Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-05-24

THE BORROWED SHAWL.
BY MRS. CAROLINE oRNE.

What does this mean?' said Ann Ellery,
addressing her friend Juliet Carryll, whom,
on entering her apartment, she found dill
gently engaged in packing travelling trunk.
Il am going to Hightonville to make the
Hightons visit, who have invited me to
spend several weeks with them. You
know that my mother is distant relation
to the Hightons.'
NO, | was not aware of that; !; but
have often heard them mentioned. They
are very rich and very proud family, are
they not?
They are rich, without doubt replied
Juliet, and have the reputation Of being
proud and naughty, and this makes me
wonder why they invited me to visit them.
| at first wished to decline the invitation,
but mother thought had better accept it,
This is your best shawl, / believe said
Ann, unfolding one that was laying on
chair and examining it.
Yes replied Juliet. 1t is hardly pas
sable, | am afraid, but | have not the
means to procure better
1t will never do for you to appear
among the Hightons with such a shawl as
this; you shall have one of mine
'Oh, no. should not like to borrow a
shawl said Juliet,
No person will know that this is bor-
rowed one, unless you tell of it yourself
| have one which have never worn yet
when l go home | will send it to you.
What kind of one is it 2
A cashmere
i had rather you would send me one Of
your old ones
/ shall do no such thing. Juliet Carryl,
my dearest friend, is not going to be scorned
by the Hightons on account of shabby
shawl. One thing, however, shall exact
of you, and that is this for you to promise
not to tell them it is borrowed one. viii
you promise ?
Certainly-I of course, shall not be
anxious to have them know it. | hope 1t
is not very high priced one
'Oh, no. said Ann, carelessly; and
turning the conversation to another subject.
the shawl was not again alluded to while
she staid
1t was about sunset when Juliet arrived
at the splendid mansion of the Ilightons,
which, being situated on the most elevated
piece of ground in Hightonville, looked
proudly down on the humber dwellings.
The family consisted of Mr.. and Mrs.
Highton and their two daughters, Faustina
and Euphrasia, with at present the addition
of young man by the name of Philip
Neville. They were all assembled in the
drawing room when Juliet entered.
Mr.. Highton welcomed her politely
enough, vet with an air that plainly showed
that he remembered that she was the
daughter of poor widow. Mrs. Highton
evidently intended that her reception of the
Young guest should be kind in the extreme.
and for this purpose she over-acted her
part, and exhibited degree of patronizlng
condescension, as ludicrous to the observer
as it was oppressive to It's object. faus-
tna's manner towards her was marked
with a cold and naughty civility, while
Euphrasia, who had predetermined, as she
told Philip Neville previous to her arrival,
that Juliet should be 10 her the cause of an
infinite deal of mirth, winked at Neville,
and with some difficulty suppressed giggle
when her mother introduced them to each
other. Philip, with a want of reflection
natural enough in young man of three
and twenty, who had broken away from
the city with a determination to receive
amusement from whatever source might
offer, had entered into Euphrasa's plan OF
deriving mirth from the appearance oi Ju-
liet, whom he had pictured TO himself as
plain and awkward but when /
he saw beautiful girl of sventeen, whose
manners were superior to either OF Mr..
IIighton's girls, he felt so rcbuked and was
so much taken by surprise, that all the
awkwardness was on his part.
Euphrasia soon found that juliet Carryll
was not suitable subject 10 call into play
her ilnamred tacetiousness, the Few shails