The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10

| sucn De0utleS! pink and blue and sea
green tarlatans, like sweet clouds. l fell
like Cinderella, and sat down and had ,
good, enjoyable cry after they were
gone. had nothing but my old brown
alpaca to wear. l couldn't sleep hal
the night, thinking of what had lost
such giddy galops, such May quadrilles
though of course would have been {
wall-fower!'
"'The flower that all are praising.'"
"No; nobody but YOU"
| "No? I fancy you resemble the WON
an heard clergyman praise in his ser
mon last Sunday, with wlom he said i
was plcasanter to meet than a poem OF
Browning's, Paul's epistle, or a chapter
of Epictetus!"
IL shan't listen to such flattery. Oul
meeting will be one of disillusions."
Sometimes the kilograms were aftel
this fashion:
Pearl: "What are the latest things
out in suits at Nineveh?"
Lucy: 1.-THE young men,"
mo trifling. How are overskirts?"
every much pulled up"
"Perhaps you can tell how they dress
the hair now?"
"With brush and comb still"
II mean is it worn off the forehead
now?"
at is very much worn off the fore.
heads of the young ladies who crimp, and
off the crowns of the men who live in
their hats"
"How do you wear your own, pray:'
"Curled."
"splendid! Have you such thing as
a lovcr?"
II have one devoted lover, for a
surety"
"Splcndid! I've sometimes thought
but no; you'll tell him."
"You won't mind when assure you
that my lover is only myself, Lucy
Lorillard. Now, you've sometimes
thought"
at would be delightful to be first in
somebody's heart"
"No matter whose?"
"What a plague you are! 1t seems to
me it would be so delightful to love
somebody better than yoursclf-so we'll
you could die for him!"
HE would be fine fggcr of man
to let you die for him."
"You do know how to put an cxtin.
guisher upon sentiment"
Later:
Pearl: GIVE got something dreadful TO
tell you"
"And bad news travels fast"
"Pve got a lover"
81 knew that before. What's dreadful
about it,"
"Oh, don't want him; he's old. He
might be my grandfather"
"Saints and ministers of grace defend
us!'
"And Aunt Hidden says it's my duty
to marry him."
"And say you sha'n't."
He walks with a crutch, but Aunt
Hidden says can ride in my carriage.
He is deaf, but she reminds me that am
not dumb. He wears scratch, but she
assures me that scratch is only mascu-
line for chignon."
odd l understand that you were will
ing to die for him?"
"I'd sooner die than marry him."
"Good. But you won't do either"
"But l must decide to queen it at
Gable Hall or be turned out Of house and
home"
MY arms are open to you, as well as
my DOORS"
GLOW we'll that would sound, dear
Lucy, if you were only nice young man
whom | might love! l hope you don't
think Pm improper"
81 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. I
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 cheaper 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. 1pity him."
$" And pity is akin to love-"
Yes-love's poor relation"
Still later:
Pearl: "Advise me, dear Lucy. Aunt
Hidden warns me that if refuse Squire
Gable she will wash her hands of me. So
1 tcmporize, like foil"
"And the woman who hesitates is
lost"
II demand month for reflection.
But when the month is ended, what am
to do? My salary here as operator
wouldn't buy my salt. I 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 / am
ashamed"
"Ityou 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"
mot much, to be sure but enough for
us two"
- II can't take even your bounty.
You know the old story-poor and
proud"
=" You would rather take my heart and
make no return?"
"To tell the truth, Pm afraid to meet
you. Now you can believe me every
thing that is beautiful; then there'll be
no more illusion, and you may not like
the result. And should die if you turned
against me-"
"Thcn promise not to marry the
Squire; take his poor granddaughter in.
stead"
elf you'll forward the young man.
They say he lives in Nincveh, and that
he's one of natures noblemen. Do you
know him?"
Il doubt if you'd agree to the descrip-
ton if you knew him as we'll as do.
However, you might prefer him to his
granduncle."
II should prefer the King of the Can
nibal Islands"
"Then why reflect SO long,"
"To gain time"
"To waste it, I should say"
$50 be it. I'll refuse him tomorrow,
and trust to luck"
"Never put off till tomorrow what
can be done to-day" ...,
Later:
II feel so wicked! shall not refuse
the Squire, and shall not marry him.
He was found in his library chair stiff
and cold last night. Aunt Hidden says
no doubt he has left me something hand
some, and if he hasn't, it's a justice upon
ME! shall never accept an iota. 1t be-
longs to his poor neDheW. and would be