Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-10-13

tossed Sleeiuliy INTO her lap.
/ Shirts 2 she sighed. Oh, Emily, who
would ever have thought We should come
to this = ts
| Shirts aren't disagreable to make said
Emily cheerfully tAll we have to do is
to fancy them embroidery or croched
I work. ~. ,-.-.s. al
! My imagination is not as powerful as
thatp Il, ...s, i. ...-t
4 Cultivate it, then, DEAR said the young
sister, with laugh. They must be flu
ishcd by Saturday noon.'
| BY Saturday noon!' cried Kate fret
fully: 1t is not possible
'Oh, yes, it is. Come, dear, get your
thimble.' s.3 t 500 El.e4 n
Kate Ellerslie burst into tears, and
threw the unoffende2 shirts disdainfuly
from her. ..' l.. .z.s %. .a2a4ea ~
! .You never had any aristocratic pride.
Emily. You would be willing to slave
yourself to death fer five dollars J =,
/ Five dollars is a very nice sum just
now, Kate. said Emily as she went pa
tiently down on her knees to pick up the
scattered rolls of work. -..,, gega.
Bat it's SHAME went on Kate, flush
ed and indignant, that I, who was born
to better things s4..t9 >
She paused, with the hot current of
words yet on her tongue, as knock came
to the door. ......s..t. q.......a.
It's only Mr.. Harley, in the next room, ,
said Emily, as she rose to her feet L
know his knock ....
Mr.. Harley was tall, fresh looking
man, with bright hazel eyes and smooth,
broad forehead, who had recently engaged
the one vacant apartment on the fourth
story of the house on Bland street. "A
literary gentleman Miss Farley had call.
ed him; while Mr.. johnson asserted
with less elegance, that he was 'owl-edit-
or of one of them papers that never tell
the truth p
Poor people assimulate more readily
| than those who surround themselves with
the barriers of form and ceremony and
in the one week of their neighborhood,
MIR. Harley and the Miss Ellerslies had
become the best Of friends.
The loop has come eff my neck-tie
again. Mr.. Harley began apologetically.
'Dare I venture to ask you to sew it on a
second time, Miss Emily ?
And Emily smiled and nodded, as she
threaded her needle with black silk, and
put on thrifty looking silver thimble.
is anything the matter, Miss Kate?
asked Harley, as he observed the elder
sisters flushed cheek and discounted
mood.
Nothing she answered petulantly,
but the old story-poverty and hu-
initiation. Oh, I wish I was dead or,
better STILL she went on, with increased
energy, L wish the william who cheats US
out of all our money was dead !
Mr.. Harley WINGED little, and no
wonder, Emily thought ; her sister has
spoken with unrestrained vehe menoe.
Kate Kate p she said softly, you
don't consider. He is not to blame be
cause the law has given him what vas
rightfully his own
He is, l say, burst ont Kate; but then
she depressed herself Not ever in the
eyes of poor penny -a-liner did she care
Ito appear Ill dCtudl EuoSO,
Give me the shirts, Emily she said
rssignedly. I'VE can't starve. Now the
footstool and the work -basket. And draw
that curtain the sun is shining ip enough
to dazzle forty pairs ct eyes.
| Patient Emily trudged hither and thith-
er for her sister, only too glad that the
strom Of Kate's temper was temporarily
ayerted by Mr.. Harley's fortunate pres
encc And the young man, quietly
obseryant of that transpired around him,
began to think that, after all, Kate was
as beautiful as he had at first supposed.
Emily had the sweeter, more Mandonna-
like face: And then she was so gentle,
SO quietly designed! -s.a7e. sg..:r
Emily always was drudge said Miss
| Ellersle coutemptuously... She never
had any more spirit than canary bird.
So Emily did the work of the con tract
ed little room, wash ed and ironed Hates
laces, arranged her sisters luxqriapt
dark hair, sat up at night to finish the
sewing that Kate had thrown aside be
cause it made her SO nervous hours be-
fore, and was sunny and happy through il
all. While Kate sighed over her fate
and persuaded herself that she was the
most wretched of created beings. -
! And one day Mr.. Harry astonished hel
out of her equanimity by proposing tf
marry Emily.
.Upon-my-word ? calculated she
the young man must have pretty COCO
opinion of HIMSELF Of course you sale
No.!
Emily hung her head until she looked
like sweet pea vine that has been expos
ed to the July sunshine.
TIN afraid I said Yes, she faulter
ed. rs
And what on earth could have induced
you to accept the MANI demanded Kate
with both hands imploringly uplifted.
'Beeause | loved him,' said Emily
plucking up courage.
!. The sel6shness of some people ! sobbet
Kate, burying her face in her pocket
handkerchief, And I suppose you neve
. once thought what was to b ecome o
me.
Aud innocent Emily felt that she ha'
been monster Of ingratitude and ego
tism.
we must provide for our sister Kate
in some way or other, said Mr.. Harry
when Emily timidly confessed her tribu
lation to aim, Wait and see it'll
, girl
Kate Ellerslie gave her brother n-lav
, elect rather q cool greeting that evening