News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

| Clement LascelleS as the first prize II
the marriage lottery, and is willing t
take upon herself his part of the con
| tract: to worship him with her body an
endow him with all her worldly goods
| For in a small way she is an heiress
though he is not destitute of money, an,
has an excellent position. Truth to tell
the young man is not what is called s.
bad Sort" he has good looks, good brain
and good manners, when he is not egge'
on to taking liberties by the silly fiattG I
les of the other sex. Poor Dolly love
him madly, and has innocently show
her pleasure in his notice and her sui
ferings at his neglect. Mrs. Dalton
having paused to give due effect to he
/ words, Dolly, after a moment, IS con
| strained to say rather sulhily; ''Well.'
'You must take the vow first. F"
"What Vow" with latent irritation.
"The vow never to tell any human be
ing-Mr. Lascelles least of all-that l
or, for the matter of that, any one, ad
vised you how to act toward him.
go, of course, l promise.
"Promises are like pie-crust," replies
Mrs. Dalton; then with an air of grea
solemnity, she goes to small bookcase
at the end of the room, and comes bacl
with bible. "You must kiss the book,
she says.
go, no." cries Dolly, frightened. Fol
she knows that she never kept a secre
in her life, and is terrified at being put
on an oath which she may break in spite
of herself few hours later.
"Well," says Mrs. Dalton, firmly, "dt
you want him or do you not?"
Eyes, cries Dolly, with tears in hel
eyes, 81 do"
'"Then kiss the book"
"But how do [ know there is anything
in what you are going to tell me, says
doubling Dolly.
because / say so. Do I not know
the world and men?"
Dolly takes the book trembling. "But
what am to say2" she falters."
''Say: Il swear not to tell Clement La
scelles or any other person that Marion
Dalton advised me how to win his af
fections.'"
With sudden desperate gesture Dolly
kisses the book and repeats the fOrmu
la. "Now, them" she cries out, excit
edly.
Mrs. Dalton takes up her parable
Clement is really fond of you-he would
be exceedingly fond of you if you only
allowed him."
eff I allowed him. gasps Dolly.
"Yes," repeats her adviser. ''By al
lowing him, don n'tmean throwing your
self at his head, and showing him that
you adore him; but by making him
doubt your love and his own capacity fol
pleasing you. Different men want diff
fcrent treatment. There is nothing SC
delightful to some as to see and know
that woman cares for them-it adds
ten-fold to their devotion for her; but
am bound to say these men are in the
minority. Most of them are far more
stimulated by doubts and fears-the wo-
man becomes more dear as she seems to
be more distant, and, as a rule, when a
man is literally crazy about one of our
se1; 1t is, rs because se she has worried and
tlnual balance between hope and fear,
Now you, and others like you, have so
hung upon Clement Lascelle's words
that he Is great being, lofty intellect,
a rival to Apollo, that it is not likely he
is coming off his pedestal to worship his
Your only chance, my
dear, is to abandon your worship and to
counterfeit indifference as best you may,
and to let a gradual and startling con
viction come over him that you were not
really in earnest after all.
cit is very easy to talk, though, "pouts
Dolly.
at is very easy to act, too" returns
''if you are positively certain
that your plan of campaign is going to
be successful"
Chow do know that it will be ?"
"Try it for twenty four hours, and see
how it works"
''But 1 don't know what I am to do"
"You must be absolutely guided by
me, and not act for one moment on your
own responsibility.
ST daresay it will turn ont all wrong"
SAYS Dolly ungraciously, "and that I
shall lose him altogether.
'All right" ;" replies Mrs. Dalton, los
ing patience and rising from her seat.
''Do as you like. After all, what on
earth does it matter to me whether YOU
are happy or miserable? Go your own
way7"
Dolly springs up and catches her by
the arm. 'sNo, no, Marion. don't go;
don't be angry. I will do whatever you
tell me-"
'Then hearken and obey. Dick
Wyndham is coming to night. You
know he is rather fond of you. Talk to
him, and to him only, all the evening.
Do not glance in Mr.. Lascelles' direc-
tion. I will keep my eye on him, and
report to you how he takes it. If he ap-
proaches you in the evening look bored
and distraite, and reply to him by mon
'I shall never be able to do it." groans
Dolly.
''Not with such big stake to win 2"
"a little sarcastically.)
'Ah! you don't know what it is to
love!" cries Dolly.
"Not as you do, certainly" retorts
Marion, with an infection of voice
which Dolly is not cute enough to
catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives in time for
Inner. He is rather fond of Dolly-he
IS exceedingly hard up, and wants her
money even more than her sweet self.
He is bright aud amusing, has a consid-
erable fund of small talk, is devoted to
sport, and has not Mr.. Lascelles' Rsthet- |
g taste or lofty manner of showing su-
Deriority. He has a genuine contempt
'or man who talks art and plays clas-
sical music as Mr. Lascelles has for one |
who thinks of nothing but hunting. |
lawn tennis, and polo, though he rides |
fairly straight and is an average shot I
himself.
Not little disgusted is Lascelles,
therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrowful. |
ness and its cause have greatly soothed |
his complacency for the last twenty-four |
hours, seems to have eyes and ears for
no one but this half -witted soldier at
dinner. She is looking charming in a
-iress of delicious apricot tint, which
ne has not seen before Che is a great
of dress); if he could only
catch her eye he would beam on her
0ne of those glances which would have
her maiden soul. Rut
whereas it has been his won't to meet her
,ender pleading glances every two min
ties heretofore, tonight he might be
Banquo's ghost, and she one of Mac
oeth's guests, for all she seems to see
him. His memory serves him up vari-
,us sneering and savage quotations on
he theme of souvent femme varie. He
8 so little congenial to his neighbor at
Inner that she expresses the most I'M
avorable sentiments regarding him n the
room later on, causing Dolly to
lalt between the desire to defend him
lotly, and a sense of pleasure that some
ne besides herself has suffered by his
oldness. Mrs. Dalton makes a pretext
or calling Dolly aside.
Excellent, my lovel" she cries, in
ugh good-humor, pressing the girls
I'm. "He is enraged beyond measure.
lie scarcely took his eyes off you. Go
IN and prosper -
Thus stimulated. Dolly docs 90 ON