Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-16

got to say !; and | amt ready, Jane Bur-
CESS! I've quarrelled with him till I'm
tired"
"What do you quarrel with him for p
"What else can do? 1t is mt safe to
stay made up with him half an hour
It's the only way a girl has to get time
for herself. There's no fairness in it.
A man can stand off, and look, and con-
slider, till he's made up his mind and
then he can come forward, and be par
ticular; and you can't let him be the
least bit particular without giving him
claims; and how on earth you are to be
fair to yourself and decent with him, |
can't make out"
:" | suppose the girl has the same time
to look and consider that the man has"
said quiet Jane"
eyes, indeed! And then what if he
never begins? / tell you it's all on one
side, and | believe l won't have auything
to do with it !"
And Nettie pouted, and felt the tears
coming into her eyes, ana saw the pins
on James cushion begin to glitter and
grow big; and then she glanced round
into the glass again, to find out how she
looked when she was crying.
q think it is ordered, if we only try
to do what is right" said Jane yirtuous-
ly.
Yes; and how are you going to
know? If you look at thing all round,
there are so many rights. It's right for
me to work myself out, and find out
what l am, and what / want, and let him
see. I've no business to be all Sylvia
and no Nettie, till after I'm married and
then drop it as I've got to do. And he
ought to be willing it's for his good; he
ought to take time for his own sake; but
men never do. They are always in hur-
ry."
1t is funny to see how a girl who comes
to have affairs to manage with one man,
talks Immediately of the whole sex in a
generalizing way, and feels as if she had
all mankind at once upon her hands
and Uice versG.
"Well, it is true in a sense. They do
stand TO each other, representatively and
incisively, and as man and woman it is
always, in each new experiment, Adam
and Eve again, whatever else they may
happen to have been christened.
"There is one thing that is always
right" said Jane. "Not to do anything,
ever SO little to draw a man on, unless
you are sure you are'-she paused shyly
with bit Of blush rising.
Smashed yourself!" said Nettie bold
ly.
And how are you going to know
when you are smashed? Or how are
you ever likely to be till you are knock
ed round a little? That's the point.
You can't buy a pair of shoes without
trying 'em on. It's ridiculous p
She began again presently.
Mrs. Sylvia says it's very shallow Of
me not to know my own mind. That's
great word of my stepmother's. But
if were shallow, really, don't think |
should have any trouble. tell you it's
just sounding and doubling and consd-
ering that makes me act so. There are
so many sides to everything and some.
how always see the opposite one
That's the reason | quarrel; and then
again that's the reason | make up"
"If l imagined ] ever might marry a
person." said Jane thoughtfully,
shouldn't want to have all these little
fuses beforehand. l shouldn't think be
would depend so much on me after
wards"
Il don't want to be depended on.
want him to be thankful every day for
what he gets, as we all are not knowing
how long it's going to last. That's Chris.
tian."
Christian for him." said Jane quiet.
| ly.
"And if sanctify him, what better
can l do? That brings up the ordering
again. Do you believe people are cut
out for each other, Jane? l don't. Ii
they are, | should like to know who does
| it,"
al think the Lord does" said Jane
At any rate, he brings people togeth.
err"
Its fixed very queer" said Nettie
meditatively, with puzzled frown knit
up into her forehead. Because YOU
can't allow for the growing. 1t has to BE-
all settled before you really come to any
thing. As if things had been fitted OF
to me when was Eve years old to Iast
all my lifetime. That's no way for