The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-12-04

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Guilty of maintaining her equilibrium.
For that must have been Miss Dolly,
with the natty little boots, and pink cal
leo dress. She had lovely brown hair,
though | could not see her face"
The next call made by the heir of the
Bardell Place found the parlor shining
with cleanliness, Miss Julia Lawlor, u
really beautiful girl, arrayed in the blue
muslin, at the piano, and Dolly, also in
blue muslin, knitting. The appearance
of the blue muslins was the result of
Thomas Bardell's apparently careless
intlmation to busy DIR. Lawlor that he
intended to drop in" that evening. For
a wonder the Doctor remembered the
fact, and the " Lawlor girls" were
arrayed to receive their guest
Dolly, in half an hour, decided that
she liked the newcomer very much In
deed and that he would make very
nice brother when he fell in love with
Julia and married her, as of course it
was his manifest destiny to do.
For Julia is really lovely" thought
unselfsh little Dolly, "and when he
hears her sing he must lose his heart"
Apparently the singing was as power
ful a magnet as Dolly supposed it would
be, for scarcely day or evening passed
that Mr.. Bardell did not drop in. Tom
Lawlor, the Doctors nephew and stu
dent, declared Bardell to be a first-class
fellow, and was always bringing him to
tea. Then the garden to the Bardell
Place, as summer came on, offered most
tempting opportunities for the presenta-
ton of bouquets to the fair ladies at DIR.
Dawlor's. To be sure, Thomas Bardell
did not know that Julia's share always
adorned the parlor, while Dolly cries
over hers in her own room, and some
times pressed her rosy lips upon the
card of the donor.
Silly little Dolly
For she knew Mr. Bardell was falling
deeper and deeper in love with julia
Did he not fairly haunt the house Did
he not listen entranced when Julia
sung, even upsetting all the orderly ar
rangements of Dolly's worl-box in his
abstraction.
Was not the picnic on the Bardell
grounds, to which all the friends far and
near had been invited solely the result
of Julia's wish to see the place?
That picnicl
Somehow it impressed itself upon
Dolly's mind that Thomas Bardell was
| contemplating proposal on that June
day, when he was to play host to all the
| people of Rushtown
She could not have told why she
thought so, nor why she resolved to ask
"papa" for permission to visit her aunt
in New York a few weeks. " Just to
/ give them a chance to be alone" she
thought, and wondered what made her
heart throb so very painfully at the
/ idea.
She made Julia look like an exquisite
picture, by wreathing field daisies un-
der the rim of her chip hat, and fasten-
ing her soft white lace at the throat
with a bunch of the same flowers.
Then she dressed herself rather hasti-
ly, having curled her sisters hair, and
otherwise made Cinderella of herself.
She heard nothing of dismayed ex-
clamation in his fathers study of:
" But bless my soul, Bardell, I can't
spare here She is my right hand and
eyes She is housekeeper and compan-
ion and everything 1 thought it was
the other one you were"
And here the blundering, kind
hearted father stopped, hesitated, and
finally said;
Well-well, if she loves you, will
not say nay, though don't know what
L shall do when you take her away"
Then Thomas Bardell discovered that
il was fully time for him to go home
and receive his invited guests, and he
departed, not seeing the girls, and leav-
ing the doctor in dire dismay.
Dear me-dear me, t" he kept mutter-
ing; "why couldn't he have fallen in
love with the other one?n
When the Lawlor carryall, driven by
Cousin Tom, drove into the avenue of
Bardell Place, Thomas Bardell, stand
ing upon the porch to receive his guests,
thought his eyes had never rested upon
a lovelier vision than the daisy-wreathed
face of Julia Lawlor. The prettiest
pink tinge came to her cheeks as she ac-
cepted his help in leaving the carriage
and his arm to the house.
Dolly jumped out, anyhow, as Tom