The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-06

you spoke oil. and feared 10 try his fate, done
seq non you conld have got the idea that Ray
mono nsa proposed TO me from anything that L
haa ever soio you, for Eve always been as careful
not to reveal any such little secrets M have NOT
70 consider that gentlemen ever yna1nk nn1,-
m,ng until he really proposed. Anything bst
thls unaisgnlsed seeking for attention which
some girls display II makes me blush Tor
| them "'"en ~.
Now. OF course, / oonldn't say anything AGAINST
KITTY Olaxton for oil the world, bat she made
mamma anna. and me fairly ashamed to have her act
| lighted when 1 discovered that 10 liked Frank
seabury Tor thought 1t served Kitty lust right.
1t was only the &c punishment FOR such nm
womanllness but it cut her up awfuEly when she
| found IT out. Bhs hardly spoke word to any
one after it until that picnic when Frank Hendlev
rescued her from the water, and then she was
ready to make up TO bin with all the sweetness
sne had lavished on Raymond. How q girl can
transfer her affections in that way. ca,'t ace.
but, then, Kitty always was art.
think she 10 SO foolish to be married in white
SATIN It's very trying to any but the most DELI
cate complications. It's odd. that WIS should all
three FIX on the same material
Do persuade Marion out OF having Frank Sea-
bury Tor bridesmaid, ii You can. Shes q little
dowdy not particle of style about her. and
never viii have, and know whom it conaes 10 the
last minnie all you girls will be dreadfully
ashamed Of her. The least thing shown 40 At
wedding. We have taken pains 30 see 20 everv
thing, even the minatest details.
y an 80 cory that you can't be here to attend
I'LL n ssn. Dut OF course IL you promised the
disappoint them, WV ~" """'"s
lWlsh yoa could SEQ my engagement r;uoa
lo1ely thlng, eight diamonds in the cluster ana
large one in the centre. Have 7ou seen tbst
cluster at Ilhanys that every ons admires soS,
Wel' It's great deal hsndsomer than that and
much more expensive. Edgar had it made ar
presEly for the occasion from q new design 81, .tat
there are no Others like IT, "e
we are to have walters and oooksr from Del.
moneo's come down to prepare the rsfreshments
so thes Know That everything will DO rsohereha
It's such q comfort to know that everything will
60 OIL Just right without your worrying abont IL.
Then. too, my trousseau, which is ordered diraot
rom Paris, will be done without any tronble nm
my part; the only thing lie to foot the bill. ana
papa is used 10 that already. ~
now Apity Kitty and Marion who are running
hlther and thither TO do their shoppipy and sas
TO their dress making. while 1, with ali my work
done Tor me, am having such delightful times
with Edgar / Such lovely rides as we have after
his BLACK horse behm Such delicious EVENING"
IN the parlor singing together, and If, every
olner amusement 10 exhausted we can. always
talk. really think he 10 born poet. and N
circumstances 9ad only conspired az thew
do over some people, that the whole world Womb
nave acknowledged it. He certainly has said
more sweet things to me just to-day than that
Raymond did during all the time he stayed here:
often tell Edgar that ii he would only print ali the
pretty things he says, he would be renowned
from Maine TO Georgia; but be says his greatest
honor is to lay them at nay feet. Isn't thst inst
as sweet as IL can bel
Well, Belle. hope some day you will be 40 hap
py as am Give my love to the girls, and say I
hope we shall meet in Paris. Probably this ia the
last time shall write to You and bear my present
name, but believe nae, shall always be as trne =
friend to you as I was when