The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-06

JUST AFTER THE w AR.
The Weekly Sentinel by Eleanor NJ
Author of "lEss L4Lgohn"

! she got engaged to him, but ever since
she's led him dance, as if she was
sorry for it, has more beaux than ever
and positively declares she is not en-
gagged to Joel, and doesn't care any,
thing for him more than as a friend,
and they believe her, and I've come
to think she is telling them the truth,
for l can't see how woman, if she
does love a body, could take pleasure
in making them suffer any pain,
Poor Joel, suppose she makes i.
all right with him, for after they've
been together, he always seems so hap
Ply, and then gets gloomy again when
he sees her dashing around with those
other boys. IF I was in his place, I'd
manage her; l know her. she likes to
have all, she don't want to lose him or
the others either, SO as long as she's
single, she can be called a belle, but
I'd put stop to it if was Joel, I'd
find somebody who would like me
and I'd show her she wasn't the only
woman in creation.
If she ever does lose Joel, good bve
to her good fortune, for she'll never
have another as nice beau mark, nv
word for it If | am only fourteen.
Belle is lucky sure as she's born :;
she's got the good looks (though 1
don't admire blondes) the prettiest of
the family she's worn out all the fam
lily lace and other finery, and made
the Jewelry so common that when I
come on, people will say, "heavens
why don't those Nevilles bury that
stuff, and give folks rest"
But if | am ugly and have a horrid
name, there's one consolation in it, Pm
named after fathers old aunt, who
lives way off yonder in Connecticut,
who's got money, and who's had the
sense never to marry, SO / expect to
be rich some day.
told Adelaide Hazlitt, new girl
at school, who's always Dragging about
her rich relatives in Germany, that
Aunt Priscilla was worth hundred
thousand dollars, and was going to
leave it all to us.
[ hadn't heard anybody say so, but
she couldn't be so'very rich under that
much, and I know father LAYS store by
what he's going to get, as he's very
particular about writing to her, though
he don't talk much about her; Bellies
told me nearly all | know about it.
But | have been sort of sorry for
telling Ada without knowing exactly,
but 1t is too provoking not to be able
to brag with the rest, but [ never told
a story yet that 1 didn't get paid for
1t in some fearful way.
Liberty Hall is the name of our
new home, where we've been living
just one year, at least its the name
I've given it, and l find folks are
falling into the habit of calling it so.
l thought that name suited it, not
because the great Declaration of In
dependence G'm up there, know all
about that, was signed here, but be-
cause I'm vowing declarations of inde-
pendence all the time, and with doors
and windows always as wide open as
they can be, our house does seem to
invite you to come in, and do as you
please, which everybody does, and the
animals too for that matter, since the
parlor rug is Nick, the dogs favorite
resting place, while Frisk, our cat pre-
ters the piano, being of a high minded
family, whose dead and gone ancestor
came from Gibralter The chickens
whenever they're tired ofthe yard, oc-
easlonally promenade through the |
passage; and it is noted fact, that
Dixie, the cow, being thirsty, and
findiEg the trough empty, paraded
herself up the back steps, into the
porch, and took a good drink out of
the water-bucket, ! I must, say that
since then, there hasn't been as much !
liberty for her.
Our old home was twelve miles
from town, where we now liye, and
there we were al born. Robin, the
oldest, who went off to- the war, and 1
never came home any more, and the |
worst ls, WhouIWe- never heard was
killed, onlywe know he lis, or he |
would come back d. us. Oh, the un- |
certain feeling was awful, at first, our
looking for him, and never hearing or |
seeing him. Now we've sort of gotten
used to it, only sometimes a sudden |
sound will make moEher listen. and
her face turn right red ---s ~-1 8 ?
Then Fanny, our oldest sister, who
died at sixteen, was born there, and
Jamieour Oldest living, likewise the |
comfort of our life; old, staid, tender
hearted Jamie, just twenty-one, but
as prudent and careful as father him
self. w-s@
Next came Miss fenical. coquet-
ing, lazy Belle, and then the great
critic OF the century, the wonderful,