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December 1877.
The master of our village post office!
for many years past was an old man;
but the real dispenser of its joys and
sorrows was his son, a youth who performed its duties with intelligence,
exactness and delicacy. Some persons]
may not be aware how much the last
quality is called into requisition in a
village postmaster. Having the
universal country acquaintance with
his neighbors' affairs, he holds the key
of all. their correspondences. He
knows, long before the news transpires,
when the minister receives a call,!
when the speculator's affairs are
vibrating; he can estimate tho con-j
jjugal dovotion of the absent husband;
but the most enviable is his knowledge
of those delicate and uncertain affairs]
so provoking to village curiosity,
Letters, directed in well-known]
characters, and written with beating!
hearts within locked apartments, pass
through his hands. The blushing
youth steals in at twilight to receive
from him his doom; and to him is!
first known tEe results of a village
belle's foray through a neighboring
district. Our young deputy-post-'
master rarely betrayed his involuntary
acquaintance with the nature ofj
the missives he dispersed ; but whenever sympathy ' ras permitted, his
bright smile and tidiating or tearful
eye would show h$v earnest a part he
took in all his neighbors suffered or
enjoyed. Never was thero a kinder
heart then Loyd Barnard's—never a
truer mirror than his face.
His father, Colojacl Jesse Barnard,]
belonged to that defunct body, the
aristocracy of our country. He served
in the revolutionary war, he did good
service to the State in the subsequent
Shay's rebellion, and though he afterwards inexplicably fell into the ranks
of the popular democratic party, he
retained the manners and insignia ofl
his caste—tho prescribed courtesies ofl]
the old regime with the neatly tied '
queue, and the garment that has given
place to the leveling pantaloon. He
leven persevered in the use of powder
jtill it ceased to be an article of merchandise ; and to the very last he|
maintained those strict observances of]
politeness, that are becoming among
us subjects of tradition and history.!
These, however, are merely accidents
of education and usage. His moral
constitution had nothing aristocratic
or exclusive. On the contrary, his
heart was animated with what we|
-ould fain believe to be the spirit of
our democratic institutions, and universal good will. The colonel was
remarkably exempt (whether fortunately, each according to his taste must!
decide) from the virtue or mania of
his age and country; and consequently,
at three-score and ten, instead of being
the proprietor of lands in the West,
or ships on the seas, he possessed
nothing lint a small paternal estate in
B ,   a    pretty,    cottage-looking
dwelling, with a garden and an acre of]
land, as far back as tho administration of Jefferson, he had received the
appointment of postmaster; and as the]
village grew with the prosperity of
manufactures and agriculture, the!
income of the office had of late
amounted to somo five or six hundred
dollars. This, with the addition of)
his pension as a revolutionary officer;
made the colonel " passing rich;" for
by this time his sons and daughters
were married, and dispersed from
Maino^-to Georgia, and Uie youngest!
only, our friend* Loyd, remained at
home. " Passing rich," we say, and
repeat it, was the colon el. Those who
have never seen an income of a few
[[hundred dollars well administered in
rural life, can have no conception ofj
the comfort and independence, nay,
luxury, it will procure. In the first
place, the staples of life, space, pure
air, sweet water, and a continual feast
for tho eye, are furnished in the
country, in unmeasured quantity, by
the bounty of Providence. Then
as with the colonel, there are no vices
to bo pampered, no vanities to be
cherished, no artificial distinctions to
be sustained, no conventional wants
to be supplied, the few hundred dollars do all for happiness that money
can do. The king who has to ask his
Commons for supplies, hud the
Croesuses of our land who still desire
more than they have, might envy our
contented colonel-, or rather might
have envied him, till, after a life of
perfect exemption from worldly cares,
he came for the first time, to feel a
chill from the shadows of the coming
.day—-a distrustful fear that the morrow
mighTnot take caro of itself.
Among other luxuries of a like
nature (the colonel was indicted to
such indulgences), he had allowed
himself to adopt a little destitute
orphan girl, Paulina Morton. She
came to the old people alter all their
own girls were married and gone, and
proved so dutiful and so helpful, that
she was scarcely loss dear to them
than their own flesh and blood
Paulino, or Lina—for by this endoar-
ing diminutive thoy# familiarly called
her—was a pretty, very pretty girl, in
spite of red hair, which, since it has
lost the favor, some beauty, divine on
mortal, of classic days, won for it, is
considered, if not a blemish, certainly
not an attribute of beauty. Paulina's
friends and lovers maintained that
hers was getting darker every day,
and that oven were it fire-red, her
soft, blue eyes, spirited, sweet mouth,
coral lips, and exquisitely tinted skin,
would redeem, it. Indeed, good old
Mrs. Barnard insisted it was only red
in certain lights, and those certain
Ithuriel lights Loyd Barnard never
saw it in; for ho often expressed his
surprise that any one could be so blind
as to call it auburn red ! If in these
days of reason's supremacy, we have
found out there are no such " dainty
spirits" as Ariel, Puck, and Oberon.
Still the lover is not disenchant id.
" Lina, my child," said the old lady,
one evening just at twilight, while the
burning brands sent a ruddy glow
over the ceiling, and were reflected by
the tea-things our neat-handed lass
was arranging, " Lina, do you expect
Mr. Lovejoy this evening?" "No,
ma'am." "To-morrow evening,
then ?" "No, ma'am ; I never expect
him again." "You astonish me,
Lina. You don't mean you have given
him his answer ?" Lina smiled, and
Mrs. Barnard continued ; " I fear you
have not duly considered, Lina."
" What is the use of considering,
ma'am, when we know our feelings '("
" Wo can't afford always my child, to
I consult our feelings. Nobody can say
a word against Mr. Lovejoy : he made
the best of husbands to his first wife."
"That was a very good reason why
she should love him, ma'am." MrsJ
Barnard proceeded without heeding!
kho emphasis on sho,     " Ho has butt
three children, and to of them are out
of the way." "A poor reason, as Ii
have always thought, ma'am, to give
either to father or children for taking
the mother of them." "But there
are few that are calculated for the
place; you are cut on ( for a stepmother, Lina—-just tho right disposition for  stepmother,  or stepdaugh-
Paulina's ideas were confused by
the compliment, and she was on thej
point of asking whether step-daughter
and daughter-in-law expressed the
same relation, but some feeling
checked her, and instead of asking she
blushed deeply. Tho good old lady
continued her soundings. " I did not,
Lina, expect you to marry Mr. Love-I
I joy for love." " Por what then,
ma'am, should I marry him him?"
asked Lina, suspending her housewife labors, and standing before the
fire while she tied and untied the
string of her little black silk apron.
Girls often do marry, my child, to
get a good home." " Marry to get a
good home, Mrs. Barnard I I would
wash, iron, sweep, scrub, beg, to get
a home, sooner than marry to get one j
and, besidos, have I not the pleasant-
est home in the world ? thanks to yowl
bounty and the colonel's."
Mrs. Barnard sighed, took Lina's|
fair, chubby hand in hers, stroked and)
pressed it. At this moment, the
colonel, who had, unperceived by
either party, been takin j his twilight
nap on his close-curtained bed in the
adjoining bedroom, rose, and drew up
to the fire. He had overheard the]
conversation, and now, to poor Paulina's infinite embarrassment, joined!
in it. " I am disappointed, Lina," he
said; "it is strange it is so difficult
to suit yba with a husband—you are
easily suited with every thing else."1
"But I don't want a husband, sir.'
"Thero's no telling how soon you I
finny, Lina; I feel myself to be failing
daily; and when I am gone, my child,
it will be all poor Loyd can do to take
care of his mother." " Can I not help
him ? Am I not stronger than Loyd ?
Would it not be happiness enough to
work for Loyd, and Loyd's mother ?"
thought Paulina; but she hemmed and]
coughed, and said",nothing.
"It would be a comfort to me," continued the old man, "to see you settled
in a home of your own before I die."
He pausod; but there was no reply.
"I did not say a word when William!
Strong was after you—I did not like
the stock; nor when the young lawyer
sent his fine presents—as Loyd said,
'he had more gab than wit;' nor when'
poor Charles Mosely was, as it were,
dying for you, for, though his pups-
pects wero fine in Ohio, 1 felt, and so!
[did Mrs. Barnard, and so did Loyd,
as if we could not have you go so far
away from us; but now, my child, the
case is different. Mr. Lovejoy has
one of tbe best estates in tho country;
he is none of your flighty, hero today
and gone to morrow folks, but a substantial, reliable person, and I think,
and Loyd said—" Here the brands)
fell apart, and while Paulina was
breathless to hear what Loyd said/
the old colonel rose to adjust them,
He had broken the thread, and did]
not take it up in the right place. "As
I was saying, my child," he resumed,
"my life is very uncertain, and I think,
and Loyd thinks."
What Loyd thought, Paulina did'
not learn for at this moment the door|
opened, and Loyd enteral.
Loyd Barnard wns of Eid win or Wilfred order, one of thoso  humblo and1
generous sprits that give all,, neither
asking or expecting a return. H«
seemed born to steal quietly and alone
through life. A cast from a carriage
in his infancy had, without producing
any mutilation or visible injury, given a fatal shock to his constitution.
He had no disease within the reach
of art, but a delicacy a fragility, that
rendered him incapable of continuous
exertion or application of any sort.
A merciful Providence provide compensation, or, at least, alleviations,
for all the ills that flesh is heir to; and
Loyd Barnard, had abundant leisure for
reading, which he passionately loved in
the tranquillity of a perfectly resigned
temper, and in a universal sympathy
with all that feel, enjoy and
suffer, had little reason to envy the
active and prosperous, who are bust.
ling and struggling through tho
chances and changes of this busy life.
His wants were few, and easily
supplied by the results of the desultory employments he found in tho
village,in the intervals of his attention
to the post office. As much of what
we call virtue is constitutional, so we
suppose was Loyd's contentment; if
it was not virtue, it was happiness;
for, till of late, he had felt no more
I anxiety for tne future than nature's
commoners—tho birds and flowers.
Ah, my son," said the old gentleman, " you have come just in tho
right time—but where is, Lina gone V*
" She went out as I came in, sir, and
I thought she looked as if she had
been weeping." " Weeping !" echoed tho old colonel; and " Weoping !"
re-echoed the old lady ; and " Could
we have hurt her feelings?" asked
both in tho same breath. " Why,
what in the world have you been saying to her, mother ?" " Nothing,
Loyd—nothing—nothing—don'tlook
so scared. Wewereordy expostulating a little, as it were, and urging
her to- accopt Mr. Lovejoy's offer."
Loyd looked ten times paler than
usual, and kept his oye rivited on his
mother, till she added, " But somo
how it seems as if she could not any
way fool to it."
Thank God !". murmured Loyd,
fetching a long breath. Both parents
heard tho unwonted exclamation, and
for both il was a revelation. Tho
colonel rose, walked to the window,
and, though the blinds were closed,
stood as if gazing out, and tho old
lady jerked her knitting-needle from
the sheath, and rolled up tho knitting
work, though she was not in the seam
needle.
It is difficult in any case for parents
to realize how soon their children pass
the bounds of childhood, and how soon
among other thoughts incident to
maturity, love and marriage enter
their heads. But there wore good
reasons why the colonel and his wife
should havo fancied the governing
passions and objects of ordinary lives
had nover risen above their son's
horizon. They considered him perfectly incompetent to provide for tho
wants of tho most frugal family, and
they forgot that love takes no couusel
from prudence. It was too lato now
to remember it.
The colonel, after repeated cleai ings
of his throat, taking off his spectacles,
wiping and putting them on again,
said,—
" Aro you attached to "Lina, my
son ?" (he used the words in its prescriptive rastic sense.) " Yes, sir.'-*
" Strange I never mistrusted it—how
long have- you been so, Loyd t"