The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-28
A SOUVENIR. /,
The Reason Andrew Stoddard
Stopped Coming.

OA-~A~Atos
"Nancy, why don't you show Paulina
Mat?"
"Now, Charlotte, it amt worth showing"
snow do show me what it is: you've got
my curiosity all reused up" said Paulina.
She cooked up her face at the other two
women, who were taller She was very
small and lean; she wore her black hair
heavily frizzed, and had on a fine black silk
dress, and a lace bonnet with some red
flowers on it. Charlotte, otherwise Mrs.
Steadman, was very proud to take her
about, she was so airy and well dressed.
She was Mrs. jerome LoOmis, an out-of-
town lady, a cousin of her late husbands
who was visiting her for few days. She
had taken her over to call on her sister
Nancy, Mrs. Weeks, this afternoon. She
herself had on nothing better than a plain
black and white checked bingham. It was
"a warm afternoon, but she had realized
keenly her reflected grandeur as she had
walked up the street with her well dressed
gaest. She was tall, spare woman, and
usually walked with a nervous stride, but
to-day, all unconsciously, she nipped, and
teetered, and swung her limp Bingham
skirts with just the same air that Paulina
did her black silk one. 1t was a nervous
limitation. Mrs. Steadman was incapable
of Anything else; she was not weak
woman. Her mind, being impressed,
simply produced a reflex action in her
body. She would have despised herself if
she had known it, because Of the very pride
which led her into it.
The call had been made and the three
women We're standing in Mrs. Weeks entry
taking leave.
Paulina went on, coaxingly: "Now do
show it to me. What is it? l know it is
something beautiful or your sister wouldn't
have said anything about it."
Paullna had prOtruding upper law, and
when she smiled her mouth stretched far
back. She smiled a good deal when she
talked She jerked her head, too, and
moved her eyes. She affected a Swapping
lVivacity Of manner, or else she had it nat
lurally. She did not know which it was
herself, but she admired it in herself.
MRS Weeks, who looked a deal like her
sister, except that she was paler, and her
lhair was grayer and she wore spectacles,
ceiored up family.
"'Tain't worth seein'," said she, depre-
cetingly; but as longs Charlotte's spoke
of it, don't mind shOwin' it TO you"
Then she opened the door opposite the
sitting-room, and with an air at once SOL
emn and embarrassed, motioned her callers
TO precede her ina 10y
Paulina bobbed her head about engaging
py. Dear me, which is it? There are so
piUVVy UnItgS here never coulo teii
Mr. Waas VIZ, i,,,ooo,,t1,, ,,ro,,5 81 TO-.
best ,,o,io, % s oGI u Hel
grandeur that she was almost afraid of it
herself. Every time she opened the door
ho, 10 t,.ilI III, noi anu causeu
nod baa ll ~ s miV" "T W. anu ueiIsnC one
Had peen usea 10 the commonest and
R9oresG INNS a IN Inc way Of furniture qn-
6ad Iilo ~ ~ Two inueeu Inls par!?!1r ,
IaoIiy; - nave 10 competed ana 1ur.
her fe now Il vas ~ ~, ot
of the closest yorL, and ecnnon1y T. I1ns
the nerfect Ao,ya,, as II 49,, al IL L [,n
wishes and fancies, When She had
her narlor she had aIp,a,s n1aor5+ 70 b .,,o
somethina FOOD Che had said aud W ,o, Il
was superlatively cool to her simnia eves
There was a piIded naner on the walls and
N Brussels Garnet with an anormone aoIyar
nattn,n IN tba 9oo TLo ~ 90
covered With rod nj,,sb ay,arIthaSI- o1 40
town had bair-cl6tb Inch 10y oiso a.
cent audocitv EI-e,iv oh oir ~ - ~,
on its beck. there wos yorI, 1arc,e 90, Al "a
lamn mat for fine p,arhIa-to1 tob1a. tbaro
were mats for the vosee on +le SbnIf aTlJ
there was beoutifnI RIO in front re tba
fire-place.
PauIino d.rtaJ toward n bo, ell, o,d
her stiff white eirt ,.a+tiinS, 81, III, i4gu
..TI;s - said N.Y.. So, Slli9 ~.
irnpressiv-ol,y OF tLo ,,oli -
III ti !(lS1SiE WY az Ine wall W.,
,.o+ ~ ~ NY, MIS- w eeAS' "here dld you
& 'c ~. " 10 ~ ,, ~;
Ell , n.aue ~, salu ner SISTER; an she
va aHrL ione ap9 3it, 10 either
oI ny, you G Id mean l1l HOW could
I;ttio e. a. iaa Sne piSlence! Al Ihose
llSOi0 ,,,ino' Oeau'ilui movers are maze
esTL,;. w.
oooli oioso nj nj rtery one 3l EN- JesC
uoo 100, close. lIars rose-Duus, an hliles,
Al AZ Pnnsies; an popples, an acofhs, besides
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