Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-10-07
OUR B0ARDER.

to stay it was well understood that If
we were to her liking she was to re-
main with US for the rest of her days.
And as we thought that the payment OF
her board would be quite an item in our
little housekeeping, we were resolved
that, of course, we would be to her lik-
ing. Moreover, Miss Dehone was
distant-indeed, a very distant-connec-
ton; mammals great-aunt's second cou-
sin by marriage. or something of the
sort. And distant as that was, we were
the nearest and only connection she had
in the world, so that am ashamed to
acknowledge that we were so poor as
to be Obliged to encourage "a mercenary
thought in the matter-so that we might
possibly come in for something by her
will, if she decided not to leave all and
everything to the Society for tie Pre-
svention of Cruelty to Cats, as she had
once formally declared her intention
to be.
Sarah did not look on the innovation
favorably. Sarah was our beauty of
beauties-I wish you could have seen
= her in those days-dark and tall and
straight as an Arab, with such a carna-
tion on her olive cheek, and such blue
black hair, and eyes like midnight and
stars, just as different from Emma as
dark from dawn; for En- was all fair and
rosy and dimpled and yellow-haired.
while Kate was gray-eyed, black dashed
and pale. AS for me, / was always a
little dud; but / was mighty useful.
AWell, Sarah said she had rather 60
without everything forever than intro
duce a stranger -and such stranger
among US, and En- seconded her. En-
didn't say it, but she was pretty sure it
would interfere with her beaux to have
an old lady always sitting round, with
her blanket-shawls and foot-stoves and
big tabby cats on each side of her, to be
waited on every minute or two, or else
to give you q heartless appearance; and
it was well known that Miss Dehone had
the greatest contempt for the young
men of to day, who had deteriorated so
sadly since her time. But Kate and /
persuaded mamma to our side, and that
was majority, and Miss Dehone came.
And she was an old woman, with
blanket-shawls, and soap-stones, and
rubber bags of hot water, and terrible
attacks of collie, and lap-dog, and
parrot, and a pair of canaries, and a fam
lily of Persian cats; and for the rest, the
most inquisitive little body, with her
sharp black eyes peering from all her
wraps and caps and strings and things
like mouse from bundle of rags. And
to Sarah's CONSERVATION, she singled her
out for the royal favor at once. ''You
have the Dehone eye, my love-" she said,
with a series of queer little mods; 81
looked just like you at your agen And
Sarah said afterward, with asperity.
that if she was going to look lust like
her at her age, she wished she might die
nowi
"Just think how horrid 1t will be
when Arnold comes" said Sarah to me.
There she is perched with her pets in
the corner, and there she always will be
with those dreadful eyes of hers, too.
Dehone eyes, indeed! And she will be
asking all sorts of hateful questions
she'll be asking him his intentions, for
all / know"
Asking Arnold Parnell his ir rtentions!
Sarah guessed that mamma had been on
the point of it any time this twelve
month; for mamma held her husbands
girls to be a serious responsibility, and
here had Arnold been, as she would have
said if she had put it into words, in the
way of Sarah's making an eligible settle
ment all this year and more. Mamma
is cheeky-I beg her dear old naughty
pardon, she calls it her habit of selfre-
spect-but somehow, like s'grandfather's
clock" she always stopped "short " OF
asking Arnold any questions that she
could not have asked prince of the
blood royal; and if anybody ever looked
like prince of the blood royal it was
Arnold Parnell. That he was madly in
love with Sarah there wasn't the least
doubt in my mind, and / doubt if there
was any doubt in Sarah's, although ]
dare say that about some things one is
hardly quite sure till the articles are
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