St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-20
A SWEET APOLOGY.
How a Miss Of Seventeen Con-
quered Her Lover.

quered Her Lover.
Il wish you wouldn't fdget so, Har-
ry. How do you expect we can get
these pictures arranged when you jog
gle the table in that outrageous man
ner?''
..WeIl, I'm sure, Nell" answered the
accused, deprecatingly, ''it's rather
rough on fellow to be compelled to
sit the best part of an evening handling
the paste-pot and sorting fancy cards.
/ thought you had outgrown that sort
of thing when you put away your school
books"
THAT shows all you know was the
contemptuous rejoinder "As if these
albums were not all the rage, and
Alice, so good and thoughtful, bringing
all the newest and Ioveliest cards from
Paris. Why, my dear boy, (this in a
triumphant tone,) my book will be a
long way the most beautiful one in
town
Eyes. / know" muttered the young
man, with reprehensible lack of inter-
est. '.But you promised to let me
row you across Silver Lake this even
ing. The moonlight nights are nearly
gone and we haven't settled any thing
yet, Nellie"
Cant you talk before Alice? I'm
sure we needn't mind her"
Here /, being the Alice referred to,
II -@&n rs V%1TJ
position as ''paster-in-chief. "
E,No, no, Nell exclaimed.
'.Iam going to get more paste, !
answered.
s'Why don't you use mucilageP'
queried Mr.. Harry, in a. conciliatory
] tone, resigning himself to the ineyi-
table.
Because we haven t any and they are
out of it at the stationer's, SO we thought
little homemade material would do as
well. !"
.sOh, no, it WON'T" calculated Harry,
with alacrity. a wouldn't do any
more Just now. 1t would be far better
to wait and finish your work with the
proper stuff. Come (this very plead
ingfy) little row will do you good, and
Miss Alice will perhaps join us, Z con-
tinued our hero, with suspicious lack
of warmth.
Gracefully declining the invitation,
watched the young lovers slowly tread
ing Miller's lane.
About an hour had elapsed, and was
comfortably doing my hair preparatory
to seeking my downy couch, when Mel
rushed in my room with blazing eyes
and heightened color, and, tiinging her
self on chair, exclaimed: Harry ano
l have had such row.
Indeed, I replied, unmoyed by s
statement whose recurrence could be
estimated as happening about once every
twenty-four hours
Eyes, said Nell, somewhat crushed
by my lack Of sympathy, ''and, Allie
it was all about miserable box of bon
bons which Fred Clarke, that clever
Young LAWYER, brought me from thu
CITY. Harry said he wished l would ge
over my childish love for sweets, that i
was ruinous to the digestion, to sa1
nothing of my lovely teeth. told him h
only made my health an excuse, that tne
truth of the matter was jealousy. Jeat
ousy about poor Fred, and he needn'l
think because he had just taken hi
doctors diploma that he could com
mence practice with me as first patient
Well, you can readily understand, dear
how one word led to another, but Whel
Harry wound up in his conceited wa,
by declaring medicine to be nobl
profession and law despicable one,
tell you / couldn't stand it, and ! in
formed his highness that l would neye
speak to him again unless he made M
an apology, and what do you thinkP In
wretch laughed and walked off saying
ooh, certainly, Miss Nicolls, I'll max
a sweet apology, and with hurs
of tears sweet Nell, who after all wa
little more than a mere child, relapse'
into despair on a macreme tidy, there
by reducing the red ribbons to IRE
deemable dampness. ], with my fly
years seniority, hardly knew what con
ISOLATION would prove most efficacious i
soothing indignant seventeen.
1t was useless to indicate that it wa
mere boy and girl spat about a site
of candy, or that it was quite prope
.