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

les, my dear, it's a Casa decided
one. Heart or whatever stands in its
place, very much affected; but, let us
nope, not incurably so" said Kate Cor
don, shaking her head with mock gray
lty, to her cousin Lillian, who turned
from the window, out Of which she had
Deen gazing, and looked inquiringly at
the speaker
81 saw him over your shoulder con-
tinued Kate, ''as he walked slowly away
up the street, and | also saw the blush
that instantly crimsonod yo IT pretty
lace (how do you manage To have that
plush come at your callD and the light
mat sprang 70 your lovely blue eyes.
Again. you're in love, or fancying your
sell In love, Lillian, having already for
gotten the young artist that sailed for
home only month ago. and this time
IT is with poor professor of music in a
great city, where there are sufficient of
his Kind to convert a great country into
musi al Bedlam."
"Why, + ateri
''l'm sure don't know why" said
Kate, pretending to take the exclama-
tion Tor an Interrogation, "unloss it is
because he has large, dark eyes fine
icrm, an aristocratic face, a refined air
generally, and last, but not least, an
pears TO be highly sensible of your fasci-
nation. And, then. you've always been
ready TO fall in love with any interesting
person that came in your way since your
nrst teen, especially when distance lent
enchantment 10 the view"
nat a romance, or semblance of a
romance, to adopt your own mode of
speaking, you are making out of moth
ing, Kate" says the younger girl. with n
toss OF her chestnut braids.
"Out Of nothing repeats the other.
Glvea, pretty, very pretty girl,
watching at her window, half hidden,
In the regular poetical style, by its lace
curtains, at nine in the morning and
Tour in the afternoon; a handsome, a
very handsome, young man, coming out
at the door OF dwelling opposite pune
tuaiiy at the trst hour and going in
punctually at the lat, each time casting
profoundly respectful but Enthusiastically
tender giances at the watcher in the
window. A pink rosebud in her light
brown hair in the morning is duplicated
IN his buttOnhoie III the evening. She
stops one wintry day at the corner of
the street to buy bunch of violets, and
unconscious, of course, that she is OBJ
served, presses them to her lips. That
same night mysterious messenger
leaves an exquisite basket filled with
the fragrant things at her door. No
90 lbt pc young professor went without
MS lunch fora week TO buy them, for hot
house yioiets AID ex ,uisite baskets
kate How can your
Because can" answers Kate coolIy.
and what's more, can ask how is IL
aii 10 end know it is nothing but
romance on your part, but it may be
reality on his, and allow me If vour
delicate sensibility will admit of II IN
recall 10 your mind the fable of the bows
and the frogs, where what was fun on
one side was death on the other, and to
kindly suggest that you find some new
occ patton at the hours of and ~
kate, l never was more deeply i'm
pressed Ia all my life, that is. never as
deeply impressed is oh. pshaw
you know what mean. Don't You be.
heve me-"
Disregarding the question, Kate went
on; And granting that your are i'm
earnest this time, which / don't grant
by the by, nothing could como of NJ
our positions in life arc far apart-that
is, society DEGREES that they are-and
being a wei bred foreigner, he no doubt
accepts such decree as inevitable, and
unless you meet him half way you have
already taken the first step, he will
% beyond the tender glance and the
basket Of flowers. And besides Ali
that, you will remember that sIodv
Clare ere dc We're did not monopoiize
all the pr dc. The yOeman had his
share, and the better part, to my way 10
thinking And, il I'm not mistakcn
your handsome professor is lust as
proud"
kate, how do you know all this,n
asks Lillian, rising and coming to stand
before her "You cay no doubt and
II ! am not mistaken but the tone Of
your oice says you know"
Because, my dear, while you have
been dreaming ! have been acting
felt sorrOwful interest i'm the poof fell
low as soon as discovered that YOU had
made up your mind to look at him. and
80 ] went to work and found out All
about him."
Down on the floor beside her sank
pretty Lillian, saying rs she seized one
hanQ '0O on, Kate; that's a darling. "
THAT he is n professor Of music Won
discovered yourself at the Luttreirs
where The dull-hai and envious com
piexioued Miss Gertrude condesoeBds To
be taught by him. TO me belongs the
credit, if 10 be a credit, Of finding ,ut
All the rest, and at the risk Of shocking
you. ] will proceed 20 tell you how Fl
did it 7 made friends. at the confec.
TONERS one day, with his landlady. that
funny little French woman with tho
oorkscrew curle and the very much up.
tilted nose, and ] told her. Lillian
made gesture of impatienco. 'tWoll.
III skip that and come 20 what che told
me. Now what should you guess his
name was3 His first name, of course.
for II couldn't be expected that YOU
could guess his last"
"Wtltor, Hubert, Reginald, Roderick.
Sebastian
Wrong, every one. It's Robert
not bad name as names 20, that ia if
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