The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-30
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AN EVERY mar INCIDENT.

AN EVERY DAY INCIDENT.
~ suppose must call. Eleven o'clock.
The old gentlemen said ! was not TO
stand upon ceremony, 30 Til run down
to.day. IL il 5ismAlly lonesome here,
and Somebody said the Lawlor girls
were the bellies OF the place. Who was
ii told me that Julia Lawlor was tho
belle Of Rushtown, and that Dolly was
the incest little thing Ia the world2 I'll
no down and prove the assertion.
All this Ia soliloquy. as Mr.. Thomas
dress, drew on bis lavender kids. put on
his glossiest silk hat over his crop OF
curling hair, and surveying his hand
come, faultlessly Httired self In the long
mirror, sailed forth.
Rushtown was q collection OF country
seats, q mile from populous borough.
and the Bardell place was one OF the
most stately OF the many superb houses
OF which IL was composed. Thomas
Bardell. my hero, was the nephew Of
the late owner or the Bardell Place, and
upon the death OF that gentleman had
inherited his entire property, greatly TO
his own amusement, Mr.. Julius Bardell,
deceased, having quarreled with every
relation he had In the world. and an
nounced his intention of leaving every
dollar to a charity.
That he did not, but relenting, made
will in his nephew's favor, brought
Mr.. Thomas Bardell from college in
Germany. where he was finishing his
education, to Rushtown.
He was twenty four, an orphan.
handsome and talented, and had some
private fortune before his uhole's
death. That he was unspoiled. modest,
and one who held oil women as little
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ted TO the fact that he had mother who
was true Christian lady, who loved him,
and whose death, when he had just at
tained manhood. was the heaviest sor.
row OF his life.
Rushtown was an unexplored country
10 my hero, but DR.. Lawlor being the
only physician In the place, his resi-.
denee was easily found.
The hall door stood open, the parlor
door also was stretched invitibglv wide,
and after vainly waiting for his ring to
be answered, Mr.. Bardell stepped inside
the vestibule.
A voice. high above his head and in
the parlor, called
Tom, is that you 2"
The speaker. Dolly Lawlor, whose
name. be 1t here recorded, was Mabel,
but who had been called Dolly from her
cradle, being at the top of high step
ladder, scrubbing the paint over @
French window, heard voice say
1T 10 Tom, certainly"
Hand me my soap, that's d good
fellow" said Dolly, from the lofty
perch where che was seated, facing the
back windows, you know / am afraid
TO look down or turn around on the lad
der. ! am 50 sure to get giddy.'
Where is the soap ?" came In o voice
mutfled by laughing.
"Olose down by the ladder, where it
has just dropped, Don't dare to laugh
Ut me. cir, for l am In the depths OF
affliotion. Papa has invited the heir to
that splendid Bardell Place TO drop Ia
without ceremony. Did you ever, and
we just In the middle OF spring clean.
ingP SO left Jane to finish up stairs.
and came down myself to make the par
lor decent. There goes my brush Hand
1t up: that's DEAF"
The brush was handed up. Dolly not
daring to take her eyes from d level. al
ready feeling her head spinning with
giddiness.
1--WE cant be grand, of course. and
the house will look mean enough after
Bardell Place, but we can be clean"
she continued, scrubbing vigorously nj
the paint. And you know, Tom, he is
sure to fall In love with Julia, and 1t is
such q splendid chance for her, poor
dear, She does 30 hate our economies,
she has gone over now to Mrs, Simp-
son g to finish her blue muslin, and che
can't help clean, because Ii will spoil
her hands, and they are so pretty. Julia
is lovely In blue, because her skin is 80
fair. II her hair and eyes are dark. She
will just be perfect when she is rich,
Tom. hope she will have him, and
papa and ! can jog along forever. We
don Y mind cheap things as poor Julia
does. Therel That paint can't be
whittier. I'm coming down, and you can
move the ladder over to the other win
dow for me, Tom,
But cautiously descending the ladder
Dolly only caught u fleeting glimpse Of
q tall figure out at the garden gate.
WE'LL" che said. Juggling at the
heavy ladder, 81 Tom was In such a
hurry that he could not move the lad
der. he might at least have waited to
say good morning."
Then. being the sweetest tempered of
women. though merely passably
pretty girl, Dolly assembled the ladder
again. and soon forgot Toms rudeness
In the absorbing duties she had under.
taken,
La the meantime, Mr.. Thomas Bar
dell, shaking with laughter, wendell his
way homeward. inwardly determining
to make his next call at DR.. Lawlor's
when Miss Dolly was less engrossed In
the task OF cleaning paint and the diff
Guilty OF maintaining her equilibrium.
For that must have been Miss Dol
ly. with the natty little boots, and pink
calico 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 the parlor shin
ing with cleanliness, Miss Julia Lawlor,
Q really beautiful girl, arrayed in the
blue muslins at the piano, and Dolly,
also In blue muslin. knitting. The APP
pearance Of the blue muslins was the
result Of Thomas Bardell's apparently
careless intimation to busy DR.. Lawor
that be intened to drop in" that even
Ing. For wonder the doctor remem-
bered the fact and the 'Lawlor girls"
were arrayed to receive their guest.