Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-03-23

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isten to this abominable fool p Wig
orous nudges on all the angles she pre-.
sented, however, brought Aunt Eunice
to The recollection OF herself, and she
SIN othered her wrath temporarily, only
to have it blaze up again at the "Wil-
low valley o. of Grosvenor asking Pa
tience to marry him when he had seen
her but three minutes, az she hoarsely
whispered. What Aunt Eunice would
have said if she had waited to hear the
duet Of Reginald and Lady Jane, "Sing
Boob to you-pooh, pooh to you + and
that's what 1 shall say" whether che
would have found anything delighting
and amusing in the attitude and play OF
the three handsome young dragons
gotten up regardless Of expense IN the
Botticellian style, perceptively in
teuse, and consummately UTTER" don't
know. For when the lovely sunhower
scene OF the travcsty came, and Gros-
yenor dawned on us again in
his beauty, followed by his twenty
maidens with their archaic mandolins
and Tyres and zithers in hand, lovely
little shapes out OF Fra Angelico's pic.
lures, wavering and bowing and bend
ing and turning and falling in rhyth-
mical circles abont him, like so many
etherealized sunaowers, each yearning
with her face toward the god, Aunt
Eunice rose in her might, her bonnet
falling into her hand. Come along"
she said aloud" come along with me,
every one of you. won't sit here an
other minute and see people gaping at
fools that behave exactly as our Rosalie
does with that extraordinary fool OF a
Rivasl" They might have heard her
all across the theater. | don't know
whether they did or not. For, If You
will believe 1t. we dared do nothing
else than obey her; W. couldn't sit still
after that, and we couldn't let Aunt
Eunice go Off alone in that infuriated
state, aud, one and all, We rose and
went after her. Emeliue and Charles
and John and Marion aud Joe aud Hal
and and the remainder. certainly af-
fording a spectacle Of as great fools as
those upon the stage.
However, we knew We should aoc the
play again; and, for the rest OF it. IL
I har fstR e. Avty4 E-a,a.
swerel we'll enough for orr Lady Jane,
and We had a roaring farce all to our
selves on the way home with our quips
/ and Jokes over Aunt Eluice's indignation
all but little Rosalie, who sat rather
pale aud still through the uproar, and
reading her libretto quite stldiously.
Our hilarity supported Us over the
tca-table. and We had separated TO
dress for the fancy party, having over.
como Aunt Eunice's objections, when,
Just a. closed my door, heard sud
den little vail from the garden under
my window. Looking out through my
shutter l saw Rosa among the weeds
in her sunAover bed, her hands upon
her face, and crying bitterly. There
/ were no blossoms on those two sun
/ flower stems. Joe went stalking over
toward her "Oh |" she said. looking
up, her face lovelier than ever
thought il was before, as one last ray
of sunlight played in the streaming
tears and the fading blushes and the
shining azure eyes, would you have
thought it, Rivas has taken my sun.
flowers that he knew i was nursing so
He is going to be Apollo, and he says
they suit him so much better, aud he
will wear them tonight, and paint
them tomorrow when they begin to
droop, he says. with the kisses of the
of the sun god. And he picked them
while I was gone. He-he stole
| them r.
"Rivas be dashed" heard Joe say,
or something of the sort.
/" And-and-oh, Joe, Is il true?
Have you taken your passage for Mel
boune1 Oh, Joe, aren't you going to
take me with youl" And out went the
white arms 10 Joe.
But Joe was stoutly drawing back.
L" don't know as l want to-" he said =.
And then came such another little vail,
and Rosa had turned away, hiding her
face in the hollow Of her pretty lifted
elbows.
am a strictly honorable person. l
scorn eavesdFopping. / pulled down
the shade. knew how IL was all going
to end after that. Just as well IS did
when passed an arbor in Gladys gar
den that night after almost every one
had been obliged to seek shelter from
the chilly dews, and saw the crumpled