The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-02


Lucy: "The young men,"
No trihing. How are overskirts ?"
Very much pulled up"
Perhaps you can tell how they
dress the hair now ?"
With brush and comb still"
mean is it worn off the forehead
now?"
1t is very much WORE off the fore
heads of the young ladies who crimp,
and eff the crowns of men who live in
their hats"
How do you wear your OVID, pray?"
Curled."
"Splendid! Have you such thing
as a lover ?"
81 have one devoted lover, for a
surety"
"Splendid ! I've sometimes thought
but no you'll tell him."
You won't mind when I assure Won
that my lover is only myself, Lucy
horiilard. Now, you've sometimes
thought"
at would be delightful to be first in
somebody's heart"
No matter whose ?"
What plague you are It seems
to me it would be so delightful to love
somebody better than yourself-so we'll
you could die fer HIM !"
she would be fine 'figger of a man
to let You die for him."
/" You do know how to put an extin-
guisher upon sentiment.
Later:
Pearl: GIVE got something dread
ful to tell you"
"And bad news travels fast"
I've got a lover"
g knew that before. What's dread
full about it ?"
ooh, don't want him he's old.
He might be my grandfather"
Saints and ministers of grace de-
fend us !"
"And Aunt Hidden says it's my duty
to marry him"
And [ say you sha'n't."
che walks with a crutch, but Aunt
Hidden says [ can ride in my carriage
He is deaf, but she reminds me that I
am not dumb. He wears scratch, but
she assures me that scratch is only
masculine for chignon."
"Did ] understand that you were
willing to die for him %
ed sooner die than marry him."
" Good. But you won't do either. -
"But / must decide to queen it at
Gable hall or be turned out of house and
home"
My arms are open to you, as we'll
as my DOORS"
How well that would sound, dear
Lucy, ii you were only nice young
man whom might love i hope you
don't think / m improper"
think you're an angel, and the
pink of propriety."
esquire Gable brought down the
family jewels to dazzle me. Liz tried
them all on. couldn't touch one.
felt that the dead women who had shone
IN them would rise up and curse me if
L should purchase them at such price,
and so cbeapen love and all womankind.
Squire Gable has a granddaughter who
Will come into his property if he marries
no one, but he takes no notice of the
young man, because his mother married
against the 'squire's wish. This is all
hearsay, however; it may not be true
But IN the meantime the nephew is
quite poor, they, say. Ipity him."
And pity is akin to love"
Yes-lOve's poor relation"
Still later:
SdL1 ADVISE me, GEAR Lucy.
Aunt Hidden warns me that if 1 refuse
Squire Gable she viii wash her hands
OF me. So temporize, like fool"
And the woman who hesitates is
lost"
81 demand a month for reflection,
But when the month is ended, what am
L to do? My salary here as operator
wouldn't buy my salt. l don't know
how to do anything else nobody would
give me board as a cook, sewing-girls
are drug in the market, and to beg 1
am ashamed"
elf you marry him, I'll forbid the
banns. All that have is yours"
"But the trouble is you haven't got
anything to speak of, you dear old
goose"
"Not much, to be sure but enough
for us two"
"I can't take even your bounty. You
know the old story-poor and proud. )"
You would IA her take my heart
and make no return?"
"TO tell the truth, I'm afraid to meet
you. Now you can believe me everything
that is beautiful then there'n be no
more illusion, and you may not like the
result. And L should die if you turned
against me.
"Then promise not to marry the
squire take his poor granddaughter in
stead.
Elf you'll forward the young man.
They say he lives in Nineveh, and that
he's one of natures noblemen. Do
you know him ?"
q doubt if you'd agree to the de-
scription if you knew him as well as l
do. However, you might prefer him to
his granduncle.
81 should prefer the king of the
Cannibal Islands"
"Then why reflect so long?"
"To gain time
'TO waste it, should say"
$50 be it, I'll refuse him tome
row, and trust to luck"
Never put off till tomorrow what
can be done to-day"
Later:
"I feel so wicked! I shall not re-
fuse the squire, and / shall not marry
him. He was found in his library chair
stiff and cold last night. Aunt Hid
den says no doubt he has left me some
thing handsome, and if he hasn't, it's a
Justice upon me l shall never &C
cept an iota. 1t belongs to his poor
nephew, and would be only legalized
highway robbery"
"You have the nephew's prospects
very much at heart he ought to feel
hattered."
Later still:
LIZ and Aunt Hidden went to
Squire Cables funeral. l had a ner-
vous headache, and so escaped. Liz
came home raving over the 'squire's
the only mourner-she
had eyes for little else. But how fool
ism 1 am What do Won care about
Squire Cables nephew ?"
Perhaps I care more than I'd like
to OVID, alas -
"Ah, sits the wind in that quarter.
They sent for me to be present at the
reading of the will. I didn't CO."
"You might have seen the grand
nephew"
u wouldn't have gone to see the |
Grand Lama. But l saw him at church, |
and thought 1t wouldn't be so difficult |
to fall in love with him as with the |
squire, upon my wora-now don't |
laugh though he isn't my beau ideaL"