Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1892-10-06
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more than getting run over BY II car
riage with nobody in it, so he would
not really be hurt very much, that papa
would be so pleased he would let us
marry each other after all. But Dick
won't. I'm afraid he'll never do any
thing. lie never has And then she
looked over ut Dick, who Sat very meek.
lv on the other side of the room twlrl-
ing his gloves listlessly, and she pouted.
1 suppose you are pou.ing at me:'
said Dick.
Yes, size answered.
I'm SORRY he continued. Il suppose
it's because don t amount to anything?
OF course it ls Dick she answered.
We'll, what in the World Can |
amount to ? asked Dick dejectedly. Il
cannot go and make fortune, for I'm
rich already. I can't found a family,
because ours has been us good il one for
centuries us a fellow can wish, and be
sides that would take too long
haven't the talent to be an artist. |
haven't brains enough to be profes
sional man Every one agrees on that.
am too small to be il soldier, and if l
went into busipe s it would be a unes.
ton of time before | d lose my money
instead of making any. They all agree
on that TOO. All Can be is gentle.
man, and no one seems to care anything
about gentleman any more. believe
your father would like to see me better
if were an adventurer.'
oh, no, he wouldn't Interrupted
Milllcent. But the colonel would like
to see ou once in while without such
awfuIly good clothes on. Papa has had
hard struggle IN this world, and he
doesn't seem to have amy confidence in
any one who has not. He is always
talking about the dnty a man owes to
the world to do something for it,
i would be willing to do anything
for the world | could. Millcent, bnt |
don t what to do, and don't believe |
could do it if | did know
I believe if you had got angry and
called HIM names when he refused to
let me marry you he would have turned
right around and said yes. But all you
did was to pick up your hat and gloves,
bow politely, and say good evening and
walk out. That's no way to handle
papa he needs an iron hand, and oc'
casionally gets it from his only daughter
too Here MiIicent shook her heal
emphatically.
But I respect your father too much,
Millv, to say anything mean and if |
had, then he wouldn't have let me come
to Sc You amy more, and that would
have been more than | could nave
stood.
You re not like other men. Dick :?
No, I'm afraid not. Isuupose that's
why they call me dude; lm not sill
ly. | can't get my clothes soiled, no
matter how l try, and as | never seem
to wear them out, ! haven't got amy
that look like old ones. The fact is
can't help being what ana boy who
has been brought up in a kid glove. If
wore blue jeans and flannel shirt
they'd always look new
'Why couldn't you get INTO q fight
with some one?' suggested Millicent
desperately.
Pm afraid no one would fight with
me, I'm so small, he answered.
Papa was awfully delighted with the
butchers boy and the bakers boy the
other day when they got INTO u fight IN
our back yard. 1t frightened me, but
the colonel went out and gave them
each dollar, and laughed all the rest
Of the afternoon about it.
i mlght get the boxing master te
give me black eye don't suppose il
would hurt very much. But if | did
the colonel would find out that | didn't
get it in fight, and he would think
that l had been trying to deceive him.
Dick said Mllicent seriously, !
wonder if you are afraid ?
II don know what you mean.
Afraid of the dark, or of danger o,
anything like that-for instance. In
afraid of the dark.
No. answered Dick. 1 don't think
I'm afraid of the dark. l don't know
about anything else, for l don't believe
l ever had anything TO be afraid Of
Mllllcent sighed again very softly tc
herself. 1t was rather a hard state o
affairs. Here was the man she wanted
to marry: just the kind of a man she
with her imperous ways could get along
with beautifully; d boy whom she had
known all her life, whose father ha(
been her fathers friend whose mothe
had been her dead mothers friend anc