Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
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seemed from all the other women! How
SIMPLE, how womanly, how good, was
the expression i'll her quiet face! Who
was she, he wondered, and then sud-
denly 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 we're,
Miss Rose, SO you must forgive me for
introducing myself. May l sit here and
talk to you2"
"Oh, yes!" Her eyes fell, and a
bright color rose in her cheeks.
Il have been a long time out of En-
gland, travelling in Eastern countries,
and you can't think how odd English
society seems to me, now I have come
back to it,"
"Yes!" still with downcast eyes,
playing with the dove-colored folds of
her dress.
"The women, for instance, they look
so strange; so-almost bold and I'M
feminine. 1 suppose it is because my
eye is unaccustomed. Now you, for
instance, you remind me more, do you
Know, of the women of the East than
home"
'Oh! Are they not very ignorant,
poor tbings?" Up went the brown eyes,
flashing into his u look of innocent sur
prise.
Jack laughed. 'sAh-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 that" with a
little etfusion that was complimentary.
IL should not like you to think me To-
norant."
II I'M ure 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 any
woman he had ever met, including all
the Eastern houris 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 vas of cashmere in
stead OF silk-was never without the
attendant figure of handsome Jack
Dormer in close proximity. Lady FL
lerton and her easy-goinghusband. who
had promised to do his part-which, as
his wife said, was only to hold his
tongue-looked on with amusement
and with satisfaction. As to the Qua
keress herself, it is difficult to explain
exactly what wa in her mind about the
gigantic fraud she was perpetrating
upon her innocent victim. She wasvery
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 q si-
lence which was truly remarkable. Ii
is, however, to be surmised that she
threw herself into the part con amore.
and that the character she was portray
ing was in no way u%npleasantto her; for
she evinced much willingness to be
led into retired shrubbery walks. and
showed no indisposition to unduly lin
ger in distant greenhouses and sum-
warehouses; so that Mrs. Richie made
spiteful remarks about the aptitude OF
Quakeresses for Irritation, in spite OF
their charity-school-like personal ap.
.&earance; and Lady Sale murmured
not original illusions to those quiescent
waters whose springs r supposed to
be u in the depths of profundity.
OF course Jack never thought of TAX
ing his Quakeress into the stables-the
only place for which Miss Rose exper-
fenced unhealthy longings. which she
had some difficulty in suppressing. He
was fond of horses, and would like to
have gone to them himself and smoked
his pipe there in peace and comfort.
But it would have been a profanity to
have subjected this sweet, old-fash-
toned blossom of a girl to the odors OF
stables and tobacco, and to the lower
ing atmosphere OF a stable yard. 1t
did cross Jacks mind once to think
that it might be a nuisance to marry so
delicate and pure a creature, from
whom the coarse influences of daily life
must be forever carefully guarded.
But after all, one can't have every
thing, and anything was better than
the fashionable girl of the present day
such Il one. for instance, as his friend
Kyrle had described to him.
AS the days wore away, Jack Dormer
was obliged to confess to himself that
he was over head and ears in love with
Miss Rose.
On the last evening of her visit there
were to be private theatricals at Eos
borough Court. A small farce was to
be acted before a select but not a large
audience, and the name Of it was 1.-The
Girl of the Period"
"Are you going to act, Miss Rose?'
asked Jack Of his divinity.
ooh, no; I could not" she answered.
''No-acting is not in your line, Ill
be bound; you are the last person on
earth to care about making a public
show of yourself"
At this moment Lady Ellerton burst
wildly into the room, with an open tel
egram in her hand.
0..What anu | to do!" she cried. II
am in perfect despair. Here is a tele-
gram from Miss Grey to say that she
can not come, her grandmother isdead.
Oh, what shall l do"'
Now .'Miss Grey was supposed to
be the Heading LADY, upon whom all
the success of the nights, entertain
ment depended, and without whom
''Thc Girl of the PERIOD nust needs
fall to the ground. There was, how
avor no Misc Gray in oyetancn sob