The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-07-24

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est!
why, 1 am; you seem to get about
with great facility
II certainly shall not get it for you.''
''Well. do just as you please; I'd
just ds lief sit in the dark.
i.'lf you don't get match shall 60
out on the piazza again.
81 dare say you're pining too. Was
it an appointment"
This insinuation is more than Miss
Ethel is able to bear with equanimity.
She rises and moves away in the dark
ness.
''You are not angry. hope, he calls
after her.
II am going for MATCH" she re-
plies with marked emphasis.
''One of the patent kind, where .
cap comes down and dog g-cart carries
off the ashes?"
81 shall go up stairs and ask Aunt
Jane to sit with US.
''Then Pll say good night now.
You won't find me when you bring her
down."
..Perhaps it would be as we'll" :"
.e..Come. Ethel. get me match, and
I'll behave like an ANGEL
..All right; here it is then. Let's
talk about China"
.'All right; what shall we say?"
ut seems very far to China" she
returns rather sentimentally. Bob,
you never will know
Never will know how far it is to
China? do know that already, thank
You. This confounded match won t
light
"You will never know" she con-
tinues, with a dignitied ignoring of
his Interpolation, show lonesome it
was while you were gone for
"Did you really miss me. Ethel?'' he
queries, becoming in his turn some
what inclined to spooniness. and in
some mysterious way possessing him.
self of her hand as she stands before
him.
''For you mother" concludes Miss
Mott in a matter-of-fact tone. ''She
missed you dreadfully; though, as
Aunt Jane said. very likely her worry
was chiefly over the scrapes you were
| likely to get into. !"
Your Aunt Jane is nasty old cat;
and she isn't the only disagreeable one
in the family by any means" Bob NUT
ters irately. dropping the soft. warm
hand he had seized.
Whit did you sayP" queried Ethel
with marvellous sweetness. Il didn't
catch the elast.'
Where the young man begins most
annoyingly and impolitely to whistle
s.False Is the Sex" throwing himself
back into the corner of the sofa in Il
| position which would have expressed
nothing short of insolence had there
been light enough for it TO express
anything. Miss Ethel is iptuitively
| aware of his attitude and still more
conscious of the defiance conveyed in
his musical performance.
'sYou never could catch a. tune,
could you. Bob,' she remarks with an
| assumption of sympathy intended TO
| crush the offender utterly.
Master Bob ignores this observance
entirely save for changing his whistle
to 1.-The Shrew of Ballycannon, into
which he infuses a shrillness which
pierces Miss Motifs ears and her armoI
| of indifference at the same time. Ii
there is one song i'm the world she does
| despise. it il .s.Fhe Shrew of -Bally-
| cannon"
"How can you sit there and whistle,
Bob Tracy?" she demands. 'just as il
you don't care at all. | gave you
credit before this for good breeding al
least.n
II only adapt myself to the company
I'm WITH" Bob says indifferently, and
he goes on with 1.-The Shrew of Bally'
cannon"
81 wish you would kindly light that
MATCH" Miss Mott remarks icilyD
"You better strike it on the under
side of the mantel shelf.
You'd better try it yourself" says
Bob, with indifference. ''the old mattel
isn't any good"
sit would occur to some gentlemen
to try another, then," Ethel fetorts
moving away in the darkness ant
seating herself in an armchair on th'
other side of the room.
II shall only break my neck over thu
furniture if try to navigate about il
the dark. I don't know where thu
matches are. Ii you'll bring me on
I'll light the gas"
This transparent ruse on the part 0
Mr. Tracy to make her return to hin
is utterly futile. Ethel remains wher
she is, replying with great scorn:
''You know perfectly well, wher
the matchbox is" She laughs con
temptaously and continues: "They'v
stood in the same corner of that man
uepiece ever since that Fourth of Jul,
when you climbed up and stole then
and set fire to the lace curtains"
cat your suggestion. ------------
"Because was afraid of Aunt Jan
and you weren't, or said you weren't
Didn't prove it?"
81 don't know how you proved it"
s'There are some people who can
see the most obvious things"
And once more, with the most oil
stranerons rudeness. he relapsed int