Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-24
Zulcika's eyes flashed.

spondcd composed Rosamond.
"Rosamondf said zuleika, her breath
coming thick and fast, sit would be a
Judgment on you if I were to get married
first, .aftcrall!'
Much chance there is of your getting
marricdl'' jeercd3 Rosamoiid, as she
smoothed the icing on her loaf of sponge
cake. - -
The hour.o the unknown cousin ar
rival came. = ;Rosamond looked most pro-
vokin1gly pretty in the cherry colored
cashmere and II cluster of deep rcd roses
at her belt. .rtrri. :.sfa .
Zulcika, i'll the neutral tinted sage,
green, felt like q katydid or n grasshop-
per, or any other painfully insignificant
insect - 70. 81. G.
':And now" said Rosamond, glancing
at her imperial presence in the parlor
mirror, which Zulcika was diligently pol
ishing with plate powder and a chamois
cloth, "Pm going out to gather some
carnations"
Zuleika made no comment, but within
herself she thought:
Eyes, do. That's right. 1 planted
the Carnations, and watcred them, and
L took care of thcm-and you coolly ap-
propriatcd them. It's always so, in this
family, and papa never interfercs to pro-
tcct my rights!"
She was thus soliloquizing when she
saw another reflection than her own in
the mirror. V She gave jump and II
scream simultaneously.
"Don't be frightened" said the ap-
DarltlOn Gym nrr R1cn-Dn,l ,.o,,'t
you! am your cousin Franklin"
He was very cordial and handsome,
with pleasant, dark eyes, rich olive
complexion, and II sweet, deep voice.
Zuleika WAS quite Certain that she was
going to like him.
ono, said said she, "l'm not Rosn-
mond. I am Zucika, the younger sister.
Bat Pm very glad TO see you, all the same,
and Pm sorry papa hasn't come back from
the postofiicc yet. And" (hurriedly fling
ing the chamois-clotn into the pot-poulri
jar "lil go ont with you into the garden.
and show you where Rosamond isl
For she, was secretly determined. in
spite of her wrongs, TO give Rosumond
every fair chance.
Franklin .lciicrd looked down at the
light, agile figure, us lie walked beside it,
How pretty she was! What a delicate
pink color burned on her clear check,
and how intensely blue her eyes were.
And then those silky rings of ;ight-brown
hair that were blowing about her fore
hcnd-.what bcwitching framework
they made to her face.
''lf Rosamond is prctticr, she must be
very pretty" he thought
AT that moment the sound of shlieks
and vitupcrations burst on the scented
summer mir, and Rosamond, forcing her
wayithrough the tall lilac bushes, rushed.
into the open garden, both hands clasprd
over her face.
Was it Rosamond-t this figure with
dishcvclcd hair, eyes swollen to nearly
twice their size, face disfgurcd with in
Vulnerable stings, and complexion pur-
pie with rage and pain2
"It's your horrid, hateful bees that
have done it, Zulcika!" she screamed.
"Anyhow, threw both hives into the
brush and smashed them, and-Td like
10 fling you after them! Yes, wuuldm
at warnt the crccturs' fault, Miss
.Icffcrd, explained the voice of Jacob,
the hired man, who brought up the rear,
beating oil Il cloud of infatuated insects
with the brim Of his straw hat. ''Bees
is alters quick to take oifcnsc-an' YOU
just slapped out at 'cm when they came
harmlessly hummin round about your
ear. And it didn't better matters none
when you kicked the hives over into the
brook. | shouldn't wonder now, ef it
was twenty four hours afore We could see
oulen your eyes ag'in."
Papa cried Itosamond "if YOU
don't pnt stop to Zu!cika's obstinacy
and willfuncss-"
''Ii isn't papa, Rosamond," said Zu-
lcika in a lows voice, as she. gently de
tached her sisters hand from the stran-
gers arm. cit is MIR Franklin Jciferd.
We came out to look for you
'l'm sorry you're so badly stung,
cousin Rosnmond," said Mr.. .Jcirerd.
"a little bicarhonatc of soda, dissolved
in water
But Rosamond, muttering few in
coherent words OF excuse. vanished
under the honcysucklcs that draped the
porch, leaving jacob to do battle alone
with the winged enemies, and Zuleika
and Franklin To console each other.
And this was the ''iirst impression"
which she succeeded in making upon her
INK uOyvu Cousin