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When that hair wuz brown, and the mornin' sun wuz ketched in its glistenin', wavin' tendrils, and the sunken cheeks wuz round and pink as one of the cinnamon roses, and the faded ambrotype of the young soldier in her red wooden chest upstairs wuz materialized in a handsome young man, who walked with her under the old willows when the slow-moving brook run swift with fancy's flight and her heart beat happily, and life wuz new and radiant with love and joy
"Was his name Winfield?" she asked suddenly, then instantly hated herself for the question. The ambrotype fell to the floor. Miss Ainslie stooped to pick it up and Ruth did not see her face. "Perhaps," she said, in a strange tone, "but I never have asked a lady the name of her friend." Gentle as it was, Ruth felt the rebuke keenly.
"I want to wring your neck jest like a chicken's. What'd you do with her picture and letters?" Si thrust his hand unceremoniously into Bushrod's pocket and found the ambrotype of Annabel. "What'd you do with them letters?" Si demanded fiercely. "Ike has 'em," said Bushrod. "You've got my shoes on, you brindle whelp," said Shorty, giving him a cuff in bitter remembrance of his own smarting feet.
"Well, after the fortunate ones were gone, I went to my room to pout, and directly Mother Richards sent Johnny up to coax me, whereupon there ensued a bit of a quarrel, I twitting him about that ambrotype of a young girl, which Nell Tiffton found at the St. Nicholas, and which the doctor claimed, seeming greatly agitated, and saying it was very dear to him, because the original was dead.
"Yes, yes, only more winsome," was the answer, and the half-blind eyes looked proudly at the beautiful girl bending over the humble pillow. "Do you know that?" Maggie asked, holding to view the ambrotype of Hester Hamilton.
No, Maggie, no; the surprise awaiting you is of a far different nature, and the tears flow afresh when Rose, in reply to the question "What is it, darling?" answers, "It is this," at the same time placing in Maggie's hand an ambrotype which she bade her examine.
They were very kind to me, and the doctor's sister, Anna, is one of the sweetest ladies I ever knew. She may possibly be here during the summer. She is an invalid, and has been for years." Suddenly Ellen Tiffton's story of the ambrotype flashed into 'Lina's mind. Alice might know something of it, and after a little she asked if the doctor had not at one time been engaged. Alice did not know.
But she looked pretty nice to me." "Ain't you got a photograph of her here with you?" He shook his head. "I thought mebbe you'd carry one round." "Mother never had any real good picture," said Eben meditatively. "I dunno 's she ever set for a photograph. She had an ambrotype taken when she was young, with kinder full sleeves an' her hair brought down over her ears.
That funny little old ambrotype! Where did you unearth it, Lucretia?" "It was Brother William's," Lucretia explained, with her gentle melancholy. "Mark found it in his room and asked me about it." Mark looked to see some revelation in Miss Allison Clyde's face, but found none. Her kindly smile had not faded or changed except to take on a shade of amusement as she picked up the ambrotype.
But I went, forthwith, and, triumphant lover though he was, the editor of the Little Arcady Argus was less than a prophet. I went to the "little" war; and of her I carried, as I marched, an ambrotype in a closed case, which I had obtained deviously. She smiled in it, a little questioning, inciting smile, that seemed to lurk back in her eyes rather than along her lips.
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