Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-05-12

she moved about
he open trunks from closet to bureau.
why, I'm going TO take everything.
,"Dont you meal to make any conces
bns !"
"Not concession"
'sYou think it will be better to defy
em /"
"Defy them no, indeed! What O
brrible idea Imean to please them.
"But how can you possibly please
em if you wear silk dresses and curl
bur hair ?"
81 don't know; perhaps 1 shan't; but
m going to try. And 1 know 1 never
lould please anybody if l left my hair
raight;" and the pretty Cambridge
lie thought to herself that it would be
ty, indeed, if she, who had always
leased everybody without trying, could
pt please Roberts relatives if she did
But this visit to Roberts refutives was
aturally contemplated with even more
han the usual trembling excitement of
he young fiancee. For Roberts father
hnd mother and sisters were all Qnakers,
with traditions and beliefs and customs
according to which they ought to con-
template with horror and distress this
31ni0p, Of their only son and brother
}ling, and such worldling |
nng combination of laugh
merry lips and curling
nkhng bangles and rustline
skirts and coquettish bonnets
pvidering laces and ribbons ana
Clippers.
she had faint hope that once
contact with her worl3liness
pd it p!IssisafIter pIssGissaafIte than thew
Y notl She had con-
why should she not con-
Iobert had not fallen in
N spite of her airs and
fallen in love with the
themselves. He had
b. He had repeatedly
Particular little curl over
Dhead that had first won
and had assured her that
bit of lovely lace about
had completed his sub
that dear little curl was
but bought curl, held
BY hairpins, and as fictitious
y fdiy as curl could be. True.
was not exactly Quaker: he
vas only descendant of Quakers. He
bad not definitely renounced the world
elIhough there chung to him, from the
force OF heredity and training and cir.
umstances, certain grave demeanor
'na atmosphere of earnestness. He did
pot dance: he did not even want 20
lance; but he did not exactly d;san,
prove OF other people dancing IL anr
: oVuy ~ y. ala choose to indulge in so foolish
y caprice; and on the evening when ba
Gaa peen lured by friend to one Of tbe
N.Ahoridee assemblies" and had mot
.nere ms immediate, unquestionable ir'
seslstibie worldly little fate, he had o,nr -
.ei, suddenly sort of impotant raon
Tl'n himself at not being able m donno
than ue' In ne didn't want to dance any more
,n man ne ever did; but then, she wanted
S.ace, and how could he ever nIeoSa
t6in1s : ne ne s:s couldn't do exactly the same
ne had pleased her, and with
e effort; for the on;s, 'uu WI. mi'n
81 ana very handsome, and
~ with honors: in cop- Y
attractions hEs
BLe forgiven, even, 81.
estness itseH bad not q
II its own, as at eastTa
If Robert had pleased Der,
had pleased Robert, unlike eash
Rcr us they we're, anu everybody a6
Inowledged that il was a perfect loyeN
match on both sides, why might il not I
lot be possible that she would please
Roberts relations ? though not so much
IS slipper bow would she sacrifice
rom her pleasant worldliness TO secure
mat much to be-desired result.
as IL chanced, test of her resolution
n TINS respect vas offered immediately.
mrs. Marvin and Edith had hardly been
SHOWN to their chamber. after their ar.
Eva at the Longworth home, before
a,a; La.a opened her travelling bag and ex- |
'Oh, dear! oh, dear, Mamma INV
fee Pencil is all broken into hits ana
crlmps are all out of curl. Whatever
dos Oh, ] knowl Esther said
uid be in the next room if I
enything."
door. az
SO sorry to trouble you, but nv
pencil is all broken N b;ts - -,
o922 Ct me have one Of
Ihts peneil'' said