It was hastily scrawled in
lead pencil, on a leaf torn from a memorandum.
The fisherman confessed to all the meekness and long suffering, without
the cheerful intrepidity of Mary's little lamb! He would do all his
waiting outside. Mr. Levi was down from West Wallen to-day, and said that
he had heard somebody say that there were four letters came for the
teacher in last night's mail. Would I like to drive over to West Wallen
and get them. The fisherman did not believe that I had been in earnest in
the prudish and unreasonable notions I had propounded when he left me the
other evening.
"Prudish!" In my newly-acquired elevation of mind, I hugged the term with
a deep, intense, and mysterious delight. Oh, if my mother could only
know--if my elder sister could only know that I had actually been accused
of prudishness! It was in the glow and inspiration of this idea that I
indited the answer to Mr. Rollin's missive: "Why would he make it
unpleasant and disagreeable for me to do what seemed so plainly my
duty?"--and dispatched the same by the pensive and unpunished truant, who
was soon heard again revelling in the stolen sweets of his Jews' harp
beneath the window.
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