The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-05-13

JUST AFTER THE WAR.
a STORY OF THE SOUTH.
Hrien Teekly Sentinel by Eleanor " Jones, Nc Bn n c.,
Of Mss LdLJohn.

full if attempt to set the world right. y
That may be, but | do want to set
| Belle right
When | hear her say, when her
beaux leaves, ''how stupid they are y
yawning rs if she was half dead for
sleep, and when I've seen her stand
ing an hour at the time, before the
| looking glass, getting that everlasting
sweet smile fixed on her tace, and bob
bing her head on one side, seeing il
its effective, I've gotten that word
from Archie, and its in the right place
! | know, for it sounds like it,
Oh, how | do hate airs ana deceit
and Belle is made up of the two.
/ don't see why it is, but | feel as if
| should burst if | don't upset her
/ deep-set plans.
But don't [ have my own fun, when
I she's screwed, by her smiling and fiat
/ tering wavs, those fellows up the pop
: ping the question pitch, and | bolt in
on them unawares ON important bust
ness.
It's too Jolly for anything, the con
tession | mean; We seen Maurice
! Barring on his knees, holding her hand
J twice jesse Rhodes is 50 nimble, he
! can get righted before I can catch
/ him.
And to think she's been trying to
get father to say | can't 20 in The par
/ Ior; It's as much mine as it is hers,
! and | reckon he'll tell her SO, but its
summer now, so it won't matter much,
! for she always taking moonlight prom
| enades, and don't father look when he
! saws, Belle let me hear of your re-
manning out again until twelve oclock
/ at night walking, and it will be your
| last"
Father is a man Of few words, and
a very quiet man, easy going enough,
]! but I'd rather take IA days scoldIng
| from a regiment, than get one of his
| looks.
| He never whipped one Of us, he
never scolds, but there's a something
about him, and [ don't know what,
| that keeps you from answering him
! back, or disobeying him twice in the
| same way | reckon its because he
| isn't social with us, we stand i'll sort of
awe OF him; he seems 50 superior. and
never shows any temper, but in that
! voice that means | intend TO be obey
| ed. he makes US teei it, even Archie,
who gets reused up lots Of times, al
ways explodes his wrath, behind fa5h
er's back, looking as meek rs Moses,
while he's talking to him.
do dsspi Bellies flirting Archie
says Its sour grapes" as if | never
had a eet-heart little he knows
about that, but I'll show him some
day
! Belle must have learned it the one
| summer she spent at the springs, usG
as the war broke out. Father said,
she was too young for such places, .
but mother, who always carries the
day, said, sit would be SO improving
and land knows all she improved in
was prinking; if she'd gone another
season, this house couldn't have held
her. I want her to behave herself and
marry Joel right off, but [ dc believe
there's trouble between them, and all
for that oily-headed, perfumery bottle
Bernard.
| feel it in my very bones, that
Belle will yet cause trouble to the
whole family, by marrying broken
stick.
Mother says | ta ke the whole fami-
ly ON my shoulders, and thinks |
would have more peace of mind, if l
only attended to my own affairs. But
to see that silly Belle, who is really
pretty, when there's nobody around
for her to make herself a goose for
to think of her sending such a man as
Joel Newcome off, for such an apollo
gy for man as that numb skull Ber-
nard.
1t makes my blood boil, and I feel
like putting her into an asylum, for
know she's crazy. Before Joel court
ed her, he went to father, and told
him, he'd lost not only nearly all his
property, but one of his props, but he
had his farm, and his profession (he's
lawyer and he meant to succeed in
life; he felt that he could, and he in
tended to work for it, and he asked
his consent to his marrying Belle, af-
ter he'd gotten little start, ii he
found she cared for him.
l overheard father tell Belle this.
I knew something was on hand ev-
erything seemed so mysterious. AS
Archie says, 'tI smelt rat,
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