The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-10-22
A LITTLE FOOL.

% am astonished, Eloise! after all
my instructions as to what society and
respectability demand of you. II you
must marry and make fool of yourself,
why not marry Colonel Powellp"
because do not like Colonel
Powell, and because Like some one
else, Aunt Ethel"
al never heard of such thing. Do
you know what you are saying, missf 7
Such talk. ] can tell you. is highly i'm
proper; and rs for not liking Colonel
Powell, that is nonsense. Colonel Pow
ell has everything necessary to win any
woman's approbation-vcry old family,
very fine manners, elegant residence
servants carriage, money, and n men,
bcr of Congress besides. Don't you
know that YOU would spend the winters
in Washington"
~ declare it does not tempt me n
Bit"
And don't believe that he is day
more than fifty"
"He is seventy five if he is an hour,
and he hobbies and coughs, and is alto
gether dreadful. Inever, never, never
will marry him"
May ask who, then, is to have the
honor of becoming my nephew" and
Miss Ethel sat stif1ly down, and began
10 carefully re-arrange the pink satin
bows on her white morning dress.
Eloise sat down opposite her, and
fingered nervously the rose-buds and
ivy leaves that trimmed her garden hat.
The two women were strangely alike,
only one face was forty years old, white,
and proud and the other was only
twenty, flushing and paling, and answer
ing every feeling OF fthe heart.
For some moments Eloise did not
speak, and Miss Ethel Bruce did not urge
her. She sat patiently looking in her
nieces face, until that young lady, find
ing courage in her desperation, said.
with bland defiance, "The gentleman
who is to have that honor, dear aunt, is
Mr.. Henry Torrens."
Impossible! You would not do such
foolish thingw
"Oh yes, would"
Do you know who he lisp"
"He is-Harry."
T." Ridiculous! Do you know who his
father isP"
Nor don't want to know him par
ticularly. DO you know him, Aunt
EthelP"
mo. dare say it would be very inn
proper for me to know such a person
When we first met him last summer in
the North, don't remember that he
ever rnamed his family"
"Nor l."
"That looks very bad Eloise. If q
man has respectable relations, of course
he talks about them"
81 don't see that it makes any great
differei We to me. l do not intend tc
marry HaTTy's relations. / do not care
much about them, anyway. Once he
told me that his mother was dead, and ]
said mine was too; and of course we fell
sorry for each other, and all that But ]
am. afraid l am little jealous about
Harry; l would just as lief be the only
person in the world who had any right
TO love him as not.
"You make me feel hopeless about
you. Pray what do you intend to live
uponp"
Harry has two thousand dollars ,
year"
1.-TWO thousand dollars a year! Wha
a magnificent income!"
Don't make fun of us, aunt. can.
not allow that; indeed l cannot W.
love each other, and .Eshall be very
" Doubtless. May ask where Mr.
Torrens is Employed"
"In West 81 Green's law Office"
81 thought he lived in New York
What brought him hereP
How should knowP" said Eloise
blushing, and involuntarily dropping
her voice.
Her aunt watched her curiously, ant
shook her head for answer. f" Wher
have you seen him-for hope you hav
not dared to bring him within the pre-
cincts of Bruce Place"
He has never touched paling of il
/ met him at Aunt Kezia's; and | an
sure she would have let Cousin Lizzi
marry him very willingly. She think
great deal of Harry"
Lizzie Bruce is different. She la
hYe little sisters, and my brother Jak