Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-23

The brush was handed up, Dolly not
daring to take her eyes from level,
already feeling her head spinning with
giddiness.
1--WE can't be grand, of course, and
the house will look mean enough after
Bardell Place, but we can be clean,"
she continued, scrubbing vigorously at
the paint. .'And you know, Tom, that
he is sure to fall in love with Julia, and
it is such splendid chance for her,
poor dear. She does so hate our econo-
mics. She has gone over now to Mrs.
Simpsons to finish her blue muslin, and
she can't help clean because it will spoil
her hands, and they are so pretty. Julia
is lovely in blue, because her skin is SO
fair. if her hair and eyes are black. She
will be just perfect when she is rich,
Tom. l hope she will have him, and
papa and / can jog along forever. We
don't mind cheap things as poor Julia
does. There That paint can't be whit
er. I'm coming down, and you can
move the ladder over to the other win
dow for me, Tom."
But cautiously descending the ladder,
Dolly only caught a feeting glimpse of
tall figure going out at the garden
gate.
"Well," she said, tugging at the
heavy ladder, .'he might at least have
waited to say good morning"
Then, being the sweetest-tempered of
women, though merely passably pretty
girl, Dolly assembled the ladder again,
and soon forgot Toms rudeness in the
absorbing duties she had undertaken.
In the meantime, Mr.. Thomas Bar
dell, shaking with laughter, wended his
way homeward, inwardly determining
her equilibrium.
"For that must have been Miss Dolly,
with the natty little boots and pink CAL
leo dress. She had lovely brown hair,
though l could not see her face"
The next call made by the heir of the
Bardwell Place found the parlor shining
with cleanliness. Miss julia Lawlor, a
really beautiful girl. arrayed in the blue
muslin. knitting. The blue muslin was
the result of Thomas Bardell's apparent.
ly careless intimation to busy DR.. Law
lor that he intended to "drop i'm that
evening. For a wonder he remembered
the fact. and the "Lawlor girls" were
arrayed to receive their guest.
Dolly, in half an hour, decided that
she liked the newcomer very much in
deed, and that he would make a very
good brother when be fell in love with
Julia and married her, as of course it
was his manifest duty to 90.
"For Julia really is lovely" thought
unse6sh little Dolly, "and when he hears
her sing he must lose his heart"
Apparently the singing was as power
ful magnet as Dolly supposed it would
be, for scarcely day or evening passed
that Mr.. Bardell did not drop in. Tom
Lawlor, the doctors nephew and student,
declared Bardell to be first-rate fellow,
and was always bringing him to tea.
Then the garden of the Bardell Place,
as summer came on, offered most tempt.
ing opportunities for the presentation Of
bouquets to the fair ladies at DIR. Law
lor's.
To be sure, Thomas Bardell did hoi
know that Julia's share always adorned
the parlor, while Dolly cried over hers
in her own room, and sometimes pressed
her rosy lips upon the card of the donor
Sly little Dollyl
For she knew Mr.. Bardell was falling
deeper and deeper in love with Julia
Did he not fairly haunt the house -? Die
he not listen entranced when Julia sung
even upsetting all the orderly arrange
ment of Dolly's work-box in his abstrac
ton?
Was not the picnic on the Bardel
grounds, to which all the friends ia
and near had been invited, solely tn
result of Julia's wish to see the place
That picnic
Somehow it impressed itself on Dolly
mind that Thomas Bardell was contem
plating proposal on that June day
when be was to play host to all the pee
pie in Rushton.
She could not have told why she re
solved to ask ''papa" for permission t
visit her aunt in New York for fe,
weeks. "Just to give them a chanc
to be alone, she thought, and Wondere
what made her heart throb so very pain
, fully at the idea.
She made Julia look like an exquisit
picture, by wreathing field dairies unde
the rim of her chip hat, and fastenin
, her soft white lace at the throat with
bunch of the same flowers.
Then she dressed herself rather hast
!. ly. having curled her sisters hair, an
b and otherwise making a Cinderella
r herself.
< She heard nothing of dismayed e.
| clamation in her fathers study off,
"But bless my soul, Bardell, | car
j. snare her She is nv richt hand al