The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-04-05
MARIAN AMONG THE WAX WORKS.

THERE was q long hall at the head Of
the stairs, and in it such company.
There were Kings and Queens and their
courts, and there were Generals and their
staffs, and there were good men and bad
men all mixed up together, and all in
their best clothes and their company
faces.
Marian was amazed and delighted at
all this concourse of great and small and
good and wicked people. Her converse
ton for the next half hour was mainly
comprised in 30 mysr' and other ex-
clamations of wonder and delight. The
group that pleased her most was, think,
that representing Queen Victoria and her
court. There was the Queen, with very
royal expression on her wax face, staring
out of her glass eyes ut the Duke of Cam
bridge, and the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and all the rest of the Princes and
Princesses-down to the very youngest of
the lot-who had been smuggled to the
court reception in a cradle.
"She looks much better in wax than
she does real," said Marian to me, con-
( fidentially, land like those clothes ever
SO much better than those she wore in the
carriage-I suppose these are like what
she wears when she's at home. Do you
suppose she ever lets that baby in the era
die play with her crownr
And she would probably have gone on
to much greater length with her COM
ments and questions, had not suddenly
discovered that she was standing before a
very old lady, who was seated before the
group--and obviously couldn't see much
Of it through Miss Marian Vane, who,
| though she was very little girl, was not
| transparent
90! didn't see that old lady," said
Marian. Don't she look old, Uncle
Wills See how she leans on her UNI
brella, and how her hand trembles, and
her head shakes. She looks as old as
| Jerusalcm!"
Methusaleh she meant-but / stopped
her short lest the old lady should hear her
and didn't even take the occasion to
correct her, but took her round to the
other sideof the group. But the old lady
| so very feeble that her head shook with
the fatigue of keeping it erect, had reused
her interest and sympathy, and while
Aunt Elinor and l were discussing the
various orders with which the Queens
family were decorated, Marian stole back
to the old lady's side, and said, in her mos
winning tones:
"I'm very sorry got in your way" and
by way of reparation offered that lady hel
choice out of paper of candies.
The old lady didn't 30 much as look
up, and Marian said to herself" She
must be deafW and holding the paper OF
candy right under her nose said, little
louder:
! won't you have some candy? There's
some chocolate creams there, If you
haven't teetn;
Still the old woman went on shaking
her tremDly head, ana ciuicning ner UNI
brella with her black -gloved tremDly
hand-and took no notice OF Marian.
maybe shes Dilnu .oo, saiu MARIAN
half aloud, and she put her head down
close under the oid woman.s Donne., ana
then, taxing PIN from ner vress, run
IN up TO .ne nea6 h,a,n N nG glovep trnna manu-
and then waikeo DiIsningiy away, uylna y,'
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