Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-01-22

/ THIS, yaWneu 1lHkle over tne
French rolls and outlets on the
Library table.
"Thister" mildly suggested that
Pinkie would solace herself with
the comestibles before her
and inquired in a gently
reproachful voice for Trudie. Tru-
die herself anticipated the answer
| with huge bunch of redolent
| flowers in her hand. Pinkie was
up with bound, jealous in
the guardianship of her rights
But Trudie smiled maliciously as
she fiaunted a card in the little
brunette's arch eyes.
Miss Gertrude Lansing" This
ter" felt an odd pang as she
looked across they table at the
golden head bent above the flow
ers; the girl failed to meet her eye,
and the little of the averted face
visible was warm with COLOR
"Where is your diamond, Trudie?
Did Mark Elcott give it to you,
and wont it bear the light? That
beggar could never afford genu-
inc first water"
Trudies face famed. "He never
speaks to me, Pinkie, he talks to
Thister."
Indeed! then it must be Max
well-who said, 1.-THE shadow of
monarch's crown is softened in her
hair" Trudie? In any case you
are second fiddle for Nan Dial
rymple told me that Mr.. Elcott
gave Maxwell his walking papers
when ThiSter was a belle at New
port. / have no trouble in identi-
flying my admirers, because won't
have men of that ponderous, mid
dle-aged type about me, they are
much too wise; give me the mid
dys, stupid little wretches, you are
a new experience to each one, and
you can fool all of them upon one
plan. / wonder you don't exhaust
your ingenuity, Trudie. Schon-
brauss is German wretchedly
vain and egotistic, Du Val flip
pant, frothy Frenchman, and Ell
colt prickling with pride like q por-
cupine, a "British subject, sir,o
who has rolled on the Thames,
looked at smoky London, trodden
on the classic marbles of West
minister, and is therefore entitled
| to indiscriminate homage from we
parvenu Americans
"Why, Pinkie, what a little
shrew-mousen ~ interposed "This-
ter"
"And Maxwell he is simply q
puritannical old prig, so that none
of your rules would suit the other,
Trudie.''
"Pinkie, you are by for the most
demoralized little wretch know"
said Trudie, quietly. "'Thister
will you give me an idea as to the
costume that will suit me best; |
have absolutely nothing left but
"Amy Robsart'' since Pinkie, the
little mink, has stolen my favor
ite."
"Incroyable ~ shrieked Pinkie,
81 shant be able to find another so
uncommon or becoming and aul
| dacious / shall be able to act as L
please when / get on that green
vest and pointed hat, and " This
ter" / had ordered the tafetta skirt
short, very, for you deem it is no
shame to show your ankles at a
bal naasque, and mine are the pref
test in the family"
| "Thister"-th Moderator-look-
ed severely displeased.
''Pinkie, if mamma were here,
she would not allow you to go, /
am sure" u.
"But you won't take that au-
thority upon yourself, you dear,
correct old thing.
Why, "Thister," / am not a fast
girl, am I? / heard Mr.. Esbach
say a few nights ago that / was a
delightful little voluptuary, and
sensuOus as Bacchante."
"Thister's" face was not pleas
ant to look upon just then. "Did
he say that to your"
/ mo, he said it about me, and |
was charmed, for l have heard of
voluptuaries in art and science
men and women who fill their
minds and houses with beautiful
things, and the Bacchante over
there between the cedarn book
shelves IS the most beautiful statue
in the Library"
"Ah! Pinkie, you foolish, igno-
rant child, what rank injustice
| such giddy girls as, you do your
| selves by your silly airs and false
speeches. The man did not mean
i to compliment you when he drew
that comparison, and very few
in our world would take you for a
| a pure innocent girl after hearing
| such a thing said of YOU"
! Pinkie resigned the outlets and
| fell back in her chair genuinely
| onhoof