Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26

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feel as IL I should never come round
again; And / do think You might have
helped me more"
"My dear Laura y0G Know this en-
tertGnment 10 against my principles in
every way. How, therefore. could
help you without pcrjuring myself
and then. know the more trouble such
an AGAR gives you. .he more you enjoy
swell. considering that all the trouble
II on yoor account" +1 ~
"Butno at my desire, my dear. lam
sure y0n will not maintain that 4 asked
you 20 give a ball for INV coming of age.
Why, when people are one aud twenty.
should they go and advertise the melan-
choly fact aloud TO all their nl-Batured
acquaihtances. who would always have
n hold upon them in afier years. when
perhaps they would be glad enough TO
appear young? IL is simply giving all
the gossips you know handle when
they want To- say ill-natured things"
Pooh! Stuff Some people may want
TO conceal their age. 'Heiresses never
need. Oh. but tea Is truly refreshing.
Do take sOme.''
THANK YOU" SAID Margaret Bar
rington, with an odd little smile rs she
poured cupful Of the beverage out,
and carrying IL To the bay window. stood
IN that recess, and looked out while she
drank II.
She was n considerable hciress. and n
great many people said she was y
beauty. This day she attained her ma
iOrIty, and entered upon full and UNI
controlled possession of her fortune and
property. Margaret's mother had died
mt the girls birth. Her father had
taken NO second wife. and she had lost
him when she was thirteen years old.
She and Inc had been alone in the world,
so far as having any near relations went.
Mrs. Pierce was Margaret's own cousin,
though many years older than herself
She had been q Miss Cathcart, poor and
pretty, and she had at an early age mar
ried Robert Pierce, rich manufacturer
Of a great citys Whose money was abun-,
dant, II his family was doubtful To
him-Mr. Pierce and his wife, the
guardianship of the young heircss had
been consigned, not because the late Mr..
Barringtonco considered them the most
desirable persons to bring up young
girl-not because he liked their style,
or their friends, or their mode of life,
but because Laura Pierce was the only
relation his girl hal, and because, with
all her foibles. she was a kind-hearted
woman, and because Mr.. Pierce, if not
gentleman, in Mr. BarringtOn's sense
OF the word, was also n kindly natlired
man. and away from his home, whore
he was indulgcnt 20 weakness, was a
keen, shrcwd man of business, and hon
est withal--who would take care of
Margarct's money as il it were his own
Stringent provisions for the education
Of the Young lddy woe made In her
fathers iva u; t,tdhe had 70 mo Mrs
Pierce's plaintive expression, enioyed
cUerg. allpRntagea which the best schools.
the first masters, the most accomplished
miStrcsscs, could give. She hall-passed,
with honor affiliations Ibrisl ling with
difficulties; shehad imbibed an immcnse
amount of condensed science, condensed
art, condensed theory of music, general
facts, music and languages. She had
never been allowed To go out alone; she
had been aiken 90 hear the most cele-
brateil singers and MUSICIANS. 70 lect-
ures, to concerts. to- literary and scion
tiiic tournaments; she had been strictly
kept aloof from anything like woman's
rights ON the one hand. and a vulgar
Irritation on the other With the best
intentions in the world her pastors and
masters had employed every energy to
make her into n model young lady-a
model in n social. a domestic, benevo-
/ lent point Of view. The Established
Church had seen after her morals aud
religious belief; she had learnt po-
litical economy. because she would some
| day have an estate TO manage; many
other things had been done TO impro re
and make her what she ought To be.
And with what result? The result
that when, nj nineteen years of AGE. she
was committed into the hands -Of her
guardian and his vile, as n finished
young lady. il was found that nll her
training had not rspoilcd her Rad not
been able tO prevent her from deciding
Tor herself ON many matters; had not
made her less incorrigibly natural and
outSpokcn. She did not altogether be-
licyc in the Church of England. She
said she dial not understand Nhgner' $
music. She said she thought there was
a great deal Of truth In what the
woman = rights ladies said for them
selves. She said she did not see any
harm in n Irritation. She said she did
not believe that her first duty was to be
sure she married n man who would
look aftoryher money. andTtake care of
her SHE said shcIwas not going TO
marry any one at all until long after She
was twenty-One-until she had tried
whether she could not look Tafterhcr
money for herself. She said many 9TH
or things of a HE nature, ndl Loudly,
but with very soft, delightful voice.
and with ~ smile ut once soft and bright.
MorcOyef, she sand she dilt1hot csifc
much about girls, and she thought u
must he bccause she had never known
nnything but giifS. = She had no special
friend Ia whom she wrote daily half n
reanl Of paper. aud calledl it h5letters
She had struck up q great friendship
with Master Thomas Pierce. the eldest
hope or her guardian. and, laura his
wife. Thomas and his sisters adored
her. She had early gained from Mr..
Pierce the soqbriquet Of The lncor-
rigible," md he had called her by it
ever since.t atts - -
Yet Margaret, as she stood in the
window, silently slipping her tea, and so
allowing me time for this. long digress-
ion, did not look = very incUrrfgible
4 person. ora very bad person in any
way. Indeed, one was particularly
struck with the womanly softness of all
her traits n softnesstempered by GER
tain fire, but which neverfor a moment
disappeared. She was indisputably q
4 beautiful creature; tall, and formed on
the lines Of n Juno rather than of a
tiebe. none Of her festures, taken sefaE
rately. could be called handsome: bu.
The toHt e'lseHbie wasicharming.is When
she. smiled, asunny, generous smile, opG
quite forgot that Der fhoe sATasi ih6ra
broad than oval one par,loned, the, ir.
Regular shape Of hef nose. because no
! other nose wOulti- -have been sniaad- "a
the rest of her face; and there was nc
i possibility, of disputing the ,beauty OF
Ill her rid odd bair( ~ tha ty,Ie 'r;t;.r