News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Daisy'S Love.
"There I" said Herbert Winfield.

''There p said Herbert Winfield.
He was sitting on the sunny south
doorstep of the great, fragrant, hay
scented barn, where the sunbeams inter
laced each other like slender, waving
threads of gold, and the boughs of the
old button-ball tree moved softly in the
summer breeze.
He was brieht-eyed, bright-faced
young fellow, dressed in cool, white
linen suit, with the glitter of diamond
stud at his throat, and slender, shapely
hands, and close beside him Daisy Wal.
lace sat with the pretty hands folded Oh
her lap.
She was daisy by nature as well as
by name-a fresh-faced, sunny haired
little creature, whose big, brown eyes
were shaded by long, dark lashes, and
whose nose turned up at the end the
least bit in the world, giving roguish
piquancy to the whole expression of her
countenance.
''How did you do it? % said Daisy,
WILn hCE SCdISGb ups l1stAL anu L41C DLOhA
eyes limpid with interest.
ooh, managed" said Herbert.
He had split q my gold dollar in two
and wrought hole in each through
which he had passed slender blue rib
bons.
DO you like them, Daisy ?"
every much"
"Then you shall wear one and | the
other, as pledges of our engagement.
Daisy blushed and laughed, as Her
bert suspended the golden trinket round
her neck, and then glanced down at the
broad engagement ring, that circled the
forefnger of her left hand, Herbert's
eve following her look.
"You do not regret it, D4isy?"
"Regret it? No. Herbert T.
Because, Daisy, you are so young 7
81 am not too young to know my owl
mind, Herbert" she said, with an as
sumption of dignity which was yer,
pretty to look upon. 81 was sixteen las
week r
Sixteen! Daisy Wallace felt all tn,
dignity of her mature years. Sixteel
years old and engaged
And they sat there, under the SHADOW
Of the butten-ball tree, with tn
fragrance of the new hay coming eve
and anon to their senses, talking of tn
house which was one day to be theirs
and even deciding, in boy and gin
fashion, what was to be the color of thei
carpets, and the special flowers to b
planted in the garden, and even the pat
tern of the antique furniture which wa
to decorate Herbert's library
"How foolish we areP r. he said, Q
length, starting up with laugh.
"Yes, but it is very pleasant to b
foolish l'' Daisy answered, smiling an
blushing in the same instant.
Yet, engaged lovers though the
we're, Daisy had woman's coquettis
little instincts, and in the course of tim
they wrought trouble between I'll
young hearts
81 don't like it, Daisy J! Herbert sal
stoutly.
"That's because you are so old-fas
icMuASr IDEAS" said Daisy, cree
ing her Slight figure, to look as digr
fed as possible. Cali the girls are d
lighted with Mr.. Sykesleigb."
"All the girls are not engaged to
married p retorted Herbert, bitterly.
"Does it follow that because am
gagged am to he prisoner ?"
"Daisy, you know better than that.
"You are too exacting, Herbert.
hope YOU are not going to turn Jealo
lover"
"I am not jealous, Daisy, he q
swered, a little coldly; "but / do
like to see the woman who is to be
wife receiving attentions from IN
whose character is, to say the best OF
uncertain.
Daisy pouted, and tore the petals
the bunch of roses she wore in her be
"You will not encourage him
more, Daisy % pleaded Herbert after
moment of silence.
81 have not encouraged him, FL
bert"
cat all events" Herbert Winfield
swered, "you know how feel upon
subject now, and [ trust you will resp
my opinions"
, He went away, for the first time d
ing their engagement. without Ii
and Daisy, standing there on the piaz
thought how very unreasonable Herb
Winfield was growing.
But a pretty girl of sixteen can
always regulate her freaks and fanc'
as if he were a staid matron OF SIX
forty-and the very next day Miss Da
allowed herself to be ooaxed to g pic
= party, where Mr.. Revere sykesleish
one of the principal actors, and,