The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-03-13

on.
They will be the very thing to wear
tonight with your white silk dress"
My white silk dress /"
Maud paused abruptly, while u deep
crimson flush stole over her fair fore
head.
She rose and erept softly round to her
fathers side.
Papa, / am very much obliged to you
--but-but had rather not take the
pearls"
mot take them, Maud Y''
No, papa-you remember my reso-
luton"
!" exclaimed Aunt Eloise,
"you will never be so absurd as to re-
fuse that pearl necklace that royal
princess might be proud to wear be
cause of awhim."
" IT is not whim, Aunt Eloise."
And no amount of coaxing or banter
ing could induce Maud Bryant 10 take
the pearls.
"Give me bud from the conservato-
ry, papa, or bit of book, such as /
used to have when was wee thing,
and III value it for your sake as long as
i live; but can't take the pearls"
So the merchant, with curious
moisture in his eyes, gave her kiss,an
told her " that would have to do"
And the weeks and months passed on,
and Maud surrounded by temptations on
every side, thought of Charley May and
resisted them all.
6 Maud said the old man suddenly,
one day, "when did you last hear from
young MayY'
" Last hear from him papa? Never
since the day he went away"
do you mean to tell me that you do
not correspond with him 20
g No, papa; you told me not to, and /
have obeyed YOU"
'And he has never written ~
"Never, SIR"
g Then most probably he has forgot
ten YOU"
"No papa, l know he has not forgot
ten me-
/
her father, caressingly stroking down
the bright black curls. "Never mind,
pet; when your year of calico is over
I'll give you present that shall please
you pretty WELL"
81 don't want any present, papa"
said Maud, wistfully looking up into his
face. "Oh, papa, there is only one
thing in the world that do want"
And that you know very well you
can't have" said the merchant, ,sturdily.
And so the colloquy terminated.
''Oh, Aunt Eloise, what magnifi-,
cent silk real gold color, isn't it?"
'' Yes, think it is rather handsome
said Mrs. Harrington, complacently.-
81 ordered it to be imported myself.
See, it shines like n sheet of gold in the
gas light
6 Who is it for 2"
$ You, to he sure, child-for Oriana
Sykes wedding reception"
Maud shook her head dumurely.
Why, Maud, what will you wear
You must have new silk.''
Maud caught her fathers eyes fixed
earnestly upon her.
In an instant her resolution was
taken.
6 shall wear calico, Aunt Eloise.'
=" Calico to Mrs. Sykes wedding re-
ception ?''
why not, Aunt? ~
. You dare not thus defy society,"
g Dare L not 2"
That was all Maud said.
The year of ordeal was up that night.
and she had stood bravely to her colors.
Mr.. Bryant did not often attend par
ties, but he went to Mrs. Sykes that
evening without his daughters knowl-
edge, and stood leaning against a side
door watching the brilliant devotees of
fashion as they entered in glittering per-
fumed throngs-watching them with an
anxious eye.
Would Maud waver now?" Was her
will no stronger than that of five hun
dred other women
Presently she came, as lovely as ever,
the throng parting on either side, as she
advanced up the room at the side of
her portly, vexed looking Aunt Har-
rington. What was the murmur that
reached his ears
Pink calico! Calico = impossible
Miss Bryant wear calico, indeed Glace,
more likely, or moire antiune Actuallv