The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-18
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81 don't think | care about the nut
ting picnic" said the, rector's daughter.
"Not care about it?" echoed Horatia
Dale. "Why, thought you always went
every year"
$50 l have always done: but | don't
think l shall go this year"
"Ah! l see-jealous" cried Horatia.
81 am notw cried Fannie Forester.
"And no one shall dare to say such a
thing of mel"
Nevertheless, it is true" said Miss
Dale. "You are not going to the nut
ting party because Harvey Carroll has
asked Oriana Van Velsor to accompany
him. Now, deny it if you dare! What
a goose you are, to go pining after man
that doesn't care for your
81 don't pine" said Fanny.
ITO break your heart because Harvey
Carroll prefers the gaudy city tulip to
our little wild rose OF the woodsw
81 don't break my hearth persisted
Fanny.
Come, cheer up" said Horatia laugh
ing. Miss Van Nclsor returns to towr
tomorrow The ward schools begir
next week, and she must take her place
rs second assistant school ma'am in
Peake street. And even if she should
take Harvey Carroll reereant heart witt
her, why, there's this consolation
there's as good fish in the sea as ever
came ont of it,
Il hate vulgar proverbs" said the rec
tors daughter.
"You hate Oriana Van Velsor, vol
mean, said Miss Dale, shrewdly.
"Ioratia," cried Fanny, "if YOU say
another hateful word PHI
Come now Fannie" said Horatia
putting her arms around the waist o.
the sobbing girl, Pm only trying tt
raise your dormant spirit. Don't lie
this conceited city girl think she's break
ing your heart; and don't let Harve,
Carroll suppose he is the only man in tn,
world. Hush! there they come up TIN
garden path~
"Not here?" cried Fanny.
Eyes, here. Why shouldn't Mis-
Oriana vaunt her conquest here as vel
as elsewhere%
II won't see them" cried Fanny.
but you must" commanded Mis-
Dale. do you want her to think YOUR
a blighted blossom? Brush those hi,
drops off yonr eyelashes at once an,
come into the parlor."
And Fanny Forester decided that /
was best to obey her friends counsel.
/ Miss Oriana Van Velsor was a tall
: neutrality-suspicious. young lady
who called herself five and twenty, VIII
wore her hair banged, and general
wore a white lace veil drawn tichtl
over her face, after the most approve,
style.
Harvey Carroll, the handsome villag
lawyer, was well nigh infatuated by he
metropolitan airs and graces, to tn
grief of little Fanny Forester, VIII
up to this time had been his favorit
companion.
10 lose the rich guerdon of Harye
CAROLS love bowed our little countr
girls heart to the very ground, and mad
her think vaguely that it could not be !
very wrong to commit suicide after all
For Fanny had no mother, and the rec
tor, honest man, lived in a world n
books and manuscripts, from which h
emerged reluctantly, three times a day
to eat his distracted meals.
Miss Van Velsor giggled, firted he
fan, as Fanny Forester greeted her in
low voice, scarcely even glancing at Han
yey Carroll.
You're going to the nutting marty
tomorrow, Of course, Miss Forester
said she. Fanny was about to say no bu
she caught Horatia Dale's warning eve
and changed her answer to- -
Yes; ! suppose So"
We are going" said Miss Van Velso
- Mr.. Carroll and /. He has depicte
the delights or a nutting party in suc
vivid colors that / am really quite an,
ious to participate in one. | do hon
it won't rain"
80, it won't rain" said Mr.. Carroll
Il don't think it win rain" said Far
ny, feeling she ought to say sometime
And" Harvey added, oif YOU are ~
provided with an escort, | am sure MI
Van Velsor viii be very glad to have va
join our party" ~
"DeGghted!p chimed in Oriana
y thank YOU" interposed Miss BAL,
before Fanny could reply, s'but Fanny
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