Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-13

step on it; % and all the while dear Mrs.
Churchill was saving, :.

az - ~ 49, f-==< - -
step on it; >, and all the while dear Mrs.
Churchill was saying,
"My love, Pm sorry to carry Lydney
off, bdt Mrs. Lorimer almost gave this
ball on her account; afitss really, Lyd-
ney has neglected her cruelty, and she's
such an old, oldsfriend OF fzmiue.', -
81 wish the word was forbidden by
Law, aud the race EXTINCT cried Lyd-
ney with a petulance that was heavenly,
all the men thought. Sc do solemniy
VOW I'LL Heper. be anybody 3 old friend,
not if l live to be a hundred, ....ss q Fl
Then they had gone axay, and Lyd-
she tried q say h0g sorry She was that
her sweet girl should be disappointed.
Z 8 g Ia the first. place, > Pm mot a sweet
girl, 'asaid she !. and don't make mat
ters worse by being grieyed! Only, I've
made up my mind to one thing, If l
can't get loose from that old cat Lori
mer, and all her trumpery set, Ial mar
ry an Esquimaux, and go Off TO kam-
scbatka! -
Mrs. Churchill held upsher hands in
horror, not AOf- Il ydney s scenfusionP of
geographical terms, she was too thor
Oughly woman to know anything about
geography herself, but in horror of Lyd-
neY,s Indulgence in, the modern style Of
assertion, which was so diafnetffcafly y
opposite TO her Old-fashioned ideas OF
what was pretty for young women.a
ssNow don't be. shocked, /" pleaded hen
niece. There, never mind; Iknow I'm
| cross-y0u're an old darliaglo 9fsa
So Mrs. Churchill held her peace, for
1 am afraid Lydney rather tyrannized
over her, as she had done all her bright
young life over rybody that came
near her. -. -. -,,,. - i.s.tt
AS they entered the hall, 10 and he
held loads of people were fiockins
down the staircase. ~ -. =. az. ).
.sMy dear,s' groaned Mrs. CbarehilI
&C they are alltrooping down to snpper!'t'
'T wish, with All iny heart, they were
| trooping down TO- GO home p returned
Lydney. go on up, please they may
just make way for ,us-I dea't mean Il
| stand here ~ ~, f,aa a5aF ."sfau 5iet
So Mrs. Churchill passed on and Lyd-
| ney followed, and all the people of hei
| acquaintance whom she met, aggravated
her by saying H'1is No. 49,, ~ 81,
"Oh! what makes you so late? We
wanted yon sdreadfully.
"it's like your imPudspce," though
| Lydney. "Oh, dear met what set o
guys the women are; and do think all
the old beaux OF the last century have
beer resarreeted for the occasion"
| She was close to the stairs as sht
thought that, in the very t.iickest of tho
crowd, ana she had on her new dress
fresh from Paris, with; the longest an
most preposterous train; and she fel
too ill-natnrcd to hold it up out of any
body'ss way-,.si.I7f .-s..sss.- scr hee~s sa
And just then tall, handsome youns
| ftsiioyf had inst .,ny.,k. ,intv,, stosrc and !.
fat woman pushed him, and he, te avoit
being ppsetiby the force with which she
brought her weight against him, step
ped hastily aside, and planted his boo
ftlton bvdHey train! = II * -
That was the drop that filled her cuI
to oyerffowing. She stopped short, ant
looked jreand with the very lfaaghties
depression her fsce could assume, anlla
lshe was rather good at a thing of tina
lEsOrt, the young man felt thatsifi the hall
moor would open and let him cemfeFJa
Dly tnrough INTO the cellars he should y
grateftH
lie moved BACK, Dowed low with lit
tie deprecating gesture, looking so NOR
titled and ANNOYED that Lydney had thu
trace 10 Ieel sllgntiy ashamed OF herseii
but having meunted her pedestal of state
she could not step Off it so qaiekly.-s'
she gaChefed tap ner Train ana swept OF
IN n. her annt.s . wake. !,
81 say, Lister, 7 whispered friend il
tle genlleman,s eaf, You uid put YOU
aoot IN ~ y !na5 slms Wltha vengeance.
| VINO is she?" he asked. ss5ait-'
Why, that's Miss Churchill. the.
.nT .srha saS ,,anaa : l?W : Oyer ), a.oa, ;a
i uAhos Aho u1.te ~, ~ =, ~ gIoaheu Lister.
ApoeI the prohaest, most uisagree:'
o.e s,ha III IA h.s: Aneliea, parsaeu tne oth
ef, VINO havihg peen several times afro
ousiy sInHpeu ny Ayuhey,3use Decaus
Mrs; Lorimer, had pn.seE ted ldmi1w'
~ "a se'ste a;s,, oi l,,ihu 20 entoy ti'
Il wish that old tat griffin that pushe
me was IN heayen,D muttered Lister. an
"eiI His way 1tl, .fhtu tife sapper-room,
ne was man VINO hao special weak
hess asa,lst uoihS the least thihy Una
aPpea,eu a"kWafu ana tilough lett {
himself ne ni1gnt nave cursed the yolln
woman LOT her almost apsoleht haught
ness IL was no satisfaction to have an
creature so beautiful and stately severel
conmented OIL by aHtiqGited Ned Bow
ers. E.aa aia 81 sa -
In the meantime, Lydney was up i
tne uressihg-feem with her aunt, an
SAYING. - -
Delleye yoar Mrs- I.erimers offers
1 - osA~ N UdIo hAOH 1
town. i wonder Eave any dress ,le
on me
Ibid anybody. step on it. dear?
auestioned Mrs. Churchill, commiser:
lively. h'el - 80, ~. ...., -,
"If you said trampled, it would /
nearer the TRUTH replied Lydney, wit
her charaeteristici exaggeration Eofd tf
nineteenth century. "a man fairl
jumped upon it,. I'd rather have pai
for his s'supper at Delmonico's than ha
my dress spoiled. .''.,s ''aoh i''F -. @2s II
"it isn't hurt. DEAR" said her aunt
"and, really, the train is so very Ion
10 q q Z T. )
ssThat is no excuse, I" interrupted Lyt
ney. .e''I do hate a man that does an,
! | thing so gaucle.'' 81 .'.,it..1- IA
i Mrs. Churchill was always a litt1
awed when Lydney iindnlged in the u
fectatiOn OF French words { which 81
was too we'll bred to do, except whe
she felt unusually bored, and insolen
and out of temper; SO thereswas silenc
between them, while the, old lady III
. sfranged her he,bd-flress, and made fnnn
!. little pekes at her gown, as elderly W,
men of the partridge order will.