Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-11-05
THAT NILFUL GIRL

ha WILT l. uthfsI
Are We arrived al Victoria-Lon-
dsu p
The next stoppage will be Victoria
Station. You are in London already"
Tie question had been asked timidly,
With a French accent, by girl near the
sunny window of a railway carriage.
The ladies who answered had cast many
= curious glance at her light travelling
costume. She wore summer cotton
dress 0f pale blue and simple straw
lat There was something sweet and
wllsOme IN her face, though the mouth,
Ike the lips OF a spoiled child, decid-
rdy limited possible fits of wilfulness.
Tie energy of an active will shone in
heT dark eyes, though they had softer
anxious look rs the railway-journey
drew near 10 an end. Her hair was
daI6 aubuIn-Teddish gold where it
caught the hight; and the fairness of
her face would have contented even
herself bIt for Obstinate freckles that
nobody else ever saw. The two trou-
oles Of tins Young travellers life had
been fTeckles and Pierre Brun.
Sophie Larique had jus; left French
school There, IN the land where mar
RACES are - often arranged by the par
entS, she had often received on visiting
DAYS not only her father, the old silver
smith from Paris, but with him his
partner, Pierre BTun, her destined huS-
band. Old Larigue. who was full of
Jokes and good humor. had always
laughed at SOphie's objections.
Il want 10 choose for myself" she
would say.
a pretty reason that for not wish
ing 10 marry Pierre, my wllful Sophie!'
her old father would laugh. Just be-
cause | viii. you wont But l know
gOuT heart better than you do; 1 know
cesJ, because | love you best. Have
you any more reasons TO urge against
NV choice, little one 80
st would be some humdrGm life over
tie shop"
What else would suit you, Sophie
Castles, titles, and adventures ?r
At this Sophie smiled life in castle,
with a titled lover to Woo and wed her
this had been her dream all her life
OF at least all her life till she met Lud-
Wig HOlZ, the art-student.
ANY more objections ?'' her father
would ask and, if Sophie only blushed,
be would begin TO joke and tease her
about Ludwig HOlz, whom she had met
once when she had taken fancy for
studying art at the Louvre too.
You need not laugh az poor Lud-
wigs romantic attachment" Sophie
would say at last, with sigh. ''He is
Of agOod Bavarian family; he has sworn
fidelity
And be Will go back to Munich and
marry - her father would finish.
He won't -
Nonsense I You will see - Then,
kissing her. with loving persuasion,
while his white locks lay against her
auburn hair-''You will be happy if
you marry Pierre Brun. Why not ?''
He only drones at work and says he
loves me-
Then you shall come home next
week. | shall have holiday soon, and
you shall have wedding"
Il won't y
And with that, at the last interview
with her father on vIsiting-day at
school Sophie had run out of the draw
ng-room.
Though still at school-for her freaks
and wlltul ways had kept her back In
eyerything-she was past nineteen, AMI
her chief friend was one of the teach
eFs, MademoiSelle Melanie.
Just as Sophie had rushed in tenn
per out Of the drawing-room, Madem-
Olselle Melanie had met her, and asked
plsyfuly-
What is the matter now? Is it
The fTeckles or Pierre BUun 2"
Don't laugh at me!' cried Sophie
then, with stamp of her little foot
Take me home next week indeed he
Shall hot get me He shall not !"
III you will stop talking 10 yourself"
said Nademoiselle Melanie, 81 will tell
you something. was out On the beach
Just now, and thought L saw you at
another Of your freaks, perched on
Fock. 1t was your figure, your hair,
your face, even your eyes but''-slyly
as drew near Iperceived that there
were 10 OfTeckles-not eyena microscope
could ind them and the young lady
was very handsome. | had even called
your name, and | felt it 50 awkward
tnat l aEO.0giZed and ran away She Is
Tue girl from that lonely house far up
the coast. declare, Sophie dear, If
you could only manage to be handsome,
You ~ould be nearly as charming ~
HGO away !" said Sophie, half laugh
ing, but Ike child in a bad temper.
Later in the day Madame Dupln, the
olu mistress of the school, shook her
Iace cap sadly and shrugged her shoul-
uers, as she heard worse and worse re-
ports OF Souhie.
That wilful girl What can be done?
her father VIII take her home next
week, and she will be married, and We
snail Lave peace; but somebody else
Won |. Alas, it is very sad let her
oe sent en- peaitence to the muslc-Toom
.4I supper-time, to occupy herself with
the piano
Al supner-time no sound had been
heard. The music-room was strewn
win keys, levers, little Ieather-covered
hammers, every bit of ivory and wood
uust made the,mechanism of the instru-
ment and even the case was in pieces.
sophie was sitting in the middle build
iug castle with al the bits.
:. have been occupying myself with
tne piano, she said 81 can put It to-
seIher again, though perhaps not the
1ao this little outbreak MAS the last
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