The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-04-08

Editha began to hope anew.
Miss Clitchett, one of their particular
friends, had been introduced to Sir Reve
Kennett at Delmon;co ball, and she had
promised to ask the Nemourville girls to
a charade patty where the English bar
onet was to be present.
Miss Ncmourvillc ordered new dress
of white brocade. Vera ordered Madam
Petheriquc to mako over her cherry satin
with founces of black Escural lace and
train full quarter of a yard long.
Editha, who enacted the juvenile role,
| ripped her one white muslin to pieces
and remade it, with puffs and pleatings
of Spanish blonde and occasional knots
of the palcst blue ribbon.
But they were doomed to the saddest
disappointment. They went to the party.
So did Sir Reve Kcnnctt. But somehow
they could not get near the rcigning star.
"Tll never forgive Cornelia Clitchettw
said Miss Nemourville, as pale as her
own brocade "Shc hasn't taken any
more notice of us than if we were those
big china jars in the corncr!"
'She meant deliberate INSULT" gasp
cd Vera.
But they worc wrong. 1t was only
that poor Cornclia Clitchett 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 get an introduc
tion' 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 pcarls'"
"Don't you knows" said Mrs. De Sain-
tin. 'It's Lady Kennett."
"Lady Kenneth
ellis wife," explained Mrs. De Saintin,
graciously. Gle is here on his wedding
tour. Lady Kennctt is charming. They
are to give ball at the Windsor Hotel,
in return for the hospitalities they have
received here"
"Oh!" said the three Misses Nemour-
vile, in concert
"IIavcn't you been introduccd3" asked
Mrs. De Saintin. ''No? Pray allow me
the pleasure"
And presently Sir Revc and Lady Ken
nett were bowing their acknowledgment
of the profuse cou,tesics of the Misses
Ncmourvillc.
If the English guests had been crown
ed monarchs, these damscls could not
have been more obsequious.
Sir Revc was tall and strikingly hand
some. Lady Kcnrett had fine eyes and
a graceful figure, but was not otherwise
remarkable.
"Nemourvills!" she repeated. 'Did
you say Ncmourvillc?'
"a pretty name, isn't it7" said Mrs.
De Saintin.
"But it is not new to me-" said Lady
KcnL 1T, smiling. 81 have met these
ladies before"
'Tm sure, your ladyship, I don't know
how that could be- said Blanche, quite
futtercd with the idea of addressing 8
lady of title.
ooh, declare, your ladyship" gig
glcd Vera.
"Your ladyship is making fun of us,
said artless Editha
ooh, but am quite certain of it =
said Lady Kcnnctt, in her slow, graceful
way. you, to the elder, care Blanche
aren't you7 And you are Vera9 Ant
) this is Editha? Now, am not right2 L
it possible that you have forgotten me2"
The three Misses Nemourillc would
, not for the world have suspected an En-
glish baronct's lady of inaccuracy.
But they certainly viewed her with re
spcctful incrcdulity and amazement.
81 am Lassic, said shc--'Lassie Vas
{ sail, who used to pick blackberries ant
gather autumn leaves with you. l an
your cousin three times rcmovedr
The three Misses Ncmourvillc wcr'
straightway lifted from comparative in
significance to the top wave of POPULAR
. ty. As three elderly spinscrs, they hat
| cen rather drugs in the market thai
otherwise. But as Lady Kennctt's cou
, sins, the dawn of a new social cXistcnc,
, was Frightening over them.
: "You darling" cried Blanche, whel
she came to lunch at the Windsor Hotel
the next day, with Sir Reve and Lad,
Kcnnett. "Now you must tell me, hov
l did it all happcn"
81 don't know, am sure" said Las
, sic, timidly. 'l went to Scotland as
nurse y-govcrncss with lady who was
friend of good Mrs. Halls; and at Loci
Lomond we met Sir Reve, and-and-'
l "And l can tell the rest" said ST
t Reve, laughingiy, taking up the droppe'
+ chain of Lassic's words. "And Sir Rev
' fell in love with you, and he would Civ
you no peace at all until you married hir
l -ch, little girl9"
And as La,sic smiled shyly up at him
: Blanche Ncmourville could not but ac
n knowledge TO herself that this third cou
a sin of hers had wonderful dark eyes.
"But for all that she afterward toll
3 Editha end Vera, II can't see what ther
was in Lassie Vassall TO attract such
i man as Sir Reve Kcnnett. fit had bee
me, now, or either oe you
/ Yes nodded the two other sisters
:. eff it had been either of US! But mel
o country chit, right of the farm, withou
a particle OF style about her!"
And thea they all three cried in choru:
J, 'It's quite unaccountable l"-Hele
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