The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-01-06

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told him what she Is sure to make anoint
OF forgetting. thought she seemed 70
want me but women are queer cres-
tures--prone to beckon one minute. and
turn the cold shoulder if.you venture to
come. / won't have anything to do
with them; I'll be hanged IL I bother my
self about them again" he added ener-
getically, as he threw the end OF his
cigar on the steps.
Nevertheless he was conscious OF
every movement in the WaYerley's boy
and his indignation rose sky-high as he
saw man after man admitted during the
course Of the evening. Patti sans her
sweetest, but he scarcely heard her. A
pretty girl, q great ally Of his before he
atartad for India loakad nvar har Hhnnl-
der with a smile which would have in
duced any other man to take up only
too gladly the broken thread Of q past
Irritation, but he remained as unrespon-
siye q q block Of stone.
On leaving tho theator he refused all
invitations to enticing little suppers,
such as used to have q special charm
for him when he was in the vein for
amusement, and early the next morning
started for his home in Cornwall in q
pronounced fit Of sulks.
$50 Capt. Vivian, the faithful and
fascinating Lancer, has returned to the
field of his former conquests, and poor
Charlie last chance has gone" said
Lady Wayerley, looking up into her
cousins serious face, with q mischiey-
GUS twinkle in her eyes.
Capt. Vivian, to Judge from tbs way
his coat sets, is faithful to his tailor, but
there his fidelity ends. Poor Mary
Armstrong, who sat just in front ofhim,
nearly dislocated her stumpy Little neck
in her effort to look at him, and he
didn't know she was there"
"FlatteriIg to you, my dear at any
rate"
Il don't see Why" drawing up her
own neck, which was anything but
stumpy. IT was too much occupied
with the dear old general to notice
him"
"Then perhaps he was not so cruel
to Mary d you fancied?" . small smile
lowering round her pretty lips.
"He bowed TO her once but that was
ALL
"How could you tell il you didn't
look at him?"
II couldn't help looking at him TO a
certain extent, when he was just under
my nose"
ut must have been a d~isagreeabIe
necessity"
at was. / used TO think he wasn't
bad looking. Last night he looked hid
eous."
But you are short-sighted, and he
kept q distance
IT am thankful he did-old friends
are such q BORE" her cheeks which
were as soft as velvet, coloring like o
Jacqueminot rose.
"Then I won't ask him to dinner"
age-T 1, If feel inclined -
mot if you don't wish it"
@Oh, l can talk to somebody else"
81 suppose / must wait until / have
made his acquaintance"
aThat can be easily managed Charlie,
as you call him, would introduce him. "
Rather hard on Charlie-asking q
man to sign his own death warrant"
Major Wentworth wouldn't care If
be had tor
"My dear, is he so far gone as that?"
Il mean that he would regardit as
waste paper, and live ~contentedly ever
afterward.p
.Ion1thaYe to decide between q tWO
before long"
II have decided-long ago."
"And whichis it to be ?" Lifting her head
in sudden eagerness.
"Neither, and she hurried out Of the
room, saying that she must go and put on
her habit,
In spite Of her protestations, Mabel
Lorraine kept her lovely eyes wide open,
in case an old friend might be inclined
to make himself q nuisance-and found
the Row empty, because he wasn't
there.
The season was over, and u Of its
undoubted bellies had been through the
whole campaign, end reached the end
desired Of maryland given TO none.
She shrugged her shoulders in an
swer TO Lady WaverIeya approximations.
EVEN ID the marriage vow you have e
own You take q man for better o.
worse, and with the worse alternative
before my eyes T cannot turn my back
on single blessedness. Let me be, my
silly old May might be happy IS an
old maid, but miserable with an unsat'
isfactory husband"
II wish that tiresome CAPTAIN vivian
had kept out Of the way
aJust what he has done." An invol-
untary sigh escaped her. six months
IN England, and we have never met
wanted to see him 70 ask after the
Rowlandsons.
aNhy didn't you write him Q note
and tell him sop ].
aAsk him to como up from Cornwall
on down from Scotland to tell me =
Mrs Rowlandson's last baby had cut lts
teethR
lat least it would have broken ths
ice.H
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