The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1886-07-22

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chiss nsa. Ihsvs ~ - Asd Il On,
thsss hs y.
| A maeAiss nssl ssis1 lliss yesnns
ready 70 faint = - rsai(y nseAanisn
shosldny have bslisSsd III
Thsa = ths popibls 49, ~ sdvsa
tasss Of tAis vssdssiui ~ ssosdsd iat
hsr eisd, shs siaspsd ~ hssls viz
suddsa Joy. sp
Oh. Rodnsyi yoa - 10 clsv~. 70
good. Hes Aslightlail He's nastly III
life! Nov shsll have sons one 70 vall
with me 70 parties
He'll do better fos you than that ri,
her brother; and hs proeesdsd 70 shov
how BY judisioua pressure 81 csAaia
springs concealed within ~ slssvss 3
his cost. The naehins nsa eoald b nsds
b pss1oen vaeiots Ueesl on0e 'esool
kis sltssv - hold h ~ - : Nj, seai
hiaaAlf - sa6Ais - ii. / taiD - ~
carry small objsst Ike ! plAis q glAss;
losch biz hat Or rsaovs u Hh nsvs.
nspta vsrs stiG. bat not notissahlA. q
Miss Joanna thought 6ti6nsss = not 20.
common. md Little moro Or lsss nigh
escape obssrvalion.
! IdArssay can improve him. remarked
her brother. But try him arss in quisl
way and see what he needs.
Aiss Joanna did ssy him ths very ssxi
night With Rodnsys assistance shs
turned on ~ stored slsctsicil1 vhioh
fstaishsd ~ motive psvsrl y ~ ns-
chine man. and. taking his arm. walked
down ths street toward . friends house.
where she WAS TO join card party.
Mr.. Works behaved beautifully, Nisa
Joanna's consciousness made her nsrvous.
II she iancied that any one looked closely
ct them. she would make . hurried rs-
mark or force laugh. and glance up With
stimulated interest into her escorts eyes
but no one really paid special attention "a
the pair. II was only Miss Joannas sp-
prehsnsions which made her fancy that
they did 20.
Arrived 1t hef destination, she walked
With her escort upstairs. touched the
spring which compressed him TO his
smallest limits, touched the other which
arrested his Faurs's battery, stuffed him
10 behind drsssing- g-soon door among
some umbrellas, and threw her cloak over
him. Shs had vsy pleasant evening.
and when Il was time TO 80 homo there
vas NO need TO wait for . cab. or csjols
her host or some unwilling little boy 70 60
with her; it was but 70 pull out one peg.
push 10 another, and there W. su ire
proachabls escort ready 10 do her be-
hest.
Hes every bit = good y red man. de-
clared Miss Joanna 70 hsrselt I didn't
have to make conversation for him, or sv-
On apologies.
And now began series Of hidden sstis-
factions which lent life and lustsr 10 Miss
Arks's winter caapaisn. 0fowing brave
With impunity. and aided BY Rodney's
skillful re adjustments snd adaptations.
shs boldly vsntured with her machine
man into society. The moment when she
drst entered ballroom leaning on bis
arm, and introduced. Ny couslu, Mr..
Works. to the lady Of the house WAS Ger
tainly nervous one. But pll wAat we'll.
Mr.. Works Eose. he sst. be bowed. hs
gave her his arm ACROSS the room, hs sven.
impsllsd by secret spring. went 10 the
supper room and brought back > platsful
81 something, hs did not know what, and
she did not care; and no one seemed 10
notice any marked difference between him
md the other gentlemen present Hs
wss silent. to Be sure. but there arc a.
Ways speechless men at parties, aud Miss
Joanna tooks pains 70 lament confidential
y TO this crony and that. The fact that her
,ousin wss "taciturn."
For be can really b % agreeable msn
when he chooses to talk. she addsd.
Later y she grew more expert in The
manipulation Of the F1nkenstsin, she
earned 10 turn him 10 more profitable 90.
'ount. No longer contsntipg herself with
J random plateful Of ''something." she
passed into the supper room on bis arm,
md, choosing her dish. skillfully headed
lin directly toward it. He could seiss :
pcon. and lsdle ice cream or salid an .
'lase = we'll = anybody. and y always
ave Big heIps-s habit of vhich Miss
Joanna highly approved. She could not
rust him With champagne; but that was
i less consequences, and he could hold
Ter slass when somebody elss had nlIsd IL. |
md he always did.
No one Who hAd observed Miss Arkss,
all. we'll dressed. handsome sitsr . passs
sshion and pssisstly sslf-psssssssd. sss- |
ag oystsss and lookiss up nov ssd then |
o ssy . word 10 the tall stately psrsonses |
rho stood % dsvotsdk bssids her. could
lavs inagiasd thai - - I'll suils and |
10 I'll wocdl
People began 70 say. How vary attsa- |
i've thst M. Works is 10 that Joanna Arksi
There must b. something II IT.
And y the reputation of success goes far
owsrd making ssccsas. other men. BY .
,stural result. showed Miss Joanss more
'ttsntion than hsrssolorA Altogsshsr. ~
vintsr vss fss more snssstsinisg and ~
sisctory 10 her than any viatss had bssn
Or long time previously.
Ivooldn't exchange hin Tor any rssl
nsa In society. Mis- joanna told hss