The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-04-02
MISCELLANY.
PEGGY,S PLAN.
BY RICHARD FENwTCK.

most delightful girl, young rich, beauti-
full, good-tempered, witty, and having no
brothers or sisters came up to me while was
lying smoking upon the grass, and put her
hand on my arm as she had done thousand
times before-as a sister
'sTom," said she, 81 believe am devotedly
in love with that delightful Dick Mulready
but I'm sorry to say he's very backward HIM
SELF
Then Dick Mulready is an ass, said I.
"Thank you,' responded she, with sigh
"But cant helpit Here the season is going
off and I'm not engaged. It's too bad Now
I'm sure he likes me, and Pm sure we could
get on well together only he won't ask me,
and-and-now, Tom dear, I've got splendid
plan.''
g see you're eager to tell it but don't
mind, I'm in good humor go on
"Well, now you understand fully and per-
fectly, that I'm desperately--d in
love with him, Tom"
She bent over me and looked me full in the
eyes, with a faint glmmer of a smile on her
lips.
"What's the plan to secure Muready ?"
"Well, Tom, I'll tell you. You must pre-
tend-pretend, you know, to make love to
Tome"
"And make him jealous, ell ?''
Yes, make him jealous and the moment
he thinks favor you, why then we will open
his eyes to-"
"To what a magnificent baggage he is
losing"
eyes"
looked at her. She looked at me- We
laughed together, and she shook her head at
me, and then stopped and gave a sigh.
"When shall we begin?" said l..
ooh, any time. Any time you see him in
sight. Why, there he is. He is coming. He
is now over there by the willows, DON'T you
see?'
l looked. There he was with his broad
shoulders, renewing his youth by attempting
to make whistles on the end of the twigs.
"Now, Tom--do please pretend to talk
earnestly to me look up in my face as I've
seen you do to other girls. There, that's
charming Now let me put on your hat and
you put on NINE And don't stay way off
there, but come up closer. There-there
that's splendid. Pretty soon you'd better try
to take my hand. Then shall exclaim and
call out, and that will call his attention this
way There, feel he's looking. Say some
thing that will make me laugh
She began to laugh before | could collect
my senses, and such peal of ringing notes
never heard in my life. Outof the corner of
my eyes | saw Mulready look up. He started
little, but soon went on calmly making his
whistles. My companion seemed to be bent
on driving Mulready mad, for she talked and
chrruped at such rate that was astonished
We talked about every mentionable subject,
and began to find out what had never sus-
pected before, namely, that she was thou
sand times more bright and intelligent than I
had supposed her. That night Mulready
scowled at me.
told my partner in deception. She laughed
a laugh of triumph and told me that I must
dance every waltz with her. Now, she was
one of the best dancers in the country, so /
was tolerably pleased that was destined to
pique Mulready in such an agreeable way.
He glared at us from a corner as we slowly
swept past him every three minutes, but we
were too full of the intoxcation to mind him.
At last he ran off and brought in magnificent
girl in mauve, and plunged about with her to
his hearts content.
On the next day assumed to take my charm
er to sail upon the lake all alone. Mulready
rowed out with the girl in mauve and looked
savagely at me. l began to dislike Mulready.
The next day my charmer told me affairs were
getting ON finely
"0h, such sayings as hear. He tells every
body am firt.''
"What -
ooh, please don't get angry, Tom. Imean
he only says he is very much devoted to me,
and he has laid plans to take me to a pic mic