Newton High School - Newtonian Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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THE NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 19 for the reins, and if the moon, and the night, and Cupid, and- Mr. Roberts :an't carry out the rest, I guess it can't be done. At this point in her thoughts the postman interrupted Mr. Roberts, and in the general conversation that followed, she slipped off, on the plea of having to write a letter to her mother. Angelica watched them drive off down the moonlit road, and turning with a sigh of relief, went into the house. This part of her little program had been very hard to carry out, for two reasons. First, because their only horse, a bony, jog-trot old mare, was laid up with a sprained ankle, and second, because her aunt was deadly afraid to drive at night. She had cleverly overcome both of the seemingly insurmountable difficulties, however, by persuading a neighbor to offer her aunt the loan of his horse while her guest remained, and by inventing an urgent need of butter for breakfast, which could only be obtained at a dairy three miles down the road. But now they were off, and Angelica's responsibility was over. She was too excited to read, and too lonely to embroider, so she sat down at the piano in the dimly-lighted sitting-room, and gave vent to her feelings in one of those beautiful, plaintive nocturnes by Chopin. She played on and on, one lovely thing after another, for she was a born musician. Time was forgotten, and her restless mood became attuned to the perfect harmony of the music that she played. Carriage wheels roused her, finally, as the last chord of her favorite piece died away, and she fairly Hew out to the veranda as Mr. Roberts was handing Miss Roslind from the little runabout. She stopped, ashamed of her haste, but hesi- tated only a minute. The little hanging veranda-lamp lighted up the faces of the two friends as they came up the steps, arm in arm, and the joy, and con- tentment, and happiness written there, would have been significant to a denser mind and less sympathetic heart than Angelica's. She had never seen her aunt look as radiant and as beautifulg and the only thing she could liken Mr. Roberts to, was a victor leading off, in triumph, a priceless treasure-and she was well pleased with the simile. She rushed into her aunt's outstretched arms, with the tears streaming down her cheeks. Then, half laughing, half crying she managed to say through her tears:- q Now, Aunt Marie, will you ever doubt my predictions again? And Mr. Roberts did not leave the next day.

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THE NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Sudden came he to a forest, Where, on velvet moss and grasses, Many little folk were dancingg And upon a couch of blossoms Lay their Queen, the smiling Summer. Glooskap caught her up and kept her- By a crafty trick he kept her! Cutting long cord from a moose-hide, Glooskap trailed the end behind him, Then as they, the white light fairies Pulled the cord to stay his progress. Glosskap payed it out, and left them Far behind, in the dim distance. North he ran-to visit Winter- But he had fair Summer with him, Safely sheltered in his bosom. Winter welcomed him with gladness, For he thought this time to freeze him Into sleep which knows no waking! This time Glooskaplv charm was strongest! VVinter's stern cold face grew softer- Lol he melted! and thereafter lVhere his Wigwam stood, a lake lay, In whose blue depths clouds were mirrored. Everything awoke-the grass grew- All the snow ran down the rivers, Bird-songs echoed in the woodlands. Leaving Summer with her fairies, Homeward Glooskap turned his footsteps, To the land of soft gray Morning, To the land of golden Sunrise. As he ceases, to the lakeside l Carrabassett turns, and gazes O'er its sunset tinted surface, Toward the south-the land of Sunshine- Land whence comes the glad warm Summer. f AQ' ... af' tm' ffl, . W - 1' F X' 'flf L- - p ' eifig M. ,.. .L N