Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-22
PRETTY MRS. OGILvlE.

there is no doubt about that. The frs,
time she appears ia church wich crisr
mauve muslius floating about her and ,
dainty mauYe erection On her head
which presumably she calls 8 bonnet.
know at once how il viii he. And o
course the other sex will range them
selves on her side to a man; that is slsr
beyond question, A. she rises from her
knees and takes her little lavender
gloveG hands from her face and look.
about her for moment, with a sweet sIg
glance, she is simply bewitching; and !
doubt if any male creature in our musty
Iittln church pays proper attention to
the responses for ten minutes afterward
A new face ls great rarity with us. and
such new ace one might not see more
than once in decade, 30 let us hone we
may be forgiven
Az I gaze at the delicate profile before
me, the coils Of golden hair, the complex.
ion like the inside Of a sea she'll, :he
slender milk.whi,e throat and the long
dark eyciashes, which droop lagd,.llv
over the glorious gray eye-, shall | own
that | steal glance OF disaDurovaI at
Mary Anne-my Mary Anne, the partner
Of my joys and sorrows tor twenty wears
and the mother OF my six clsIIran?
Mary Anue's figure is somewhat over.
blown, her hair is tinged with gray.
and the complexion of her good hu.
mo!ed face is slightly rusicund. Bu.
she has been q good vile to me, and I
feel, with twin, e OF comDunc.i0n, that
llaye 10 right to be critical, a3 | tLiuE
Of 4 shining spot aa the top Of nay head
and OF q little box | received from th.
dentist only month ago, carefully re,
cured from observation. But ~ we
emerge from church l draw myself up
and try to look my best a. we pass the
trailing native robes Jack, one of our
six, stumbcs over the train. which
gives me an opportunity OF raising nv
hat and apologizing for the braGs awk>
wsrdness, and | am rewarded with
sweet smile and an upward glance out Of
the great gray eyes which Is simply iu
toXicatiUg.
"We must call on Mrs. Ogilvie at
once, | observe to Mary Anne AZ we
proceed across the fields on our home
ward walE 1T ia my duty as her
landlord TO find out ifshe il comfortable.
She is lady-like person." I continue,
tOrbearing to allude to
the obvious beauty; and | dare saw.
my dear, you will find her an agreeable
Lady-likep cries my wife, with =
ring of indignation in her voice. al
don't call it lady-like to come to a quiet
country church dressed as If she were ca.
ing to flower-show. Besides, she is
painted. A color ike that can't be
natural. But You men are all alike--
always taken with little outside show
and glitter"
But, my dear" | demonstrate, "per
haps she did not know how very coun,
trifed and bucoic our congregation i.
really do think it will be very unneigh.
borly if we don't call, 1t must be very
1ull for her to know no one" | ignore I.
,he remark about the paint, but in nv
leart | give the assertion an emphatic
Mrs. Ogilvie has rented small cot. |
age which ! own in the west country
village in which am the principal doc,
or She is the wife OF a naval officer
who is away in our Flying Squadron |
md has settled in our sleepy little ham,
ct to live quietly during his absence |
All her references have been quite IN |
xceptionabIe, and, indeed she issighlly .
Inown to our Squire, as il also her a6. .
ent husband. "A splendid fellow he
s." M. billions tells me; "stands six
eet in his stockings ana is as handsome
$ Apollo; indeed, | don's believe that
or good looks you could find such an.
ther couple in England"
The following day Mary Anne, with
mt little persuasion, agrees to accom-.
ANY me TO the cottage to call on Mrs |
)gilvie. The deor is opened bv a neat
naid servant. She is at home, and we
re issued into the drawing.room, which
re almost fail to recognize, SO changed
! it.
Presently Mrs, 0gilvie comes in, look.
ng, ii possible, even lovelier than she
id the day before. She is in simple
1hite dress, with here and there knot
f blue ribbon about it; and she has A
it of blue also in her golden hair. Her
lanuer is as charming rs her looks. and
8 she thanks my wife with pleasant, cor.
ial words for being the first Of her
eighbors to take compassion on her
,neliness, can seq that my Mary Anne.
hose heart is as large as her figure
asely deserts the female faction and
oes over to the enemy. Mrs Ovi)yie j.
cry young, still quite girl, though
le has been married three wears she tells ,
le.
at is dreadful Frank should have To
} away" she says, and the tears well
p III her large gray eyes "that is the
Orst of the service. See; here is his
lifting a case from the
Ible and handing tito Mary Anne. "Is
g not handsomeT
"He is most undeniably so, If the like :
ess speaks true, and we both say 80 :" :
larry Anne, with the privilege Of her
x and age, adding a word as to the /
sauty of the pair v
40, yes" replies Mrs. Ogilvie without a
10 smallest enhancement; 1--WE ara y
ways called the handsome couple"
l suppose something of my astonish. d
Ient expressed itselfin my couutenance, 4