Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-06-19
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= Asked TiIlv ?"

Asked Tilly?"
Yes, actually heard him myself
Did YOU ever!
Miss Rosie Green. for nm answer
looked unutterable things. Miss Posie
Green took of her sundown and famed
herself vigorously with il. She looked
warm; her face was flushed with feeling
no less than with the weather. She and
her sister were no longer as youthful rs
their names suggested. Moreover. irri-
tation brings out the lines and wrinkles
of a face, and II is unqucstionably irri-
tating to be passed over for n slip Of a
thing with doll-baby face, not ones
own flesh and blood mt that.
It's all pas fault, Miss Rosie pur
sued, presently. He does spoil that
girl so abOminably. There will he no
enduring her presently
II shouldn't BE- one bit surprised if Mr..
Leonard makes 80 much of her just To
please pa. Men are such timc-scrvers.
OF course it's TO his interest to keep In
pas good books
There they go nowr' cried Miss
Rosie in an excited whisper, flying to the
window, and pccping through crack in
the shutter.
For goodness sake. don't give her
the satisfaction Of seeing you look ut
her
Il don't care whether she sees me or
not--not rush. That old pink calico
on. do think she might have had the
decency TO make herself look rcspecta-
bic. riding out with pas young man"
PAS young man! What n way to
put itrg
"Well, isn't he, for the present? He's
reading medicine in pas office, I'm sure.
and he takes the messages that are left,
and tells pa afterward. For my part,
think he is bound 10 be civil to pas
daughters"
Well, he is being civil to one of them"
Yes. That's the worst of the way
pa treats Tilly. It's real unjust to us.
Hateful little piece!'
A case of cruel stcp-sisters. YOU are
thinking. However, there was no tie
either of blood or of marriage in this in
stance. DR.. Green had adopted Tilly,
brought her with him when he moved
to Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She
was mere baby then, and his wife was
still living. and cared for the child like
her own. She was a mothcrly soul. and
loved babies Her own girls had left
infancy half score of years behind
them. Since her death life had not been
10 smooth for Tilly. Perhaps the Green
girls would have been kind TO another
person i'm the same situation, but they
certainly made life burden to their lit
tie adopted sister There Is no account
ing for likes and dislikes. 1t did not
prove Tilly morally deficient because
she aroused the worst feelings in Rosie's
and Posie's natures. II Is an unpleasant
mystery why certain antagonistic ma
sures should be subjected to certain ex-
whom IL sets wild To feel the down of the
oeach. Others bite through the skin
With unalloyed enjoyment.
MIR. Leonard-he hoped tn be DIR.
Leonard this time next year-drove
fast horse before n shining new buggy.
IL was bright day, and he had pretty
girl beside him. His spirits rose to the
level of the occasion. lilly and he
laughed and talked in n way that would
have driven Miss Posic frantic. Ispecify
Miss Posie, because her sister had ac-
quired two or three years additional
resignation in which TO bear the ills Of
spinsterhood; wall-howering had be-
come almost second nature. But Tilly
laughed on regardless. She was happy.
John Leonard was the handsomest, best
hammered. the best-drcssed young man
she had ever nown, and he had singled
her out his especial favor. She was
willing to believe anything of an auspi-
eious fate.
John Leonard compared her mean
while to a wild rose, her bloom was so
exquisite, her whole effect so dainty.
Her large dark eyes were wonderfully
bright and shining. | am afraid she
was quite unaware how much they
ayowed rs she raised them to- Johns
face now aEd again. Prudence should
have kept them averted.
.'I burned my finger to-day" she
said, displaying 1t, taking the baked
eustard out of the oven"
"Why. the poor little Rngeri And
such bad stuff as custard Is, after aIl.r