Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-01-15

Jnlia, ana " ID shch splehdid
chance for her, poor dear
She does 10 hate our economies, She
has gone over now 10 Mrs, Simpsons
to finish her blue muslin, and she cant
help clean because II would spoil her
hands, and they are no pretty, Julia
Ia lovely In blue, because her skin Is
30 fair, if her hair and eyes are black,
She will be just perfect iwhea she Is
rich, Tom, ! hope she will have him
aud papa aud | can jos along forever
We don't mind cheap things as poor
Julia does, There That paint cant
bo any whittier. I'm coming down
and YOU can move the ladder over to
the other window tor me, Tom,
But cautiously decendins the ladder
Dolly only caught aeetling glimpse
OF a tall figure going ont at the gar
den gate.
"Well," she said tugging at the
heavy ladder, "he might at least have
waited to say good morning
Then, being the sweetest'tempcred
of women, though merely passable
pretty girl, Dolly assembled the ladder
again, and soon forgot Toms rudeness
ip the absorbing dutles she had under.
taken,
In the meantime Mr.. Thomas Bar.
dell, shaking with laughter, wended
his way homeward, inwardly determin'
ing her equilibrium.
.For that must have been Miss
Dolly's, patty little boot and pink cali
co dress. She has lovely brown hair
though l could not see her iace.'
The next call made, by tho heir Of
the Bardel Place found the parlor
shining with cleanliness. Miss. Julia
Lawlor, a really beautiful girl, arrayed
in the blue muslin, knitting. The
appearance OF the blue muslin was the
result OF Thomas Bardell's apparently
careless jntima,ion to busy DR.. Lawlor
that he intended to drop in that even
ing. For u wonder the Doctor rem.
ember the fact and the "Lawlor girls
were arrayed to received their guest.
Dolly, in half an hour decided
that she liked the new CONNER very
much indeed, and that he would make
a very nice brother when he foil in
love with Julia and married her. as
of course it was his manifested destiny
to do.
"For Julia is really lovely" thought
unselfish little Dolly, land when he
hears her sing he must lose his heart" :"
Apparently the singing was as pow
erful magnet as Dolly supposed it
would be for scarcely day or even
Ing passed that Mr.. Bardell did not
drop in. Tom Lawlor the Dortors
nephew and student, declared Bar.
dell to be frst-rate fellow, and was
always bringing him to tea.
Then the garden of the Bardell Place
as summer came on, offered most
tempting opportunities for the presen'
tation of boquets to the tair ladies at
Dr. Lawlor's.
To be sure Thomas Bardell did not
know that Julia's share always adorn-
the parlor, while Dolly cried over
hers in her own room, and sometimes
pressed her lips upon the card of the
donor.
Sly little Dolly!
For she knew Mr.. Bardell was fall
ing deeper and deeper in love with
Julia. Did he not fairly haunt the
house! Did he not listen entranced
when Julia sung, even upsetting all
the orderly arrangement OF Dolly's
work.box in his abstraction
Was not the picnic on the Bardell
grounds, to which all the friends tar
and near had been invited, solely the
result of Julia's wish to see the place.
That picnic
Somehow it compressed itself upon
Dolls mind that Thomas Bardell vas
contemplating aproposal on that June
day, when lie was to play host to all
the people of Rushton.
She could not have told why she
resolved to ask "papa" for permission
to visit her aunt in New York for n
few weeks. "Just to give them a
chance 10 be alone" she thought, and
wondered what made her heart throb
so very painfully at the idea.
She made Julia look like an ex.
quisite picture, by wreathing field
daises under the rim OF her chip hat,
and fastening her soft white lace at
the throat with bunch Of the same
flowers.