Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-04-07

onct was to be present,
Miss Ncmourvile ordered new dress
of white brocadc. Vera ordered Madam
Pcthcriquc to make over her cherry satin
with hounccs of black Escurial lace and
train full quarter Of yard long.
Editha, who enacted the Juvenile role,
ripped her one white muslin to pieces
and rcmadc it, with puffs and plcatings
of Spanish blonde and occasional knots
of the palcst blue ribbon.
But they were doomed to the saddcst
disappointment. They went to the party,
SO did Sir Rcvc Kennett. But somehow
they could not get near the rcigning star.
'Pl never forgive Cornclia Citchettr "
said Miss Ncmourvilc, as pale as her
own brocadc. "She hasn't taken any
more notice of us than if we were those
big china jars in the corncrln
"Shc meant deliberate insultw gasp
ed Vera.
But they were wrong. 1t was only
that poor Cornclia Clitchctt had entirely
forgotten all about them in the rush and
crush and excitement of the evening.
GLOW handsome he is /" said Editha
ooh, oh, why can't we set an introduc.
tion3 Look, look he's coming this way
Who is that lady on his arm-thc tall
lady in white, with the magnificent eyes
and the necklace of pearls"
"Don't you know?' said Mrs. De Sain-
tin. "It's Lady Kcnnctt."
'Lady Kenneth
ellis wife," explained Mrs. De Sainin,
graciously. ole is here on his wedding
tour. Lady Kcnnett is charming. They
are to give a ball at the Windsor Hotel,
in return for the hospitaltics they have
received here"
"Oh!' said the three Misses Nemour-
vile, in concert
Haven't you been introduccdl" asked
Mrs. De Saintin. "No2 Pray allow me
the plcasurc!"
And presently Sir Rcvc and Lady Ken
nett were bowing their acknowledgment
of the prolusc cou tcsics of the Misses
NcmourviIlc.
If the English guests had been crown
cd monarchs, these damscls could not
have been more obscquious.
Sir Rcvc was tall and strikingly hand
some. Lady Kcnnctt had fine eyes and
graceful figure, but was not otherwise
remarkable
"Ncmourvillc" she repeated. "Did
you say Ncmourville?"
"a pretty name, isn't itT" said Mrs.
De Saintin.
"But it is not new to me-" said Lady
Kcnnctt, smiling. Il have met these
ladies before"
'Tm sure, your lodyship, don't know
how that could be-" said Blanche, quite
iluttcrcd with the idea of addressing a
lady of title.
"oh, l declare, your ladyship!" gig
glcd Vera.
"Your ladyship is making fun 'of us, ;"
said artlcss Editha.
ooh, but | am quite certain of it"
said Lady Kcnnctt, in her slow, graceful
way. "You," to the elder, care Blanche,
aren't you? And you are Vcra2 And
this is Editha' Now, am not right? Is
it possible that you have forgotten mc2"
The three Misses Ncmour,ilc would
not for the world have suspected an En-
glish baronct's lady of inaccuracy.
But they certainly viewed her with re-
spcctiul incrcdulity and amazcmcnt.
II am Lassic, "said shc--'Lassic Vas
sail, who used TO pick blackbcrrics and
gather autumn leaves with you. am
your cousin three times removcdm
The three Misses Ncmourvilc were
straightway lifted from comparative i'll
significance to the top wave of popular-
ty. As three elderly spinstcrs, they had
cen rather drugs in the market than
otherwise. But as Lady Kcnnctts eou-
sins, the dawn of a new social existence
was Frightening over them.
"You darling" cried Blanche, when
she came to lunch at the Windsor Hotel,
the next day, with Sir Revc and Lady
Kcnnett "Now you must tell me, how
did it all happcn''
81 don't know, | am sure said Las
sic, timidly. Il went to Scotland as a
nurse y-governcss with lady who was a
friend Of good Mrs, Halls; and at Loeb
Lomond we met Sir Rcvc, aud-and-'
"And | can tell the rest" said Sir
Rcvc, lau9hingly, taking up the dropped
chain of L0ssie's words. "And Sir Rcve
fell in love with you, and he would give
you no peace at all until you married him
-ch, little girI1'
And MS La,sic smiled s!yly up at him,
Blanche Nemourvilc could not but ac-
knowledge 10 herself that this third cou-
sin of hers had wonderful dark eyes.
"But for all that" she aftcrward told
Edltha and Vera, II can't sec what there
was in Lassic VNssall to attract such a
man as Sir Reve Kcnnett Ifit had been
me, now, or either Of you-'
eyes" nodded tho two other sisters,
eff it had been either of as. But a mere
country chit, right off the farm, without
a particle of style about her!"
And then they all three cried in chorus:
'lts quite unaccomtablc "-Helen
Forrest GrdreS.
A Striking Resemblance.