The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-05
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"You need not fear that will dis
grace the congregation Of st. Etheldreda
on Easter Sunday" Y 'E
And this pledge evidently relieved
the mind Of Miss Olairville.
And the two elegant sisters did not
take the trouble, when Captain Braba-
zin dropped in to five O'Clock tea, to
send up word to Madeline that there
was company in the perlor. '
''L suppose she don't care to see me-"
the captain thought, With a sinking
heart, when at aast be went away, after
having fingered as long as politeness
"ou1a ..I admit @amls. eIa
Madeline said to herself as, from her
window, she saw his retreating figure,
sauhter SLOWLY down the street. ~
I'Well, 4 matters less than ever now
about the Easter suit. ,
Nobody will know whether have
ono or not" .a..
But when Easter Eve came. and Mad
cline was crying softly in her own room,
to think Of the radiant spring sunset
that was flooding, all the world'at home,
tho waiter came grinning up to the.
door.
"Please, Miss Maddy," he said,
''hyar's basket O laylocks. -, q.
'keal springy-smellin', 1 do declared
"Wid de cappen's card - Oappen
Brabazan, missr"
Madeline uttered an exclamation of
delight. ">
Oh, the lovely purple thingsI Clusters
of lilac fragrance.
Delicious reminders of the springtide
at home.
Oh, how kind it was Of Captain Brsb-
azan to remember that she was coun::
try girl, exiled here among brick walls.
Madame Cressonde's young women
sat up until twelve O'Clock that night,
to finish the three elegant costumes
which Mrs. Clairvllle and her daughters
ordered.
The three bonnets did not come home
until Sunday morning.
But Madeline watched them sail forth
to church, to the glitter of golden sun
beams and the changing of melodious
bells, like three fashion plates.
Aud then she put on her plain little
"made-ever dress' and. taking fresh
cluster of lilacs from the vase of water,
pinned it across the split-straw hat.
"There," she thought as she tied the
strings under her chin. emo Paris exotic
ever looked half so sweet rs thatl ..
"And I am sure Heaven will incline
it's ear no less favorabIy to my prayers
than if I went to St. Etheldreda's in
Worth's newest design"
And she crept to the little church in
tleadjoining street, which had long been
out of fashion. and where the specialized
old clergyman 'practiced all the austeri-
ties Of the early fathers, through dire
necessity.
Easter Sunday! ....
She sat there, listening to the anthems.
and thinking OF the dear ones at home,
and wondering if cousin Zephaniah and
his poor old wife would ever know that
she, Madeline Moray, had cast her mite
to relieve their sore necessities, and
recalling vaguely thepoor widow whose
offering had once been 30 precious in the
hottest of eyes, 's
Hers was not much now, but she also
had given it from free and willing
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AS she moved quietly, and with re-
weren't, downoast eyes, out of the ohuroh,
some one stepped to hor side.
"You have dropped something, Miss
Moray" said Captain Brabazan.
And he held up the cluster of lilacs.
dropping now, and little faded. r.at.
She put her hand up to her bonnet
with scarlet blush. n,ulj
"Your hlacs, Captain BrabazNn." she
HIS saee bsightoned. 'I7I
II am proud that you deemed them
worthy of your wearing. .,.
''Yonr co,isin tod me that you was
such an anohorite that you did not care
for flowers, or. books. or sooiety-that
you were not even going to church on
Easter Sunday s.y.s,<
"I2" cried Madeline.
"Oh, Captain Brabazan, like all
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II cried oyer your flowers when they
came last night.
""They seemed to me like dear friends
from home. 'ts "a.
"And wore them in my bonnet be-
cause because T could nots affordarti.
fcal blossoms.
''Therel now you know Just how poor
I am" >FSS~
Aud she laughed, even while the
roseate tinge suffused her cheek.
IT do not know5whether you are poor
or not" said he; "but I do know that
think yen the nearest t., perfection; of
any girl whom ever saw. !" s1 Il
"May tell you all about it2" she
asked hurriedly, ''for I do not want you
to think me ayaricious or semi, barbarian,
as my cousins sometimes pronounce me.
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