The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-02-11
A HANDSOME WO,tAN.
Her Quaint Oourtship by the Lord
Bishop Of Malchester.

g.. s.
Miss Jollibert was q 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 wi1fof her own; but no one who
denied that she was handsome. And they
generally added, with q nod and a lowering
of the voice: '.And rich" in q way which
seemed to say that, II Miss ~Jollibert's looks
were ~undeniable, yet sti11 more undeniable
were her riches.
People were quite right-Miss Jollibert
was c~oldlooking. She was a woman with
an athletic upright figure, q haughtily-cut
brunette face, q rather high Roman nose,
and a rather high color. And Miss Jollibert
bad a decided will Of her own; her eyes
were of the dark, lazy, mysterious type,
which are as good as q sign-post pointing to
IT. As for being passee-of course, strictly
speaking, she was passee; Miss Jollibert
WAS tbirty-three; and most women are
passee at twenty-seven, let alone thirty
three. Mince matters as one likes, that is
thu long and the short Of it.
On the other hand, many women Of Miss
Joldbert's type are positively handsomer
at sixty than at thirty-three. People say
From the extreme dignity Of Miss Jollibert's
mion, it seemed as If she had always in her
mind, as she sailed, with her head high, past
the simpering schoolgirls Of Manchester:
Poor, poor. things at thirty-three, people
say of me that / an handsome: and at siIty
they Will call me a grand old woman. What
win they say Of your
There is no doubt whatever that Miss
Joliibert was simply admiring the distant
girls that she was repeating this, and they
resented 1t by saying she was cold-lookine
and passee Even they, however, never
failed to add hat Miss Jollibert was a
handsome woman.
Manchester was a busy, %populous manu-
facturing town, and Miss J~ollibert's father
IAN extremely wealthy paint manufacture
er-had died Mayor of it. So that it was of
course incumbent on Miss Jollibert to in
habit a house in one of the most fashion
ADJ suburbs; and hat the house, like her
self, should be handsome and dignifed.
Sne Kept q great many women-servants
two indoor m~en-servants, and a large
carriage with a large and very vivid crest;
large a paint manufacturer.
IL was really quite a pretty sight to see
handsome Miss Jollibert, In her handsome
solue silk dress, and seated in her
1er handsome bluelivered servants and
handsome blue-gray horses, drive forth
under the shadow of her azure parasol upon
smiling summers day. Size generally
looked straight before her, between the
Ehorse's heads; she didn't turn aside to recog-
nixe everybody: She had a little way Of
drawing herself up and signing "Hins,n
like a genuine bee, which wal enough to
make the most impertinent heart quail.
Nevertheless when Miss Jollibert liked, she
could smile out Of her deep brown eyes to
this side and to that, too, not a little
ssweetly. 1t was a marvel to all the world
why she persisted in remaining Miss Jolli-
bert. When the weather was rainy, the
open barouche was substituted by a dark
red carriage. with scarlet wheels. When it
showed again, she spun away over the
sparkling surface, her sleigh, d heterogen-
Gus but artistic confusion OF sealskin, sable
tail and ermine, herself a study in peacock.
When it showed. It was showing very
hard one winters night that Miss Jollibert
sat alone before her ~drawing-room fire. II
was a magnificent fire, and the drawing.
room was simply a blaze of magniicence,
and Miss Jollibert was indeed magnificent
in diamonds and a rose-colored velvet dress
so bright that it made her perhaps toe
brilliant complexion look quite pale in
comparison; as probably she knew. Every.
knacks in the brackets, to the hot-house
flowers on the tables, spoke of wealth
You looked at all parts of the room, and
looked at Miss Joiiibert herself, and re-
Peated: What expenditure more emphat
ically b before. And if you were q
sensitive person of quick thought, you
added TO yourself: How would a pool
eA6h AOSA III ohAo AoOA4.
Miss Jollibert, at all events, appeared Il
feel very comfortable. Her diamond
flashed in the freight, as she lay pack in q
luxurious armchair and toyed with tn,
folds of her rose-colored velvet. The PEG
pie of Manchester said it was ridiculous
Miss Jollibert should dress herself up in
rose-colored velvet and diamonds when sh,
was alone, for the simple pleasure of seein,
the freight fash on them. Miss Jollibert
however, cared little what any n said
anil af oil nuanfc cha uuoc 1nARfnr c,rray.h1x
A clock on the mantel-piece struck tn,
hour of eight; and a minute after, eigh
s toll d. forth ann from m S e n~eiIg g515Sg stsspl'
with a gust of drifting snow. She shivere'
at the sound of the snow, leaned forward
n poked the fire; then turned and settle,
the various pieces Of the little tea servic
on the low table beside her. She went owe
them all. A cream-pot, a slop-bowl, q So
gar-basin and two tea7cups. She examiner
the two tea-cups particularly; little price
less trinkets they were. She put then
down and her own beautiful
hands-they Were beautiful hands. Thel
she removed the little toast-rack on the ia
BILE down to the fire, after which she fell in
to q profound reverie until a quarter pas
and rang the bell.
An instant after a servant, dressed il
black, appeared at the door.
".Tames,' - asked she, in q peculiarly mus
cal contsslto voice, ibid you deliver m:
for the answeri-What was the exact met
dBis Lords6ip sent his compliments, i
you please m, and he would be happy to b
at Miss Jollibert's by five minutes to eigh
SHsm,n sighed Miss Jollibert.
just as Miss Jolfibert sighed Hum, a tai
man, soXpe years tufned forty, ~as stamp
Ara hail. aean bv the dtokarinR fafnp ltRh1