Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-03-20

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hair and all, but at the end! How
she ever got the tiger into her faco,
and that white peaked look when she
| went out last! "
Jenny was Constance, and she had
on q blue dress with elbow sleeves and
lace, and her hair done beautifully,
and pink roses on her waist.
''When it began Norbert was on the
balcony with Constance, and he was
just besieging her to let him go and
ask the Queen to consent to their mar
rage. He was a master hand at man.
aging affairs, and he had made out to
get the Queen another crown besides
the one she had always had. There
was ball at the palace that very night
to celebrate the victory, and he argued
that now was the time for him to ask
the Queen for Constance. He had been
working for dear life all the year, and
thinking OF nothing else but getting
this nice girl for his reward. He didn't
want to be put off any longer. He
made desperate love, SO natural like,
and JENNY mean Constance-as
good as owned that she was as deep
in as he was, that couldn't see any
use OF her doing as she did. First
she just said it would ruin them, and
when Norbert didn't pay any atten-
ton, but ran on awhile longer about
wanting his Heaven now, she tried to
make him contented with knowing she
was his, whether the world knew it or
not, and she reminded him how she had
slipped off to meet him many time
when the Queen and the rest of the
folks had no idea what they were up
to, and how afraid she'd been that
they'd be found out too soon; and was
all that to 60 for nothingp She said
that the Queen had been so shut off
from real life and real love in that
everlasting restraint she lived in, that
II re went straight to her and showed
her this tremendous taking that he had
for her cousin Constance, she'd see the
difference between that and his polite
talk to her, pretty quick. Then she'd
realize that bs had been exerting him
SELF just for Constance, and their cake
would all be dough. He'd get his
walking papers and not get his wife,
like as not. Finally, she faced Nor
bert down with her scorn of his blum
derlng mans way. and she made out
such a programme! For him to go and
pretend to the Queen that he thought the
world and all of her, only it wouldn't
really be proper for him to say so, and
then kind of make it seem to her that
as long as there was no hope of his
getting the Queen, he would take up
with Constance, and wear her like a
ribbon he set store by because the
Queen had had it on once. I got so in
terested, Sod had such dark present.
ment that they would get into an awful
mess, when the poor fellow went off,
saying it wasn't his way, and he had
more hope in truth than in such man.
agement, that it was as much as could
DO to keep from slipping after him out
the side door, and advising him to do
it his own way; but I didn't. You can
imagine how stuck up I was when the
Queen came in pretty soon, perfectly
carried away with the idea that Nor
bert was in love with her, and wanting
Constance to help her believe it, as you
might say. | wondered that Constance
didn't faint fright away, but she stood
up under it pretty we'll at first; and
was glad she did, for it gave me
chance to watch the Queen without
having her too much on nv
mind. Norbert must have overdone
it, you see; for the Queen had been
rather suspecting that he was paying
attention to Constance, and she had
about made up her mind to give her
| consent, but the minute she took it
that he loved her she went crazy. All
that tremendous longing for life, that
| she'd been hiding and smothering for
so many years, came out with a VEN
geance and it was enough to make
your hair stand on end! didn't know
as any author ever had the grit to
tackle such a subject. It was splendid,
but it was awful. She made a clean
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what it was, as much as if she'd had a
spell of brain fever; she just turned
her lonesome heart inside out, the way
you turn a glove, and not leave a sin
gle finger end tucked in. There was a
lesson for a young chit like Constance!
No good in life but love-don't miss
of it,! Every now and then she would
have misgiving, and it would melt a
stone to hear her trying to get
Constance to encourage her in
the notion that she could carry off
her age by the freshness of her
love- She was going to hide herself in
| love like battered statue in q fount-
ain with the water spouting all over it.
She was going to get Constance to
teach her how to please Norbert, and
how to keep him in order How we
are all made for happiness! says she.
She'd just found that out, poor thing!
l must say it gave me dreadful turn
when Constance asked her what she
was going to do about her live hus-