News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20

the last to arrive.
In the long and brilliant parlor .
group Of ladies stood talking to som,
gentlemen, and among them she at onct
saw the tall figure of Judge Roberts
When she entered, Mrs. Elliot looked
up in surprise. She did not recognize
this elegant girl, and then she came
forward and, as she greeted her
whispered, "You are just lovely /"
Katherine looked down the room, anG
her hostess laughed.
"Oh, they have not come yet. They
are not punctual, but we can wait"
But they never did come Not 6
single member of the Legislature came
that afternoon to hear alb out the legal
status of women in regard to the " Board
of Street Inspectors" Every one else
was there. The committee of ladies,
the gentlemen invited to meet them;
the graceful and persuasive speaker
who was to convince them, but not a
legislator.
Some of the ladies said they must be
bashful, and some said they feared the
weather, and the gentlemen declared
the proper refreshments had not been
promised, and when half past four came
Judge Roberts said in low tone to
Katherine that she was right in her es-
innate Of the relative importance of
hats and arguments, and SO took his
leave.
In the evening the Judge went back
to his Office, and on the way he stopped
to see Katherine and to condole with
her. He found her sitting in front of
the fire. Her bonnet lay on the table.
She still wore her velvet dress and she
looked tired.
"You have not been long in ?" he
said, glancing at one gloved hand.
"No. I staid to dinner with Mrs.
Elliot"
"Well ?" he said.
"Well?" she replied
"Were you disappointed ?"
"Because the legislators did not
come? No, was not.
"Your dress was all right p
81 was over-dressed. There wasn't
rich woman there who was dressed as I
was, and they were all rich"
"There was not woman there who
was as beautiful"
"And ought not to have worn a
bonnet"
"You looked well in it. You were
right about it."
She gently sighed and began to un-
button her glove.
81 am sorry" he said, "that you
were disappointed"
81 was not" she answered, looking
up quickly. "You don't suppose 1
really care so much for dress It was
a whim. Of course I am sorry it was
such iasco."
"You are tired" he said, in an anx.
ous tone.
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"What is the matter with you, Kath
srine ?"
She looked into the fire. Then she
glanced at him with a mixture of shy
ness and defiance in her eyes.
"To-night," she said, "Mr. Elliot |
was very cross. He was annoyed be-
cause his wife put herself in such po-
sition."
"Mrs. Elliot is very lovely woman"
replied the Judge. 81 have a great |
liking for her."
eyes" said Katherine.
"He did not scold you ?" said the
Judge, after a moments silence.
"No." Aud Katherine colored and
smiled. "That is the very trouble. I
snvied her. Twas much more to blame.
She trusted to the good faith of others;
was silly, vain, ridiculous, and there
S no one who cares enough for me to
,cold ME for il"
"Do you want me to scold you?"
''No," she cried. ST want you to for
get all my foolishness. Tomorrow I
will be wiser. I am tired now."
The Judge looked at her in great sur
Prise. What very woman she wasl
lie had thought her superior to the
title foibles of her sex. And how very
lice she was!
He walked about the room moment,
md then he went back to his Office.
Katherine cried a little. She was
very tired. She had never
before been SO lonely. She hated her
'ooms. She hated the legal status of
women. She hated inspectors, and
lated music lessons, and she felt that
The was very cross, and quite right in
being so.
The Judge was not cross, but he did
lot like his rooms, nor his office, and he
began to stop still more frequently to
Zee Katherine, but he gave her no more
points" Neither did he scold her,
md yet Katherine seemed satisfied.
He wanted her to be married in tho
poppy red hat, but she declared it was
lorrid and all out of taste and she much
preferred her gray beaver. But the
Judge did not. He liked the red bon
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