The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-14

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vousness. but no sooner does he show any
sign of being in love with you than you
turn stiff and cold, and freeze him up in a
single second
Il know, 1 know and it is a great deal
more true than you think. l am quite
certain that he would have proposed to me
this very day if had not said something
so awkward, and so discouraging dread
fully unkind and stupid, in fact-that |
am half afraid he will never want to say
anything of the same kind to me again"
"But why cid you? Why on earth
couldn't you for once keep your silly little
wits about you?''
Dolly shook her head drearily. 81 don't
know; l can't explain it. like him far
better than l ever liked any one else, and
yet whenever he begins to speak like that
something comes over me in momerf,
and feel as if the one wish of my heart
was to get him to hold his tongue.
"And you naturally succeed, my dear"
eYes, and then | am miserable"
"And three or four kind words would
have put all right when he was here.
sYes, and knew it, and could not say
them. Not those gloves, Glenton I want
to wear tan. -
sit is very bad thing to be fool,
said Alice but it did not sound so bad in
French as it does in English.
81 know it is" replied Dolly meekly.
"I love Cosmo Clare, and treat him just
as if | hated him. Alice, we have our
white dresses on we have nothing to do
but put on masks and dominoes. You
might run to mammals room again, like
darling, and just explain things little to
her. and get her to go and persuade papa
to let us go just this once.
at would do no good he has horror
of masked balls,
''Oh, but you might ask mamma to try
s'No, dear, no. You must see for your
self that she can do nothing; besides, she
would rather you married Sir Edward
peepdene."
"But won't"
''0h, l don't know Judging from the
way you go on, you are much more likely
to marry man you don't like than one
you do
81 shall never marry any one, said
Dolly, with sudden relapse into despair.
81 dare say you won't. You certainly
won't if you age allowed TO go on mlqnagg-
ing your own affairs. They ought to be
taken out of your hands. After all, Cos
mo Clare may be at the Reltops', and if he
is, why not make great effort to behave
sensibly ?"
''But he won't be there-that's the
worst of it He thinks that we are going
to the Neville Rooms-I told him we were
1t was when | was arranging those ane.
mones from Cannes. He asked me to
wear some of them, and give him one or
two to wear too, so that we might recog-
nize each other.
"And you, of course, said, why should
we recognize each other?'
"How do you know? Who told you r.
asked Dolly in amazement.
Alice laughed and said; "Ich kenne
meine Pappenheimer. Oh, Dolly, why are
you such a goose? Well, such as you are,
get dressed quickly. We have not much
time. Oh, what sight. Cheer up. There
are as good fish in the sea as ever came
out of it"
''That's nonsense, Alice, because there
must always be one best fish somewhere,
and when one thinks one has found out
where it is, and has set ones heart on it
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"You must do more than that; you
must have some sense. But dress, child,
dress"
So they did dress, and neither was too
much affected by disappointment to attend
to the matter in hand.
'That will do" exclaimed Alice, after
she had carefully inspected her own image
in the glass. 'And you look very nice,
too, Dolly. Say look well, there's
darling"
"You look lovely you always do"
"That's right; then | think will go
down and say you are coming
"And now, Glenton, you can attend
little to me" said Dolly. She never got
much attention until Alice was dressed.
"What shall you do while we are away?
By-the-by, mamma said | was to tell you
that we should not be minute later than
one, | feel sorry to think Of the long
lonely time you will have while we are
away, and you scarcely ever get whole
nights rest. Do try to do something that
will make you comfortable. Have you
book q
"Not here, Miss Dorothy, but there is
one lying open on your dressing-table that
/ was just thinking should like to read,
if | might
"But that is French book. If you
can read that you must have understood
every word my sister and l have been say
ing"
"0h, no, Miss Dorothy, l didn't. |
didn't really. I might, perhaps, have uu-
derstood great deal of it if hadn't been
moving about all the time, putting things