West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-21

haimonizes very well with his last name,
which Is ear. And he's POOR, as | said
before, so poor that he and the ira.
dit'onal church mouse might shake
hands and call each other brother il
the mouse happened TO be that kind OF
n mouse-is part French. part German
goes nowhere but where duty calls /;
sings in the solitude OF his own shabby
room 'Ach. wars't du nur mein eigen'
and songs of that ilk, rs you have heard.
and Is fast falling head over heels in
love with my gentle cousin IiliaE-an
exceptionally pretty girl, who really
don't and never would care two straws
about him, being at the core of her
heart devoted to the purple aud fine
linen of life, and only unmarried as vet,
because, as she herself has conhded TO
mo, none of her admirers could offer a
million.n
"Stuf and nonsense, says the ''gen.
tie" cousin in no gentle voice, as she
rises from her lowly position, and lean
ing her elbow upon the mantle and
her head upon her hand, looks down
where she has leen looking up. "You
know nothing about it, hate. | never.
never, never was so attracted toward
any one as l am toward Robert why
couldn't it have been Rudolph or
Rcginald-so much more poetical, you
know-toward Robert Lear. He's lust
like some one out of a poem Sir Lance
lot, for instance-so handsome, so
melancholy, So graceful"
Lillian, what would your father aud
mother aud sisters and brothers say If
they heard your They'd shut you up in
your room and give you nothing but
beefsteak and fried potatoes for a month.
Think of that2 What dreadful pun
ishment for one who is as fond of broiled
birds, roast turkey and cocoanut tarts
as you are"
"You may laugh as much rs you
please Kate" says Lillian with frown.
"IOu always were matter -of-fact
creature, with not bit of sentiment
about you. You cannot understand the
feeling that sprang up in my heart the
first moment that behtld him. Had
your fortune"
'It's only n few thousand, my dear"
interrupted Kate, 'and you know your
own is million. But, TO be serious, If
you had il you'd be looking for two
million instead of one. There, there,
don't burst into tears. I will, / vow
will be serious this time. And / ask
you, granting that you are willing TO
admit him into the favored circle that
pays you no mage, how is that adm t.
tance to be managed without your over.
stepping the bounds of maideuly pro-
prietyl To be frank with you, he be-
lieves as l know-you needn't shrug
your shoulders-as / know, I say, that
your interest in him is only a girlish
fancy, and the little Fren hwoman tells
me, she is in his confidence. being an
old friend-that in a month or so, TO
break the fetters your witchery has
thrown around him, he returns to his
own country"
''Kate, have you no feelingl Do you
want to break my hearth Yes, break my
heart. You need not look at me in that
increduous way. When you speak of
his going away forever feel as though
all the light and beauty were faded out
Of my life. And IL at this moment he
and millionaire stood"
"No rash VOWS, Lillian, q" interrupted
Kate.
81 must and will bid him hope. l
must aud will, say. Kate, how shall
do it?'
Faith, don't know, " says her cousin,
with delicious mimicry of the brogut
and nm air Of meek resignation, "unless,
me dear, you send him Valentine