Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-06-16
ROSS & RossER, Publishers. e
The Coral Bracelets.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.

/ the blazing sea- coal CRATE, robed in a blue
cashmere merning dress, lined with quilted
satin of the same color, and her small feet
| com fortably ensconced in blue velvet slip
psrs, edged with snowy swans down.
Hawkins; a solemn and somewhat con-
sequential lookiGg servant in sober black,
obeyed his young mistress, rather petuiapt
behest, but paused moment alter he mad
heaped the blazing coal upon the red hot
bars Of the Crate. ...,s
II you pis.csse. Miss Nina. there's young
person down stairs would like to,see you.
What kind of person, Hawkins2 ques-
toned Nina, languidly lifting her eyes from
Ter work, with some slight appearance of
interest.
Well, Miss, said Hawkins, hesitating a
little, she's very genteel-spoken-a real
lady, you'd think, ifrit wasn't that she is
dressed so shabbily and scant. SCI. ra.
1t isn't the Gress-maker?' e-. s'l-
No, Miss Nina, certainly not's
Nor anybody come after thelady's maids
situation2 asH.
No. Miss; should say not-she doesn't
look like lady's maid.
Well--show her up.
And Nina's pretty head settled back
among the cushions of her chair with re-
turning Incidence. But the instant her eye
fell on the sweet. though very pale face OF
! the slender looking girl who advanced
timdly into the room, ushered by the state
! ly Hawkins, she sat upright with genuine
surprise depicted in her countenance.-
Anna Whartonl is it possible that this is
your
Then you recognise me. Nina?' said the
stranger, family crimsoning. 1t is so long
since we were school mates together at
NJ adame Sauriat's that thought feared
you would scarcely rememb Der me.
Sit down, said Nina, rather ungraciously
motioning with her heavily -ringed fingers
toward chair. What can do for you?
Miss.Whartoa did not sit down, however
lit might have been that she was repell ed
by the extreme coldness of Nina's manner
but went Oh speaking, in hesitating, un-
certain voice. -t
OF you have heard of our msfor
I tunes. Niua-my poor fathers failure and
death and nv mothers subsequent decease?
l had not heard it, said Nina, contempla:-
Ting her dainty slippers. People in society
have so many things to think and talk
about.
Tn ere is no use, resumed Anna, in try ing
to conceal the fact that l am compelled to
earn my daily labor by my hands. And,
she added, with slight flush on her cheeks,
heretofore have experienced no difficulty
in comfortably supporting both myself and
nv little brother. But since he has fallen
| i'll
Il am verv sorry that I have no fine sew
ing to give you, remarked Nina in con-
strained voice; and really my allowance oi
pocket money is so very small! that
Anna Wharton colored scarlet.
You entirely misu derstand me, Nina
do not come here to beg.
| l.a.Iz Inx frOv,1 hay
pocket as she spoke, and opened it.
remember that you used to admire
these Neapolitan corals very much in oul
school days. l have be, n 10th tc part with
} them up to this time, although it has beer
necessary to dispense with every relic o
, happier times. But my brother is dying to1
want of proper nourishm ent and the iuxu
, lies which money only can obtain for him
T wish to sell the bracelets, Nina, and
thought you might like to purchase then
of me. -.
, Nina leaned forward in her chair ant
took the box, her eyes sparkling at the sigh
of the beautifully carved bracelets o.
Neapolitan coral; all streaked aud venec
with the soItest rose color, that lay in the
sim pie casket. She had been endeavorine
for the last year to obtain set OF rose coral
and here at length twas, ready to her hand
. But Nina Pelham was woman OF th'
world and understood the contemp ptible ar
of making "a good bsrgain.' SO she wisel,
rerressed her ecstacies, and asked, with coll
: indifference: 80.
$ How much do you expect to receive fo
them, Anna Wharton?
n Papa gave eighty dollars for them il
Italy, and they are as good as ever.
C - Nina shrugged her shoulders.
~Of course you can't expect to get tn
twentieth part of that price for them now?
Nina Pelham said Anna Wharton firm
lv. Il am at your mercy in this matter
, Whatever you may please to give [ mus
accept. for | ann straitened by necessity -
Name a price at once-but, Nina, remembe
that you are rich and am poor.
: shall give you five dollars, and not ar
o other cent, said Nina comprising her lips
Five dollars! .-r- .......
And Anna Wharton thought. with a sink
!, ing heart, of the numberless little daintie
. she had fondly hoped to buy for her sic
> brother from the proceeds OF those delicat
4 ornaments. I'm -. e...
o Just as YOU please, observed NiDa, ,coldlI
only purchase them out of charity TO yo'
Anna siFeutly placed the ornaments o
: the table beside Miss Pelham, and held OF
!, thin hand, that would tremole little
= spite of her effort at self-control, Tor th
= money Nina drew out of her small silv'
y y portmonnaie, and extracted therefrom
= crump pied bank bill. which she cody hand
: ed to Miss Wharton. And they parted
= n Anna, in her scanty, much-worn garment
- and aching heart, to face the cutting win
= and Nina to lounge. in cashmere and satl
= before the genial ire.
Il What exq uisite corals! l could not bu
them for hundred dollars was Nina's e1
,o clam alton the moment she was left aon
,f Really, L think am the luckiest lit
creature in the world. Only five dollarst
But then she was obliged to Sc them, ar
IN that, of course, max es all the difference