The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
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glossy brown braids, and her pretty
blue dress floating around her like an
azure cloud.
Only Is, and very fair and lovely was
u little Rosa-a trihe spoiled and
wilful, perhaps, but what else could one
expect? Every one petted and made
much of her-every one smiled at her
pretty, kittenish way-and Clarence
Hyde thought her the fairest specimen
Of feminine humanity that eve the sun
shone on.
Lizzy Eldon made room for her sis
ter-Lizzie, just one year younger and
scarcely less fair yet very different in
character. Lizzie was quite, and sage
and demure, while Rosa ratified away
like a merry mountain stream flowing
over It's messy stones. Lizzy thought
her sister perfection, while Rosa was
lecturing Lizzy in a capricious fashion,
and laying down the law to her after
the most aptAoved n of elderly
sisters.
How nice it must beto be engaged"
said Lizzy, with a half-eneouraging
smile, as Rosa paused at the glass to
adjust her hair. 81 wish / was en-
gagged"
"You? Oh, you are nothing but a
child" Rosa said, patronizmgly.
''There-give me my pocket handker-
chief"
And away she went, light and 1.-the as
a butterfly.
Clarence Hyde was in the parlor anx-
iously awaiting her coming, but Clar-
ence had rather a disturbed face. He
wa a well-made, handsome young fell
low, with laughing, wine-brown eyes,
straight features, and brown hair thrown
back from a broad, frank brow.
"Why, what makes you look so
sober?" was Rosa's first question, when
the ~ceremonials of greeting were gone
through with, and she had had time to
take a good look into his face.
'Sober? do I?7
He was playing rather restlessly with
the crimson cord that Topped back the
white muslin draperies of the pretty bay
window that made Mrs. Eldon's cottage
look like one of the lovely rustic habi-
tations you see in old English engrav-
ings.
Exactly as if you had the toothache
or bad conscience"
Clarence laughed in spite of himself.
"You are wrong, then, my little rid
dle-guesser; | am afflicted with neither
the one or the other"
Well, what is it, then?"
Rosa, what should You say if it
were to become necessary to defer our
marriage for some timer
A shadow came over the infantiIe
bloom aud freshness of Rosa's face.
"To defer our marriage, Clarence?
1 can't imagine what You mean"
Listen, Rosa, and / win tell you.
My uncle has just come from California,
very poor and a confirmed invalid. /
am his only surviving relative, and to
me he naturally appealed for prOtec-
ton and companionship. / must give
him q home, Rosa. You know / had
laid upjust enough to begin housekeep-
ing Ia q quiet, economical sort of way,
but the new plan viii necessarily alter
all my arrangements"
Il never heard of any uncle before"
DO, dearest; i knew little Of him
nothing personally, as he never visited
my fathers during his lifetime"
Rosass face was turned away from
Clarence Hyde's; she was silently twist
ing q piece of paper round and round
her slender forefinger.
Rosa he said, after waiting a min
ute or two for her tomake some remark,
tell me honestly, dear one, which you
~prefer-to begin housekeeping On this
new scale-one more frugal and hum
bic than / had originally hoped and IN
tended-0r To defer Onr marriage until
/ can earn enough to carry out those
original arrangements? r.
She was silent fora moment, then she
answered In a voice which seemed to
chill Clarence's buoyant young heart
ssNeitherW
Rosa he exclaimed, lido not un-
derstand YOU
81 spoke plainly enough. "Neitherln
"Doyou mean that"
mean that you must either give up
your uncle or me. After all that has
been said and known of our engagement
after its publicity and length, / certainly
can not consent TO d further postpone
ment. And we shall be poor enough il
we marry Immediately, without filing
our house with needy relatives
Clarence Hyde looked at his fair f.
ancee in perfect amazement. Never In
the whole course of their acquaintance
had he seen this phase Of character. He
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