News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-07
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aunt-could have seen the loYel
South before it was all sowed wit
gunpowder, picking off the Yanks
She was a sweet thing and didn'trat
tie a fellow like the home girls, and h
reckoned we would all like her as wei
as he did when he saw her, and, I'm
less he was more down on his lucl
than he knew, he would give us
chance"
Girls always make fools of Cal,
was my wife's comment as she folde,
the sheet.
"If he brings home an Englisl
bride" | began with manly direct
ness, but my wife shifted
"The eldest of eight" said she, 81
reckon he will not fall so deeply in
love as to forget that" but she reck
oned without her host, and we haC
the felicity six months later of enter
tanning the newly-wedded ones on om
plantation.
1t was cold weather, and our wei
come igas warmed up for them by
mans open wood fires which looked
hotter than they were, hut a glow
more blood-stirring came over m,
when ! recognized at the first glance
in the English bride the undeveloped
lady in the tarnished frame. With
infinite tact led the conversation at
supper to the prolific subject of ances-
tors, although it is uphill work to
make an English girl talk before she
is thirty, / learned that her family,
or a branch of it, had come over here
a hundred odd years ago, and had
not found it all their fancy painted.
They had returned home, leaving
mostly carved chests and old por-
traits to pay bad debts. Diana Snow
den was the name of the maternal
great-grandmother, and Mrs. Bea-
trice remembered to have heard that
" Papa wanted to name her Diana,
but mamma preferred she should be
christened after the princess who was
born the same year"
81 looked at her as she talked in
the deep, slow way of all English girls
and which one cannot disassociate
with stage heroines and grand dra-
matte situations till | forgot her dull
ness. or realized it only to like her the
better for it, all the while drinking in
her remarkable beauty. Her eyes
like those of the portrait, were dark
and deep set, with the cow-like soft
ness one never sees in our bright
eyed women; her face was oval, her
cheeks a trifle redder than the paint
ed ones, and her rare smile, despite
her present happiness, was as haunt
ingly sad in itssweetness as the Mona
Lisa ancestor. Impatient of delay /
hdrried the blushing bride away from
the table, and in another minute had
her before the portrait, having quick
ly displaced the landscape which h;dit.
Look !" | cried as | held the can
die up, "look and be welcomed to
by one of your own family !
| found the portrait in the house
when | came here; and / am sure if
you have ever looked in the glass you
will at once recognize the likeness
Fancy, nowi" was the reply, and
that was all, for in the next room
Cal was calling words too tender for
here, and L wns left 20
cover up my dear one and sntisiy my
soul with painted smile.
"What did you do with the films
left in the kodak ?" l asked my neph.
ew the next day as he returned me
my box with profuse thanks.
ooh, / reckon ! threw them to the
fishes with my own bad ones, " was
the jaunty answer "You said it
cost so much to have them devel-
oped, and besides l. was afraid they
would make fuss at the custom
house. | could not afford to pay
duty on my bad luck and much less
on my good luck" A roguish glance
at the demure Beatrice ended the
matter, and so was | bereft of the
blooming niece in the flesh, as well as
of the lovely great aunt on the film
and small comfort was it to remem-
ber that | was u married man who
had promised his wife Kate Fields
Washington.