Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-11-26

preference, answered OmlLnerS.
eyes, if she has any,
"Well, of course she has"
"Tou think so.''
This conversation, which took
place in my store, one afternoon
about six weeks after Miss Budder
fits return home, might have taken
a very unpleasant turn at this point
but for the entrance Of a couple of
young ladies. One was Lawyer
Dunready's wife, and the other was
a stranger to us all.
I fastened to wait upon Mrs.
Dunready, while the strange lady
stopped at the show case at the fur
ther end of the counter. I am quite
intimate with the Dunreadys-I
stood godfather to their only son, a
late arrival in Larragona-and am
pretty we'll acquainted with all their
relations and friends;' but here
was one that I had never seen be
fore. Leaning over cut of sheet
ing which Mrs. Dunready was ex
amining, whispered my question
poetlcally, thus:
"Who is the maid with golden hair,
With eyes of fire and foot of air?''
"Pshaw! Leda wears number
six boot, and her eyes are a sky
blue" answered Mrs. Dunready.
"She is a widow, and my cousin,
Mrs. Vastings. She was married
eight years ago and went to Chica-
go. Has just returned to the East,
and l hope she will remain. Shall l
introduce p"
"By all means"
The lady swept along towards US.
She was really a magnificent look
ing woman.
'..superb in figure and of stately size;
| An AmaZonian beauty, round and ipe
| AS Cythera-with delicious eyes
Thatlaugh or languish with a shifting hue
Somewhat between a hazel and a blue.''
She smiled graciously upon me
when the introduction was made,
and everybody knows what a wild
ow's smile is A pretty maidens is
like sunshine, but widows is sun
shine after roim-perfectly glori-
Gus!
She was Of blonde complexion,
with the most wonderful golden
hair; and more wonderful still it
was all her own, not even excepting
the color Then she had a voice
low and soft as a doves, and the
most exquisite nose! Lips 'like a
thread of scarlet" and teeth-but
let US let them alone, they were
beautiful, but who made them so
I never knew the dentists name.
At last Mrs. Dunready, having
completed her purchases, turned to
go.
"Why havn't you called upon us,
ifr Jonjones ?" she asked and the
widows eyes said, why don't
youS''
"Pve been thinking Of it for some
time," returned. =
"Is it subject that requires q
great deal Of thought ?'' inquired
the widow, with witching smile
playing around the corners of those
scarlet lips
''No, not noW."
) "You will come up this evening
perhaps +? said Mrs. Dunready.
eyes"
The ladies bowed and withdrew
And so that evening I spent a
} Mrs. Dunready's. But on my wa,
there I was obliged to- pass Mr.
Budderf1i' and there on the pi
azza was Medora and her friends
Miss Pinman and Miss Clintoe, sur
rounded by Brown, Smithers ACC
Black I touched my hat to tn
| laaies and passed on, and L though
that Medora must have experienced
, a sense of relief that one Of her ad
mirershad withdrawn, for one even
ing at least. "
l found Dunready and the ladie
| assembled on the lawn in front O
, the house, engaged in game o
croquet.
"Ah, Jonjones," cried Dunready
"you are just in season to commenc
the game with u.s."
f "Leda was just wishing you woult
come," said his wife, with a mische
vious smile at her fair friend.
The widow blushed as much as
was possible for widow to, and look
ed down, knowing perhaps that he
eyelashes were quite long and really
worth showing.
"Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mar
- Our coming, and look brighter when W
Gomez
I quoted, jestingly.
Il am glad that you think sucl
knowledge is sweet. 1 shall begil
to have hopes Of you, notwithstand
,, ing 1 have hitherto considered W
such an incorrigible old bachelor,
said Mrs. Dunready, driving hel
: ball through the first wicket.
Old bachelor! How could sh,
be so cruel to me when a handsom,
[ widow stood within the sound O
} her voice. I was certain that
looked much younger, but that ex
preston would carry the idea tha
l I was much older than I really was
7 I have always been reticent upol
= the subject of my age. and as I an
r not a native of Larragona, in fact
} had only been a resident there abou
r ten years at that time, therefore M
one knew how long I had been al
e inhabitant of this terrestrial sphere
e and / was certainly not only a youn.
, looking man, but rather good look
} ing, too, if l do say it.
) xBut I had secret, that if know
. would have materially affected tn
! general impression regarding tn
t number of years that had circles