South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-06-27
Romney Hampshire County, West Va June o. 1879


bic before nine o'clock but ever since
breakfast have been searching for those
deeds OF Johnson's. believe I've turn
ed out the contents OF every. drawer in
the house. but they are not to be found.
dave you seen them, Lottie?'
thought you gave them to mamma
to keep
Well, so I did. thought would
need them tho day after, but she can't
remember where she put them. In such
house as this nothing can ever be
found when wanted
Do you want me to look for them?'
Yes: try those desks in the par lor.
l may have overlooked the deeds. And,
Charlotte. copy these papers for me,
laying small package on the desk.
with pleasure, replied Charlotte, for
she was obliging rs we'll as amiable.
MT. Greyson turned to leave the room,
then glanced back. saying
You really are excessively careless
about your personal appearance, Char.
lotie. Now that you are to he married
shortly. you should correct your untidy
habits
% papa, said Charlotte, in an apolo.
ge'ic tone, this is only my morning
wrapper
We'll, it is a very much soiled one,
and you had better give it to the rag
man. believe you are naturally SLOW.
emily. Your grandmother and mother
are so too. and probably 1t will descend
to future generations. wish you had
some desire to emulate your Aunt Jane
in habits of neatness; the house might
then be less like pig-pen. Is MIR.
Dayton coming next week.
On the 23rd, father
This is only the 2Oth, believe
We'll, you have three days in which to
put the house in decent order. should
be ashamed to have him come into IL as
it is now
And MIR. Greyson left the room.
Charlotte resumed her writing at once.
AS her father had said. she was looking
very untidy. She had no Aunt Jane
near her to pin up her collar and add
little touches to her toilet. or TO give
good advice on the subject. So she
dressed after her own will, and was not
seen to advantage. She wore a very
old crimson wrapper OF woollen materi.
a., which had been washed so often as
to cause it TO fade considerably, and had
been worn so much since its last visit
10 the tub that it had grown very much
soiled; frayed ruffle, devoid OF starch.
hung Imply about the collar no cuffs
were at her wrists, no belt ct her wal st,
and the wrapper hung loosely; her hair
was gathered up at the back in n loose,
untidy coil, and comb, out Of which all
the teeth but one had been broken. stuck
into 1t. A pair Of slippers run down ut
the heel, and size too large, completed
her costume. No wonder her father,
accustomed as he was to seeing her SLOW
emily dress, was obliged to notice it OIL
this particular morning.
Just as the letter to Felix was finish
ed and sealed. little Carrie. the young
est Of the Greyson family, ran into the
room and threw book on the desk.
Mamma says for you to copy the re-
cipes you got Of Aunt Jane in that book.
1t is Miss Smiths. and she wants it this
afternoon; she says you promised to
bring her the recipes, and sue is in the
parlor now
well. l didn't bring them. so you
can take the book back to her. But
look, Carrie. SEQ what you have done
said Charlotte, as a black stream from
the overturned inkstand wendell it's way
down the inclined desk and poured up
on her wrapper.
Il didn't mean to- said Carrie, giving
n child's ever-ready excuse.
Il know that, and it's well it has all
gone on my wrapper, and thus saved the
carpet said Charlotte. sopping the ink
from the desk with the folds OF her gar.
ment.
Il think ! will run down stairs and
look for papa's deeds, and then I'll
come mp. mend my blue dress and put
IL on, and then have q good read until
can't put on that blue
dress until those gathers are sewed M.
do wish Aunt Jane was here. She
could mend while am hunting for the
deeds. But wishing won't bring her.
so the sooner | flnd the deeds and get
at the mending the BETTER murmu red
Charlotte, as Carrie having run TO play
in the hall, she stood before the fire dry.
ing the ink on her dress. So, with light
steps, and singing n snatch OF an old love
song, the young girl ran down into the
parlor, stopping once ON her way To- pick
up one Of the loose slippers which had
escaped from her foot.
Ransacking an old desk. the draw.
ers OF which were full of pamphlets and
newspapers, Charlotte found n book on
a subject in which she was very much in.
.erested. The deeds were at once for
gotten she threw herself into an easy
chair before the fire, and began TO read.
so deeply interested did she become in
her book that she was not aware how
.he time was passing. Both slippers
iropped from her feet, her hair fell down
pm her shoulders, the broken comb fall.
ne to the floor. Her stockinped feet
'ested on the fender large hole in the
.oe Of one, and still larger in the heel
u the other, being very conspicuous
she was unaware that the parlor door