Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-12-17
MY AUNr's STORY.

sob, Aunt Pam, how shall make Jack
little more dignifed? want to be proud
as we'll as fond of him. He's too demon
strative; how can cure him? Aunt Pam
advise me!''
Aunt PAMELA looked at Belle irresn
.ntely for Il moment, the1 bee ioned ia
Hannah TO take the tea away.
''I'lltell you a story, Bslle," she said,
IF you'll listen to it I'll tell you how
somebody yni know came to be cross
queer old MAZDA "himsicai, spiteful lone
| y, desolate old woman"
'Idont know any such person." erie d
Belle. e. 80 -
".Yes you d., child; You'll reco ynizs her
| 20. trait when it's drawn. Bat at your
age, dear, she was passably pretty, and at
/ .his heroine of mine was very mich like
you when she was in the heyday IT youth. y
Had size r.d hair, aunt, like tniu.?''
Yes. and the brilliant ompl.xion and
nigh temper that go with it.. ole was olly
eighteen when she became the defendant
in case where all the little property she
.sad in the worl /: was at stake. She was
.lready in OrD IAN. and wuull have baeu d
,'ggar had it not been for thu wonderful
zlal and ability of her legal adviser Mr..
'segi,all Vickers. Long b;,fMe the case
was decided in her behalf she hal grown
10 look forward 10 the necessary legal con-
citations as this brightest III >;ne;.ts of her
life. though not wDrl of 1--we passed be-
wv en- them. In truth, Belle, tne lady Of
,ur story, whom we will cali Ly my oil
lshoiled name OF Pamela, ha u warm
4 art under very cold exterior, and al
tleug sIl, kH-w how to Iowa we'll AMI d.
s,tedly, she coul,l not iapo nar senti-
n,nt to suit t IL SON NV mt ener ,etic AMI
D .sslunAte devotion of tbs youay blrriJ
ter.
l"'Yo on are 80 cold. I'm Iii - he woul |
,ay; 'one might Il, well have bit of
,rclise ,logy in the sh tpe of one of the mu-
TILTED Grecian goddes,es FIR an idol. I
whisper ever 50 many pretty things in
your ear, and one would think they stopped
At the tympanum, for not the faintest
| blush tinges your marble cheek, and the
| chiseled splendor Of your profile remains
rs is carved in stone
"And the time, Belle, every word of
his had been like an electric sho TX of bliss
to her enraptured soul, and she scarcely
| knew whether she was in Paradise or up
ON the earth.
"When her engagem ents had reached an
epoch devoted to che bridal trousseau, she
became very much the property of certain
! relatives and their chosen seamstresses;
Their: was so much of trying OH, Of CON-
parlng and choosing, that Very little time
was left for Reginald, of which he com
plainetl most bitterly; and whe the con
vention adjourned to the Country to ar
/ range further prelimi,iariesef for the comm .
happiness, Reginald declared ne would
/ follow her very soon.
1 ut was weather such as this, Belle, in
the month of May; and in the Very morn
in Of her journey the luckless Pamela
offended Reginald by repulsi g him in
wlat she held an unbeitting levity and
familiarity. He had but twirled hel
about thereon two or three times, CAROL
/ ing out inIlis gIeeful way.
"Pamela babe him, somewhat haughtily,
to desist, which he d d, with frcwn, ant
went Immediately out of her presence, NOT
did she see him again until he had babe
her a cold farewell at the window OF tn,
railway car. So. she Went upon her way
almost broken hearted and had no JOY il
the yernal landscape, nor, indeed, could
she see field or posVs, or flying bits q
beauty, for the tears that dim.nad bel
sight. She took herself TO task, and vowet
that, cpme what would, when Reginald
s..ouid meet her again, she would welcom.
house by Way of d somersAulr.
Nevertheless. she found herself hoping
\ that his first visit among the simpl,
country folks woulI prove to them thai
1 he was altogether a superior being, not
fashioned after the same clay as them
strengthening him as she had oftel
seea him when deep in legal controversy
his Eig!, white brow bout into frowl
his eyes glowing with a secret fire, wor.i
falling out of Ills mouth like IN ,ulten cuai
upon the heads Of his adyersalies.
/ ''Reginald reache the farm one balm
evening ridiag from the train in conve
: nient ox-cart, his trave ling suit of gra
. and broad straw hat, his flowing neckti
Il and the air OF racy nonchalsnce and care
less m.'lici.y about him, greatly vexin
his bethrothed. He had not been half ~
hour with Pamela before he was on iu
A innate terms with the whole Of her uncle