Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-15

ACllu llLl4 ElOblk anu q sense OF pleasure
that someone beside herself has suf-
fered from his coldness. Mrs. Dalton
makes pretext for calling Dolly aside.
Excellent, my Lowell she cries in high
good humor, pressing the giri's arm.
He is enraged beyond measure. He
scarcely took his eyes off you. Go on.
and prosperl'
Thus stimulated, Dolly does go on,
and prospers exceedingly. When Mr..
Lascelles and Dick approach sImul-
taneously she devotes her whole atten-
tIon to the latter, and has scarcely a
word for the former, who presently
retlres in tragic dudgeon. and leans
against the wall looking like Hamlet,
Lord Byron, or any other blighted being
i'll the sulks.
In reality Dick is the person most to
be pitied, although his face Is aliLht
with SMILES, and his heart aglow with
anticipations of possessing a lovely
woman, and satisfying she debtors who,
metaphorlcally speaking, take him by
the throat, crying, Pay me what thou
oweStn Innocent creature that be IS.
he suspects no trea cherry, nor dreams
that milk-white bosom palpitates for the
internal young prig' over the way.
Dolly will play billiards and lawn tennis
noon they are to ride together; and, as
he sits smoking, after the idies have
retired, he reflects on the most approved
methot of asking certain question.
Up to this moment Clement Lascelles
has not seen any necessity for putting
his fate to the touch, because he has
been absolutely certain of winning; but
now that for the first time he has
rival who Is progressing by leaps and
| bounds in his lady's favor, he sees that
| something must be done. He cannot
have been befooled. She loves him or
or he, the adept at reading the secrets
! of souls, must for once have been de-
luded. Perish the thought
With gloomy brow and stately step
| he retlres from the smOking-rOom and
seeks the solitude of his chamber, but
not his couch. The dawn has broken
ere he courts repose.
'Marianl' cries Dolly a few hours
later, bursting into her friends room
whilst that lady-no early riser at the
best of times-still nestles among her
! pillows, read thisl' and she seats her
self on the bed in state of great ex-
citement, while Mrs. Dalton anguidIy
pursues the letter thrust into her hands
4 call it great impertinence!' she re-
marks, returning it to Dolly.
'ImpertInence!' with wide open eyes.
Certainly said Mrs. Dalton, taking
it back, quoting from it:
Though l cannot pretend to offer
you the one great passion of a life-sad
| passages beyond the ken OF other NOR
tails have tarnished the pure luster
which once surrounded my soul as with
a halO-yet, if you will take heart
weary with the sorrows of the age,
| dimmed by the darkling doubts with
! which an Intimate knowledge of human
! ity clouds the spirit, take me TO your
| tender breast, and let me find shelter
there from life's griefs and disappoint-
ments. What recompense a heart
! blighted as mine has been can bestow /
Will strive to make to your angelic
| sympathy and goodness
IS it not beautIful?' cries Dolly in
! an ecstasy. Il wonder what he means? ?
l suppose some horrid woman threw
him over once
Il think it is exceedingly impertinent,
and hope you will resent it,
Resent ltl' almost shrieks Dolly,
Why, it is a declaration
Get my blotting-book off that table,
| commands Mrs. Dalton, resolutely.
! Now she says, beginning to write,
! you VIII answer it III this way, or
wash my hands of you, and to morrow
he will have reduced you to abject
/ misery again
She writes hurried for few minutes,
and then, with heightened color, reads
/ the draft aloud:
/ DEAR Mr.. LASCELLEs: | have re-
/ ceiyed your melancholy letter, and am
/ truly sorry for all you seem to have
suffered. But, for my part, look upon
the world as very pleasant place, and
lave made up my mind to enjoy myself
Is much as possible; so, as l could not
console you, and you, with the ideas
you express, wOulI make me miserable,
| think you had much better look out
for somebody whose temperament is
more like your own. L suppose you
mean me to understand that you have
been much more in love with someone
else than you are with me, which, to
say the least, is not very fattering. No!
| must have an Undivided heart or none
at all. Your sincere friend, ID. s.
There is desperate fight between
Mrs. Dalton and Dolly before the after
can be persuaded to copy and forward
what she considers heartless and flip
pant missye. In the end Marian tri-
umphs. Mr.. Lascelles does not appear
at breakfast. and Dolly, though her
soul quakes within her, laughs and
talks TO Dick.
Later in the morning, when they are
playing lawn tennis, Clement Lascelles,
feeling much smaller than he has eyei
done In his life, seeks counsel from Mrs.
Dalton. With an angelic smile size
alternately pricks him with daggers,
and makes him gulp down DO IS OF
poison, but she does him an excellent
turn 10y taking a good deal of nonsense
out of him. He confesses that he adores
Dolly. How, oh, how is he 10 win her;
Has he the ghost OF a chance!
Mrs. Dalton, looking solemn, declares
her inability to reply to this. She hint:
too at Dicks unfiagging good spirit:
and temper. And the upshot OF it i:
that when Dick returns cresttallen from
his afternoon drive with Dolly, having
spoken and received his answer, Glen,
ent LaScelles carries off the young lady
to her boudoir Oh pretence of wanting
to be shown something, and, replacing
the melancholy of Hamlet, by the con
quering airs of young Lovelace, take:
her in his arms, swears be has been
fool, and has never really loved any on,
Jul IcL onCcL sci. anu LlldL II BIC dC
cepts him her life shall be one round u
pleasure.
Twenty minutes later. Dolly ha
passed on all his embraces and more I,
Marian.
How clever you are, darlingl' sh,
says, admIringly.
To which Mrs. Dalton replies, Nov
you know how 10 manage him, maxi
good use of your knowledge