Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05
Observation-Disclosures WE'LL

| knew it was he the first instant
glanced at him, as he stepped into the ele-
vator, and then, seeing lady, took off his
hat and stood there with it in his hand,
while others filed in and seated themselves.
wondered if he had seen me. hoped in
heaven he had not 1t was not very bright
In the place, and cast down my eyes with
truly ostrich-like sagacity, forgetting
could be- seen if did not see /; forgetting,
too, the mirrors lining the box if one hap
pened to look in them. However, at the
second aoor he left, and went on, thank.
full had not been obliged to make the stir
of moving out before he did.
| would not have gone down to dinner
that day If / could have helped it, said to
myself-no5 although mamma had asked
the Coverings to dine, and my new garnet
velvet mad just come home. But mamma
would have made such song of it that one
thing would be as bad as the other. was
hardly inside my room when | locked the
door and fell on the bed so faint that /
Should have died if at last l had not been
able to cry-a good long refreshing cry that
lasted till / grew so angry with myself it
dried my tears. And then Amy came to
the door, but told her she must go along
into mamma's room she couldn't come In
there. And she went away declaring it was
fine time Of day if tainted away, and cried
myself III, and locked my sister out of her
room, all because / had happened to meet
Loring Richards in the elevator five years
after our boy.and-girl engagement was
broken.
call it boy and girl engagement but
it had been life of my life, and it had al
most torn my heart out in coming to an
end. And what had he cared-the great
handsome creature, standing there without
a line upon his face that told of any trou.
BILE it had been to him, who had left me to
suffer ali had to suffer alone: Not go
down to dinner? / would go if l went up
in chariot Of fire directly afterward. 1
sprang mp and bathed my face and pow
dered it till it was cool, and unlocked the
door and called Amy, and sat bent over a
novel and Thoroughly absorbed in it, my
hair streaming around my face and sheul-
ders, till she was dressed, having to hurry
little for some caller in the parlor. Then
| blew off my powder, took hot bath,
called Davis and had her brush my hair
until it tiDgled, and put on the garnet vel
vet with its creamy duchess lace and the
yellow pesrls-everybody dressed SO at that
hotel | only came near breaking down
when Davis, not being able to find jewel
| wanted, ] tumbled over the things my
self, and little old miniature that nobody
knew had kept, tumbled from its hidin :
place and showed me for half an instant
the proud, grave face. But ! recovered
presently, and looked in the glass and de-
fled him to tell that cared a straw, even
If ne saw me in the vast caravansary OF
the splendid hotel dining. room, with its
chandeliers, is mirrors, its frescoes and its
throng. And anybody would have been
justified In making such remarks as were
convenient concerning my vanity who
could have known the second thought that
flashed through me as l looked in that
glass and saw the olive oval with its rich
flush, the dark and glowing eye, the dewy
lip, the clear soft outlines. Ii / thought il
was picture Loring Richards or anothe.
might be glad to see, how could help the
thought
The Coverings were waiting when l went
into re parlor, mamma and Amy, who had
become used to my caprices in five years,
talking as if they were not half worried to
death for fear was not going to dine at ali
-aii mammals soul being deeply concerned
in doing the Coverings honor, for she
meant that Amy should marry the doctor,
IL obliged to give up hope of my accepting
Mr.. Coverings bonds and stocks. And il
was condescension, in q manner, for them
to dine with us, anyway, at hotel-the
aristocrats of the avenue in general de-
spising the cuisine and the herd of the vul.
gar VINO get their two or three days yearly
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Gratis in particular, and cruelty conservative
in practice and principle.
So we went down. And mamma sailed in
with Mr.. lowering, and Amy with the
doctor, and followed with Julia Lowering
whose little soul curled all up at contact
with the crowd, like sea-anemone wher
you touch it; and just at the door my train
caught on carpet-hook, and couple o.
servants made haste to loosen it, but not
before gentleman had stopped and set il
free, aud bowed without looking up, and
passed Oh, and it was Loring Richards, and
he had not known me again. So near me,
and had not known me ! Once the air my
garments brushed would have thrilled him
through and through Add you can inns G
inc if knew whether were eating gumbt
soup, or Blue Point oysters, or what not
alter tnat w nat WAS LOrlng plCnaIU
doing there? Who was the lady he JOINED
in the hall! Had he married. Was h
here, possibly, on his wedding journey
Had he, then, forgotten me,
If it had not been for mammals claret
which she quietly pushed toward me, in ,
minute ! should have fallen off my chair
but that brought the blood back. Forgot
ten met Well, why should / be the ONLY
one to remember! Let me forget. Alas
had / not been trying to forget for fv'
years But leaned over my plate to asl
MIR. Lowering question, the length o
whose reply 1 knew would be like spoo
silk, warranted three hundred yards ant
was hanging on his words, when my eye
caught sight Of person who had just com,
in, and was seated few tables distant, hat
taken out newspaper and was neve
glancipg up from the columns. A chat
was turned down near him, and it remained
vacant for some time. For his bride? No
man does not come down to dinner ant
leave his bride to follow alone. For hi
wife of longer date, When had the op
portunity OF another look, q dazzling Great
ure sat there-a golden.heaied darling
radiantly as if a star had turned rose
Was not ashamed of myself to wish t
look that way What did l care for Lorin
Richards, or his wife either, if he had one
Not in that direction did l turn n,