The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-01-21

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at was not my fault, sir"
"I'm another; twasn't mine."
"Wife and fifteen small children, sir;
mostly twins, specially the three last,
SIR"
'eThen you possess more than do,
SO how dare you beg from me2 Be off
with yourself"
please, sir all down with the mea-
sles."
"Then shouldn't like to catch it;
get away" said Joseph, who having
refused the beggar a penny, tossed him
a crown, and then made the best of his
own way to the Angel and Gridiron, to
find CHS warmest welcome at an inn."
He engaged a room, where he deposit
ed his parcel to remain until the even
ing, and went to call upon his betroth-
ed.
Lizzy Bell was the niece OF q thriving
milliner in the next street, and the
heiress peesumptive of the shop,
the business, and the savings.
She was little fair-skinned, rosy
checked, blue-eyed, yellow-haired lump
of a girl, always dressed out as an adj
vertesment to the shop. Her business
was to sit in the show-rooms, exhibit
fashions, and wheedle customers until
her aunt should be at leisure to re-
ceive orders. She had a fair knowledge
of trade, and a sharp eye to the main
chance. Otherwise, her intellect
was shallow, and her education super
fetal.
She had been engaged for about
year to Joseph Morriss, who, as head
clerk OF Black, Brown, Green, and
White, and heir of old John Morriss;
| was considered quite a catch by girls
of her class. So Miss Lizzy Bell had
angledfor him, and caught him; and
Mr. Joseph Morriss, being good-natured
and obliging, had easily suffered him
self to be taken. The scene of the said
man-fshing had been the shop of
Messrs. B., B., G. and W., where Miss
Lizzy was in the habit of going to
purchase goods. And now they were be-
throthed, and the marriage was fixed
to come off on the first of the en-
suing month.
| Joseph was so very fond of her
that he quite mistook her personal
appearance for her very self, and sup
posed her soft, round, white form,
and blue eyes, TO Indicate an affection
ate disposition, her dulness to be
good temper, and her lumplsh immo-
bility to prove constancy and domes-
| ITCHY. He had not even begun to sus-
pect that all this in her meant simply
Incidence, selfihness, and self-indul-
gence. He was now on his way to con-
fide to her "tender and faithful bosom"
his own great troubles.
She received him as usual in the
little front drawing-room over the
shop, and adjoining the showroom,
where she daily sat among lace
curtains, and other gossamer draper
les, like O. pretty little spider in an
elegant little web, to exhibit enticing
fineries and entangle feminine flies.
She was dressed in a redundancy of
pink flounces, that made her resemble
a large cabbage-rose in full bloom.
She was seated near the center table,
and engaged in copying Partisan
pattern bonnet that hung upon lit
tie pole before her.
There was no ono else in the room
when Joseph entered.
$50 You have come at last" she
said, without rising to receive him.
eyes" he replied, YEARLY sinking in
to chair.
II hope you had a pleasant visit
with your friend, Miss Robinson, last
evening"
II. was at the chapel" replied
Joseph, looking up in surprise. II
was anxious to hear Mr.. Sturm-"
| "Oh, yes; and to wait on Miss Rob
'inson. / believe it is principally shop
boys and servant girls that go to hear
that ranter."
~ do not clearly understand you,
Lizzy. Mr.. Sturm is no ranter, and
his hearers are composed of all classes,
from the nobility and gentry down to
the news-boys and street-sweepers."
ITO say, nothing of Miss Robin
son."
"Why do you reiterate O. waiting
woman's name to me i'll this manner,
Lizzy? You seem to be angry with
me without cause. What is the
NATTER"
"Ah, know of your carvings on;
you don't think I dol I hear OF
you'll"
"Lizzy, you meet me with undeserv-
ed reproaches this morning, when | am
in peculiar need of comfort"
"Oh! suppose you are! suppose
you have offended Miss Robinson,
have you not?"
eyes"
''There, knew it! Well, you needn't
come to me for comfort; you had bet
ter go and make it up with Your lady
ing woman" y. $780,.
"Lizzy, you insult mel" exclaimed
the young man, in such an angry tone,
and with such crimson brow, that
the flippant girl became alarmed. She
had not credited one word of the story
limited to her by Jane Robinson,
though she had acted upon it to graf
ify her love of giving pain. So now,
holding out her hand to him, she said
"Well, if you haven't been paying
attention to a lady's-maid, l had a
| good right to think you had. The wo.
man was in here this morning in a
towering passion, and said you had
been making love to her!"
"Said that / had been" .
"Well, if she didn't say it, she hint
ed it" .s -.. -......s ...
"What did she say?" ...
Lizzy told him.
"And now I will relate what really
did pass" said Joseph, and thereupon
he described the scene between himself
and Robinson.
Lizzy laughed heartily. She was
malicious enough keenly to enjoy the
iscomfture of the abigail. When hel
fit of laughter was over, she wiped
the tears from her eyes, looked up.
and inquired . 2
"But what possessed you to tell hel
THAR" 1# ,...
Because she asked me, and / had
to answer truly"
"But gracious me, the truth is not
to be told at all times. 'tisn't prudent
Now, you've made a mortal enemy O
Miss Lyle's confidential attendant
and, she'll go and persuade hel
mistress not to deal at your shop-ol
mine either, perhaps"
Il think it quite likely, indeed, Lizzy