The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-18
A MATTER OF SENTIMENT.

queer-looking little body-ike a buga-
boo in the children's nursery-book, cher
nose went out and mouth went i'm She
wasn't much larger than a girl eight
years old; and she had fallen down eel
lar and broken her wrist, been thrown
out of carriage and put her shoulder
out of joint, and being as bald as baby,
she wore the funniest of small 'russet-
fronts under little ''mob-caps,'' so that
it was no wonder people looked at her
and smiled. Her shrewd, twinkling ewes
usually smiled back. Aunt Remember
cared little what people thought of her.
She was much more occupied in deciding
what she thought of them.
And let me assure you she was no in
significant person in her circle. No fairy
godmother ever was more fearfullv
looked up to-no, looked down to-than
Aunt Remember. She was shrewd, she
was witty, she had sharp tongue of her
Own-more, she was the richest woman
in Peachlands.
She lived with her brother Paul and
his wife, who had three daughters. Peo-
pie said Aunt Remember would leave
her money to one of these daughters.
u.
''to the one who pleased her best" The
thing was to know h0oO to please her
She found fault first with one, then with
the other. Marion was self-willed, Mat
tie was lazy, and Mollie-well, Mollie
had red hair. | do not think it a sin to
have red hair, but Mollie thoughtit was,
Had she not been reproached with it
since her tenderest years? To be sure.
it was soft as silk, and an artist might
have considered the Furnished ripples
very lovely, as they swept away from q
complexion whose pink was prettier than
the tint of any sea-shell; but the color of
her hair was a sore subject with Mollie.
She was never quite happy, unless she
had altogether forgotten the matter, and
as Mollie was usually exceedingly busy,
she generally had a very good success at
forgetting.
Marion was a brunette, very fond of
stylish dress and very ambitious. Matri-
monially, she had fixed her goal very
high. She intended to marry man,
handsome, distinguished and able to
support her in good style. No other
would she look at.
All, my LADY, Aunt Remember
would say, ''you will go through the
world and pick up crooked stickn'
Marion, the eldest, was already TWEEN
ty-four. Matte was twenty-pretty
enough, good enough but Mattie'il
never set the river on fire. complained
Aunt Remember.
think myself that the latter was fond
OF her mportance-careful to keep up
this uncertainty regarding her prefer
ence, for nobody could be certain re-
garding it. But it kept the small house
at Peachlands in constant state of
agitation.
The house itself belonged to Aunt Re-
member, though she had virtually given
it to her brother ten years before. After
her husbands death-for Aunt Re-
member had had husband--she had
transferred it to her brother, when he
came West with his young family.
The furniture also was given him,
with the exception of a parlor suit, which
Aunt Remember was supposed to have
Soda suit of mahogany and gray hair
cloth, which she had owned-bequeath
by her mother-when girl.
| say supposed, because Aunt Remem-
Der was peculiarly reserved and secre-
tive regarding her doings. She never
asked council of her relatives, or of any
one else, but planned and performed ac-
cording to her pleasure.
She required her connections to some
times execute commissions for her of
which they had not the least understand
ing-as, for instance, during the last
few years, since Aunt Remember had
dislocated her shoulder, one of the girls
went quarterly to the office of g. Ever
ard, said office being attached to furni-
ture warehouse, and paid him some
money.
He was a young man, very business
like, but with pleasant, hazel eyes, which
Marion declared "just splendidr' but
curled her delicate nose at the sugges-
ton of Aunt Remember, that Mr..
Charles Eyerard's acquaintance might
be worth cultivating.
NONSENSE The idea of me marry
ing man who keeps little furniture
shop down on Bond streetr' she cried.
"Who are you, missp Your father is
only poor farmer" .s
s. don't always intend to be poor, if
father is. Ishall marry for money" re-
turned Marion. "And not for money
only must have everything"
Humpr' calculated Aunt Remem-
Der; g when Sir Perfection comes court
ing you, let me knowr'
But nobody took offense at Aunt Re-
members sharp speeches.
Matte was requested to carry the next
quarters money to Mr.. Charles Ever
ard, but dGwdled so long at getting
ready that Aunt Remember babe her
take off her bonnet and sit down, and
sent Mollie. t.
You're smart, if you haze got red
hair, Mollie." she said; and, with this
doubtful compliment ringing in her ears,
Mollie set out.
AS have said the color of her hair
was q sore subject with her, and, when
Mr.. Charles Everard first saw her, she
had drawn her veil of soft-gray tissue
down so as almost to cover it. But he