Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-10-14


She throws herself at my feet, her
head upon my knees, her eyes wander.
ing out to the orchard, where. evidently.
very tragic scene has taken place. She
goes on hurriedly:
II know | said IL Charley Somers ever
proposed to me again would accept. |
know said was tired Of this pinching
hie-for hmidly, lyon know il is pinch
ing, Ad, dear. | know said had heard
OF the great Inconvenience of living in
trnnks-I tried that last season In the
mountains; even the lesser inconvenience
VI hving In bureau drawers. know !
SAID last week, when came home from
Mrs. Grahain's, with her elegant, artistic
| house and pantries stocked literally
oveffiowing with the good things of life
II said could not endure living in paper
bags any longer-I know / did; but, Ad.
when Charley today offered me his hand
-full, yes, full, Ad, of every comfort
and luxury-somehow," she says, hesi-
tatingly. II could not. don't know
why but couldn't"
We'll, dear" | reply slowly, "if you
don't love him
That's it, Adam. she says, positively,
II don't and can't; so. dear old Ad, it's
paper bags little longer"
"All right dear | say meekly; "if
you feel that way, buff you could, Won
know-of course, only if you could, how
nice it would be-
Yes" she says, laughing merrily.
very nice, but | am afraid offended
him this time beyond redemption. lam
afraid, Ad, dear" slowly, II behaved
very badly, for do you know there
rushed over my mind the picture of me
toddling away on my wedding day with
the lord high executioner,' and behaved
yes, very badly, Adam. don't want
Charley, Ad. want nobody but you"
"All right, ! say, teasingly, but take
care you never want any Moore"
Adam she says, sternly shaking her
finger at me as she rises, with the faint.
est blush upon her face, ''if you are ever
guilty again of such an execrable pun |
shall bring Charley right in and make
you marry him offhand, to save our fam
lily honor, and, better. our creditw
The next evening. as it is growing
dusk, ! am sitting on the front piazza
amid clustering vines, whose fragran:
blooms are bending them down. waiting
Tor We've TO come home from dress
parade ON College Hill. The moon is
slowly rising, and know she has wan.
dered into walk with some one Of ner
feryent devotees, and will likely come
home with another victim dangling at
her heels have scarcely thought this
until see her approoching-with two
Somers and Geoffry Moore.
How she has inyeigled Charley into her
tolls again, after yesterdays exploit, |
cannot imagine-but there he il, and TO
him she is chatting gayly, glibly, almost
ignoring the stately professor who walks |
gravely beside them.
cannot shut my eyes to the difference
between these men, though one is rich. |
the other poor.
Alas that have grown so mercenary /
md lttle-even over the question of my |
iaIling's heart! The one-gay, debonair.
out shallow. The other-noble. manly.
'uch sure, safe protector and guide for
ny wayward Genevieve; but then, those
little, cramping ills of poverty!
The night is so lovely that they sit
lown beside me on the piazza, and now
sure that she has shared her bird safely
Igain--she turns the battery of her ire
istlble forces upon the professor, and is
provoking, bewitching, exasperating, all
n one breath. In some way the conyer
alton turns upon rank and wealth and
heir advantages.
Il shall never marry except for love,
i course" she says; but then never
ould love any one but man who can
i've me all the luxury of wealth"
The first sentence evidently 10 snub
oor Charley. The last to frown down
ny presumptuous advances OH the part
t the professor.
II do not believe that, Mise Gene
ieve," he says gravely. You belle
ourself. What good to true woman's
cart are all the comforts and dainty
hings that wealth can purchase il there
e no lover What good the honor ana
ank of a Thousand dead ancestors il the
resent man he wanting in noblenessy'
A great deal, !" she says decidedly. 81 |
nould want TO know that his family had
cen great and-wealthy, for ages aud
old family portraits handed
own for generations-coats of arms and
II that sort Of thing Why, even as to
she adds with curious twin
e in her eyes, "Ad, what is our family
lsignia-our old heraldic coat of ar1ns?' .
This with gracious, questioning
lance at me, when she knows we have
ways been noboiies
What did you say, Adam, dear!"
'.Oh, Viewer stammer in reply, why
ill you try to turn everything into ridi.
ale; You know | cannot
"Ad, she says, ''you are too modest. ,
GU underrate your own descriptive I
Dilities. Well! l can't describe. but !
IN draw. Mr.. Moore, will you kindly
nd me a card and pencilr'
And that gentleman producing these ,
riicles, that audacious girl draws a very !
-editable grocer's paper bag and grayely
ands it to him. He glances at il in /;
lystified manner. ,
TO make II more perfect" she says
''you might initiate ii little /
"a very little, wee bit, for there is very
tile in it, Ad, dear. isn't thereY' !
Three days later, We've and the pro-
ssor have gone out riding. She was
sry dainty looking and gay when they
I out, but to me his face had an un-
iniliar look, as though he had made up
$ mind 70 risk all and try his fate. Ny /"
sart is stirred 10 its depths, for there i \
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