Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-03-30

tionate sisters heart, and often had
his praise been sounded in the ears Of
Kate and Florence, who, consequent
ly felt no little cpuri ,si;y reSpectin,
this paragon Of traternnl excellence,
and were quite pleased when inform
ed by Annie OF his expected attend
ance at the approaching festival.
Indeed, according to Il fashion quite
popular among school girls, lie had
been given to Kate, and many were
the messages exchanged between them
through the medium of Anni4's letters,
so that his name became quite u
familiar word with her, and any
thing especially pleas NJ was I'M
mcdia.cly pronounced to be Jimmy"
whicH she said, was the only slang
expression among the many current
at boarding school. she thought he
coming to young lady. Consequent
", when .icrccrivcl the informrtion
| til;lb 'iI. Diillilllt .'lllllOl WIS III
and would most probably, BE- pre-
scntcd OH the morrow, her coura &c
sank nearly to zero, it never did
quite get there, as sclt-posss ,sinn WAS
trait she great V a'lmire'l and culti
waited; however, she tclt considerable
misgivings rs his traits and capahili-
ties of repression were unknown,
nevertheless, if there was any sacri-
flee of dignity or furmality, she re-
solved it would not proceed from her.
Florence anticipated a great deal of
fun over the introduction and was
positively chagrincd when the first
attempt failed Annie met her
brother at the entrance. Kate was
Immediately pointed out and an in
PRODUCTION sought. She was standing
in Il group talking when he approach
ed with his sister and spoke to Flor
ence, who had pnsse the pr, lmi-
narles necessary to All acquaintance
already. So soon as she heard their
voices, Kate turned away, but moving
too hastily, her parasol came i'll con
tact with somebody's arm, and fell
from her hands. Very politely, Mr..
Minor sprang forward and restored
; i, and received "a .Hsry ipnli.e!.
! spoken thank you" in return from
Miss RAYMOND, who hurlic,lly moved
of, disrcgarling the call of Annie,
and dragging the unwilling Florencc
with her, who, so So.n as th'y were
unheald by the others. inquired VIII at
her companion meant by such con-
duct so contradictory to what might
have been expecte and received the
reply with which this cpisol. is com
menccd. Whc, their conversation
was suddenly brou.h to !, pause by
The ejaculation from, Kate, the latter
found herself lace To face with the
smiling young gentleman, and was
din'y conscious of bUw;ng>H Il dnzcd 4,
confused manner a. he WAS formally
presented, AMI ti, Ne { moment be-
ncld her g!ovcd iin.cr> in c'ose
proximity 10 Il broad cloth sleeve,
(sne WAS not to- excited to tD.r cog
nZ;.ncc of tllut, she afterwards. lsSS err
ted), and herself listening to low
voice that Was sayirH how often its
owner had heard Of her through his
sister, and how anx us he WAS TO
meet one in whose praise so much
had hccn spoken. She maintained
her part Of the conversation very
crcditable, though afterwards she dl
not remember whether he liked
promcnading or screna,lin, best Dur-
ing his stay in NJ, he called
several times, and was really a very
pleasant and entertaining convcrsa-
tonalist, she said when Florence ask
ed her opinion OF him, but no more
messages were exchanged. Indeed,
no one would have dreamed that two
such dignilicl and cminently proper
persons had ever boen guilty Of such
nonsense-they never had said a word
about each otller before, Of course not.
"Thc world rolls ever round and round,
And time rolls ever by,
so by its inevitable mutations, our