Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-05-13

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her two sons and half-grown daughter
to Miss Eloise for vocal and piano in
struction, and further benefited her
friend whenever possible by her immcdi-
ate presence and advice. If Miss Eloisc
had not been near thirty, and Mrs. Park
hurst had been seventeen, they would
have been called chums.
''Fccl2" Miss Murray demanded
"Why shouldn't feel so? You don't
know Pet Murray as do, or you'd know
why feel So"
CHOW, my dear" Mrs. Parkhurst cs-
sayed, comfortingly, "Rob isn't bad
fellow, and his people are NICE"
ut isn't that" Miss Murray inter
posed. sits this. Pets always getting
engaged. That child has been engaged
to some one or other ever since she was
In pinafores. Mamma managed her rs
long as she could, and now I've taken
her in hand. She says yes inst to be
obliging, to every dry-goods clerk of
snip who gets chance to ask her. "
Miss Murray walked up and down.
Her pretty eighteen ycar-old sister
was at that moment out slcighing with
The last youth to whom she had been
obliging. They had become engaged
the night before, and Pet had given her
lister an idea of their consuming passion
over the toast and coffee that morning.
"Weil, maybe this is the final engage.
mcnt for Pet" Mrs. Parkhurst said.
"Shc will likely marry some one in the
end, and then the other affairs will do tn
laugh over"
Indeed Pet is not going to be mar
RED short of twenty-five if | can helm
II, Miss Murray said; "and 1 think /
;a1- She won't have sense enough to
be married before thnt, and she shall
have sense if can manage it,"
NYouHlon,t suppose, do you," Miss
Murray went on, .'that l sent for Pet to
come here because needed her to help
me teach? Not for moment.
simply wanted to get her away from one
Of her idiotic engagements, and did so
most successfully. She hadn't been here
month before she was telling me that
shc didn't think, after all, that she and
Charles were suited to each other"
Mrs. Parkhurst was laughing, tears in
her eyes, at Miss Murray's heroics, but
ehc uelu Up DOtn nandS.
Zone wouldn't think marriages were
made in heaven, Eloise," she said. ito
hear you go on, or else you are most
presumptuous young woman to meddle
so with celestial affairs"
celestial fiddle-sticksl Mrs. Park
hurst, you know as well as i do that
marriages in six cases out of a dozen are
mistake and n calamity"
"One wouldn't think YOU Ind ever
been engaged, Eloise," Mrs. Parkhurst
said, with reminiscent mirth.
'Wcll, 1 have; and as mamma saws
about dancing, I've seen the folly of it.
But there it is; mamma no sooner had
the words out of her mouth than Pet in
sisted, Il want to see the folly of it
too"
MISS Murray and her sister were al
breakfast in the little parlor back of the
music room. The morning was clear
and sunny, and the frost was fast dis
appearing from the window paues.
Are you going to have time to drive
with us to the Forest Farm to-day.
Elolse" Pet asked, as she buttered a
muffin. awe are going for ornamental
twlgs to decorate the church with. Rob's
coming for me at three.n
ono; have the little SAMPSON girls
at three" Eloise said; "and you'll have
to hurry to be back in time for YOU,
boys class, if you go driving, at three. .
Cant be helped, Sissy" Pet de.
ciared, curiously. "Come to think oil
1t, couldn't you teach those little raea,
mullins again for me? don't believe
we'll be back by four"
Hadn't you better call them nv rapa
mullins, PETE" Eloise suggested. ..StriSc.
me they have been mine in all but nam,
SO far"
swell, know it, you old DEAR" Pc
frankly observed, her audaclous bab,
face in her hands, her elbows on the ia
BILE; "but have so many engagements
you don't mind teaching for me, 70,
know"
"No, I don't mind" Eloise answered
but doesn't 1t rather defeat the supposed
object of your coming here to leave m,
to do all your teaching2"
"Now don't lecture, sissy" and Mis-
let arose, tipped over her chair. anc
twirled nimbly to where her sister sat
She brushed Miss Murrays curls tn
wrong way, twisted napkin around he
neck, and then gave her final thump OF
the shoulder as an earnest OF her inten
tional good fellowship.
"See here, Pet" her sister demanded
pushing away from the table, 81 want t
talk toyou Bit"
Don't want to be talked to-" Pc
walled from the piano, where she was b
this time sounding fourth 1.-THE Lorelel
from chance sheet on the music racl,
'But you must" Miss Murray sale
with such decision that Pet whirled O
her stool, folded her hands, and DIRE,
down the corners of her rosy mouth j
token of submission. "When did va
tell me you and Rob are"--wlth mt
ment's hesitation-''to be married."
"Oh, impossible to say that. We don
know yet. Some time when there ism