The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-01-05


am Yet what price to pay for learn
ing the value oftrue friendship!" added
Laura, with deep sigh.
81 met Aggie Doyle to-day, and she
wouldn's speak to me, said Alice,
Laura's sister, who had come into the
room and overheard the last remark
"Why shouldn tshe speak to me, Won
der"
'"Because your sister is a clerk in her
fathers store" said Laura, somewhat
bitterly.
"That's no reason why she should
treat me so,' the child replied.
"Of course it is not; nor is it any
reason why Lizzie, her eldest sister,
should utterly ignore me. l always lik-
ed her so much, too. But to-day she
came into the store and passed me with
such a sweeping glance, after | had pre-
pared smile and welcome for her
MIR. Doyle has been so kind since papa's
death that looked for better treatment
from Lizzie. That, l confess, has
wounded me and shall have to meet
her so often But never mind, must
remember my place. she added, rather
bitterly. 81 have to work for my living
now-but l will be proud of it Good
by, old life of lazy case Good-by, old
worthless friends! Your coldness can
not hurt the real me; it is only the
worthless young lady of fashion who feels
it, and she is slowly departing this life. "
So saying, she sat down gaily to the
tea-table, and soon forgot all about the
toll and the sights of the day.
"Have you filled out all your invita-
tions - asked Lizzie's eldest brother,
one of the firm of Doyle & Co., some
days after the preceding conversation
took place.
Lizzie was arranging a hundred ormore
tiny cream-Colored envelopes, which she
tied together with some pretty, bright
hued ribbon.
81 believe So" she replied, with
smile. 81 have asked every young lady
acquaintance, and l think our party will
be the finest of the season, if papa will
only have the carpet taken upin the west
rooms and the floor chalked. Rutger will
do them for fifty dollars, and you have
no idea how beautifully he works.
81 think father will not refuse you
that, ;" her brother replied. '1'll speak
to him about it. -
"Oh, thank you, Al. Then I'm sure
he will have it done. l have asked him
for so many things that | was almost
afraid to ask for more
"By-the-by, have you invited Miss
Laura Stanley?" her brother asked, as
he was going out.
"Of course not +" said Lizzie, with
assured emphasis.
F'Ofcoursenot And pray, why not ?"
he asked, standing still.
'Why, Al, what an ideal She wouldn't
expect it. Our shop-girl-father's clerk
l wouldn't have her for the world !"
"Then, if you are sure she wouldn't
come, you might have sent her an invi-
tation out of compliment" her brother
replied.
~ don't consider her an acquain-
tance," said Lizzie, loftily; and Al
walked out of the room with an abrupt
shrug of the shoulders.
Presently her father came in.
"Lizzie," he said, particularly wish
you to send a note of invitation to Miss
Laura Stanley"
"Papa, you don'tmean it - exclaim-
ed Lizzie, chagrined.
| ''Indeed, do mean it. What slight
the daughter of one of my most cherish
: ed friends, because she has come down
in the world in a money point of view ?
l should despise myself for :"
/, '"But, papa, she won't come, said
n Lizzie.
= "Never mind whether she will come
:. or not. Write an invitation. l will
y take it to her.
e Lizzie sat down, pale and angry, to
o write the note. After all her boasting
d of having ''cut the Stanleys," it was
n very hard to be obliged to invite Laura.
Her cheeks grew hot, as she indited the
|, polite little missive, while she remem-
n bered the many times she had openly
0 ignored her to whom it was addressed.
n She would have diSobeyed had she dared
/ would even have withheld the note
after it was written, had her father not
d stood by to take it himself. 1t was in
6 deed humiliating.
o Later, her brother Al came to her.
81 should like an invitation, Lizzie
d for a young lady of my acquaintance,
: he said, in a quiet voice.
}, ''Who is she p
'The young lady whom l have asked
q to be my wife, he said, smiling.
. ooh, Al, of course you shall have it
> | am to have a sister, then? I'm 81
glad What is her name? Is she il
= the city ? VIII she be sure to come? Tn
=" sure l can't think of anybody" AnC
;, then she paused, puzzled at his shrewc
Is smile.
| "Do | know her?" she asked.
y "FYou used to, " he answered. ''It /
! Miss Laura Stanley -
" ooh, All"
- She sank down, covering her face witt
her hands.
> 81 was afraid she might feel the sligh
- so keenly," he said, softly, "that hun
y ried matters a little. So you need no
be afraid now that she will not come
: Will you not prepare an invitation ?"
- 81 have. Papa has carried it to her
> But oh, Al, clerk !"
re ga noble woman," said her brother
" "who dares face the sneers of her set
k and take an honest position for the SAX
v. of those who are dependent upon hel
id rather than whine about her former dig
h, nifty, and live upon charity. l wis
i there were more like her"
re So Lizzie was forced, for once in he
life, to eat humble pie.
e, RG=A farmer the other day wrote
M | q New VOrk merchant aSkino how tb