Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-02-10
.yAL'S VALENTINE.

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yAL'S VALENTINE. tts x
Miss Yalentia Wharncliffe was the
name on her new card plate, and she
could not help thinking it looked quite
like the name in novel, whether she
looked like a heroine there or not. She
WAS pretty enough for a heroine, though,
if that were alias pretty a little piece
Asof flesh and Blood rs ever trod the streets
of Boston. And if you challenge me on
that, | shall have to ask you if great
startled brown eyes under that tangle of
golden hair, only whose edge was to be
seen beneath the black fox turban hat;
ifa straight little nose; eXquisitely cut
s-1ips, whose dimpled smile showed teeth
Ikea row of pearls; a velvet skin, all
snow and blush; a pink, soft chin, half
hidden again in the black fox wrap that
hid the round slender shape-if there
was anything but beauty in all that
"a dazzling combinations For that ispretty
Val Whafnc!itfe as she paused OIL the
steps of her fathers mansion, and
glanced up and down the street for the
carriage, while absently opening hel
wallet.
She had just come home to her fa-
ther, after ten years sojourn at her
N schools and finishing seminaries, having
vi seen him only in few of her vacations,
' and only just enough to foster an i'm
mense awe and admiration, and an in
tense desire to stand well in his eyes.
He had lost his wife ten years ago, and
=. had lived abroad most of the time since
then. He was so silent and so grave
that she dared address him none OF her
= familiarities, feeling as if he were sitting
in Judgment on her, and seeing where
sts she fell short of her dead mother per-
fections; and yet he was SO gracious, so
handsome, so learned, SO grand in her
eyes, that she simply adored him.
She had on her mothers beautiful
fufs now, given long since by rich old
Uncle who never gave anything else.
A. Sic did not exactly know whether her
father was rich or not; that is, for the
Life they led. He had made her his
hhotisekeeper, and told her there was ne
cessity of exercising care in the place;
and she had not quite understood
whether for the sake of economy or for
the sake of making her good house
keeper; and she was thinking whether
the purchase she was about to make
were quite warranted; and opening her
!, wallet, had taken out the card and the
hundred-dollar bill just given her for
1.-The party outfit, to put them away more
neatly, when a gust of the sharp Febru-
ary wind came ruffiing round the corn
err and snatched it from her fingers,
and whirled it away into the air, and
out of sight, all in an instant. She gave
an involuntary cry, and darted after it,
but to no purpose-here, there, every
where, it had sailed far over the house
tops, and there an end. She burst into
tears as the horses came prancing to the
door, sent them away, and went back
into the house.. 'ii''"
What under the heavens was she to
dop Tell her fatherp Not for the
world. He would probably never trust
herewith another cent. He would nat
urally bring back that horrid old Mrs.
Pynshyn, and put her over her head
again for housekeeper. He would nev-
erlook at her without thinking of her
indifference to his wishes, of her care
lessness when he had so particularly en-
Joined care upon her. He would say
fshe was just child again-she, seven
teen years old-and had better put off
balls and parties and debut till she
~" ~ out5n W O"no o"i VI .no 'noh-
ey gwen her TO buy gown with. And
anyway she dared not tell him. And
once up IN her own room, she tore OIL
her tnings, threw nerseh down, and
/, criee un eyes: and lace were swollen
Z PAST recognrion, and q blazing head
acne TOOK the place OF the days expect
l.e .ed pleasure. 3,,...,..,,, no
IA And how was she to conceal the thing,
anyway the sentence that kept
. buzzing through her brain like "a bee
h with a'sting. Pinch on the housekeep-
n ingp Winter would be over long enough
sbefore she could save half of the sum
ig by any such doings as shutting off but
. ter and eggs and sugar, and making
!, Susette boil the coffee over second day
3 az allowing that she could persuade her
,n father to think that the coffee was fresh
. ---by buying second cuts of beef, by
making entrees of what they usually
ju gave the, poor Foleys. Even if she dis
= missed the table-girl, and got along with
4 martha, the house-maid, under the plea
that she could not suit herself yet with
n, another, that would not give her any
part OF the money in season to. use it.;
she must have it to-day, or not at all.
She had nothing to pledge for any
money, for her father had not Z vet