Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-31
A WUMAN'S CAPKICES.
A LOVE STORY.

Men are never so awkward, never so
ungraceful, never so disagreeable as
when they are making love- A friend
is luxry, husband ditto, | suppose;
but that intermittent class of human
beings denominated lover are terrible
bores. Il does very well for women to
blush and look hustered now and then.
when occasions make it desirable, but
to see man with his face as red as
pipe cherry, and real parcel of strong
dignity, done up in broadcloth and
starched linen: quaking fom the top
of his shirt collar, his mouth dry, and
his tongue twisted into commissions in the
vain attempt to say something sweet
. gracious
So said saucy Sophie Lynn aloud to
herselfas she.sat swinging backward and
forward before the window, half buried
IN the cushions of a luxuriant arm
chair, and playing with delicate ivory
fan which lay upon her lap.
1t also seems so strange, not to say
tiresome," she continued. with run
ming, musical laugh, latter one has
waltzed and sung. quoted poetry, and
talked nonsense with anybody till one
is puzzled to know which one of the two
is most heartless, ones selfor ones COM
panion, to hear him come plump down
on the subject of matrim ony as though
that was the legitimate result of every
insipid acquaintance! For my part
never had d lover (nere Sophie f1uttered
her fan and looked pleased, for she had
more than one) that. [ wasn't sick of
after he proposed. There was Captain
Morris-I thought him the handsomest
man in the whole circle of my &C
quaintance, until be went on his knees
to me and swore he should die if [
didn't take pity on him. Somehow he
always looked like a fright to me after
ward. Then there was DR.. Wilkins, he
really agreeable, and people said very
learned! | was delighted with him for
time; but he spoiled it all with that
offer of his-what long winded adjec-
tives! and how the poor fellow blushed,
pulled and perspired! He called me an
admirable creature and hiccoughed in
the middle of admirablep Horrors!
| have hated him ever since. Then
there was" Zen
Here Sophie started. She heard the
door-bell ring. With a nervous spring
she stood before her mirror, smoothing
down her brown hair with a haste truly
comical.
1t won't do to seem interested" she
said, at she took finishing survey of
her person in the glass, and shook out,
with her plamp jeweled fingers, the
folds of her airy muslin dress.
The moment afterWard. when a SER
want entered to announce Mr.. Harry
Ainslee, she was back in her old seat
by the window, rocking and playing
with her fan, apparently as unconcerned
and listless as though that name had not
sent quicker thrill to her heart, or
fhe betraying crimson all over her pref
ty face.
Sell him will be down presently"
she said.
The girl disappeared, and Sophie
flung open the window, that the cool,
fresh air might fan away the extra rosi-
ness from her complexion. Then she
went again to the mirror, and after
composing her bright, eager happy face
INTO an expression of occurrences to
the parlor. A smile broke over her
features, and she reached out both
ndil0S " tllS SuCSe, Ottt, DIS II suddenly
recollecting herself she drew them back
again, and with formal bow of recog-
milton she passed him and seated her
self in a further corner of the room.
1t was veryevlden that som ething was
wrong with Sophie; that she had made
up her mind either not to bepleased or
not to please. Could it be that She had
foreseen what was coming ?-thate a
present. ment' of that visit, and its result
had dictated the merry speeches in her
chamber? BE that as it may, a half
hour had not elapsed before Harry
Ainslee's hand and fortune (which lat
ter, by the way, was nothing wonderfully
were IN the same place where Capt.
Morris and DR.. Wilkins had been be-
fore them. rHa:E #a1 at
"The first M an that [ ever heard saw
such things without making fool OF