The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-06-17
Posting Her.

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"Wcll, Bertha Horton has gradu-
ated, and is home from vessar COL
lege for good" explained his mother,
helping out the brandy peaches.
Gerard did not reply, hiss mind be.
ing engrossed by the discovery of
something "crooked" in the sweet
meat trade, his younger brother hav-
ing appropriated his large sancer Of
brandy peaches-a dainty which he
was not allowed to partake of-and
handed Gerard Ills meagre allowance
of dried apples, an exchange which
was highly unsatisfactory to one of
the parties interested.
"You must call on her at once, you
were always such great friends" con-
tinuel his metelnal, when the plum
! derel peaches mad been recovered,
and the pirate reprimaned.
Eyes, guess III drop in there this
evening" assented Gerard, conde-
scendingly. ~ s'pose she'll want
some one to post her little on what's
what !"
Eyes, d." said lis mother, as he
pushed back his chair aud left the
table.
Gerard was SANDER youth, with
a struggling Centennial mustache F.; a
PiccadiIly collar that gave his thin,
bare neck a cran-like appearance,
well-developed feet, and more large
~ developed vanity !; prepossesslns
clothes and watl-chain F; hair artis'
tically plastered down, with a dan
drutf path left in tho centre. and a
superficial, galvanized education.
lie arrayed himself in his store
clothes and dollar jewelry for his
visit, determined to dazzle and i'm
press little Bertha with Il full sense
of his importance, aud he carried a
satisfied ait, a pale blue necktio, and
pound of chocolate cream drops in
his coat.tail pocket, when he rang
the door-lell of the Horton mansion,
and was ushered into the parlor,
where his idea of meeting an awk-
ward, shy, blushing school girl wore
ont quicker than pair of fifty cent
kid gloves, when queenly looking
young lady, stylishly dressed, arose,
swept taward him, lifted a dainty
pair of glasses to her eyes, and in a
composed but gracious manner vel
coined him, and invited him to 6e
seated.
Gerard's ilealism was so npshol
that he forgot the little speech he had
prepared for the occasion, and sal
ineekly down in the nearest chair or
his pound of chocolate cream drops
. making u fearful candy carnage II
bis left coat tail pocket, and glvln!
him an unpleasant sensation. as !
sitting on a sngary poultice.
IL head this evening you had re
turned, and FASTENED to welcome bacl
such charming addition to society,".
he said, nervously, pulling down Iii
snow. white cuffs 80 that his glitterlrl
/. sleeve buttons would show.
"D;r Mile Merci," she returned,
calmly, cycling him slowly from l''
y large feet up to his bashful moustashe
AMI hair parted in the middle. "Gui
zot, you are aware, makes the devel
. opment of society the perfectionmen
Of civil life. Buckles history is tn
anthesls Of Guizot's."
Gerard moved uncomfortably o
his chocolate cream p0'lltice. Her
was a conversational pitfall at tn
yery start. He didn't know whethe
d Guizot and Buckle were corpora's q
marines Or "crooked whiskey" mel
After an affective pause, he sale
huskily:
I, "Oh-ah-ycs-just what l va
thinking"
"Her6ert Spancer, in explanation
rays that the morplology and phys
oloqy of society correspond to MOI
phology and physiology in genera
Social organism, like individual Of
eanism, are to be arrayed into classe
and surely-that is, as We say in L
tin, conditio sine qua n0n--an ind'
pensable condition," che remarke
pertly, leaning back on the sofa al u
looking the young man fair IN q
eyes.
Gerard shuddered, regretted that
had been iu such haste to call, tr'
to coax bis Pickering courage ba
to tie surface, smiled weakly 81
said feebly:
Yes'm, that's it but"
ut is, I know, q truth in .ocia
", comparable to the biologic
trnth," she said, interrupting hi
liuging out words of six or seven 9
Of labies with q head velocity aud e.
q which made the young mans he
70 swim, "that the first stcp in the p
duction ofany organism, high or 10
to a certain differentiation, which
;%' a peripheral portion becomes dist
~ guished from central portion F; q
IL. you know, Of course the old La
''' quotation: Magma est peritas, ct p
90 yolebit-truth is powerful and y
prevail"
Gerard felt a cold perspirat
breaking out on his forehead.
did not know the quotation, ana
didn't want to know it. Ho tel
!. cheap and mean az if he had b
detected passing q counterfeit ga
on a church collector. He wiz
= she would talk about something 81
but az she evidently expected an
, swer, and kept tap;ng toe carpet
patiently with Der thy foot he st
mered:
eli. cart cay, Tn sure y
p and I'D rather not talk about
-. those :.iaiugs."
:ee' "Ah! zee she said, re6eetivsly,
w. there was q shsrp srispness IN
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