The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-11-10
sssee what ?'' inquired Miss Kent,

attracted will nrite. OF course an al
kali and an acid-Don't you think this
sleeve is little too long, Miss Kent 90
'sNot after the seam is off. But
what were you saying about alkalies
and acids, Mrs. Carlisle The other day
at Professor Boynton's saw some won
dertul experiments.
"Dld they succeed % inquired Jen-
ME, demurely.
| Beautifully"
$50 will mine. l never botched
! job in my lite.''
81 don't think quite understand
you" said Miss kent, perplexed.
'sNo? | always grow scientific when
talkirg about marriage, my dear"
Bother % was all the little woman
said, bat the tone was much better ma
tured than | expected.
The next week Cousin Mark arrived,
and | liked him at once. An unhappy
marriage would have been the last
thing thought of in connection with the
| gentleman. lie had accepted the situ-
| alton like a man, JealIie told me, and
| for fifteen years carried load of misery
/ that few could have endured. Death
came to his relief at last, and now the
poor fellow honestly believed himself
an alien from domestic happiness.
Singular as it may appear, Cousin
Mark was the embodiment of good
health, and good nature so, perhaps,
though he didn't look it, and as
| rotund and fresh in his way as the little
| dressmaker was in hers. rs | looked
at him, detied any body to see one and
not be Immediately reminded of the
| other. True, lie bad more of the polish
! which comes from travel and adapta-
| ton to different classes and individuals.
! but he was not whit more intelligent
by nature than was the bright little
woman whom Jennie had determined
| lie should marry.
81 was surprised you should think
necessary to caution me about that,
Cousin Mark" cooed tie plottcr, as
she stood by his side looking out of the
window. ''The idea of my being so
ridiculous! !" and in the same breath,
with WAX at me, ''come, let us go to
my sitting-room. We are at work
there, but it won't make any difference
to you, will it 90
OF course Cou in Mark answered
-hVs PiOthRbll ii1tipGcI!G as Il nOA
about the trap being laid for him.
"This is my cousin-Mr Lansing,
Miss Kent" and Mr.. Lansing bowed
politely, and Miss Kent arose, dropped
her scissors, blushed, and sat down
again. Cousin Mark picked up the re-
fractory implements, aud then Mrs. .Jcn-
ME proceed, with rare caution and tact,
to her labor Of love Cousin Mark, at
her request, read aloud ali article from
the Popaslar Science Monthly, draw
ing Miss Kent into the discussion as
deity as was ever fly drawn into the
web of the spider.
<sWho was that lady, Jennie 90
Cousin Mark inquired in tie evening.
''Do you mean Miss Kent :" said
Jennie, locking up from Eer paper
sob, size is lady have kEown fer
long time. She is making some dresses
for me now. WHY 90
''She seemed uucomonly well posted,
ed for a woman"
Under other circumstances Mrs. Car
lisle would have resented this, but now
she only queried. ''Do you think SO 70
and that ended il.
Two or three invitations to the sew
ing-room were quite sufficient to make
Cousin Mark perfectly at home there;
and after week he became as familiar
as this
:'If you ara not too busy, 1 should
like to read You this article;" and this
is what Miss Kent would say:
"Oh, am never too busy to be read
to. Sit down by the window in this
comfortable chair and let's hear it,
After couple of weeks, when the
gentleman came in, hoarse with sud-
den cold, Miss Kent hustled about, her
voice full of sympathy, and brewed him
a dose which he declared he should
never forget to his dying day but one
dose cured him. After this, Miss Kent
was really ,eon1e,Ji1 woman.
Ay, Jennie was an arch plottcr. She
let them tkirmish about, bat not once
did she give them chance to be alone
together-her plans were not to be des-
troyed by premature confdences-until
the very evening preceding Cousin
Marks departure tor California. Then
Miss Kent was very demurely asked to
remain and keep an eye on Master Car
Isle, whom the fond mother did not
like to leave quite alone with his nurse.
eve are compelled to be gone
couple OF hours but Cousin Mark will
read to you, won't you, cousin ?''
Certainly, if Miss Kent would like
it" replied the gentleman.
The infant Carlisle, thanks to good
management, was never awake in the
evening, so the victims of this matri-
monial speculation would have plenty
of time. The back parlor was the room
most in use during the evening. and
out OF this room was large closet with
large blind ventilator, and out OF this
closet door leading to the back stoop
and garden. Imagine my surprise when
l was informed that Mr.. Carlisle was
going to the lodge, and that We. after
profase warnings about the baby, and
promises not to be gone too long, were
to proceed to this closet overlooking
the back parIor Uia back gate and gar
den. III vain protested.
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