Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-25

: Sir Alfred talked to her: so of cours
Colonel Norreys gave his attention Il
, Alice when the conversation diyerge(
from general topics. Presently Sir al
fred spoke of Il picture he had bought
= but which he had not yet had hung
declaring that on the morrow the ladiei
: must advise him about it.
"Your Niece is very clever, Norrey
says he continued-''shew will under
) stand what is the best light for it. Sh'
! Is very accomplished, very artistic, i:
J she not?''
; They both glance IN Alice's direction
J She was talking with great animation
to Norreys, and he was listening with a
; smile of amused interest.
"Yes; girls are so much better edu.
Gated n0w," Miss Luttrell thought; and
: then her very heart seemed to freeze as
she heard what Alice was saying
} Il did not make much of a bag that
day: but neither did the others /
brought down two brace of grouce on
the wing, though, and l nearly shot a
hare"
Sir Alfred smiled.
That is the way girls amuse them
| oSAfS' lt ODoClhCu, ~ 10 al
relief from Greek and algebra"
SIT can't be true-I must have mis-
understood herl'' gasped Miss Luttrell
"Alice, my dear, you must explain your
jokes. Sir Alfred fancies that you shot
grouse yourself "
80 l did, Aunt Helen. You look
as if it were murder. It's quite the
thing for girls to shoot nOw."
Surely Norreys must be shocked and
disgustedl But nO-he looked only IN
terested.
"Men go on with their age, suppose
and women stand still" Miss Luttrell
reflected. ''They don't grow old as we
do"
But then she thought of Colonel Nor
reys allusion to his health. Hers at
least had not begun to remind her of
the flight of timel
They dined the next day at the hall.
Helen tried to look as much like her old
self as possible, and wore a lavender
satin dress-the nearest approach she
c0G,d make to the mauve silks of her
you h; and very nice and fair and pret-
| ty SIZE looked in the solitude OF her own
room. Then Alice came to her in
creamy Iutlian muslin, and Helen's self
satisfaction suddenly vanished, and she
felt like MethuSelah.
She saw Colonel Norreys look with a
wiStful tenderness at Alice as she sat
beside one of the other men on sofa
waiting for dinner. He took Alice in
| to dinner, Miss Luttrell being claimed
by the hostess, and they had great
deal to say to each other during the
many courses. After dinner the Colo
mel came to Miss Lpttrell, Alice being
monopolized now by Sir Alfred, who
had taken her into the ante-roOm to
show her the picture.
'Then Alice, on Sin Alfred's arm,
walked past them ON her way to cabi-
net of Indian curiOsities.
"How exactly she is like what you
were at her age!' Colonel N0rreys ex-
claimed.
sis she?" Miss Luttrell asked, sur
prised. looking at Alice's cropped head,
and thinking of her own Madonna like
hair drawn low over her ears. 81 think
she is as different as can be-"
"You had dress very like that he
went on dreamily, watching her retreat
ing figure.
Helen thought of her gigantic crino-
line and Starcked white muslin-no, it
was Indian muslin, she remembered;
but to compare 1t with Alice's long,
straight softly. sweeping foldsi Could
she be flaltered by the remembrance or
offended by inaccuracy?
Fashions and everything have chang
ed since them" she said rather stiflly.
to remind him that, if she had been
foolish in those days-fOolish enough to
believe any story that was told her she
had grown much wiser since, and had
even forgotten the old folly.
"Yes, by Jove they have with ven
geancel" he agreed.
"Alice is so much better informed
than | ever was" Miss Luttrell went
on; ''She knows all about art and poll
tics and philosophy. Do you remember
how you used to argue with Mr.. Brow
ming about the Italian campaign?"
''Italian campaignl Is it so long ago
as that? No, no, you are mistaken-it
was the Servian war of Go"
''How could it be &c twenty years
ago?" cried Miss Luttrell pettishly,
forgetting her dignity in her mortitica-
tion ut finding her memory better than
his.
SWELL" said the colonel, in grand
old-fashioned way, "you must not blame
my memory-you must blame yourself
for giving me such unreliable evidence
of the lapse of time. You don't look a
day olderl"
Then Alice sang a song; then one of |
the men staying in the house sang; and |
then somebody else asked Colonel Nor |
reys to sing. He declined, on the plea
that he had never sung in his life, and |
was like the man-that very original |
man-who knew only two tunes; one |
was "God save the Queen" and the
other wasn't.
"You used to sing Fading away"
said Helen, aside.
81 never heard of such song IN my /
life," he declared. 81 am quite sure l /
never tried to sing it."
"Perhaps you never heard of III
BdciO ?" she said, with spiteful into.
nation that he quite misinterpreted.
1t was Ethel's piece de resistance; but
lie fancied that it must have been Hell
ludI llt Ndo tAitNlCu W
member 1t; and he made haste to atone
for the offence he had gwen, though at
the expense of his sincerity.
II remember it perfectly" he replied
show shall ever forget it? l assure
you it has rung in my ears through the
din of battle misunderstanding lonely
night watches. Do sing it, if you wish
or care to make me happyl"
81 never sang such song in my liie,"
she responded more icely than ever and
turned her head and listened to Mr..
Dering's rendering of an Iolanthe song;
whilst Colonel n orreys went over to
Alice, whose side he did not leave again
during the evening.
1--WE cannot shoot tomorrow. as it
is Sunday" Sir Alfred remarked to
Miss Luttrell 'Will you and Miss
Wentworth come here after church and
have luncheon? We must have day.
light to decide where my new picture
must hang
Miss Iuttrell would fain have de-