The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-05-08
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
HDEAREsT KITTY write you a

N hEARESI hlII 81 write you
~ word, in haste, to tell you that
Cousin Fred has returned from abroad
and will be in Boston next week, and 1
shall send him to call on you. You
know that have always had great.d de-
sire that you two should meet, / think
you would like each other so much.
Now please don't be perverse-that's
darling but look your prettiest, and
smile your sweetest upon him, for he is,
as have always told you, the best and
most charming fellow in the world.
You know | am not a bit of a match
maker, so don't get up your dignity on
that account 1 wouldn't venture to Sc
lect helpmeet' for you, of for Fred,
either, for that matter; but know you
will be good friends, right away. Don't
forget that you have promised me visit
in January.
Ever your loving friend
FLORENCE HILTON"
Miss Kitty Tyler read this letter twice,
with heightened color, and gleam in
her eyes that betokened mischief. For
Miss Kitty was something of coquette
and was very tired of all the victims at
present on her list, and had been sigh
ing, that very morning, for ''new worlds
to conquer "Cousin Fred" had the
reputation, too, of being very fastidious;
he was over thirty, and had hitherto
been invulnerable to all the assaults of
the enemy. He was handsome, rich,
cultivated; "a foeman worthy of her
steel" Miss Kitty actually executed a
piroutte, in her delight.
Z" I wonder when ell come ! perhaps
to-day! must do my hair in that new
style that Del Norton said was so be-
coming" !"
And Kitty let down her yellow locks,
her chief beauty, and devoted herself, for
longer time than like to tell, to their
elaborate arrangement.
But it was all in vain, for no Cousin
Fred made his appearance. Two or three
days passed, and he came not. Her cous-
in Lillian, to whom she had confided the
important news, recited Mariana in
the Moated Grange" provokingly. Lii
ian was provoking in a good many ways;
in the first place, she was provokingly
pretty, for poor relation, whom one
had to have forever in the way; and
then, instead of being melancholy and
unobtrusive, as became dependent, she
was as gay and light-hearted as bird,
and sooold not be snubbed, however hard
one tried and Miss Kitty could not try
very hard, as well as she would have
liked to, for Papa Tyler loved her as well
as he did his own daughter, for the sake
of her dead mother-his only sister-and
Mamma Tyler, fat, comfortable and easy
going, said:
la, Kitty, don't be jealous of the
poor child She's got nothing in the
world but her pretty looks, and you can
outshine her in every wayI"
But Kitty didn't feel by any means
sure of that. Lillian was beauty, with
her clear olive skin, and her great black
Spanish eyes; and, worse than being O
beauty, she had way with her" that
made people-men and women both
fall in love with her.
Now would not have you think that
Lillian was as badly off as Cinderella
with her proud sisters" Kitty was moi
so bad but that she tried not to be jeal
GUS or envious of Lillian, and did, as &
general thing, treat her very kindly
but being naturally of a jealous disposi
ton, she did sometimes heartily wisl
her out of the way; of which feeling
Lillian apparently unconscious
as babe.
Lillian did not manifest the slightes
interest in the expected Cousin Fred.
1t would not have been well for her /
she had. Kitty meant that her prett.
cousin should be kept well out of tn
way Of the fastidicusgentleman of whom
she meant to make conquest.
A week passed, and still he did no
come. On Saturday afternoon car,