Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-01-28


have the love of man worth the
name. like Robert Garston."
So. while smiling at each other, anC
prattling artlessly over their wreaths
and their cookery, the two young
women came gradually to swords
pOints-I mean, pins points.
ssTVhy do you sing that?" inquired
Amy. Lefty was grooming "Auld
Robin Gray.b ''It is the most dismal
ballad"
ssBut, like many other dismal things
so true to nature answered Lefty
careIessly. "I suppose 1 was thinking
of Jane Field, who has just promised to
love and honor the house on the hill. y
a. very fine house, Lefty; / think
could love it myself"
sFToo drv and dusty an affection for
me; but then Jane is such an incapa-
ble. Not like you. You would make
| an excellent poor mans wife, Amy.
ssThanks! but I have no taste for the
vocation"
ift'YOu never looked prettier in your
! life than you do now in that apron, and
with your hands in the -four"
/ 'sBut how long should look pretty,
! cake. Going about with my hair in a
! knot. one eye on the bread and the
| other on the babya No moi I am OF
! the mind of TrollOpe's man, who said
| that when a woman was nasty, she was
very nasty indeedt Keep a woman
pinched and anxious, and sooner or
! later she will look pinched and anxious
and frowsy. never saw it fail.''
tDo YOU hear that, David 2'' cried
I I,ettv. running up to her husband, who
| had lust opened the door and then
| matters began to look very squally in
deed. s'Amy says all poor wives grow
| frowsy. Am I froWsy yet, and slip
a1fY
/ ssYou Z" echoed David, looking down
| in astonishment at the bright little
face; but Lefty caught him up
s'Ts the romance all gone, David, and
are we now only like two dogs chained
/ together by some mistake p
/ itChained, my pet!" But Lefty
| bounced upon him again.
'sYOu stupid old darling No Won
| der you don't understand /; but tell
| AMY now! You remember when we
/ had the Maephersenss 9 to dine? And
such a party, Amy Two stiff old
maids, sitter old bachelpri ana that
| cast iron Mrs. Ferguson; and not a
soul would talk anything but weather,
and it was almost the duliest dinner,
when, proVidentially,v it turned out
there were not glasses enough : and I
had cup-yOu remen Der, David ?"
'tSure enoughP' David began to see
his way clear. eHa ha! behind the
s.Behind the celery dish! So it was.'
Lofty was quite over her temper now.
ttAnd I could not make David give me
any water. He would keep asking,
where is yourglass, my dear? though
all the time was nodding and froWn-
ing at him; and at last 1 was obliged
to say aloud, David, dear, pray do not
let Mrs. Ferguson and the others know
there are not glasses enough, and I
have only cup. But if you viii give
me some water will try and divert
their attention; , and, my dear, with
that the old maids began TO giggle, and
their brother, he rOared, and Mrs. Fer
guson-welI. I never saw her laugh be-
fore and they all began to talk to-
getheF, and they vow TO this day that
/ was the incest dinner they ever ate."
Amy smiled, disdainfully.
ffAnd the moral: Don't have glass
es enough. and be happy Is that, it,
And I really think the pin points
might have turned into swords, only
lust then, by one OF those condolences
that only lovers ea explain, appeared
in the door John esfofton ana Mr., Cars
Both gentlemen had dropped in to
explain to Mrs. Ames how happy they
should be to accept her invitation to
dinner.
lH I.ettv came forward, smiling, her two
little Hands out. before her.
$50 glad to see you'll and you, Mr..
| Crofton I! You are the person of all
others most wish to see. I am in the
very midst of my dinner. You don't
think it dreadful to care about ones
dinner, do you, Mr.. Crofton2"
Crofton smiled and bowed, it must
be confessed rather ahsently. He was
a gourmand, as that artful Lefty knew;
but he was also lover, and he could
not keep his eyes from wandering in
the direction of a young lady who kept
! her back so studiOusly turned that her
ears and an edge OF very pink cheek
were about all that was visible.
81 knew gfoM would sympathize, -
| continued Lefty, with fattering en-
! phasis. and stone-blind to all his symp-
! toms of uneasiness. "Indeed, for my
| part, I consider it a vulgarity, this af-
| fectation of indifference to what one
| eats: and that beef-steaks- and meta
| physics are more nearly connected than
/ is generally supposed. And talking of
+ tbeef-steaks, I shall never forget the
one YOU broiled for us on the sands.
| That was a new sensation ~
| fC7You remember ~ CrOfton was get
| ting really interested. It is aIWay S
! pleasant to be SO we'll appreciated by
such a very pretty woman.
"Of course ! that is why wished for
Won now! AS told you, I am in the
| very midst of preparing for dinner.
\ I feel the fen sdeTe, really now some
4 thing of that spirit that made the cor
don bJeat commit suicide because no
turbot was to be had for the second
| course. And here am-hopelessly at
a stand-sti1l! Amy knows nothing
about it, David knows less, and II never
could do it in nay life. I have conclud-
! ed that it really requires genius.'
tsItl Mrs. Ames. What? 2" CroftOn's s
] ewes were opened wider and wider at
! this magnificent peroration.
! sHThe salad dressing, Mr.. Crofton Il
/ you would-if you could-as Steve
i Yates saws, Il don't hardly dare, scarce.
ly, to venture to ask but if you would
i mix the dressing for me! I'll be your
most obedient servant, and bring you
i every thing you order, and I'll put the
i materials on the incest table in the
I room''-with comical glance toward
4 Amy-sfonly, please do, Mr.. Crofton.'
Such coaxing, wheedling little
j woman, with her hands clasped before
her, how could Orofton refuse Be
sides, he was an epicure; and having
once undertaken the affair, he dis
patched his man express for a bottle o.
anchovy sauce, and turned back hii
cuffs with real relish. He thought
salad dressing a matter of importance
He thought Mrs. Ames very charm
ing woman, and that it was rather
pity she should be thrown away on
man like David, who would eat rOas
beef and potatoes as contentedly al
any thing else. He thought the oll
keeping-room the contest sort of re
ception-room, and that it would be un
!; commonly nice to mix the dressing a
the same table with Amy. He had NJ
suspicion that by one Of those turn
that David used to call Lettyisms, h.
was made into a cook-maid under hi
lady loves eyes, or how those eye
flashed scorn at him. And Amyi witt
true feminine justice she vented he
, wrath on the innocent-that is, on Rol
Garston.
Profiting by Letty's diversion, Rol
, quietly laid before Amy a handful O
} z superb roses. He had been at prea
/ | trouble to get them, and had reason t
4 suppose that both himself and hi
flowers would be welcome. Amy eve,
4 the lovely things frostily, and, withou
looking up at them, said:
! "Thank you. Lefty will be yer,
: much pleased with them.n :
Y HLetty ~ echoed Rob. st brough
them for you"
+; "Thanksi but have so many al
3 ready"