The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-28
BLANCA.

"Well, Blanca, darling, I'm glad this
cousin OF yours is coming to Oakwold. -
"Why, Anthony"
because you need society, and that
of Eastbury is rather too orthodox and
primitive for your tastes. AS for my
own my medical labors have become no
longer a sinecure since old Doctor Par
tons death, and you see very little of
me during the daytime, just at present. :"
"Indeed, that is true, Anthony" and
beautiful Blanca Stanley clasped those
graceful arms of hers very lovingly
about her young husbands neck. "I
miss you more than words can tell, some
times. You remember what pleasant
mornings we used to spend during May
the first month after our arrival at
Oakwold? You read me those charming
'Idyls of the King, and it was all SO
delicious and now
'Now [ am man of leisure no lon
ger, " Anthony Stanley interrupted, but
one of the busiest doctors in all the
county, perhaps. But, Blanca, I want
to ask you q few questions about this
cousin. Do you exactly relish the idea
of her coming here to pay for her board
I confess, candidly, that I do not"
Blanca laughed n1errily.
perhaps I ought to feel very much
ashamed Of our limited circumstances,
Anthony; that's the way to express
yourself elegantly, [ believe, when you
want to say that you are not we'll off !;
but, somehow, I would just as lief the
whole world knew exactly how we are
n
stands all about it. Not having seen me
since her return from France, she is
anxious to spend a few weeks here at
Oakwold Cottage, and I am immensely
anxious to have her. Accordingly, she
proposes doing So instead of accompa-
nying her mother and sisters to Scar
borough. She is not willing to make a
third member of our family, you know,
without p
eyes, yes, I understand. Well, Ri
anca, you may take her payments for
pin-money, if you choose. And now tell
me something about your cousin. What
is she hke?"
"Like very lovely woman, An
thony."
Handsome?"
Very"
"Clever?"
AS a schoolmistress. You will be
delighted with her conversation, I know.
She has faculty, people say, Of making
all other women appear stupid and triv-
ial by contrast"
Nonsense, Blanca. That smile OF
the schoolmistress was very poorly
chosen, if you want to progresses me
with your cousin. [ abhor schoolmis-
tresses. Just hand me that bottle di.
rectly behind your elbow, that's dear. ,
Mrs. Stanley turned toward the row Of
bottles placed upon shelf in her hus
bands surgery, in front of the desk al
which he was then seated.
(Which, Anthony? This one, con
tanning white iquid?"
"Gracious, no That's horribly
poisonous compound. Imagine poor
Mrs Marlowe's feelings if took over t.
her sick baby vial of that deadly stuff
The one to the right of it, if you please
Thanks, my dear. And now, one more
question. When is Miss Ellinor Erskint
going to make her appearance at thu
cottage?"
Tomorrow morning, she writes me
And we may expect her, for Ellinor is in
fallible about keeping promises.
The next morning Miss Erskine JUST
fed her cousins remark by arriving a
Oakwold. The greeting which she re
ceived from Blanca Stanley was warn
and affectionate. The two ladies ha,
been intimate friends for almost as Ion,
as each could remember, and the low
which existed between them was, o.
Biancas side, at least, of the sinceres
nature. Physically, they formed
striking contrast, Mrs. SANKEY'S delicat
pink-and-white complexion, pale-gol
hair, and petite figure being widely dill
ferent from her cousins statuesque
stately beauty.
1t was beauty of superb type, mos
people were fain enthusiastically to ao
NIT on seeing Ellinor Erskine for tn
first time. Unusually tall, but of sue
perfect grace in her every posture an
gesture that tallness was a charm, not
defect; possessing skin of the pures
whiteness, hair Of that glossy blue-blac
hue which is so rarely seen, and eyes c
deep, lustrous hazel; showing, in he
manner and conversation, all that til
most cultivated and fastidious tast
could desire, Miss Erskine was what W
may term fascinating woman in ever
respect.
The first evening following her arrivs
at Oakwold, she accompanied her hos
and hostess on a twilight walk along til
exquisite wooded shore near which th
cottage was situated line of rugged
picturesque land, where rocks, an