Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
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One Valentine, and AnO her.

"If could gor' si9 he'd Mrs. EccleSton,
her pretty pink check resting on her dim
Piled hand. and the long dark lashes OF her
lus'rOus eyes resting on the velvet cheek.
at such shame she murmured, un'
conscious that she was talking aloud, "tO
be pr ty and bright, and know how to do
hiuss tnl talk French and sing like
lrml donna, and to be here. and never 20
have a chancer' She turned in sudden
alarm to see her husband standing III lhe
middle of the room. 'Oh, WELL" she 81 i'll
recovering herself with y laugh, then you
know what fool | am. But | never
meant you should"
And | never dreamed of it before. |
thought you had soul above buttons" he
said. gnyly. "Why, il you want to 20 to
these things, Helen, 20 you shall"
"Weil, no, VIII, | don't exactly want to
go Oily seeing them all of last ghl in
their splet dor pu me in mind of 1t, and l
musl say should like To see the scenes,
and should like TO say I'd been. when we
90 back to Lpfun Mrs M'Blair is always
so uverpOwering, and such an authority,
with HE relics of her life in Washington,
and the receptions and the officials and all
that "
Relies. indeed! But you 'havn't any
81 lrndor, You know, except your eyes
and Your color and"
On, nonsense now, Will! That's lust
because YOU helrd me saying | WAS pretty,
We'll ~ d Mrs. Eccleson, Standing he
fmc the glas, d beginning TO braid her
ur, dpt rrntty and ctnt. help seeing
il, can |! And It M vanity nS>ucItrr
with the nrlghbOrS nst the same And
then IL ,uT nd nrr deli gn,ful tau gh tn htt
shuwrd al the p ary teeth aglIuer, and
hc' h. snaud vowel IN his soIl that she
should 90 wherever she wished, if it cost
L,tu! "A ball NJ the Embassy!' said
Ms. Eccltston. "MrS NJ Blair never
comwassrd that with ali her relics"
And You shall sad her husband
"Un, There now, indeed. III not serious.
| havn't The ftlnteSt desire tor it One can
buld Gus les without overt sin; but to 90
into those castles, in our condition, would
BE- II rCa Sn.'
! any thing annoJe Mr.. .Eccles on it was
when ,pukcn TO villa such phrase as 'in
our condition." although his wife was
quite Ignorant of the fact. He was some
what ambitious, and one form of his am
bIlon was 10 make Il 900 appearance in
the word, and it vexel him, when the
others could do more tor their wives than
he could do for his, while hn knew the
years were passing and her beauty would
soon be dim. He WAS the chief clerk of IA
manufacturing house, to which he took
railway ride OF twenty miles every morn
ing; AMI hitherto the aim of his life had
been t. secure 10 his wife, in case of acci
dent to himself, the little place where he
l1u., h ,t1r
piazza aud bay windows, and which was
Yet undet mortgage liable to foreclosure
at he loldu's will He had come to
Washington lately with large claim OF
his firm on The treasury-a claim concern
ing which he knew more than they did
themselves, and of which, if he won it, he
was to have = handsome percentage that
would just about pay Oft his heart eating
mortgage, and OF course he entered into
the business with all his powers. The
firm, feeling his iaithfuness deserved some
reward, had told bim to take his wife and
t. stay ut the best hotel at their expense,
and he had done so and the upshot of it
all was that day after day WAS dragging
by, and it WAS impossible to get Il decision
from the treasury, and his wife head was
getting SO turned by the lineries and gave
ties about her that she was fairly giddy.
Sometimes Mrs. EccIeston really wished
she had not come to Washington, the af-
fairs of the toilette gave her such wOrri
ment. Her navy blue cashmere that at
home would lave answered for best all
winter, here. she found, was equal only to
the simplest sort of morning gown, and
she had been obliged 10 wear at dinner
her one black silk that had already been
"made over" and that was AS fine an
evening dress as anybody needed ut Lof
ton, ill her heart sank within her to see
that il hegan to show symptoms of "shny
ness" and rs for anything more elaborate
that W.T. qu te out Of the question, she felt,
iol her LtIl was set upon paying OFT that
mortgage and getting Brussels carpet in
the ptrur Is much Us her husb md s was
Yet she would have been III uie of sterncr
stuff than most ch trmng young women
are it, when she saw Mrs Van Troll in he
waiting room, while her carriage was com
ing round to take her to the secretarys,
adjusting her cloak and letting out lust one
glimpse Of the JCH d'Cdn silk covered with
point lace ANA gstcning with diamonds,
like some lovely sun smltten cobweb strung
with dew; or the last bride sweeping up
her pillows OF tuie and half drowning the
young groom uhder the ioan OF lhem is
the c'ril'Se door siamme"i or lhe on
HP'n'Sn couh e'S' VINO ia" apartments oy
hen SELF III me hotel, dropping her ermlne
III 'i"o us sh hurried across the VcstlouIc'
t''l any me might see the marvel OF
IN 'he- ~ thu Sne WAS IN mr. whl' atm
"hn l'f 'm'lHIds lho SIZE OF u i nuts
ana hcr l"u2e lhh' c."hlerltlled 'he very
bloom OF N"uth-sle Would have been
NOR" lhnh mum 'h' we say II ne repeating
VISION OF All lh'se d'ms"Is ana uo"aSers
htu h"V H'',rea llt' IL envy IN iler sou''
anu hlaue ler WISH IlK" cinderella lor
sh 'Fe "i AL tlese p ei>nre' ana Il sISlt ol
All lhese scenes III lht gay word to winch
Surh to'''tleS were the every ay al1alr,
:, Az III ST 1t h"i peen novelty To Mrs
Eo'''HIoh 10 observe the i"u'eS IN the
ara" 'h3-r""m oi lhe MOTEL aiter dinner
ana 10 admire Iheir dresses TO which her
own wa. mere sn 'uo"' and ata later hour
IL was Ike sharing IN lheolsslphtlon To see
thc snl erp apta' i'ions IN the one momeh
e'o ,ney s"Iheieu up lneir org ghI trains
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