Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-04

mn, and to say coaxingly
: don't be cross now,' donned
the plumed cap and ran away,
She looked ike some sylph-
like personation of the west
wind, as she rode off by the
side Of Tudor King, her curl'
floating aud her arch eyes
sparkling with happy light.
They re- a pretty pair any
way Mrs. Earnshaw said, au.
dibly, as she looked after them,
and then, thinking of Uncle
Hiram, with a long drawn sigh
she turned away. why, Ralph
where on. earth did you spring
from p to the broad-shouldered
phantom that seemed to have
formed itself out of thin air
right there at her side,
| din't spring from any
where, Mrs. Earnshaw. 1 was
here all the time. ] was read
ing in the corner yonder when
you and Miss Earnshaw came
in, and as neither of you SEEM
ed to see me, and as | was
somewhat DESTROYS of hearing
Miss Earnshaw's opinion of me
from her own lips, / sat still,
and contrary to all rules Of good
breeding-listened.'
He laughed, and looked ha-
zel-eyed defiance at Mrs. Earn
shaw as he spoke.
Oh, Ralph! how could
you p
i couldn't, if I hadn't been
too anxious to wait for a legiti-
mate opportunity for satisfying
my curiosity, and too bashful
to ask her myself. Don't scold,
Mrs. Earnshaw, | got my ears
burned enough this time to de-
stroy all desire for such unlaw-
full qualification in future
The poor lady looked the pic
ture of CONSERVATION.
s What will Hiram say?' was
all she could calculate.
Don't tell him. I won't,
and if / thought it would be of
any use, I'd ask you not to tell
Laurette either that she had
any auditor but yourself just
now. 5
You needn't ask me that,
for I shall certainly tell her
that her uncivil speech has for
once reached ears she did not
mean it should
add, my dear lady, that
she need no longer fear being
prosecuted with the attentions
OF Ralph Henderson, ESD
She can afford to forgive his
breach Of etiquette, in consid-
Grafton Of the radiance she
gains thereby
Laurette did pout and look
the image of pretty consterna~
ton and annoyance when Mrs.
Earnshaw told her.. But she
maintained resolutely that she
didn't care one bit--not she,
Ralph Henderson was do,
INVESTIGATED under Uncle Hiram
tBennet's roof, as much as Lau-
rette and her mother. The
son of q former friend to whom
the old man conceived himself
under great obligations, he had
long ago adopted him, with
the intention of dividing his
large property between him
aid Laurette, or, WHICH was a
pet scheme with him, leaving
it undivided to both. Lauretto,
however, proved contumacious,
and coquettish as we'll, carry
ing on a system Of alternate
encouragement and GOODNESS,
coaxing smilingness and frigid
Inconsistencies, that was
enough to drive any young
man half so much in love as
Ralph Henderson was to do
just as he had done that is,
obtain possession of the knowl-
edge he craved-get his doubts
solved at any cost.
Being under the same roof,
therefore, Laurette had to
meet Ralph that very day at
dinner, and with the conscious
ness of that disagrceable con-
tretemps freshly burning in
her dimpled cheeks, in spite Of
all assumptions Of nonchalance.
Ralph's equanimity was far
the least disturbed. His hazel
eyes met Lauretts's without a
shadow OF consciousness, unless