The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-01-12

flush. peeyiShly replied Mrs Dali
| rymple, ilinging the wrecks to the mid
| die of the room. A bonnet more or
les, what does it natter"
Alice sat. in thought; looking very
grave. very panied. very perplcxed.
1T appears TO me that YOU are on a
wrong course altogether. Selma. The
imprudcnce already committed can not
be helped, but you might strive TO re-
deem it
.Striye against a whirpool?' sar-
castically responded Mrs. Dalrymplc.
lyon are getting deeper into it: BY
your own admission You are having
new things. every day. 1t is adding
fuel to fire.
Il can't 60 naked.
But You must have a large stock of
dress BY you.
DO YOU think | would appear in
last years things? | can't and won't.
You do not understand these matters,
Alice. and can not be expected to know
better
Then YOU ought not to 90 out: you
ought to have stopped at the Grange. p"
Il could not stop there. l was eat
ing away my heartstrings. Excite
ment is necessary to me to drown
| care
You can only do one thing OBJ
| served Alice, after pause of rehec-
ton; ''confess all to your husband. If
things are so bad. they must be kept
from getting worse"
BE quiet, Alice. DO not mention
his name. That is adding fuel to fire,
il you like
1T is cruel to suffer him to incur the
| expense attendant on another London
season. II you object to tell him the
| truth Yourself, shall do ito | should
| not like the task, but for your sake
Hold your tongue. | say. Alice"
was the excited interruption. "How
dare You otter to interfere between me
| and my husband?"
''Selina. do be calm. Ii you take il
in this light. Of course / must be silent.
There is no cause for your agitation;
| should not speak to Oscar without
your full permission. How strangely
you are altered
Il have had enough to alter me-"
"What is to be the end Of all thisp"
resumed Alice, speaking the words in
| musing tone. rather than rs a question.
'Ah, that's it! The end. But uou
| need not hasten it. And, as ii the
thought Of that We're not enough, /
have another worry on M now.
what else?' sighed Miss Dali
rymple.
'.Damereau is pressing for her
money" replied Selma ..She has
limited that she can not give me further
credit.
The very best thing that could hap
pen. thought her sister.
'Wnat shame it is that there should
be so much worry in the world!' fret
fully exclaimed Mrs. Dalrymple.
Three parts of the worry we create
ourselves replied Alice: 1--WE bring it
Oh by our own acts. And no worry
ought to have the power very seriously
to disturb our peace" she continued
in awhispcr.
Now. Alice, l know what YOU are
limiting at you are going to bring up
some of those religious notions of
yours. They will be worse than lost
upon me. One can not live with ones
body in this world. and ones heart in
the next
''Oh yes we cam, said Alice, earnest
", .We-'
"Well, don't suppose I'm going
into the next, yet, unless l torment
myself out of this one: SO don't go on
about it. was the graceless reply OF
Mrs. Dalrymple. But as Alice rose to
leave her mood changed.
Forgive my righteousness, Alice;
indeed. you would excuse it if you
only knew how truly miserable am
1t makes me savage with myself and
with every body else
MA am" interrupted Mrs. Dalrym-
pies maid, entering the room. Lady
Burnham is at the door waiting for
you.'
Il am not going out to-day" an
swered her mistress, rising. Il have
changed my mind"
''Oh my patience.' uttered the maid,
whats this? Why. a'am. it 8 never
your bonnet
She stopped over the two pieces in
establishment; then she went TO pick
them up. but her mistress was too
quick for her.
No man is hero to his yalet-de-
chambre; fear the same may be said
Of woman. .'Bother the bonnet was
the undignified reply of Mrs. Dalrymplc,
as she kicked the pieces further away
Ann humbly followed them to the far
off corner, and there took them into
her hands. Reach me another bon
net, said Mrs. Dalrymplc; Il think
will 60, after all, What's the use of
staying brooding in-doors?'
(Which one. ma amp
ION, | don't know, Bring some
out"
Alice took her departure, as an ar
ray of bonnets, new aud costly. were
being displayed for her sisters difficult
choice,
Mrs. Dalrymple went down, and
took her seat in Lady Burnham's car
riage. The latter was full Of pleasure
BILE excitement, and impaired to Selma
some particulars she had learnt of the
marriage festivities about t. be held in
family of their acquaintance, to
which they were both invited. Lady
Burnham was then On her road to
Nine. Demercau's, 10 order suitable
toilette for it, one that would eclipse
every body's but the brides. Mrs. Dali
rymple, in listening. momentarily for
got her cares; when carried out of her.
self by the preparations for these
pomps and vanitics, she occasionally
did So. Do not let the reader demur at
the sense implied by ''.he prepare
tons. 1t was only when carried away
by the excitement Of the preparations
that she did SO forget; in the enacting
Of the pomps and vanities themselves.
when they were before her in all their
glory, and she made one of the be-
dizened crowd, her nightmare was
then sure to be upon her; the skeleton
in the closet would, at those festive
times, be exceeding prominent and
bare. The reader may be a philos-
opher, grave old +. r. S., very
learned in searching out cause and ef-
feet; | am not; SO he will account for
this much better than | shall If he