Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-08-27
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course | won't! You must have taken,
leave Of your senses. l always told you
| intended to wed man with blue eyes
and golden hair, and yours are dark.
Besides, you are twenty-seven and Il
medical student, two things l never
could tolerate in the man honor with
my heart and hand" And lovely little
Lottie Rexdal laughed n very wicked
little laugh as she pushed the end Of
her red silk arasol into the soft soil un.
der an old apple tree, at the same tims
glancing saucily up at her companion,
scholarly young man.
"Why do you ask me? she resumed.
because l wanted to be made fun Of,
to be ridiculed by the little girl | love, "
replied Van Winlon, smiling sadly at
the pert young lady perched on the back
of rustic. seat, her brown frizzes fall
ing roguishly into her dancing brown
eyes.
"Now that doesn't sound bit like
our own grave Vane, who studies med
icine and cultivates an ice cream COM
plexion."
can ice cream compleXion?" asked
Vane Winton, little mystified.
eyes; that's Lottie Rexdal's term for
students compilations. You book
worms study away until your faces take
OH the hue of that sweet compound" "
answered the roguish girl.
"If you would only be grave for a
while might talk to you,' said Vane.
Eyes; you know Im such rogue
that | should put you to the blush a
thousand times day." chimed in Lot
tie.
81 am willing to run the risk"
"Ah! but | shall not agree 10 any
such sacrifice. Marry some steady som
sible girl. Alice May will be here in
one hour. Be polite, and captivate her.
Miss May is so highly cultured and
grave that she will surely not be less than
sublime in your eyes. Pll tell you-"
But Vane did not stay to hear more.
He walked off, leaving gay Lottie Rex
dal laughing merrily.
Lottie was the ward OF Vane Winton's
kind father. She had been orphaned at
= very early age. A maiden aunt had
then adopted her. When Lottie was
but ten, and her education not half COM
pleted, her kind relative lied. But be-
fore that she had sent for Mr.. Winton,
her girlhood's lover, and made him
promise to receive the little orphan girl.
The kind man consented; aud so Lottie
became an inmate of Vane Winton's
home.
Vane was the only child Of wealthy
parents, and at the time when Lottie
came to his fathers house he was away
on the Continent.
When he returned three years after
wards he found his "ward-sister," as he
had called her in his letters, away at
some school for girls. So it happened
that Vane and Lottie had never met
until six months before. Vane was
fine scholar, but he had never studied
any profession. Now, at the age Of 27,
realizing perhaps thai cit is never too
late to mehd," he was fitting himself
for the ministry.
Vane was trying to study at his home
that summer. Sometimes he found it
impossible to do so amid the tempest
aroused by mischevious Lottie Rexdal.
She threw open the unused piano and
made the house ring with her clear bell
like notes. She filled the library with
flowers, tossed up Vane's books, and
even scribbled on them. She rode ev-
cry horse on the place, romped with
Prince, the great shaggy dog, tore her
dresses, went bare-hcaded, and turned
the wide hall into a skating rink.
She was utterly spoiled by both Mr..
and Mrs. Winton. At first Vans had
been shocked. But the more he studied
her original character, the more he be-
came reconciled to it. Tolerance gave
place to admiration, and that, in due
time, to love. He had always felt a
vague longing to discover woman in
whose character he hoped to find orig
inality and freedom from affection. II
he could teach Lottie to love him, what
a splendid woman she might become.
He would wait patiently and hope
fully, he reasoned, as he walked away.
Taking volume from his pocket, he
sat down on a bence under an elm, and
began to perusei it. Soon merry laugh
caused him to look up, and he saw Lot
tie riding down the lane OH her milk
white Floss. Very bright aue piquant
she looked in her riding habit as she
drew rein beside him.
"Sir Owl, I'm oil NV way TO meet
Miss Alice now; and while I'm gone l
shall expect you to comb your hair,
part it in the middle, put on clean COL
lar, pin flower in your buttonhole,
and act very aesthetic and dude-like.' .
And with merry laugh, she rode
away.
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