The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31


That night he came home in a perfect
dOwn-pour of rain.
But it's a clearing shower" he as
| serted. Cheerfully. The winds get
ting around to the west, and we're sure
| OF fair day for our iaunt. Luly.
| "WhatV he exclaimed suddenly,
| percoiving the lately detected Luly now
| very absorbed and eager, posing upon
| her Up-lifted fingers a fragment in straw
and blossoms and dangling ribbons.
Spring millinery?'
% Well, 1 wasn't going down there
| looking like a dowdy," mumbled Luly,
with her mouth full of pins
Jacks prediction came true. The
| five days sulk and evenings drench
were succeeded by the bonniest of
May mornings. Luly donncd the
"loye of a bonnet her deft fingers
had fashioned, and managed, somehow,
/ to look most wonderfully bright and
blooming fora person suffering from i'll
| health.
Does your shoulder pain you very
badly, dear?' Jack asked, with tender
solicitude as they pursued Their jour
ney.
The vernal sunshine, streaming in at
! the Car-windOw' 5 Unshaded lower half,
/
| 1t was with an effort, in fact, that she
realized even the existence of the afore-
named troublesome member. But.
come to think of it! well it didn't ache
so perfectly awfdlly rs it had some
times. She should hope not, indeed;
| but it didn't feel Just right now.
The city was all life and animation
and stir. Beautiful fabrics filled the
/ shOp-windOws. Eager-faced people
thronged the walks. So much to do!
This caprici9Us spring had stolen a
march on everybody, and everybody was
making glad haste to get ready for the
welcome invader.
% | must stop here at HollingswOrth' S.
I've some shopping to attend to, and l
want to see about the children S summer
su Is and so on" Luly said.
Jack accompanied her within.
I Il But now l must 90 my way" he
/ declared, after little. Take it easy
here, Luly, and get you some dinner
before going further. Gluck auf."
A lay-hgure stood just before them,
and, in the retirement it afforded, Jack
( let his blonde mustacae brush lightly
the far cheek of his companion.
He came back moment later
g | understand your doctor occupies
new quarters" he said. Wentworth
street, No. 57-one flight up, remember.
/ You want to take a Merivale avenue
car and then he was really gone.
1t was not until nearly the middle OF
the afternoon that Luly found herself
at the designated place. Her eyes
searched the building for some assuring
sign, but found it not. Yet this was
Wentworth street surely, and this was
No. 81, and so she ventured in.
With entire correctness, as she soon
gathered from the diminutive son OF
Africa-garbed Enthusiastically, hammered
a la Chesterfield-whO received her at
the door. Across the polished hard
wood floor and Persian rugs of the
quaintly-appointed little antechambeI
the urbaac servitor led the way, slipped
| a silken pOrtiere, and passed her in
under the gOlden-lilied banneret OF
France that depended from above and
between the gigantic pair of lacquered
vases that lowered one on either side
Immediately there was bowling low
before her, with his hand upon his
heart, a very elegant gentleman in 6
very elegant dress-suit and a blaze o
diamonds at his breast, as he CHANGED
to inteTseCt a bar of sunlight with the
half-circle his person was describing
A name of jetty curls fell to his
| shoulders. A glitter of white teeth
broke from the blackness of his beard
ed lip. Adamantean, indeed, must be
the fancy to which these so patent
charms could make no appeal! Beside:
it was the perfection of fine breeding
Luly thought, with which DR.. NOullairC
performed the simple courtesy of hand
inT her a chair, as it was certainly the
ideal of agreebbleneSs with which, hav.
ing placed himself opposite, he pro
ceeded to speak of the weather and the
topics of the times in English charm
ingly corrupt.
to look about his den a little
low Jar, encircled by an artisticall,
ugly green lizard and hold ng n big
bunch of freshly-cut Jacqueminot roses
. the better to display the design of
rare mosaic that formed the top of tn,
stand on which his arm was resting
Here was curious bit in antique
bronze: here a whimSey in wood cary
/ ing; this painting had a good point o
two.
Luly became so swallowed up in de
light and admiration as to quite los
Z sight of the purpose of her visit, and
was not until there happened to tlasl
into her mind a sudden recollection O
the memorable train for home that sh
remembered to say wherefore it wa
} she had come.
( DR.. Voullaire had her seated at once
"Ah! re rheumatism in re s'Oulder
Ma fOiS, il is one terrible 'urt'
: He took her hand lightly, and made
few swift passes from the shoulde
downward.
Madam is cured" he said, i'm
| pressivcly; and it no more occurred t
lulv to gainsay the statement than
l would have done had he asserted tina
the sun was shining.
Behind the tall screen in a corner h
disappeared, to return a moment late
5 with a tiny vial, half full of a colorles
and an odorless liquid.
; Tree drop everee tree morning
! Madame veel so stay one cured h
smilingly explained; and zis day tw
- week come
Jack rushed into the station in tn
? mere nick of time.
. "WenP" he said, interrogatively
r when he had settled himself beside Lul
, and the train was moving out.
''Oh, I feel like a new creature, Jacl
~ And such a lovely place! No dusty oil
9 bottles and no smelly old medicine;
not one bit like a doctors office an
c way-more like an art museum! An
\ the pictures! Oh, my! Such lots an
4 lots of them-cherubs and cupids an
> dear little Kate Greenawayish figure
and l don't know what. And such
q lovely gentleman, too! Tall and splen
y did"
= "A big Frenchman, eh2' laughe
!, Jack.
q and strong and brave and grand an
n noble, like true knight come forth {
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