The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1882-07-30

made Cornelia burst out laughing, Eustace
looked 80 serious that she was afraid she'd
done the wrong thing but she couldn't pos
sibly help IL, This was an entirely new
kind Of city boarder. Shecaught her breath
with pleased excitement every time SHE
spoke. II was like sliding down Bents Hill
on Dicks big sled.
F." II you have a sweetheart you'd better
tell me when he's coming to call, and won't
put IL on, she continued. " Gracious ~ as
she caught the flush which dyed Cotnelia's
cheeks; cts bad rs that, is II I'd put
on n green one, If had It,"
You may put on what you like" said
Cornelia half Indignantly.
Miss Unworthy shook her head indul-
gently: cob, | shan't take you at your
word. II would be very shabby of me, for,
you see, should have the advantage any
way, for | should flirt with him scientif-
oally. know very we'll what you are think
ing-that he's SO much in love with you
that | couldn't make the least impression
anyway. don't wonder you think so. |
should have done so once. But | was cut
out by a girl not half so nice MS I am, with
man who was awfully in love with me
Just because she understood the principles
of scientific Irritation. So learned them
myself after that; but wouldn't, IL 1were
you--you're much nicer without; | was
myself Why don't you have golden-rod
about here 2n
II never blossoms till August or Septem-
her, and this is only the LIST of July"
ooh, doesn't it2 | thought one always
had golden rod in the oountry--goldenr rod
and warm milk. Do you have warm milk
at your house' Because, II You do, wish
you'd hang II down the we'll before havei
IT'S the only inanimate thing | hate.
You're surprised, aren't you, to see that
know enough to hang things down the well
to make them cool I had grandmother
once that lived in the country and she used
TO talk about hanging things down the well,
when she meant put them in the refrigcr-
ator.n
eve have refrigerator" said Cornelia,
laughing. $50 you needn't have the milk
warm unless you want it. There's our
house,
"Thats nice. That looks Just as |
wanted 1t to look. And that's your mother
standing in the door, | suppose Tell me
about her. Is she nicer Do you like
her Y''
" Like my mother ~ CAPPED Cornelia.
why yes. Is that SO surprising | like
mine ever 80 much, she's so pretty aud
clever. Pm so glad she married into our
family, as the aristocratic child said. So
here we are. Now where's Cain, to carry in
the trunks 2"
" 1t isn't Cain: it's Abel" said Cornelia,
somewhat scandalized.
cob, yes--Abel. | never can remember
which one IL was that killed the other.
How do you do, Mrs. Nottp I'm not n bit
the looking person You thought was; am II
But never mind; you'll like mo better in
course of time, | know. than i'll were. May
I On ri nm II Mira mud yot nnnl 2'i
Mrs. Mott, who, in truth, had looked for
rather u severe aud Manufactured single lady
with every outward sign of mind irrevo
Cably made up beforehand, was somewhat
overcome, as she herself subsequently, con
fessed to Nelly " was that dashed" she
was overheard TO remark--"I was that
dashed that | most forgot whether I'd
fixed the spare chamber or the little room
over the front door,
The first thing Eustace did when she had
entered the pleasant, large room prepared
for her reception was to look in the mirror,
and the next to look out of the window.
Both views being apparently more or less
satisfactory, she opened the bureau-drawers.
Butt she said, " there is no lavender
here. thought they always had that, too,
in the country
p" But you didn't think it was kept in
empty drawers, did your" asked Nelly, who
was waiting.
"No, | suppose not" said Eustace doubt
fully. "Atter all, it's presses it's generally
in, believe. Never mind; though | did
want my things to smell of lavender
"Theres some in the garden, | think. I'll
fetch you some.' And Nelly ran down the
stairs, returning with the leaves, which
Eustace proceeded with the greatest satisfac.
ton to lay among the things she had al
ready begun to unpack.
Amt she splendid, mother ~ said Nelly
enthusiastically, bursting into the kitchen.
"Splendid is as splendid does,n replied
Mrs. Mott oracularly. "Still, / won't say
hut what she has sort of a way with her,
an the old lady herself can't say as she
amt handsome" Mrs. Mott had come a
Young wife to her husbands house, and
been domineered over for several years by
her husbands mother, an old lady of most
contradictory temper and unaccommodating
| opinions. Fortunately for herself, The
younger Mrs. Mott was of an easy disposi-
ton, and seemed to resent this sort of trai IL
| ing much less than most women in her posi-
| tion would have done. Almost the only
| sign that she remembered it at all was her
way of emphasizing any particularly evident
| fact by the remark that even the old Ia dy
| herself could not maintain the opposite,
| which expression had now passed into current
acceptance in the Mott family. "Did you
tell her what time we have tea ~
"No'm. Praps she amt use to having
it quite so carly"
"Never you fear but what if she dom
want to make a change an has to, well find
il out" said Mrs. Mott shrewdly. "She
amt exactly cantankerous, mebbe, but it'll
surprise her so if she don't get her own way
that she'll lay awake nights thinkin' aboni
| it,"
She had herown way with Mr.. Rabbit, -
said Nelly. 'SShe made him put her trunks
| in the wagon"
"No !" said Mrs. Mott, pausing in the ac,
Of hulliDg Strawberries.
" Yes'm; she wouldn't let me.''
Wal, wal ~ Aud she laughed will
thorough enjoyment. ST that don't bea
the Dutch Made Bob Rabbit put in the
trunks, did she I'd like to have seen him
| dom of it,
Eustace came down to supper, cool and
pretty in white muslin, and far from finding
fault with the supper-hour, seemed so wei
pleased with the good things il brought her
that Mrs. Mott, having been forced by hel
enthusiasm to admit that the old lady her
self couldn't have made better butter, wa,
less disposed TO be impartial in her iudg
meni. Alter tea the sittingroem and the
front porch was left to Eustace's disposal
Mrs. Mott and Ccrnelia taking themselves tc
the back part of the house, according TO or
binary Mott usage.
"They're their own comp'ny, and 10
NINE" Mrs. Mott was wont TO say of he
summer boarders, "and amt goin' I,
worry 'em with the idea all along that per
haps Nely's and my conversational b,
| i, Tn. Ia, hn al e. 1,
amt goin' to be made to keep on his coat TO
nobody"
The next morning, after breakfast, Eus
tace asked Nelly what she did all day to maxi
herself miserable.
81 guess don't do anything that make
me very miserable"
"Then you ought. You ought to EN-
broider awful-looting yellow flowers on
yellow-green ground, or you ought to get
bow and arrow and shoot till your arm Il
lame, or you ought to get banjo and maxi
| m sal ar yai n IN,