The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-11-28

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face. Her long eyelashes were for the
most part downcast. If she looked up,
the glances from her beautiful brown
eyes seemed to him to be modest and
intelligent. lie noticed that when she
talked TO her neighbor her voice was
low and gentle; how different she seemed
from all the other women! How simple,
how womanly, how GOOD, was the ex-
preston in her quiet face! Who was
she, he wondered, and then suddenly
he recollected; of course this was Miss
Rose the Quakeress."
After dinner, when the gentlemen
joined the ladies, he went straight up
to her and sat down beside her.
"My sister told me who you were,
Miss Rose, so you must forgive me for
introducing myself. May sit here and
talk to you?"
ooh yesr' Her eyes fell and a bright
color rose in her cheeks.
81 have been long time out of Eng
land, travelling in Eastern countries, and
you can't think how odd English society
seems to me now | have come back to
it,"
| "Yes?'' still with downcast eyes,
playing with the dovc-colored folds of
her dress.
| "The women, for instance, they look
SO strange; so--almost bold and unfemi-
lime. l suppose it is because my eye is
ltnaccustomed. Now you, for instance,
You remind me more, do you know, of
the women of the East, than anybody l
haye seen since have been home"
"Oh! Are they not very ignorant,
poor things?" Up went the brown eyes
flashing into his look of innocent sur
prise.
Jack laughed. "Ah-you had me
there. do not mean that it is in their
ignorance and want of education that
you remind me of them.''
"Oh, am very glad of thatr' with
little effusion that was complimentary.
81 should not like you to think me ig-
norant."
81 am sure you are not" answered
Jack very fervently, although why he
was so sure of it he would have been
puzzled to say. He was, however, very
certain that Miss Rose had the loveliest
eyes and the sweetest manner of anv
woman he had ever met, including all
the Eastern lIouris upon whom his
memory dwelt with so much fondness.
He devoted himself to her the whole
evening, and during the next day it was
remarked that the gray frock-which
by daylight was of cashmere instead of
silk-was never without the attendant
figure of handsome Jack Dormer in
close proximity. Lady Ellerton and her
easy-going husband, who had promised
to do his part-which, as his wife said.
was only to hold his tongue-looked on
with amusement and satisfaction. As
to the Quakeress herself, it is difficult
to explain exactly what was in her
mind about the gigantic fraud she was
perpetrating upon her innocent victim.
She was very reticent upon the subject
even when chance threw her alone in
the society of her friend, and received
the laughing congratulations upon her
acting with an extraordinary quietness
and Il silence which was truly remark
able. 1t is, however, to be surmised
that she threw herself into the part CON
ANIoRE, and that the character she was
portraying was in no way unpleasant tC
her; for she evinced much Willingness
to be led into retired shrubbery walks
and showed no indisposltion to unduly
lingcT in distant greenhouses and sum
warehouses; so that Mrs. Ritchie made
spiteful remarks about the aptitude OF
Quakeresses for Irritation, in spite oi
their charity-school-like personal ap
pearance; and Lady Sale murmured
some not original allusions to those
quiescent waters whose springs are sup
posed to run in the depths of profund
ity.
OF course Jack never thought of tax
ing his Quakeress into the stables-th,
only place for which Miss Rose expert
enccd unhealthy longings, which she
had some difficulty in suppressing. Ill
was fond of horses, and would like t
have gone to them himself and smoked
his pipe there in peace and comfort
But it would have been a profanity t.
= have subjected this sweet, old-fashioneC
e blossom of girl to the odors of stables
4 and tobacco, and to the lowering atmos
phere of stable yard. 1t did eros
I Jacks mind once to think that il nigh
i be nuisance to marry so delicate anC
c pure creature, from whom the coars'
q influences of daily life must be for eve
I carefully guarded. But after all, on
: can't have everything, and anything
> was better than the fashionable girl o
0 the present day-such a one, for in
8 stance, as his friend Kyrle had describes
S to him. .. ..
/. As the days wore away, Jack Dorme
was obliged to confess to himself tina
2 he was over head and ears in love witt
!, Miss Rose. U
On the lSst evening of her visit ther
were to be private theatricals at Eos
borough Court. A small farce was t,
! acted before select but not larg
audience, and the name of it was 9Th
: Girl of the Period"
2 care you going to act, Miss Rose?'
: asked Jack of his divinity.
"Oh, no; Icould not" she answered
"No-acting is not in your line, II
be bound; you are the last person OF
earth TO care about making publi