Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-29
NETS RAYMoNo's EASTER BONNET.
A Pretty Romance of the Season I'm Which
q Southern Girl is Heroine.
Nav York Ledger.l

Faster came late that year. Netis Ray
mond was glad of that. IL never seemed
quite right or natural for the churches To
be dressed with flowers while the snow was
haped high without, and the wind carried
sheets of frozen hail upon its restless
wings. But this year Easter was in time and
tune with the daffodils, the blue-birds. tht
snrinp yiolets, all the first family scented
delicately colored favorltes of April. Even
the stunted magnolia shrub in the South
garden-ah, such contrast to the giant
Groves of cream and pink bloom to which
Netis had been accustomed in her far-ofI
southern h ome-was putting forth its flesh
colored buds in the resolve to keep Easter.
Cant / go TO. church," said Nets,
opening wide her blue eyes. But why
not? Railways went to church on Easter
day, at home" ,,, 81
replied Mrs. Pytchloy. You've nothing
my winter suit is very NICE" said
Netis.
yelyetl And ostrich plumes! My dear
girl. we should be socially ostracised II we
presented ourselves at church with girl
dressed in last winters things. IL your
uncle cares to send you money for an entire
new suit now"
UNCLE BASIL HAS FAILED.
Uncle Basil will not send me any more
money at present." hurriedly interrupted
Netis' feeling as If ball were rising ny
into her throat. "Uncle Basil has failed
He has accepted clerkship at $500 year
And he hopes shall DO able to find some
respectable and remunerative employment
here in the North. got his letter yester.
day, Mrs. Pytchley, but didn't intend to
spoil your Easter with 1t. i was gong 70
tell you afterward."
Mrs. Pytchley and her daughters, Verona
and Sabina, looked aghsst at each other.
The young southern cousin had been
enough of an inhiction before. N0,c she
had become positive incubus.
"What are we 10 do 2" said Verona.
Goodness only knowsl" piously re-
marked Sabina.
Something must be DONE" said Mrs.
Pytchley. But at present We all have
our hands full to finish Verona's gros. grain
oyerskirt. DO thread your needle. Nets.
and not sit there staring. One would
think you had no desire whatever to be
useful"
Nets threaded the needle as well rs she
could through her tears, and began dill
gently to sew. IL was two months now
since she had been sent North to her uncle
Basil's relations to finish the education
which had been left at loose ends down
there in the sunshine and butterflies OF the
southern plantation. Mrs Pytchley had
been kind to her, in q cold, passioniess
sort of way: but Netis could scarcely be
blind to the fact that her two cousins, We
roma and Sabina, we're decidedly distant
and frigid toward her. Somehow she never
seemed to suit them. Verona declared
that she laughed too loud. Sabina was al
ways trying to train her into the proper
method of entering room.
FAMILY TYRANNY.
mot with bounce, rs II you were the
housemaid bringing Goals" said Sabina,
NOR yet dragging back. like q child that
is brought TO see the dentist. Why don't
Won watch Verona? Or model vonrself az
ter Mrs. Singham Singleton, who II always
50 elegant and GRACEFUL"
And then. too. they never let her come
down any more into the drawing room
when they had company of an evening.
"Netis IL only q child, they said.
II am eighteen" pleaded the girl.
And should so Ike to dance. We al.
ways danced at Uncle BasiPs in tho eve
You must wait until you are 'out,'r
Mrs, Pytchley said. automatically.
But never have been h.'" piteously
argued Netis.
Once or twice she pleaded her war int
the room, in her white dress with the knogl
of pink ribbon and the precious old lace on
tie edges of the frills. and then she proved
herself so dangerously pretty and attrac
tive, that Mrs. Pytchlsy prohibited IL fol
the future.
"You have pot your education to stteni
to, Eetis," said she. 1T 10 for that puf
pose that your uncle has sent you here. Ant
ali those late hours and exciting sids-issuel
are entirely out OF tho question:
But" Nett, gssped. ~ e. tod 4 ~; Asbuth
on MardiGras nightip
Then you spoke very .unadvisedly. :
primly remarked Mra Pytchley. II shsl
certainly allow nothine o. the sort, Nstis.
"Shant ! zee him againf"
"Mr. Arbuthnot, mean"
:" Not with nv consent" said nrA Pitch
Icy. And Verona and UAbina. who had
been plotting and planning for : veek h
make properly unconscious opportunities
tor the especial purpose Of meeting Mr.
Azbuthnot. locked shocked andsoAndnliss(
" Il 4 positively .unmaid snly, = said n
bine, with vsrginAl seveFiiy.
Theos eouShern 0frk re vry bald end
unrestssinsd. . ~ fsroes'
While Ns5is loofsi Hon o. oths Oh
VIII pux5led ~. h2e eQ14 - -
ae!x 4ays ~ 4 egpel h>e nieeGa ~ !
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