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“W/ia*. shabby treatment! But. does he know your 
mistake ?” 
“ oh, no; yon noticed perhaps how nearly overcome I 
was in the parlor ?" 
“Yes; I peeked from behind the door and saw yon.” 
“ And I saw yon.” 
“Yon had presence of mind, then,” I said, “to pretend 
it was ail right,-jnst as it should be?” 
"Yes; I was ashamed to do anything else.” 
“ So much the better. It’s all just right; bring him in 
here immediatelywhich she aid. And I shook bands 
with him, congratulated them, and told them, as I pnt 
her hand in his, that as there was no older person pres¬ 
ent to give them a paternal blessing, I would give them 
mine. So, in the lightest possible spirits,— I believe the 
three happiest persons at the wedding,—we proceeded to 
the parlor —in time to a second. And it was all over, 
finished, in a few seconde more. 
How surprisingly short the most important ceremonies 
of life all are 1 Weeks and months of preparation,—the 
curtain rises on an expectant audience, — a comedy or 
tragedy of five minntee’ duration,—the curtain falls. 
That evening the heroine of the play stood, a Victoria 
of hearts, in her violet satin, and Prince Albert by her 
side bent to kiss her. An electric smile ran from lip to 
lip, and cine and all, gentlemen and ladies, hastened to 
follow his example. I got one of the first, fresh kisses,— 
a double one. too, a? Tom begged to know if he “ hadn't 
a right to kiss his youngest sister.” 
“ Lina,” I whispered, “ it seems as though I had lost 
you” 
“But yon know, dear love, you havn’t;” the sweet 
mother-voice was even more reassuring than the words. 
“ I believe you, Lina ; 1 never again will be troubled 
abontthat.” 
“ You never need, my love.” 
As the crowd passed out to supper, a voice addressed 
me,— low and clear it was, and grave withal. “Miss 
Ruth, may I have the pleasure?”—he offered me his arm. 
He seemed prepared for a refusal, but, in the sunny, 
lovable mood in which I just then was, I felt very much 
inclined to accept it, and did so. and we proceeded to the 
dining-room. The wary. sly, old dining-mom, — like a 
wary, sly, old human creature.—had brightened up, and 
looked as innocent of all love scenes and secrets as if 
there weie no such things in the world. 
I sent a telegraphic glance down the table, now and 
then, to where Allen and Cousin Dora sat; and dis¬ 
patch after dispatch reached me from them, —in glances 
and emiles from him ; in looks and blushes from her. 
“Miss Ruth,’' said Mr. Hills, “I have scarcely had an 
opportunity to speak to you since my return from the 
East.” 
“No, sir.” I knew he couldn't help thinking I had 
put posely avoided him; and my pride being too ragged 
to cover myself with, I had to tell him how it was; 
he looked so hurt and wounded too 1 Was 1 getting 
sentimental? I neither knew nor cared. “I didn't 
know. Mr. Hill 9 that you came back up here last night; 
to dress for tea. On the six o'clock train, with father, 
came down a young lady, one of Lina’s bridesmaids, i 
who was an fait in all bridal matters. Father and she 
between them contrived to convey safely a box contain- ' 
ing the precious, indispensable orange blossoms; their 
delicate petals looking like wax-work as they lay in wet 
moss. 
Bat it was tea-time, and first of all, — even before the 
bride was arrayed, — we must attend to the prosaic busi¬ 
ness of supper, —“the last supper,’' I said “that Miss 
Lina Bratton will ever eat.” I said it gaily, and the 
rest of them laughed: but my heart was full and my eyes 
filled. I was hardly in the mood for wedding festivities. 
It seemed to me that of the little bit of love in the world 
I could lay claim to for my own. I was going to lose the 
greater part to-night. Lina was going to be married,—to 
change her very name, — to be one of our family no 
longer. Would she, — could she, — be the same devoted, 
loving Lina to us/ Very selfish questions; but I was 
down-hearted and unhappy, and that isn't a purely unsel¬ 
fish meod to be in. 
After tea, we girls went to Ljna’s room to see her 
dressed. Our visitor’s skillful fingers did the work. In 
about an hour and a half Lina emerged from her hands— 
tnagnif.cmt: and Miss Fannt, like any other artist, held 
her head,—now on this side, now on that,—and surveyed 
her work from all points of view before pronouncing the 
favorable verdict, — “ Ton'll do, my dear." Lina was 
dressed in sat Id of a pale violet shade, and in Its shining, 
lustrous folds, beneath the crown of orange blossoms, 
she looked a very queen. We all kissed her, and then 
took her down stairs. 
Cousin Dora and I, dressed in white mnslin, with 
curls elaborately arranged, received the guests as they 
came in twos, and threes, and fours, till the twilight 
waned, the lamps shone out, the moon rose outside, and 
the parlor and gieen room were comfortably full. Cousin 
Dora, of conrse, was on the look-out for one particular 
arrival: the flush on her cheek came and went so con¬ 
stantly that she seemed the prey of an intermittent fever. 
As I watched her becoming more and more nervous, 1 
began to wonder if he really were not coming,—if he had 
thought Ha better thing to do to plunge himself In the 
Ohio below, where there were no sentimental young 
ladies. The time appointed for the wedding ceiemouy 
was now close at hand, and if he were coining at all he 
should be here. 
Musing thus, I had seated myself on an ottoman be¬ 
hind the half-open door ol the green room: and as the 
piano quite filled up that comer ol' the room, and nobody 
at present was performing on it, I had e* opport unity for 
a little unobserved rest, as I sat there could hear very 
distinctly what two young men standing un the door-way 
said to one another. They say listeners never hear any 
good of themselves. Listen with me, reader, and judge 
for yourself: 
“I say, Ned, this is quite a handsome place—isn’t it?” 
“ Yes, decidedly so. One can draw a free breath here, 
too.” 
‘•I shouldn't object," continued the first, “to settle 
down here myself. That Tom Andrews is a lucky dog; 
but then he always was Toss him up as high as you 
please, —he always came down on his l'eet. The bride 
looks charming,—doesn't she ?” 
“Very," replied Ned: “but there's another and a 
younger daughter. The bill-top you admire so much 
will probably be hers some day.” 
“Tut! she wouldn't condescend to turn her pretty 
head towards me. Don't yon know our young New- 
Yorker has kept her close under the shelter of his wing 
for the last nine months.” 
“ What of that ?” returned Ned, coolly ; “ she’s heart- 
whole yet. I'll wager you what you please; a remarkably 
self-possessed girl,— not troubled by love or romance. 
By the way," he added in a lover voice, “here comes 
Hills now ; where Is Ms fair lady I wonder ?” 
“ I don’t know.” 
They moved out of the door-way and went away,—per¬ 
haps to find mu; while I looked through the crack of the 
door to see Mr. Hills, who came into the other parlor. 
Looking round from my hiding place for Cousin Dora, I 
espied her standing in a pensive/attitude by one of the 
windows, almost concealed in '!• • folds of while curtains. 
She was not looking towards v.'e porch, and evidently 
hadn't noticed Mr. Hills' entrance. I was about rising 
to tell xer, when Allen Chase entered the room and 
made directly for her window. The very sight ol that 
whimsica venius would have raised the spirit of mis- 
cMef and run in me even at a funeral, and throwing off 
the incubus that had been upon me all day, I felt more 
like my natural self. 
I forgot everything else in watching the two over there 
by the window. Cousin Dora emerged from the curtain 
as she saw Mr. Chase approaching, and was ready to 
greet him. “ How I wish Allen would fall in love with 
Dora," 1 thought to myself, “ and she with him; how 
splendid that would be! But what makes them look so 
serious and talk so earnestly? What weighty subject 
tan they be discussing? How pale she has turned, and 
how frightened she looks !—is she going to taint! What 
can he be saying to her ?—the silly fellow! I must go to 
ner: she is certainly going to faint.” 
However she rallied; the color came into her face 
again ; she spoke to him; he gave her hie arm, and they 
went out of the room. 
“She was probably exhausted with the heat and fa¬ 
tigue,” I thought, “and did come near fainting; and 
then, too, she doesn't know yet that Mr. Hills has 
come.” Directly alter a leaf of the folding door which 
led into the dining-room was softly pushed back. I 
looked round quickly and saw Dora s pale face. 
“ Ruth," she whispered. I rose and went to her; she 
pulled me through into the dining-room and closed the 
door. The room was cool and empty as yet: the window 
open; the lamps turned down to a soli -hade of light; 
the snowy tabies iike an epicure's dream. 
“ Cousin Rcth.” said Dora, grasping my hand, “ what 
shall 1 do—what shall I do !” 
•• Why, what has happened now ?” 
“ Oh, tortui-3 and agony !" she cried ; “ but still 1 don’t 
know. The noble young man ! I could love him for bis 
modest, bashiul ways, —BO unlike the generality of young 
men.” 
“ Who are you talking or ?” I said; “lam all in a fog; 
not surely of Allen Chase ?" 
“Of him. apd no other,” she replied. 
“ And has lie made you an offer of marriage ?” 
"Oh, Cousin,” she cried, covering her lace with her 
hands, “ how my soul is tortured and racked ! Pity me! 
It was not Mr. Hills I saw last night 1” 
“ Who then ?" said I, starling quickly. 
“Mr. Chase!” 
I sank into a chair, wholly overcome—mentally and 
physically — with varying and discordant Emotions. 1 
l'elt iike screaming with laughter; like melting into 
tears; like rushing into the parlor and adjuring the 
clergyman, in a ringing voice, to be sure that he married 
the right Lina to tne rignt Tom.— in short, X was in a lair 
. condition for a model fit of hysterics. 
r: Causing said tfoftA. " P9 wouqer you laugh at me; I 
feel hopelessly a.-named and humbled.” 
“ Why should you be ?” I cried. “ I think it’s splen- 
oid ! — It’s only so funny. Oh, Dora, to be engaged to 
the wrong man! Wait till the moon rises next time. 
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A little of love is all I want, 
And a brim-full measure of hope, 
While, counting the days as the year goes by, 
I am climbing life's upward slope; 
For riches lake wings and fly away, 
And pleasures are not lees fleet, 
And only the love and the hope will stay, 
And the love and the hope are sweet. 
Some day, when the gold is turned te brown 
On the hilltops everywhere, 
And I hear the songs of departing birds 
Ontbome on the autumn air, 
I can look at the empty neets and say 
In undertone of my heart, 
“ Tis well; for the love and the hope will stay, 
Though the glory and song depart.” 
’Tie spring while the love and hope arc mine, 
With the warmth of the summer's enn— 
A spring with its promises full and rich, 
And the summer but just begun; 
And out of the depths of my heart I pray 
That autumn may come not near. 
That spring, with its hope and its love may e 
Till the close of my life’s short year. 
“It is a treasure, sirl” he enthusiastically de¬ 
clared. “ It is even better than my own, and that 
1 thought was a marvel.” 
He toyed with the silver keys a moment or two 
lODger, and then began a low, soft melody, delicate 
as the whisperings of a zephyr. It rose in gentle 
swells, like the murmur of far-off waterfalls borne 
on a litful breeze, then died away to the faintest 
echo, as if ploying hide-and-6eek with listening 
eare. Ab the echo was lost in silence there began 
a song ol joy, a glad gu6h of melody that came 
bubbling forth from under the player’s XiDgerB like 
long pent-up laughter. It was joy without regrets 
—a present pleasure, full and free, with no thought 
of any past paiD It seemed the very exuberance 
of happiness. But it gave way to a sadder strain. 
A low sorrowful minors told of anguish instead of 
joy. Every note was sad as though a tear were in 
it. Then the subdued grief grew into deep, passion¬ 
ate wailiDg, and the player paced rapidly up and 
down the apartment, unheeding those who listened, 
his face almost as full of pain as the sounds he 
breathed. The wailiDg bushed itself to faint sobs 
as the player halted again by the piano, that gTew 
fainter and fainter, until another song began, clear 
and entraneingly sweet. It was a second soDg of 
joy, but joy softened and made more holy by sorrow 
and tears. Once more the player paced to and fro, | 
sending out fuller and richer waves of melody at 
every turn, until the room seemed flooded, while 
his face was illumined by a light as of some miracu¬ 
lous transfiguration. 
He ceased, and the moment of 6ilence that ensued 
recalled him to bimeelf. Mabel had listened, near¬ 
ly breathless, with a new and strange delight, it wa6 
so unlike anything she had ever before heard. 
“Isn’t it glorious!” she half whispered, almost 
afraid to break the charm. 
“ You play wonderfully well, Mr. Henderson, 
wonderfully well!” was Dr. Willoughby’s com¬ 
ment. 
The young man’s face flushed a little as he re¬ 
plied,— 
“1 never weary of the instrument, sir. It has 
been my greatest pleasure since early boyhood.” 
“ You will play again?” Mabel asked, more with 
her eyes than with her voice. 
“ Certainly, if it gives you pleasure,” and he pro¬ 
ceeded to comply. 
When he finally laid the instrument down, Mabel 
breathed out a little sigh of regret. Her father 
heard it. 
“ You have had a rare treat, haven’t you, Pet?” 
he said. “And you would gladly listen all night 
I’ve no doubt, but do not press our friend too hard 
the first time; he will favor us with his presence 
and melodies ofteD, 1 trust.” 
“ I shall be only too happy, sir," was the youth’s 
reply. 
He and Mr. En derby took their departure soon 
after. 
“ You and your daughter must dine with us soon, 
Willoughby,” the latter said, as they were leav¬ 
ing. “ Glendale is not often honored by the pres¬ 
ence 0 / ladieB,” he added, to Mabel, “but I trust 
you will not be loth to come.” 
“I shall be delighted,” she responded, with un¬ 
usual frankness, then shrinking back a little at her 
freedom. 
“ Let us say Wednesday, then, shall we not ?” 
“That will be very agreeable to us,” was Dr. 
Willoughby’s response, and the two guests took 
their leave. 
In her dreams that night Mabel heard the tender- 
est melodies. There were singers almost without 
number singing on every side of her, but the faces 
of all were the same, and all wore the rapt, trans¬ 
figured expression that she should never forget. —[To 
be continued. 
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ly thirty-five years of age. In maimer he was court¬ 
ly, yet not constrained. He was a ready talker, 
rarely at a loss for a word, and an equally good list¬ 
ener. HU face indicated no care, and Mabel men¬ 
tally concluded her observations by the opinion that 
he had thus far led an easy life, unvexed and happy. 
The countenance of the younger, when in repose, 
•was grave almost to sadness. When he epoke, how¬ 
ever, It lighted up beautifully, and his full eyes 
gleamed as though reflecting an inward fire. He 
look little part in conversation at first, seeming 
content to listen. 
Endebby and the h 06 t revived old reminiscences 
and associations, and the former detaiLed some of 
his more recent experiences at the South. He had 
traveled for the love of it. Wherever In his wander¬ 
ings anything novel or peculiar was to be found, 
there he had lingered. As a consequen ce, he could 
tell many curious stories of men and things. Inci¬ 
dents humorous and othero pathetic were at his 
tongue’s end, and these he narrated in a spirited, 
lively style which quite charmed Mabel out of her 
diffidence. 
When they arose and went Into the quaintly-fur¬ 
nished parlors, Mabel felt well acquainted with her 
father’s friend. In the delightful evening which fol¬ 
lowed she also conversed more freely with young 
Henderson than she was accustomed to, with stran¬ 
gers. She liked to hear him talk. His voice was 
full of sweet, even sad music, as if the inner being 
were all harmony. And he was poetical, she found. 
There was not only music in his voice, but music 
in his heart and thoughts. 
They took a long stroll through the shaded paths, 
while her father and Enderby were enjoying their 
after-dinner smoke. He was enthusiastic over the 
quaint beauties of the place. 
“1 love it dearly,” Mabel said. “Other places 
may be more artistically fitted up, but there is so 
much here to set one dreaming. Besides, it’s home, 
you know.” 
“ Yes,” he responded, unmindful of the last sen¬ 
tence. “Everything here seems to have a suggestion 
in it of yesterdays long flown, Tbe place has been 
in your family a long time, Mr. Enderbt tells me.” 
41 0, a long, long time, indeed. The Hall was 
built by a Willoughby, before the great tea-making 
in Boston harbor. It isn’t a model of architecture, 
but I love it all the more for that, I think.” 
“ And well you may. The English never sacri¬ 
ficed comfort for an architectural idea, and 1 see the 
Hall had its pattern somewhere in England. This 
place and Mr. Enderey's are alike a surprise to me, 
1 had us idea that anything so Southern in appear¬ 
ance as is Glendale, or so foreign its is this, was to 
be found in the North. Mr. Enderby showed me 
all about Glendale this morning. I felt almost at 
home, at once, the air of everything seemed so 
familiar.” 
“ Mr. Enderby has been much at the South has 
he not?” she asked. 
“ I believe he has. I met Mm first only last win¬ 
ter, though, at Savannah, at the home of a mutual 
friend. We met again in New Orleans a few weeks 
since, and I promised to come North and tarry awhile 
with him. But I did not anticipate so many pleas¬ 
ures as have been granted me,” he added, warmly. 
They returned to the parlors once more, where 
Mr. Enderby and theh 06 t were chatting. 
“That piano is very suggestive,” remarked the 
former. “ Miss Mabel, you play, do you not ?” 
“ A little, sir,’’ was the reply, 
“ Then you will favor us, I am sure. My young 
friend Alfred is passionately fond of music, and J 
am hardly less so.” 
“Let me lead you to the instrument Miss Wil¬ 
loughby, as my plea,” the young man urged, and 
she timidly complied. 
She was not a brilliant performer, but she played 
In excellent taste, and Infused a depth of feeling 
into the simplest compositions that rendered them 
beautiful. Henderson looked on and listened in a 
half-dreamy way, as though the melodies were pos¬ 
sessed of a Bpell, She ceased playing, and dropped 
her hands idly upon the key-board. 
“ Please give us a song," he pleaded, still in an 
absent way. 
She sang a touching ballad, the siigot tremor in 
her voice heightening its effect. She had a round, 
rich voice, not of great compass, or much culture, 
but very tender and pleasing. He thanked her, 
when she had finished. 
“You must be a player, I think, Mr, Hender- 
I son ?” she interrogated him. 
t “Not upon the piano,” he answered. “The flute 
/ is the only instrument I ever attempt to finger.” 
1 “I used to play the flute a trifle myself,” Dr. 
\ WilLOughby said. “Pet, can’t you get mine? I 
? should really like to hear its tones. It’s a long 
) time since I’ve touched it.” 
E Mabel stepped to a music-rack close by the 
4 piano, and produced a richly wrought case, from 
which her father drew the parts of an elegantly 
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LINA AND I 
BY ISABELLA BECK 
[Continued from page 348, last number.] 
CHAPTER XIV. 
The morrow came, rising iike an English lark ‘with 
dew on its wings; bnt developing ere midday into a 
tropical bird, with wings ol' flame and eyes of fire. An¬ 
other had eyes of fire as well as the day; and as she 
wore a rich pink muslin, and her cheeks were iike scarlet 
popples just opened out, she was exceedingly like an 
Asiatic bird of Paradise. — a most restless one, too; 
never alight for more iban a moment, but flitting in 
and out of the rooms, up and down stairs, through the 
orchard and shrubbery, “as though,” I whimpered to her 
once, “ she were really a bird,—in search of its mate." 
“Oh, no," she said, the poppy petals expanding, “I 
found him last night. Bnt, Consin, I cannot keep still 
unless, indeed, yon will give me some work to do.” 
"But the work is all done: onr thoughtful Lina has 
left nothing till the last minute. We can all rest to-day. 
Is there nothing you want done ? Yon must look charm¬ 
ing to-night as well as the bride.” 
“Oh,” she said, “simplicity will be my roic to-night; 
bnt I will be marritd in white satin. Cousin,—I never 
thought of it until this moment,—what will ma say?" 
“No doubt she will be pleased,” I replied. 
“Ob, yes, no doubt; the romance of the thing will de¬ 
light her. I coming out here to try and find a little ease 
from thff heart-ache; finding his relative and friend here, 
whom I had known years before; he looking like 
Charlie, loving me »3 secret: I loving him in secret,— ' 
“ The climax and fha wedding,” I interrupted, laugh¬ 
ing. “ If either of us, Coueld, '.V r 're of a literary turn of 
mind, we might get up a three-volume noVyl. As i< i s< j 
don't know but. I will try my hand at it.” 
She laughed merrily. 
“Consin," I said, “always wear pink-*-red—purple — 
some deep, rich color; ithf-Cmee you.” 
“I snow it,’ sh^-gaid; “but I hadn't the heart before 
to put Ob *' Dr ight dross." 
' Wow," said I, “let us go and make Lina give ns 
something to do; I can't sit a till any longer.” 
We found Lina with a broad-brimmed hat on her head 
and an immense, long, narrow basket on her arm, On 
healing our request she accepted onr services at once; 
first, to Ml the basket with flowers,—wild and cultivated. 
_then to make an indefinite number of bouquets for the 
vases, and to fill an odd. moss-covered concern, some¬ 
thing like a miniature wash-mb. which was placed on a 
round stand in one corner of the parlor, and which was 
to be made to resemble a mound of moss and flowers. 
This kept us busy all the morning. Nearly all our 
work was in the east parlor, where the ceremony was to 
be, the parlor across the hall, or the “green room,''’ as 
we always called it, —the carpet and wall-paper being 
that color, — Lina said only needed a couple of vases on 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
1 am composed of 20 letters. 
My 5, 2,18, Hi, 4 is a useful animal. 
My 12, ii, i, 18 is given by doctors. 
My 11, 7, 3. 8. 1 is an article of furniture. 
My 14. 3, 3,13 is not good. 
My 11. if 18.10,19, 20 is arelalive. 
My 12, 2 7.35. 7 20 is vegetable. 
My 0, 8 is an interjection. 
My whole is an old saying. 
Deansville, N. Y. 
t&r Answer in two weeks. 
Receive their Teas bv the Cargo from the best 
Tea districts of China and Japan, and sell 
them in quantities to suit customers 
AT CARGO PRICES. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
PROBLEM. 
CLUB ORDERS PROMPTLY SUPPLIED 
A man's desk was robbed three nights in succession— 
the first night half the number of dollars were taken and 
half a dollar more: the second night half the remainder 
was taken and hall a d ilar more; the third night half ol 
what was then left and half a dollar more, when he found 
lie had 150 left. How much bad he at first ? 
Burnt Hills, N. Y. »• W. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ANAGRAM. 
Eht areshtv einn grin mrsume tou, 
With anthukfi nosg nad yousjo houst; 
Dan hwne vemnobre meocs yeth laih 
Teh mmmta tlwh eth ppainlfg 11M. Hutton, 
Answer in two weeks. 
GREAT AMERICAN TEA C0MPANT 
Answer to Compound Enigma:-Marshalltown. 
Answer to Poetical Problem; — Bottle, bowl and dram, 
£ 150 . Uam, 0.80.6451612303225. Hen, 0.16.1290322580645. 
Herring, 0.03.2258064516129. 
Answer to Anagram: 
I know a fanny little man, 
As quiet as a mouse, 
Who does the mischief that is done 
In everybody's house. 
There’s no one ever sees his face, 
And yet we all agree. 
That every plate we broke, was cracked 
By Mr. Nobody. 
Answer to Mathematical Problem:—A saws 13.238 inch¬ 
es from the top of the log; B saws 9.424 inches in tht 
middle section; C saws 13.238 inches in the lower section, 
Hi 
