Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-06-26
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"Marry you? Why, no, Vane, OF
course / won't! You must have ia.
ken leave of your senses, | always
told you l intended to wed man
with blue eyes and golden hair, and
yours are dark. Besides, you are
twenty. seven and q medical student,
two things | never could tolerate in
the man [ honor with my heart and
hand" And lovely little Lottie
Rexdal laughed very wicked little
laugh as she pushed the end of her
red silk parasol into the soft soil un.
der an old apple tee, at the same
time glancing saucily up at her com
2anion, a scholarly young man.
"Why do you ask me?" she re.
sumed.
"Because l wanted to be made
fun of, to be ridiculed by the little
girl love-" replied Vane Winton,
smiling sadly at the pert young lady
perched on the back of a rustic gar
den. seat, her brown frizzes falling
roguishly into her dancing brown
eyes.
.sNow that doesn't sound bit
like our own grave Vane, who stud
les medicine and cultivates an ice
cream complexion"
"An ice cream complexion ~
asked Vane Winton, little mysti-
fed.
eyes that's Lottle Rexdal's term
for students compilations. You
book worms study away until your
faces take on the hue of that sweet
compound" answered the roguish
girl.
off you would only be grave for a
while l might talk to you," said
Vane.
'Yes; you know Pm such rogue
that should put you to the blush a
thousand times a day." chimed in
Lottie.
8" / am willing to run the risk"
"Ah but l shall not agree to any
such sacrifice. Marry some steady,
sensible girl. Alice May will be
here in one hour. Be polite, and
captivate her. Miss May is so high
ly cultured and grave that she will
surely not be less than sublime in
your eyes. I'll tell you"
But Vane did not stay to hear
more. He walked off, leaving gay
Lottie Rexdal laughing merrily.
Lottie was the ward of Vane
Winton's kind father. She had
been orphaned at a very early age.
A maiden aunt had then adopted
her. When Lottie was but ten, and
her education not half completed,
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 Lottie became an inmate of Vane
Wlnton's home.
Vane was the only child of veal
thy parents, aud at the time when
Lottie came to his fathers house he
was away Oh the Continent.
When he returned three years af
forwards he found his " ward-sister,'
as he had called her in his letters
away at some school for girls. So il
happened that Vane and Lottie haG
never met until six months before
Vane was a fine scholar, but he had
never studied any profession. Now
at the age of twenty seven, realizing
perhaps that sit is never toe
late to mend" he was fitting him
self for the ministry.
Vane was trying to study at his
home that summer. Sometimes he
found it impossible to do so amid
the tempest aroused by mischievous
Lottie Rexdall. She threw oper
the unused piano, and made the
house ring with her clear, bell-like
notes. She filed the library with
flowers, tossed up Vane's books, anl
even scrubbed on them. She rode
every horse on the place, rompei
with Prince, the great shaggy dog
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