The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-29
PROUD MRS. BRAND!.ETH.
CHAPTER THE FIRST.

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CHAPTER THE FIRST,
'ieiwas aCproud old woman Many
West Indians are endowed with more
pride than is good Tor them. and she
was an instapce. Perhaps it, was the
blacks, or-she climate, orllivins on an
island wllere there was no 1aristocracv
save that which was constituted by
money. She was very rich, there was
nodoub. about chat; and slje had d
very lovely daughter. there was also
nodoubt THAT fair haired girl with
large dreamy eyes, and fair skin, and
lips that suggest edta ipout yet broke
into the most 'enchantihg Of smiles
now and then-not very often either;
perhaps because the girls life has been
lonely, as an only child's often is, and
periiaps beoauseshe Twas hhlf afraid ofI
her mother. Her happiest days had
been alier school days; she had been;
sent to England for her education,
and when she returned to the narrow
circle, and the stiff uncompromising
mother, who since her husbands
death shad had managed the estate herself
and was absorbed in the produce of
sugar, and the politics Of Government
House, Alice felt lonely and weary,
enough. Yet Mrs. Brandleth was
very proud OF her beautiful daughter.
and waited serenely, convinced that
the day would come when a wander
ing duke, or perhaps a stray prince
sent over to improve his knowledge
OF tropics, would fall in love with her
and insist upon laying his name, rank,
and fortune at her feet. Having this
conviction strong upon her, it was pro-
volsingi when one fine day. Alice in
formed her trembiingly enough, that
she had engaged herself to Hugh
Treyor,a young surgeon who was vain
ly trying toget a practice in the islhnd
for the population was more in
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