South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-04-18
That Talbot Girl.

lay upon the grass watching her.
Berthe he said presently. do YOU
know that your lips are "a great deal red.
der and prettier than those currants.'
The girl colored furiously and COM
pressed her lips forcib!y, but made no
answer.
Then he laughed.
why don't you answer me, Bertie?'
The girl flashed a look from her angry
eyes, and asked in low, angry tone:
w hat do you expect me to saw
You might at least thank me for my
complimentary lady would do that =
But | am not 4 LADY, cried BERTHE
bitterly and passionately, and you don't
mean these things when YOU say them
TO me-you know you don'tr
but do persisted Frank. admirng
the flush in Berte's tanned cheek and the
angry light NJ her gray eyes. But do,
ha repeated again, more earnestly, lazily
getting off the grass and seating himself
upon the stone beside her BERTHE he
continued, when he was where he could
talk TO her IN whispers. why 10 you al.
ways laugh or oct angry when tell YOU
that YOU are pretty, and that like yon?'
one else tells me that am pretty, or that
they like me, and | know you are max
ing fun OF me-
Il am not making fun Of sou. BERTHE.
Frank whispered with an information that
made Bcrtie's heart beat so holly aud
unanimously she almost feared her com
paniUn could hear j.. Il do think you
are pretty, and what is more. love YOU.
End in token of il am going to take
N,s--a lover $ first kiss. Don't make a
noise, please, or you will awaken some
of tie ladies' from their afternoon sicSta.
There, that was the first kiss. he said
when he hal Withdrawn his arm from
around her waist, and his lips from their
long, clnging touch to her trembling
ones but it shall not be the last Icy n great
many, darling
And then, while she finished picking
of his love that BERTHE. innocent as she
was, could not but believe it.
By-aud by CAV voices commenced to
sound upon the front porrh. and some
one came huslljng into the darkenea
dining room behind them, and Mr.. Des
m)nj joined the young ladies, after win
ming Bertie's promise to meet him hy
midnight and moonlight under the wal.
nut tree in the field adjoining the farm
yard.
BERTHE, haven't YOU finished those
curlarts yet" cried Mrs Newton, sharp.
IS, coming to the diuiug-room door.
Yes. ma'am, answered the girl, gath.
crjug together her pans OF fruit, and
taking her way towrr the kitchen; and
for the rest OF that day BERTHE was su-
premcIy happy.
All. how soon blisSfM illusions are
doomed to bs shattered
Late that night. when all her work
was finished, and noarly every one about
the farm had retired, BERTHE crept up to
her little "ttic room, over the back
kitchen, and kuelt down by her open
vinc-sCreened window, her arms folded
upon the sill, to wait until she should
hear the clock below strike twclvc.
As she knet there. along the lane
that ran close hy that side Of the house.
Frank Desmond and Miss Stoucr were
walking, the lady holding her thin dra-
pcrics from contact with the dew. with
fair hands sparkling with jewels. one
great flashing diamond telling = story.
hat Berthe, had she been less innocent
of the woI Ids way, might have read
Il wish YOU 20 understand. Frank Des-
moud.' Miss StOuer was saying. that
will not tolerate any Irritation on your
part with tia. Talbot girl
How can YOU talk 50 preposterou~ly.
Grac ? As If 1 would fIrl with % servant
girl