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Wingfield," he said with an effort to speak as unconcernedly as before. "My charge is as follows," Vincent said quietly: "I was imprisoned at Elmira with a number of other officers, among them your son. Thinking that it was time for the unpleasantness that had been existing between us to come to an end, I offered him my hand. This he accepted and we became friends.
Then on the evening of the 26th, when he knew that Jean had been laid to rest in Elmira, he came to my room with the manuscript in his hand. "I have finished it," he said; "read it. I can form no opinion of it myself. If you think it worthy, some day at the proper time it can end my autobiography. It is the final chapter." Albert Bigelow Paine. Stormfield, Christmas Eve, 11 A.M., 1909.
She had a view of the road from her rocking-chair, and when she saw the three gentlemen advancing with a slow curve of progress towards her gate, which betokened an entrance, she called sharply to Elmira, who was washing dishes, "Go into the bedroom and get my best cap, quick," at the same time twitching off the one upon her head.
"I am going to run over to Elmira Edwards and carry them," she told her mother after supper, and pleaded that she would like the air when Mrs. Merritt suggested that Hannah be sent.
Jerome shook his head. "Why, you look as white as a sheet!" said Elmira, staring at him. "I've seen enough this afternoon to make any man look white," Jerome replied, evasively. "Well, I suppose you have; it is awful about Simon Basset," Elmira assented, shudderingly. Jerome had to force himself to his work after he had received Mrs. Merritt's message.
She was dressed in her best, and Elmira had further adorned her with a little worked lace kerchief of her own, fastened at the bosom with a sprig of rose-geranium leaves and blossoms. Ann had confined herself to her chair since arising that morning. She made no allusion to her walking the night before, and seemed to expect assistance as usual. "Do you suppose mother can't walk this morning?"
"I am not running her down. I don't deny she's good enough for any man on earth, but not with the kind of goodness that counts. Mother, don't you know that nothing but trouble can come to Elmira from this? Lawrence Prescott can't marry her." "I'd like to know what you mean by trouble comin' to her," demanded his mother.
Elmira nodded; she dared not speak for fear she should cry. "Go right in, then," said Jerome; and she obeyed, keeping her face turned away. Her childish back looked like an old woman's as she entered the door. Jerome unharnessed the horse, led him into the barn, fed him, and drew some water for him from the well.
=The Elmira Reformatory.= "The New York States Reformatory at Elmira" is the official designation of this institution. It was established in 1875 and had for its first superintendent a Mr Z. R. Brockway.
Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, New York, that we get up a monument to Adam, and that Mr. Beecher favored the project. There is more to it than that. The matter started as a joke, but it came somewhat near to materializing. It is long ago thirty years. Mr.
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