The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-17

COMFY took a resolution. PrOprI-
ETY. was one thing, but illness, sudden
death, was another.
Come up stairs" she said, with a
little sigh and a long-drawn breath ;
and up stairs [ limped with some
difficulty.
Madeleine" said Conny. with a lit
tie CULVER in her voice, Mr.. Stevens
has got a stiff back, through sitting in
draughts."
Very well, Conny dear, said her
Sister; TN take care Of Mr.. Stevens;
you run and play with your dali, or
read Mills Logic, If you prefer it.
Would you believe" she said, turning
to me, that that child reads logic at
her age? OF course she cant under
stand ten words Of it. but papa will
have it. She's to do as she likes. L
think it's a mistake myself, it makes
her so quiet and solemn, always por-
ing over books she can't understand.
Not like arehild.' ny
Butt couldn't speak against COMFY,
whose warm little heart vas even now
working under her pinafore for imagi-
nary woes, so [ took a sage refuge, IN
silence. rs If44eg
Can I do anything?" asked Conny,
reluctant to go, feeling as if in some
inexplicable way she was the sole sup
porter Of life in my frame, that with
her absence | should droop and fall !;
shall [ run and fetch some sal vola-
tile, or some steel wine?'
y Conny's sister took sal volatile; but
Conny herself took steel wine, and be-
lieued inifs efficacy
mo, no, COMFY said her sister
with a fuller faith in her own powers
of healing as compared with steel
wine, Mr., .Steyens is all right now;
he will dovery well till papa comes
i'm - Ae5DH So oAE93
III come and tell you the, very mo-
ment he does declared Conny at the
door; and having administered this
consolation. she departed, hopping on
one foot solemnly down stairs. COMFY
was disposed of. Mr. Flutters was
from home. Delicious and rare com
bination of circumstances, for / had a
bone to pick with Madeleine. A bone
that could by no possibility have been
picked before, Conny, whose we'll
balanced mind thought lightly of SEN
timent, regarded all love-making as
beneath her notice, and brought Mill
to bear upon eyery4oecasien.4 a
This was the bone:
Madeleine, the queen of coquettes,
engaged 10 me, was yet. | feared, en-
couraging another mar of the name of
Prior; a man from our club, we'll
dressed, good looking, if not intellec-
tualHlooking. of gentlemanly man ners,
hyt nnrd,po<afr aonna.faI arI 81 no,
frmed fiirt. There was a pleasant
character to have about the house,
A house, too, where the father was
easily pleased, easily satisfied, fond of
society, and ready to have any mum
Der of gentlemanly fools about him :;
where the lady Of the house was a
mere girl, attractive. charming, fasci-
mating, intensity lovable. but a coquette;
where the youngest daughter alone
absorbed the sense.
Madeleine" [ said, gracefully
hurting at once into the subject the
moment we were left alone: Il find
you have got to know Prior during my
absence from town"
mo jealousy, / fattered myself, in
my tone; no discomfort that it should
be So"
Yes" said Madeleine, taking up a
pinafore of Conny's, and settling down
to work like a staid little woman to
whom coquetry was unknown.
You won't think me a bore, Made
leine, or hat l wish in any way to in
.terfere with your choice of friends
but don't you find Prior an insuffera-
BILE coxcomb."
NO." said Madeleine, intensely in
terested in the formation of button
holes; Il don't know hat [ do. Is
not he generally liked, then? Papa
thinks him so very agreeable.
"Since you ask me, Madeleine" I
said-"and. mind, it is a thing [
should never have mentioned of my
own Accord may tell you that, so
far from being generally liked, to
know that he was intimate at a house
would be quite enough to prevent
many men from visiting at it."
Fancy" said Madeleine, holding
up the pinafore to be admired.
II among them" [ went on.
mol" said Madeleine, quite I'M
moved by the assertion.
It was becoming evident that my
challenge would not be accepted, and
that Madeleine declined to show fight.
So, as after war, the next best thing
is peace Perhaps he does not come
here often, after ALL" l said; Il
should, think, indeed, you would not
ALLOW yourself to be bored by him fire.
quently,"
20, I don't know" said Madeleine;
II think l am very often bored, one
way aud another; it doesn't SO much
matter hv whom Won know