. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . there are notions of happiness so moderate and limited, since upon thosewho entertain them happiness and lightness of heart are very easily bestowed. But the little housemaid is awakened from her reverie, for forth from thedoor of the magical corner-house there runs towards her, all fluttering in smartnew dress and streaming ribands, her friend Jane Adams, who comes all out ofbreath to redeem a solemn promise of taking her in, under cover of the confusion,to see the breakfast-table set forth in state, and—sight of sights !—her youngmistress ready dre
. Our Sunday book of reading and pictures . there are notions of happiness so moderate and limited, since upon thosewho entertain them happiness and lightness of heart are very easily bestowed. But the little housemaid is awakened from her reverie, for forth from thedoor of the magical corner-house there runs towards her, all fluttering in smartnew dress and streaming ribands, her friend Jane Adams, who comes all out ofbreath to redeem a solemn promise of taking her in, under cover of the confusion,to see the breakfast-table set forth in state, and—sight of sights !—her youngmistress ready dressed for church. 2 M 274 OUR SUN DA Y BOOK. And there, in good truth, when they have stolen upstairs on tiptoe andedged themselves in at the chamber door—there is Miss Emma looking likethe sweetest picter, in a white chip bonnet and orange-flower, and all otherelegances becoming a bride (with the make, shape, and quality of every articleof which the girl is perfectly familiar in one moment, and never forgets to her \ m ,^m • I %. dying day); and there is Miss Emmas mamma in tears, and Miss Emmas papacomforting her, and saying how that of course she has been lontj looking forwardto this, and how happy she ought to be; and there, too, is Miss Emmas sisterwith her arms round her neck, and the other bridesmaid, all smiles and tears,quieting the children, who would cry more but that they are so finely dressed, TBE YOUNG COUPLE. 275 and yet sob for fear sister Emma should be taken away—and it is all so affect-ing, that the two servant-girls cry more than anybody ; and Jane Adams, sittingdown upon the stairs, when they have crept away, declares that her legs trembleso that she dont know what to do, and that she will say for Miss Emma, thatshe never had a hasty word from her, and that she does hope and pray she maybe happy. But Jane soon comes round again, and then surely there never was anythinglike the breakfast-table, glittering with plate and china, and set out with flowe
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