Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26
A HANDSOME WOMAN.
Her Quaint C%ourtship by the Lord
Bishop of Manchester.

Miss Jollibert was a handsome woman
There were people who said she was cold
looking, and people who said she was
passee, and people who said she had a de-
cided will of her own; but no one who
denied that she was handsome. And they
generally added, with q nod and a lowering
of the voice: "A9d rich |" in a way which
seemed to say that, if Miss %Jollibert's looks
were undeniable, yet still morn undeniable
were her riches.
People were quite right-Miss Jollibert
was cold-looking. She was a woman with
an athletic upright figure, a haughtily-cut
brunette face, a rather high Roman nose,
,nd a rather high color. And Miss Jollibert
mad a decided will of her own; her eyes
were OF the dark, lazy, mysterious type,
which are as good as a sign-post pointing to
H. as for being passee-of course, strictly
speaking, she was passee; Miss Jollibert
was thlrty-three: and most women are
g,aSsee at twenty-Seven, let alone thirty
three. Minco matters as one likes, that is
the long and the short of it.
IN the other hand, many women of Miss
Sollibert's type are positively handsomer
at sixty than at thirty-three. People say
81 them then: What q grand old woman!
FROM the extreme dignity of Miss J%ollibert's
m!en, it seemed as if She had ALWAYS in her
nlnd, as She sailed, with her head high, past
me slnpering schoolgirls Of Manchester:
roof, poor things! at th~irty-three, people
say OF me that l am handsome: and at sixty
s Wy VIII call me a grand old woman. What
VIII they say of you?"
There is no doubt whatever that Miss
Soll11oert was simply admiring the distant
!aindscape; but it seemed to the school
Sais mat she was repeating this, and they
leSCnGaH III ht- CO ~, ~ .l~n ~,,~ 1all Y-&l.--
and passee. Even they, however, never
tailed to add that Miss Jollibert was a
handsome woman.
Manchester was a busy, populous manu-
acquiring town, and Miss Jollibert's father
an extremely wealthy paint manufactur-
c clmnad dled Mayor of it: So that it was Of
bbo oIe incumbent on Miss Jollibert to in
nanit a house in one of the most fashion
a s}e suburbs; and that the house, like her
SIa' should be handsome and dignified.
w KEPT, a great many women-servants
anu Two indoor m~en-servants, and a large
as' Via with a large and very vivid crest;
as was only beftting the daughter of so
urge a paint manufacturer.
ho Nv was really quite a pretty sight to see
hahdsome Miss Jollibert, in hel handsome
S,ue SIX dress, and seated in her
b bandsome blue barouche, and with
% dnandsome blue-livered servant and
nndos b%iue-gray horses, drive forth
! smiling summers day. She generally
hooked straight before her, between the
nGrse,s heads; she didn't turn aside to recog-
dra everybody: She had a little way Of
Living herself up and signing ".Huna,"
n maI a genuine bee, which was enough to
Make the most impertinent heart quail.
we've when Miss Jollibert liked, she
tbUaid smile out of her deep brown eyes to
s s SIDE and to that, too, not a little
whv sTyc 1t was a marvel to all the world
h hny she persisted in remaining Miss Jolli-
o ouas. When the weather was rainy, the
open barouche was substituted by a dark
NV N uaITlage, with scarlet wheels. When it
s nnoo v, W again, she spun away over the
o npeIhhiihg surface, her sleigh, a h%eterogen-
tai out artistic confusion of sealskin, sable
blue. nei'oil q STUDY III peacock
when it showed. 1t was showing very
sd one winters night that Miss Jollibert
q aione before her drawing-room fire. It
mas a magnificent fire, and the drawing
ana was simply q blaze of magniticence,
in AN; MISS JollibeIt was indeed magnificent
M - diamonds and a rose-colored velvet dress
m h,';9: bright that it made her perhaps TOO
.c mnr,ant complexion look quite pale in
tthI;aParlson; as probably she knew. EVERY
LILY, from the superb Eastern knick-
aSnacMs IN the brackets, to the hot-house
Yo~e Ino on the tables, spoke Of wealth.
said; What expenditureI Then YOU
looked nss at Miss Jollibert herself, and re-
scaHs What expenditure more emphat-
sensiytiv .aan before. And if you were a
added t. person of quick thought, you
man feel in this room?n poo
1aa %'ss Jollibert,. at all events, appeared to
f Il ss,o very comfortable. Her diamonds
1 nsne In the freight, as she lay back in a
Folds Hia % S. armchair and teyed with the
ple Of = M aer rose-colored velvet. Tue peo-
r %,ss 9oillbert should dress herself up in a
se7colored velvet and diamonds VIII n she