The
wedding-gown is ordered. Dr. Angus has proposed at last; he had never
thought of wooing or winning any one except the fair girl who caught his
fancy and his heart ten years ago, and when Margaret next visits her New
England relations it will be to present her husband.
The professor, who had been her most dearly beloved friend during those
happy college days, her confidante and model, said to one who recalled
Margaret Lee and spoke of her as "a great disappointment, my dear:"
"Yes, we expected her to make a reputation for herself and Mount Seward.
She has done better. She has been enabled to do her duty in the station
to which it has pleased God to call her--a good thing for any girl
graduate, it seems to me."
A Christmas Frolic.
BY MRS. M.E. SANGSTER.
We had gone to the forest for holly and pine,
And gathered our arms full of cedar,
And home we came skipping, our garlands to twine,
With Marcus, the bold, for our leader.
The dear Mother said we might fix up the place,
And ask all the friends to a party;
So joy, you may fancy, illumined each face
And our manners were cordial and hearty.
But whom should we have? There were Sally and Fred,
And Martha and Luke and Leander;
There was Jack, a small boy with a frowsy red head,
And the look of an old salamander.
There was Dickie, who went to a college up town,
And Archie, who worked for the neighbors;
There were Timothy Parsons and Anthony Brown,
Old fellows, of street-cleaning labors.
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