Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-07-30
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course l won't! You must have taken
leave of your senses, always told you
intended to wed man with blue eyes
and golden hair, and yours arc dark.
Besides, you are twcnty-scven and a
medical student, two things I never could
tolerate in the man 1 honor with my
heart and hand" And lovely little Lot
tic Rcxdal laughed very wicked little
laugh as she pushed the end of her red
silk parasol into the soft soil under an
old apple tree, Mt the same time glancing
snucily upat her companion, scholarly
young man.
"Why do you ask mc2 she resumed.
because wanted to be made fun of,
to be ridiculcd by the little girl love-"
replied Vane Winton, smiling sadly at
the pert young lady perched on the back
of rustic gardcn-seat, her brown frizzcs
falling roguishly into her dancing brown
eyes.
'Now that doesn't sound bit like our
own grave Vanc, who studies medicine
and cultivatcs an ice cream complexion. :"
"An ice cream complcxion2" asked
Vanc Winton, little mystified.
eyes; that's Lottic Rcxdals term for
Students compilations. You book-worms
study away until your faces take on the
hue of that sweet compound" answered
the roguish girl.
"If you would only be grave for q
while I might talk to you," said vanc.
eyes; you know I'm such u rogue that
should put you to the blush thou
sand times day." chimcd in Lottie.
81 am willing to run the risk"
"Ahl but 1 shall not agree to any such
'acrifice. Marry some steady, sensible
girl. Alice May will be here in one hour.
BE polite, and captivate her. Miss May
'sso highly cultured and grave that she
will surely not be less than sublime in
your eyes. Pll tell you"
But Vanc did not stay to hear more.
He walked off, leaving gay Lottie Rcxdal
laughing mcrriy.
Lottie was the ward of Vane Winton's
kind father. She had been orphaned at
very early age. A maiden aunt had
then adopted her. When Eottie was but
ten, and her education not half complet-
ed, her kind relative died. But before
that she had sent for Mr. Winton, her
girlhood's lover, and made him promise
to receive the little orphan girl. The
kind man consented; and so Lottic be-
came an inmate OF Vanc Winton's. home.
Vane was the only child of wealthy
parents, and ut the time when Lottie
came to his fathers house he was away
on the Continent.
When he returned three years after
wards he found his "ward- sister, "as he
had called her in his letters, away al
some school for girls. So it happened
that Vanc and Lottic had never met until
six months before. Vanc was fine
scholar, but he had never studied any
profession. Now, at the age of twenty
seven, realizing perhaps that "it is never
too late to mend," he was fitting himself
for the ministry.
Vanc was trying to study at his homo
that summer. Sometimes ho found il
impossible to do SO amid the tempest
aroused by mischievous Lottic Rcxdal
She threw open the unused piano, and
made the house ring with her clear, bell
like notes. She filled the library with
flowers, tossed up Vane's books, and ever
scribblcd on them. She rode every horse
on the place, romped with Prince, tho
great shaggy dog, tore her dresses, went
barc-headed, and turned the wide hal
into skating rink.
She was utterly spoiled by both bIr
and Mrs. Winton. At first Vane. had
been shocked. But the more he studied
her original character, the more he be
come rcconciled to it. Tolerance CAV,
place to admiration, and that, in du,
time, to love. He had always felt
vague longing to discover woman il
whose character he hoped to find origi
nality and freedom from affection. If h,
could only teach Lottic to lovo him
what splendid woman she might be
come!
He would wait patiently and hopefully
he reasoned, as he walked away. TAX
ing volume from his pocket, he so
down on bench under an elm, and be
gan to pcrsue it. Soon Al merry laugl