Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-09-22

"But I've never seen this dress
before. Did you have it made Tor
the occasion 7"
"No, ma'am,n said she. sits one
| / had before left old Ireland. I've
not bad it on since / came 70 this
country, end l thought it would do
for tonight, not feeling that ! could
afford to buy new one
"You could not have done better
and with the silent conviction that
necessity is sometimes kinder that
we know ] oade them good hight.
The next morning before | went
down to breakfast Katie's voice came
up to my ears in song. She had a
clear, sweet voice, but this morning
there was new tone in It.
There was new light n hex face,
and as she passed In and ont he din
ing room 7 mentally decided that
little incorporating h2d doue her
good.
Afterwards / said to her well,
Katie, what is it there's some rea-
son for the smile 10 your eyes and
the song on your lips this morning.
Can't you tell me what 1t is ?"
"Thrue it is, ma'an, an quare 1t is
that We car sec what IS in woman's
heart so quick. think it must be
because .,og owa is SO warm ali
so kind. Sure I'm the happiest girl
| in all Ameriky the day"
In her fervor she dropped into the
brogue that was rarely feature IL
her speech
"Yis, in all Ameriky there's not .
girrul so happy an SO grateful TO
God an the Blessed Virgin as ] am
this very minute. Q, it was purity
sight there ii the ball room, madam,
wild the Lights hashin' an the music,
ali, the music just fioated swelled
an throbbe1 one minute like Il wud
lift your head right out ofal sorrow
an then it was a sobbin an surgin'
like the soul that is in the depths Of
pain an despair, ma'am. It makes
one so glad sometimes, such music
does, that nothing but tears can Ceil
your glaoness, an so sad, too, for it
brings back all the sad things that
have ever come into your life so il
was with me, ma'am, an then the
strange dresses of the b'ys an CIR
ruls. There were kings an quanes
an knights of the old days, am fish
women, an gypsies, an the saints
know what. An there was one tall
man among the lot that somehow I'd
noticed from the first, IAN I'd noticed
too, that when whit on to the aure
| to dance that tall man he would pet
hisself right in the same set. He
hadn't any foolish coshtume, only he
| wore a mask like the rest OF 'em.
II was just going to dance a ma
zurky wild Patrick Mcclure, an I've
never danced mazurky nor polky
wild any man in this country, when
he came up to US, an he touched my
arrum, an says he, Who are you
amy way2"
"An' says L: who are you p
"Then, says he, Don't be trlfin.
| saw a woman in q gownd like that
onct, AN she had the same swato
voice IS yerself, AN sae danced Just
az yerself, like the fairies dance ol
the sod of ould Irelaad az l've loci.
ed for her night a. day since, sn' /
know if you are that one your oan
heart will tell yea wAo aa
he.
Gam right there, 'an, wild Pat
| rick Mcclure shtaAo.a beside me,
an crookin' his elbow IN the elegant
est way for me to go on the dance
wild m,what did I doy Why, ma asn,
| I iref c~;a5 ont. 30 ~ TaIcyr
says /.
"An' %, Katie McCarty Y says he,
can there, sayin' your presence,
ma am, an right in the signC OF kings,
an quanes, an lords, an ladies, sn'