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

: jokes are directed at her, and he spare
r no pains in trying to draw her out, tina
he may see her at her gayest. Whel
he speaks to Ethel it is in softer an,
: gentler tone, and his whole name
seems changed. She also watches hi
) conversation closely, and brighten
l sensibly when it is addressed to hel
But other responses, though cordial
have always in them something Of re
serve.
JUNE 8.-LGla is really too foolish
In the study this afternoon picked VI
, piece of paper that had fallen from
her blotting pad, on which she had beer
: making variety of calculations rela
, tive to the cost of furnishing houses
, and in one corner were some penci
} memoranda, among them being one tt
J the effect that ''deal-tOpped tables, will
J mahogany legs, would do very well tol
the first year." l am told also that she
has secreted in her bedroom "a copy OF
the House Register, and has set a pen'
cil-mark against an advertisement of a
''small unfurnished house, in a subur.
ban district, suitable for a young mar.
ried couple" She says she brought
away the paper from her aunt Sarah,
with whom she took tea few nights
ago. For myself do not at all approve
OF a young girls visiting relative
who was separated from her husband
in three weeks.
JUNE IA do really begin to fear
that mattars in this hOusa ara aca,,min ~
a somewhat serious complexion. Mr..
Lindsay now makes a point of attend
ing every meal; and Lola says she
should be i'll if he were to miss dinner.
1 have had to get Mrs. Williams to
speak again to Lola; but cannot ask
her to speak to any one else, although
word of counsel and advice is, fear,
needed elsewhere. Less work is got
through in the study than was being
done fortnight ago, although we are
| fortnight nearer to the examinations.
| Why is it that, within the last few
! days, Mary seems to have avoided me,
while she and Lola have more than
once been on the verge Of an open quar-
rel? Ethel does not look at all well,
and her usually sweet disposition has
undergone visible change. Mr. Lind
say has taken to frequenting the study,
and has met Ethel and Lola more than
once in their afternoon walk. If he
really has a preference for any one of
them, why does he not avow itp But
| he is attentive to each, and, so far as
one may Judge, to none more than to
another. YeJterday, just as entered,
he left the study, in which l found
Mary alone. Mrs. Williams and l have
spoken together, and both agree that it
is well his leave will expire within
two weeks. Still. there has been, so
far as 1 and Mrs. Williams have seen,
nothing that could be called love-mak-
ing; but though we have discovered no
cause, the effects are unmistakable
Mrs. Williams will not speak to Mr.
Lindsay without positive reason of
complaint, but ought not 1 to speak to
Miss Grinder
JUNE 18.-To-day Mr.. Lindsay has
taken Ethel and Lola on visit of in
spection to his ship Wellington. 1t
has been arranged that we should all
60, but an unexpected engagement
with my class detained Inc, and Mrs.
Williams (who no wever, very unwise-
ly, as thought, was unwilling to let
the. visit be pestponed) was confined
to her room with a severe attack of
neuralgia complaint from which,
l am sorry to say, she is a constant
sufferer. At the last moment Mary
excused herself on the ground that she
was late with her English essay. When
Lola heard of Mary's refusal she made
use of slang expression which my
brother Charlie is in the habit of en-
ploying when skeptically inclined to-
ward anything that is told him. She
calculated "Walker!'
JUNE 19.-Lola, after coming home,
told me that she managed to get sep
arated from the others on board the
ship, and that while she was lost
among "forecastles and binnacles and
things" Ethel and Mr.. Lindsay were
alone together for an hour.
JUNE 21.-I will tell Miss Grindle
tomorrow. A scene occurred here
this evening which spoke for itself
that the present state of things ought
not to continue. Ethel had said at
breakfast that she was going with a
friend of her mother to concert at st.
James Hall in the evening; and ac-
cordingly, at dinner, Mr.. Lindsay ap-
peared with handful of hothouse
flowers. which he begged to be allowed
to make into bouquet for her. Ethel
had hardly said, with smile and a
blush, that she would be very pleased
to accept them, when Lola, without a
word of warning, got up quickly from
the table, and ran out of the room
Ethel took the flowers and went to the
concert-Mr. Linsday complimenting
her on her appearance as he handed her
into hanson. Going to search fol
Lola, 1 found her in her room sitting
on low chair, with her heels on the
dressing-table, sobbing violently. ]
ought to have scolded her, and did
make the attempt, but she cried 81
passionately that l was first obliged tC
comfort her and dry her tears. BY
way of rousing her, | told her of ar
engagement she had made with hel
aunt Sarah for that evening, but sh,
utterly refused to go out, and wa
disrespectful enough to speak of hel
aunt Sarah as an "old fool" 1t wa
late before l had brought her to rea
sonable frame of mind. Yes, I will
, certainly tell Miss Grindle to-mor
[ row.
. JUNE 22.-I had no sooner left Lol
, last evening, and returned to the study
l than Mr.. Lindsay came to give me bacl
. <ha II;atory of nraooa 7 bod lant him