The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-02-03


ised to put away the flaming neck
handkerchief. But we had no soOne
ended than she ran to the window, an,
looked down the street after DR.. Dicks
who lives opposite, and whom she de
clares to be in love with her. 1 aske,
her where was her mOdesty, for thi
gentleman has gray hairs and sever
children.
MAY Yesterday, for the frs
time since his arrival, Mr.. Lindsay
made one at our little six o'clock din
ner party. The arrangement agreec
upon On the night of his coming wa
that, whenever he did not dine away
he should be served by Jane in the lit
tie library, which, when at home, hi
uses as a sitting room. Breakfast HI
takes with u.s. for he is generally lat'
riser and he is seldom at home
at our lunch hour in tht
middle of the day. Bot yes
terday it chanced that he came in
Unexpectedly while we we're at dinner
wanting his own dinner in hurry
and Mrs. Williams hardly thinking, as
she afterwards said, what she was do.
ing, made hasty and smiling apology
to us, that she had "known Mr.. Lindsay
since he was boy" and told Jane to
request him to step down and take din
ner with us. He came at once, and
was seated next to Lola, who said after
dinner that she would have given
three weeks pocket money to have
had on her aesthetic dress-pale green,
with blue spots" Mr.. Lindsay was in
troduced to us all, and there was mo-
mentary confusion OccasiOned by our
rising to bow to him. Mr.. Lindsay
said some polite commonplaces in a
pleasant, genial manner, and turned to
talk with Lola, between whom and
hims If, he said, there had already been
an informal introduction in another
place. By and by the conversation be-
came general, and l endeavored to OBJ
tain an opinion from Mr.. Lindsay on
the relative merits of the ancient and
modern methods of naval warfare
His acquaintance with the battles of
antiquity seemed, 1 must say, d little
and he was less interested
by my account of the part played by
the Persian fleet in the battle of Their
mopyle than by Lola's relation of an
engagement with wash tubs, in which
she, her brother Tom, and her cousin
had once taken part on pond
at the bottom Of her fathers garden
Mr.. Lindsay seemed almost entirely
with Lola. Mary Meryon
took the very smallest part in the con-
and did not once address
herself to Mr.. Lindsay. But l noticed
that he looked at her several times, and
handed her the bread twice.
MAY 25.-During the geography lee
ture at college to-day, Lola Brown be-
ing asked the height of the Chimborazo
replied promptly, Give feet
TEMP
MAY 29.-Mr. Lindsay has dined
with us twice since his first appearance
at our dinner-table. Hemakes himself
agreeable to each of lis in turn; and In
this, think, shows both breeding and
sense. Lola persists in it that he gives
signs of being, as she vulgarly puts it,
gone upon" her; but beyond his SEEM
ing to be always very much amused by
her stories, l do not see that she has
reason for claiming partiality in his
conduct to her. He and l get on most
and he has borrowed my
Grecian History to gain clearer in
sight into the proceedings of the Per-
sian and Grecian fleets at the battle of
Thermopyla. am sure there is not
the least necessity for me to speak to
Miss Grindle.
May 30.-I am amused by Mary. She
sticks as closely to her books as ever
she did, and seems as determined as al
ways to secure high place at midsum-
mer. But away from lessons she is
never tired of bantering Ethel and Lola
on the subject of Mr.. Lindsay. Ethel
doesn't like it, because she does like
Mr.. Lindsay-at least, 1 think sO--and
she is, feel sure, one Of those girls
who would never suffer an affair of the
however slight, to become a
subject Of badinage. Lola, on the 9TH
er hand, is delighted, and adds sugges-
tions of her own to Mary's, which
would give matters a serious color, if
one could be persuaded to see a shade
of the serious in anything in which
Lola was concerned. But 1 must talk
to Lola again, for 1 do not think that
in such a matter as this even jesting
should be carried too far. OF the three
girls, Mary alone seems not the least
fluttered by the entry of this male bird
into our little dove-cot Lola says that
Mary is deep" but I believe she is
merely Indifferent. Mary and 1, when
alone, never talk of Mr.. Lindsay. But
then, we have always so many other
things to talk about.
JUNE 6.-Mr. Lindsay is now reg.
ular attendant at our family table in
the evening. At first he made excuses
as that he wanted dinner in hurry
and the like but he now Obeys the bel
as punctually as any one of us. and nc
longer thinks it necessary to offer ex
PLANTATION or excuse for his appearance
/ am bound to say that neither expla
nation or excuse is looked for. l take
a curious interest in noting his manner
in addressing us. He talks TO me as hi
talks to Mrs. Williams, quite without
hesitation or circumlocution, and gen
orally commences with question
Mary and he, when they talk, are al
most invariably engaged in brisl
wordy duel. They spar continually
and only stop short of downright hos
tilities. But observe that he defers t,
her, and generally manages to come of
worst i'm their rhetorical encounters
Also noticed that Mary does not seen
to be more excited when talking wit