The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12


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JANUARY s.-They say it is piece of
egotism to ,wr1kssin Is diaSY, be0116e
you can't help writing as If you ex-
pected somebody to see it. But if
write mine in Spaniah, L0can't Gao
cused Of writing It Tor anybody to dee.
l must have somebody to talk with, and
Miss Julia can be, allowed to think it
my SpaniSh exercises This isAlet me
see-the how-manyeth 1 have begun?
Never mind; it's begun; and 1 hereby
solemnly record that the weather is
fine and the wind southerly, and if we
don't have the January thaw, it's be-
cause. nothing could thaw in Mrs.
Whyte's prssencss she. received me
when 4 came as If she were the Grand
Duchess of Mangel- Wurzel, and she
looked at my little trunk as if it were q
servants bandbox, and presented me
to her Prince Mangel, otherwise her
brother-in-law, MIR. Gervais Whyte, as
if she begged pardon for reminding q
Whyte that such worms crawled the
earth. But she found this worm "up
on end" She was about presenting
me to some more of those about her,
when remarked, with my head at its
highest: s. Pray, don't take the trouble
II am not accustomed to promiscuous
introducti0ns. Twill 90 to Miss Julia
at once" I enjoyed seeing Mrs.
Whyte's eyes open then; they let some
light in on her brain, I fancy. "By
Georger' I heard the Prince say, q we
swept out OF th6roOm together, !" Greek
meets Greekp' And then the music
went on. and We threaded two long
velvet. hUored halls before arriving at
Miss Julia's door in the wing. On our
way We met the Duchess husband,
Mr.. Gyles rWhyte, 9 long and solemn
man, as becomes him. He said he
knew me from my resemblance to Kiss
Julia. Well, well!
AS for Miss Julia, she is q sight. A
misshapen little creature not up to my
shoulder; she is very short, she is very
stout, she has almost 3 hump; take any
view, and it seems that her head is set
on wrong side before. But her face
all. that is nearly heavenly, except
when she gets angry. She can't walk;
but she has a crutch. with tap of which
she recalls you if your mind wanders,
and her own mind wanders most of the
time. 1t is dreadful. They all told me
not to do it. But I remembered man.
mas injunction not to forget that Miss
Julia had once passionately loved nv
father, and had hidden it all when she
found that by the terms of the will if
he married a cousin hewould be penni-
less, and to go to her, If she ever needed
me, as If she were my mother. She
went hundreds Of miles away, and we
never knew these Whyte relatives. of
hers. i DONE blame poor little Miss
Julia-papa was sosplendid: ones very
ideal! To think of the romance in this
little image! But she has magnificent
eyes, for all. So has that young Prince
below-stairs, Mr.. Gervaisss Something
about him minds me Of, papacthe
grand air, perhaps.
Janxavy .zR-This looks like diary
"a whole week gone. But there's no
time. "Miss Julia is very peculiar. :"
She says she is dying Of, lonesomeness;
that she hardly sees anybody from
morning till night, unless Mr.. Gervais
comes in and reads the Bible to her.
Z" And don't want to hear the Bible!''
she cries. GAS if l were an old woman
with one foot in the grave: 1 want e
good roaring love story. Find me one,
my dear" One? l have been here q
- week, and l have read her six. She
talks them all over, and has mixed
them all up, so that she has Guys
sanity Amy, in the; Heir Of RSdclyfs,
in love with 'Ouida's Chandos, and
wonders what Shakespeare saw in that
Romol& The Grand Duchess opens
the door and says good-morning; Mr..
Gyles Whyte does the same, and adds,
gently, that he hopes his cousin is we'll;
nobody else comes. except Mr.. Gervais.
He sits an hour with her, and take
that time for my afternoon walk.
don't know how hong shah -bs-sble t.
endure it. 1 dop,t know that I've any.
thing BETTER to d. 10 down stair
only I'd dinner, khsre Isie is Away
companyssslip into my seat after thu
othees aaSsplaced, and am, of course
never introduced. If Mrs. Whyte j.
obliged to mention me, she says, in .
poor-relation sort Of way, :" Miss Par
cell, the cousin AMI NDmpanion- of Mia
Julia" However, Miss Julia sem
board. % tkst 1 would be perfectly IN
dependent. Mrs. Whyte is too fine Il
take board money from me; she has q
take it from Miss Julia. She takes 1
good doal, first-a and slast, from Ms
JuliarI wonder why; she must know
Jssssysix~f cm'esfssp thiS shin,
up in Spanish; it's too troublesome
So here goes in English. get chanc,
on Sunday mornings, when Miss Julis
goes sound asleep over her prayer.book
feeling very devout. to think where
am. Once, when was romantic,
thought of going East a. . missionary
wen, have have GRns 4 makes me shud
is the only one who has seemed 70 thinj
of her as anything but an animal tina
must be fed apd clM}ed. 4 Have pa
reading h1shhAd1ekA ol1..1ektSsSst6G
she has had me rummage out. Whe
came from my walk the other night
Mr.. 0efvais Nssistilf sitting there, IN
she was talking of the letters. He va
bending forward in an animated way
and Miss Julia's big eyes were sparl
ling, and her tutban ~xasr tw4te2 a.
nss s9esc al xfa4 v: =.
ne 80 dark and superb and gentle
79Eiog see, he aid. in o low, tonl
rising e 60. you have raised the dea