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OAs - ~- MALAESKA. .
lowed by a porter who carried her trur.k on one shoulder, while Jones
took charge of the provision-basket, in person.
There was nothing im all this very wonderful, but people turned
to look at the group with more than usual interest, as it passed, for
‘Sarah had all her mother’s fresh beauty, with nameless graces of re-
finement, which made her a yery lovely young creature to look upon.
_ When so many buildings have been raised in a city, so many trees
uprooted, and ponds filled up, it is impossible to give the localities
that formely existed; for all the rural Jand-marks are swept away.
But, in the olden times, houses had. breathing space for flowers
around them-in Manhattan, and a man of note gave his name to the
‘house he resided in. The aristocratic portion of. the. town was
around the Bowling Green and back into the neighboring streets.
Somewhere in one of these streets; I can not tell the exact. spot,
for a little lake in the neighborhood disappeared soon after our story,
and all the pretty points of the scene were destroyed with it— but
somewhere, in one of the most respectable streets, stood 1 house with
the number of gables and windows requsite to perfect gentility, and
_ alarge brass plate spread its glittering surface below the great brass
kngcker. « This plate set forth, in bright, gold Iectters, the fact that
‘Madame Monot, relict of Monsieur Monot who had so distinguished
himself as leading teacher in one of the first female seminaries in
Paris, could be found within, at the head‘of a select school for young
ladies. :
Sarah was overpowered by the breadth and brightness. of this
door-plate, and startled by the heavy reverberations of the knocker.
There was something too solemn and grand about the entrance for
perfect tranquillity. ~ re vo es
Mr. Jones looked back at her, as he dropped the knocker, with 9
sort of tender self-complacency, for he expected that she would be
rather taken aback by the splendor to which he was bringing her;
but Saralronly trembled and grew timid; she would have given the
world to turn and run away any distance so that in thé end she
reached home. —*:
- The door .opened, at least the upper half, and they were admitted —
into a hall paved with little Dutch tiles, spotlessly clean, through
which they were led into a parlor barren and prim in al! its appoint-
ments, but which was evidently the grand reception-room of the
establishment. Nothing could have been more desolate than the
room, save-that it was redeemed by two narrow windows’ which
overlooked the angle of the green inclosure in which the house stood.
‘This angle was separated by a low wall from what seemed a broad
and ‘spacious garden, well filled with fruit-trees and flowering
shrubbery. | ens : :
The spring. wa3 just putting forth its first buds, and Sarah forgot
the chilliness within as she saw the branches of a young apple-tree,
flushed with the first tender green, drooping over the wall. . It re-
minded her pleasantly of the orchard at home. .
The door opened, and, with a nervous start, Sareh arose with her .