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


tract; TO worship him with her body,
and endow him with all her worldly
| goods. For in small way she is an
heiress, though he is not destitute of
money and has an excellent position
Truth to tell, the young man is not
what is called "a bad sort;' he has good
looks, good brains, and good manners,
when he is not egged on to taking lib
| critics by the silly batteries of the other
sex. Poor Dolly loves him madly and
has innocently shown her pleasure in
his notice and her suffering at his neg
lect. Mrs. Dalton paused to give due
effect to her words, Dolly, after a mo-
ment, is constrained to say, rather
sulkily:
'Welli'
'Yo must take the vow first
What Yowp' with latent irritation.
The vow never to tell any human
being-Mr. Lascelles least of all-that
| /, or for the matter of that, any one,
advised you how to act against him.
oh, of course L promise.
Promises are like pie-crust,' replies
Mrs. Dalton; then, with an air of great
solemnity, she goes to a small book case
at the end of the room, and comes back
with Bible. y GU must kiss the book,
she says.
oh, no. cries Dolly, frightened. For
she knows she never kept a secret in
her life, and Is terrified at being put on
an oath which she may break, in spite
of herself, few hours later.
We'll. SAID Mrs, Dalton, firmly, do
you want him or do you not?"
Yes, cries Dolly, with tears In her
eyes, L do
Then kiss the book
10 I i1s . \
in what you are gong to tell me?' says
doubling Dolly
Because l say so. Do [ not know
the world and men?'
Dolly takes the book, trembling.
What am to say?' she falters.
Say: Il swear not to tell Clement
Lascelles or any other person that
Marian Dalton advised me how TO win
his Affections
With a sudden desperate gesture
Dolly kisses the book and repeats the
formula. Now then,' she cries, ex-
citedly.
Mrs. Dalton takes up her parable.
Clement Is really fond of you-he
would be exceedingly fond Of you, if
you only allowed him.
'If 1 allowed himl' gasps Dolly.
Yes repeated her adviser. BY
allowing him, l don't mean throwing
yourself at his head, and showing him
that you adore him; but by making him
doubt your love and his OVID capacity
for pleasing you. Different men want
different treatment. There is nothing
so delightful TO some as to see and
know that a woman cares for them it
adds tenfold to their devotion for her;
but l am bound to say these men are in
the minority. Most of them are far
more stimulated by doubts ar | fears
the woman becomes more dear as she
Z seems more distant, and, as rule
when a man is literally crazy about one
of our sex, it is because she has worried
and tormented and kept him on per-
petual balance between hope and fear.
Now you, and others like you, have so
hung upon Clement Lascelle's looks
and words, have SO positively shown
him that he is a great being, a lofty
intellect, a rival to Apollo, that he is
coming off his pedestal to worship his
worshipers. Your only chance, my
dear, is to abandon your worship; to
counterfeit Indifference as best you
may, and to let gradual and startling
convection come over him that you were
not really in earnest, after all.
1T is very easy to talk, pouts Dolly.
Marian, if you are positively certain
that your plan of campaign is going TO
be successful.
How do l know that it will be?'
Try it for twenty-four hours, and
see how it works
But / don't know what | am TO do. >
You must be absolutely guided 10y
me, and not act for one moment on
your own responsibility
Il dare say it will turn out all wrong. >
says Dolly, ungraciously, and that |
shall lose him altogether
All right, replies Mrs. Dalton, losing
patience and rising from her seat. DO
as you like. After all, what Oh earth
does it matter to me whether you are
happy or miserable? Go your own
way
Dolly springs up and catches her 10y
the arm.
No, no, Marian, don't go; don't be
angry. L will do whatever you tell
me?'
Then harken and obey. Dick
Wyndham is coming tonight. You
know he is rather fond of you. Talk
10 him, and to him only, all the even
ing. Do not once glance in Mr.. Las
celles' direction; will keep my eye on
him, and report 10 you how he takes 1t.
If he approaches you in the evening
look bored and dIstrait, and reply 10
him by monOsyllables.'
Il shall never be able to do II, groans
Dolly.
Not with such a big stake to win?'
|. "A little sarcastically).
'Ahl you don't know what it is to
love!' cries Dolly.
Not as you do, certainly retorts
Marian, with an infection of voice
which Dolly is not acute enough to
, catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives in time for
; dinner. He is rather fond of Dolly
) he is exceedingly hard up, and he wants
her money even more than her sweet
self. He is bright and amusing, has a
considerable fund of small talk, is
devoted to sport, and has not Mr.. Las
; celle's esthetic taste or lofty manner OF
showing superiority. He has a genuine
contempt for a man who talks art and
= PLAYS classic music as Mr.. Lascelles
has for one who thinks of nothing but
hunting, lawn tennis and polo, though
, he rides fairly straight and is an aver
: age shot himself.
Not little disgusted is Lascelles,
= therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrowful-
ness and its cause have greatly soUthed
his complacency for the last twenty-fuuI
J hours, seems to have eyes and ears foI
7 no one but this half-witted soldier al
5 dinner. She Is looking charming in q
? dress OF a delicious apricot tint, which
) he has not seen before The is a great
connoisseuI OF dress); il he could only
5 catch her eye he would beam on her
one OF those glances which have intoxi.
Gated her maiden soul. But wherea:
+ 1t has been his wont TO meet her tender
f; pleading glances every two minutes
t heretofore, tonight he might be Ban
, quo's ghost and she one of Macbeth'i
= guests, for all she seems TO see him
His memory serves him up variou:
: sneering and saving quotations on the
theme of souvent femme varie. He il
! 80 little congenial to his neighbor a
dinner that she expresses the most un
, favorable sentiments regarding him IL
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