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"Oh, Miss Wyllys!" she exclaimed, in answer to an inquiry of Miss Agnes's "I am just going to Longbridge! My poor, kind uncle Joseph! but he was always too weak and indulgent to those girls!" "What has happened?" asked Miss Wyllys, anxiously. "Dreadful news, indeed; Mrs. Hilson has disgraced herself! Her husband has left her and applied for a divorce!
"Yes, marm; I have got a list here; but some of 'em had got places already; there was two that was sick; one, Araminty Carpenter, I guess, would have suited Mrs. Taylor very well, for, I know the young woman's father; but she has gone over to Longbridge, to work at the Union Hotel, for a week.
THE weather had been more than usually warm for several weeks, and the morning after Charlie's return to Longbridge, when the steamboat North America left the wharf at New-York, her decks and cabins were filled by some five or six hundred passengers. There were men, women, and children, of various characters, colours and conditions.
Temperance societies were very popular at that time in Longbridge, and he was, of course, desirous of not losing so good an opportunity of appearing before the public on such an occasion; he thought it would help him on in his road towards the Assembly. Running his fingers through his curls, he took his place on the stage, and commenced.
"Not I! It must be somebody at Longbridge he has been there more than half his time lately. Come, tell us, Harry, like a man; who is it?" asked Robert Hazlehurst, naturally feeling interested in his younger brother's choice. "No one precisely at Longbridge," said Harry, smiling. "Who can it be? And actually engaged?" added Mrs.
Graham's eldest daughter was scalded so badly that she was not expected to live. Miss Wyllys's anxiety increased on hearing the boy's story; she ordered the carriage instantly, determined that under any circumstances, it would be best to go to Longbridge at once, either to discover the truth, or to assist Mrs. Graham in nursing Jane, if she were really badly injured.
I heard some one say the other day, that my old pupil's property in Longbridge, is worth three times as much now, as it was a short time since." "Is it possible Longbridge has improved so much?" "And then your old play-fellow has had two legacies from relations of her mother's; everybody in the neighbourhood is talking of her good-luck, and saying what a fortune she will turn out.
Hubbard; who could be satisfied to retire from business so early, and was content to live at Longbridge, the village where he was born. Mr. Taylor looked upon himself as already a great man, but he intended to be a greater man still, by a million, or more. About a week after the Taylors arrived in town, they gave a party quite a small affair, very sociable, some eighty or ninety people only.
But, of course, they did not confess such shameful ignorance. Boned turkey had never yet figured at a party at Longbridge. We say figured at a party, and we speak advisedly, as all must know who are aware of the all-important position occupied at an American party by the refreshments, in the opinion of both host and guests.
No public account of Clapp's death, however, reached Longbridge, and his name was never mentioned by the Hubbards; still, it seemed to be known at last that Mrs. Clapp had gone to a great distance, to attend her husband during a long and fatal illness: and Mrs.
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