The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-23

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III eclafs, - No TO NinS.w when
at last he reached 16s Barnes sperlors,
IL t66Aght + seMI Ypu smarrsd to q
drun1 ID laborer, IS I came ing to-
night, with gang Of babies Chamber
HWhat made you think him drunk
emf" asked Nina, with her street. seri
business. I'D ~s--t.;s ,..- 8. s,,.sa..,. ,t. 81. 4
"Oh! the looks of him-the arms on
the table, the fallen head. upkempt.
unshornj you know, and AL the rest"
II SUPPOSE" said Nina, "that 1 MOOR
man, whose wife lay dead in the other
room, might look much that way" : q
II believe it was your cried Harold.
"Do look like it?'' she asked, light
". "And have q dual existence, to
be here and there, too?' And then, as
Harold glanced het' over, in her airy
muslins and forget-me-nots, he smiled
at the idea; and she seemed all at once
as different from that woman, and from
all other women, Is if she had stepped
out of another star. Yet. for all that,
q man does not care to marry q woman
who is different from all other women
simply to oblige his mother.
What are you Two talking aboutF'
them jpss then. the pictlls q . Bac-
chaate, with her. head bod With cur
raat leaves and 'her cluster1ne ourlS Ike
graps lunches about hef d1zk and
laughing face. care you prohiliiing
Nina that you win come to Washington
this winterl Nina is to be with me
there for the holidays, you know. If
you should, swell my list on New
Years." And then she went dancing
down the room, for the misty night had
driven erybody within doors; and q
waiter was just bringing in q tray of
juleps. enticing with the color and odor
OF their drowned fruits aud leaves and
long golden straws. -
"When I was q little confirmed
drunkard of the ago Of ten I signed the
PLEDGE. said Miss Barnes, conveying
the waiter to Harold. But / didnst
know how. nice juleps were. Now
am totally depraved. Here, Mr.. Hart
ley. Nina! It's quite as immoral to
drink lemonade with straws, as mint
juieps. The sin lies altogether in the
straws!' - ;
1T depends ON the individual wheth-
er there is any sin about it. / think"
said Nina. s.But love lemonade. A
lemon seems to carry GOODNESS into the
tropics" :.
.:And you don't know why you
should burn your throat that long.
white throat-out with the other? Get
thee to a nunnerv!' As the gay girl
lifted her glowing glass to the wax
lights, Harold whispered to Nina, II
don't believe the Bacchantes used
straws," and was astonisbed that Nina
did not laugh. But that night the faces
of the two girls kept shining upon him
out of the darkness, as he walked home.
The one the self-indulgent, laughing
beauty; the other, if not beautiful, vet
certainly a lovely face in its fairness and
perfect calm; And the girl lifting her
glass to the glow Of the wax-lights did
not seem to him so charming as be-
fore. IS
"Do you know" said Mr.. Hartley's
mother, one twilight, some time after
ward, "rm afraid I have been doing
an Injustice to Miss Barnesp She really
has q heart. Those poor McNultys!
When Mrs. McNalty died, she used to
90 down there every evening, and car
~ q supper, and hear. the children's
prayers. and put them to bed, and
leave q breakfast set out for the father
in the morning. Just think of that girl
doing such things!'' al = sss.sA = -S>ss
Ibid she tell you that she did,
mother?' asked Harold.
k"Well no. That is. not exactly. I
heard that one OF the Hill ladies was
down at the McNultys, doing these
things. and spoke of it incidentally to
Miss Barnes; and she asked me to say
nothing about it, and said she only did
what she couldn't help doing; and
when l said Thought 1t a great deal for
her to leave al her gay life every sum
set. and 60 down there. night after
night, and wait on that family, and
then hurry home to her houseful of
company. she colored up SO prettily,
and said we were. all stewards, and L
was duty and pleasure, too, to do what
she could" ..
Humph!' said Harold Hartley. He
knew very well now who il was that he
sawtArcd1h ~ V1Ap rhf McNul:
49, = sbss Z |! =
about forgetting the deceit; he reasoned
that it was . girli9hI jest, signifying
nothing; and he went to Washington al
the same. shortly. after the Holiday sea-
%s%on he first New Year callers 6e u
the great doors of Mr.. Barnes residence
there.
"Ah! have You come!'' cried Miss
Barnes, harrying to meet him. "We
were 30 afraid YOU wouldn't. And now
you, know so few people in town that
you have no calls to make, and l want
you to stay the whole day here with
Us. I've perfect crowd OF pretty girls
to help me receive, and . dear deaf-and-
dumb old duenna for chaperon, and it
will be one long festival! Will you have
some refreshment now? Champagne
punchv There's some Madeira, fiftv
| years old Al! there's the hel. Every
man to his post! There are noprivates
here; but I'm Captain eneralr''s and
she danced back to her place, we'll con-
tent that. Mr.. Hastley sh0ula. see. tbs
triumphal procession that the day was
likely to b. - -
sssachcs, &emoeks, S9hatoss, Secreta.
ries, officers in their splendid uniforms.
ali swelled the ranks, swspt through
thAG9(1tsh tuedaad kept 6 thEpagsd
with groups in the rose drawing room,
groups in the gray parlor. in the music
hall. the diniag-room and the conserv-
atory. Az the day wore on, Miss
Baraesr nth = Pogtio4r 0f bog attend
aak.~ = ifct II The dmiag-roo1n
am the dAx wig GROOM. sanntsrin& b
with one and out with another. or
.standing nader To heayy osar1ains be-
tween the rooms. What . picture she
made, Harold thought, in her scarlet
satin NTH yellow peoples jim ASf ha6r,
againas the background Of the citrine-
colored curtains. What . picture the