Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-08

, Then followed some family news tina
Milly did not stop to read, but. jump
; ing up, threw her arms around Aun
Barbara's neck, md begged " Oh, pleas
, let me |" until the stern lips smiled an,
her aunt consented.
, Then for the next few weeks she wa
J in dream. The "gander" disappeared
from her thoughts, and every word shs
spoke was Of the coming winter.
October at last flew past, and one bleal
day in November Milly, fresh and rosy
in natty little travelling suit, arrived
in the crowded, bustling city of New
York.
A busy-looking gentleman met her al
the depot, who, after giving her cor
dial greeting, said he was "Uncle
Charles, and told her she must not Lei
her little head whirl on her heart to be
stolen by the giddiness of New York.
Then hustling her into carriage, he
gave the order "home" to the coach.
man and left her.
Milly was in bliss, and only when she
had been welcomed by her aunt, and had
reached the delicious little room as
signed to her, did she stop to think
where she was, and then realizing it all,
she threw off her wraps and whirled
round and round before the long dress
ng-glass in the merriest and most limo.
cent of dances. Milly's time flew she
never knew where, and after n few
weeks of shopping and all the delights
tending the rounds of dress-makers, hat
makers, boot-mskers, and every other
kind of makers, she was raised to the
seventh heaven by being informed by
her aunt that invitations had been issued
for her "coming-out party" as Milly
insisted upon calling it. Then a few
days more Milly stood in the long bril-.
liantly-lighted parlors bowing to herself
in the many mirrors around her.
"Milly, sweet, you are charming !"
exclaimed her aunt.
Then Miss Milly, regardless of state
ly puffs and rare old point, clasped her
around the neck.
"You dearest of all darling aunties, it
is all your fault ~
Then Strengthened herself instantly as
the first guests were announced.
That night Milly was in fairy-land,
herself the queen. Admirers crowded
around the little beauty till her head
was fairly in the whirl against which her
uncle had cautioned her.
Late in the evening she was standing
surrounded by merry crowd, herself
the gayest of the gay, when she glanced
toward the open door through which
some one was just being announced, and
whom she did not see? "That great
ugly gander" Her companions saw a
momentary flash in her eyes and a quick
blush suifused her cheek, but attributed |
it to some sly compliment, and all went
on as before.
Milly thought: 81 hope he won't come
near me! 1t will be very impolite if he
does not! But will teacl1 him lesson
if he does not !"
Notwithstanding her conjectures, DR..
Vanbourg did not come to her, only
bowed pleasantly, gravely, and Milly
thinks queerly, as he passed her. But,
all! Milly did not know that the blue
eyes watched her every move and ges-
ture
After the last guest had departed,
Milly went to her room, and, sitting
down before the looking glass, she solilo-
quized;
"He need not think am baby, to
be made fun Of and laughed at. 1 am
just as good as he, and a-a-a good deal
beter-looking."
Then she blushed and hid her face in
her hands as she thought of what haud-
some Charley Landseer said to her that
evening; then she looked, up and con-
tinued:
81 just bate him-that's what do
md he shall see it, too"
And then she saw the tears coming,
md she hurried her preparations and got
INTO bed to dream that Charley Landseer
was talking to her, with an ugly, false
ace on, with big blue eyes that laughed
1t her and made her cry.
Milly's winter was a grand success.
Hearts and fortunes We're laid at her
eet, but Milly's heart was still puzzle
% herself and others. "She did try to '
all in love with all her might, but some. {
low she could not fall"
DR.. Vanbourg she saw but seldom,
md then always at q distance, and only
ong enough to see the smile in the blue
yes, and to scowl and bow coldly in re- !,
urn, and then go home and vow she
'hated him." she hoped she "never {
would see him again." and then would
ny to think of it.
And so the winter passed, and Milly
vent home, with queer feeling of re-
'ret and relief, and life at the farm
louse went ON the same as usual. t
No-not exactly the same, for Milly
lad changed. What was it She
aughed and chatted as much as ever, a
tut she did not sing her fresh little songs s
r climb her much loved trees so much
s formerly, and cute little air of Dig
ity was creeping over her. Aunt Bar
ara noticed it, but "was glad Millicent q
7as settling down as she did at twenty" b
But Milly in reality was not quite Il
Apply. She did not know exactly why, II
hough she did try to find out. Once in A
while she thought of DR.. Vanbourg, o
nd when she did, her cheeks would h
urn, and she would get so mad. o
"The big ugly thing." she would
hink, and then ''there swims no goose"
'ould fash into her mind. Then she
'ould droop the corners of her pretty p
louth, and dolefully think that her o
ander must have been cooked for the N
lst New Years dinner. But how she &c
id wish she had never seen that horrid al
Id doctor, and had said "yes !" instead d