oh, where's ay welly zos wa,rulter one Oh, where's my lovolly wansreor gone Dreer gone " This song 'wee ieceiveo, as usual, with hearty applause, and the above verse, which composed the 'chorea,' was vociferously joined' in, Then it wes Jemima's turn, and her snug eiaine without 'a decent' front' -heittelevated, stony attitude. At first Rester thought the familiar, works.were set tont Gregorian chant; bat, a$ it went on, she was obliged to own toehorself that G'regorians were laud more lively, and not 0110 the had. ever heard could have made such enstained 'wail of the pathetic assertion that "siae never bedewed him, neev- ver ; but received hint when he Carne.'f biloosam and Mollitideclined to sing, • and meant it: "It's very well for thee as aro singers," Ohooean said, "but I never found as 1 was; and.' don't in- tend to to begin to be one now, in iny years." So atter this the turn tame to the other side of the home, and Aunt Pby. Ilis graciously accorded her standard :song, "0 Nanny, wilt thou Nine with hr tne • ii days. ' •• Heater's ireeting was es intY at an y oiiiither reception ,; ethape the Mese. frank and genial of, , all.; . • yet • the one greet throb her leetrt • giver' when she .saw 'teed Leaholtne'S . face seeined, to have :killed' the bright, nave hope that had been kruggliwt within bet. • •• • °HATT A.XX1. The:Berl of Itealeoltne sae among . guests, enje'yitig• ttoi: fun, liteintirig the ladies of thelionse, and joking wieli the old woinen, but never arfhlatilig to himself the eonyere sateen; on the -contrary as I -tester . tieed, simply helping it for the ethers: Ahd, then she fel& AS She had 'never felt hefoee, whet a true nobleman) he,vras ; . • , not `.that she was thitiking ot his mak, • btit of tree nobility which teaches'. tie ,. to love. as heethern, to be pitiful, and • to be court/tome rq Galdsmithe in • • •' placid employment, folded her dimpled, • ..- lingers; and put off her eearling. Aubtl Phyllis fluttered pp. her.ohair, .end. tit- tered irreeietioly; • - • • , : • Hestere In -the midst ofsher owe talk, heard him &timing. out Mies Jernima, acerin her questiens. relevant and ire relrivattt, and telling 1ierodds aad eratie . •of news that were emphatieally 17,efi, kler.Tbis,'of course, •she, dould- not help but evet-htiar, in the rained Take which it necessary te•tetet. in Coto veying anything verbal to jernitaut but she found. herself listening, too, to ••' jemiena's murmured eoaticlence. Sb t• . heard tam 'tell him that thie was the only house which she visited new, for, she had no .otherefthentlae -"lad wbn- be asked her how: that conld be, elm said the gentry lietd themselves above • her, eedeso she would ,hottthenk theta ter their visits ;that the clergy, if they • . did come, Only came to 'chirp at her, e t.. and that the did not care, about the commonalty,' And -though Heater • tvas not supposed to be lietening-tha laugh darieed Inbar eies. She heard hili (how quickly her ears • would catch his voice-lyttafrius dhooemi nf her famdv, and then she heard • Clieosints confidences too; how- that . • her huebantl tragi but "a poor old piece," and there was " forever tied ever tf. trouble with Irina," and othee. things.; hew that she wan gettieg too . • old for 'pike to give her Mech. Work, but tbat all the , same 00 44 COUlaTIS • . :sib down and Hero ;" how' that she coeldanakeet V1 -)y. httledetteadetteetnee eil-TeTtral a cup of, tea and a clean cap, and that, altog,athertethilueh it wao bard sometirees-plenty tit' othertr were worse off, and she " we:MI angry with the Lord Almighty r» fleeter did 'nett catch Leabolnie's low answer but she het Chooirah's ready, fomenting reply: "Yes, sir, OW ate geed. Oh, yes, Air, always fao--wilittever happens -ILA dos riis bd." , (To Bit CONTiNtigli,) The 'Whitley atron;c/a has started it anvil paper et Pickering;• (1)ntlill's eel()) called the .Vms,