The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-23
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looked uHulteIaOlc SuiuSo- to :
sic Green took off her shutdown an
famed herself vigorously with it. Sh
looked warm her face was flnshe
with feeling no less than the weatbel
She and her sister were no longer q
youthful as their names suggested
Moreover irritation brings out tn
lines and wrinkles OF a face, and it
Internationally irritating TO be passe
over for a slip Of a thing with a dol
baby iace, not ones own flesh an
blood at that
There they go nown cried Mis-
Rosie il an excited whisper, flying t
the window, and peeping through To
crack in the shutter.
For goodness sake, don't give be
the satisfaction of seeing you look q
her.
Il don't care whether she sees m'
or not-not a rush. That old PM
calico on | do think she might hav'
had the decency to make herself loci
respectable, riding out with pa
young man.
PAS young man! What a way t.
putiti'
We'll, isn't be, for the present
He's reading medicine in pas Office
Pm sure, and he takes the messages
that are left, and tells pa afterward
For my part, | think be is bound tC
be civil to pas daughters
We'll, be is being civil to q o
them
yes. That's the worst of the way
pa treats lilly. It's real unjust to as
Hateful little piecer
A case of cruel step-sisters, you are
thinking. However, there was nc
tie either of blood or of marriage IN
this instance. DR.. Green bad adopt,
ed lilly, brought her with him when
he moved to Woodbridge fifteen years
ago. She was q mere baby then, ard
his wife was still living, and cared
for the child like her own. She was
a mothcrly soul, and loved babies.
Her own had LEFT infancy half a score
years behind them. Since her Heath
life had not been so smooth for lilly.
Perhaps the Green girls would have
been kind TO another person in the
same situation, but they certainly
made life a burden for their little
adopted sister.
Mr.. L~eonard-he hoped to be DR..
Leonard this time next year-drove
a fast horse before a shining new
buggy. 1t was a bright day, and be
had a pretty girl beside him. His
spirits rose TO the level of the occa-
sion. lilly and he laughed and talked
in a way that would have driven Miss
Posie frantic. / specify Miss Posie,
because her sister had acquired two
or three years additional resignation
in which to bear the ills Of ~spinster-
hood: wall-lowering bad become al
most q second nature. But lilly
laughed on regardless. Sac was
happy, John Leonard was the hand
soonest, the best-mannered, the best
dressed young mar she had ever
known, and he had singled her out
for his special favor. She was will
ing to believe anything of an auspi-
eious fate.
Nor was that the last drive they
took together. He asked her ell the
oltener when he saw the wicked sis
ters,' as he dubbed them, angry. As
It proved, be asked lilly far oftener
than was good for Der. This was on
ly an episode with him ; with lilly it
was the most real experience of her
life. John Leonard seldom talked of
his plans, hut she had mapped out his
career for him. When be graduated
in medicine be should become her
fathers partner, and finally relieve
her father of the burden Of his prac.
tice, and then-and tben-Tilly al
WAYS herself shared the air castle
with John.
This was q long, long while ago
before the war, almost; accurately,
at the very breaking out of the war.
At first John Leonard who was an
Englishman, escaped the wal fever,
but gradually the soul of the war
clarions passed into his blood He
must have a hand in this himself
A man must belong somewhere. So
he coolly informed Or. Green one
day that he had enlisted; he was
going to fight for his shoulder-straps.
AS for my diploma, I'll wait
awhile for that
When be came to bid lilly good
bye, she burst out crying. That set
tied the question as to their manner
Of farewell. He took her in his arms
and kissed her repeatedly. This was
d~esidedly imprudent, although they
were only sffectionate, brotherly kiss
es. Miss Rosie came in as be re-
leased her. We'll Matilda Green p
she cried, with an information that
meant anything but well. But lilly
was too heart-broken to extenuate
her conduct, She left that to John,
who said good-naturedly, You'll
give me a kiss too, won't you Miss
Rosie? Remember you may never
see me again
And be actually kissed her too.
He wanted to put it out of her pow
er to tease poor Tilly. She had been
guilty OF the same improperly her
self.
Poor lilly was w~retcbed, after be
was gone. But she was buoyed up
by hopes and visions. She had q
brave picture, too, of john, which be
sent to her when be was made q
lieutenant. Oh, how proud she was
when that came She felt that she
was fighting the battles of her coun-
try.
She never forgot a speech of Johns
about improving her mind. She tried
hard to find time to do so. Her ia
vorite method was the composition
of letters to John, which were never
sent, in the course Of which she
would laborously hunt out in the die
tionary nearly all the words she
wanted to use, to insure their cor-
rect spelling. She also endeayored
to find time to read such literature as
was contained 10 the weekly paper of
the household. She read the love
stories, to be sure, with an especial
zest apart from their purpose as edu-
Gators. They struck a kindred chord.
One day John Leonard received in
camp a copy of the came paper-1he