The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-10-09
MISS FAULKNER

Tue biubtlpD " tmpns uftAr picA vs'
feeling gloomy.
II Jim Gardner and Carrie we're pref
iy picture Of devoted happiness, Dick wa'
DO lees pleasing ~ . sample OF sinrdy
young manhood sturdy and yet shy.
Dick vas . bashful fellow. bat be ss'
80 handsome and blus.eyed. so fair bsir.
ed aud snnburned. thai his modesty Va,
ouly IN added charm.
| Drive into Mrs. Ransom'.. Dick. ssid
csrfis Mother vsnls me TO &c, her spic'
ed pickle receipt
Something blne and white was visible
10 hammock IN Mr. Rsnsom's real
lysrd.
Oh. Carrie murmured. ii's Mrs Ran
sons niece, Miss Faulkner from the ciiy
tome city. Sally Decker was telling
abeui her. She says she she's aWinlly
rich aud stylish says shes been here before
bnt she never dared to call on her. She
says she's been 10 Europe twice. aud -
/ W Qtlt thaA hHe toV sillteu iof hbl l'hihk
Carrie ended, burriedly.
LIN gave derisive laugh. but Dick eat
painfully blushing, To be forced to en-
counter snch creaiurel He preferred
being swallow by an earthquake.
Cordial Mrs Ransom came out ct sigh /
OF the buggy,
Come here. Msggy, she called. My
niece, Miss Faulkner Miss Corwin, Mr..
Corvin sad jim Gardner. I've heard you
we're engaged to Jim Gardner from
Meclin vile. Carrie. aud suppose that's
the young man.
II ended in a good general laugh. Put
Dick was too bewildered to laugh. For
there was added to bis awe the element
best calculated tc reduce a. shy young
man to the depths OF misery -sdmirs-
tionl
Miss Faulkner wore some airy summer
girb 10 which blue predominated = blue
stripes, blue felt bat, blue lscings in her
blouse, She was black haired, dark eyed
pink checked, and the possessor OF deep
dimple.
You must come with us for 3 drive,
Mics Faulkner. said Carrie. promptly
Go on. Msggy. said Mrs. Ransom
Dick stepped down. and Miss Faulkner,
with laughing word Of depreciation, step
ped up, then Dick drove on.
Forgot the pickle receipt. Carrie
cried.
II Dick could have laughed with them
But be could not His mood Was almost
solemn. he WAS not only stiff with em.
bsrrsssment. but be was startled.
Had he ever seen her before2 Where?
II might have been in some angelic Wis
ION.
Miss Faulkner was charming as she
turned TO him. with faint blush. for the
eddy Of the situation.
I'm rather unconventional to come like
this. che declared, to Dick. Jim and Car
rie had settled back to duet. But do
love to drive.
You do? said Dick.
He meant it to sound genial, but he
knew 1t sounded stiff.
Think the roads about here are beauti.
full. said Miss Faulkner. But the names
you call themi I've heard OF the Crsbb
Hill Road and the Old Cider.mill Road.
And the Josiah Hinckley Road. Dick
managed too add.
! should think you'd call this the
Rick rack Road, she said scanning the
winding length.
Dick laughed: II only the blood had
not gone iingling into bis face the next
mioutel 1t was the sudden recollection
that MISS Faulkner had been twice TO Eu.
rope which made it,
Aunt Mary thinks there's no place like
Norwood. said Miss Faulkner, brightly.
1t is pretty
Not so very. said Dick
Her blue sash blew iuto his lap. and be
did not know what to do about it.
But it is said Miss Faulkner. Are there
many young people.
Not very many, said Dick
He wished Carrie and Jim would help
him ont, but they we're fatboms deep 10
lo~ toned dialogue.
think should know, ssid Miss Fsulk
ner. whispering and smiling. that your
sister vas engaged. even IL didn't know
it,
lis plain enough. said Dick.
II she we're not so stylish. 20 rich =
badn', been abroad 80 fiequepiy! And II
be were not haunted by that qneer notion
OF having see her before
II ] didn't bring my book along she
ejaculsied, humping her hitherto forgot
ten pamphlet. A silly little thing / was
reading 10 hammock "a regular ham
mock - 'Molly's Lovers Molly has SIX
frantic lovers Sc far. and I'm expecting
seventh every minute.
Why couldn't be think OF something
funny to reioin9 He should think Of the
right thing later, be knew
He picked The horse aud thought OF
saying something about the length Of her
visit. bu, that brought to mind the i'm.
posing eiofiss to which abe would return.
Rich. stylish. travelled. sod Dick bad.
never been farther than Earring, 10 10 bis
honest. healthy .life7
But be mastered courage Tor desper
ate 6nsl effort
Hsven't seen yon beforei be s.id
rsther bluuily.
M.f Wberey said Miss Fsolkner
ThAi's what don tnox. be said lane