St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1893-08-12
AN UNLuckY GIRL.
Ethel Talks of Perfectly Awful Thing
That Haunens.y

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Ethel Talks of . Perfectly Awful Thing
! That Happened.
"Wei.. Ethel, DEAR said her friend.
"how are you getting along with that aw-
| fully handsome college friend who is visit
ing your brothersn
Not at ali, was the frank reply. .I've
let him see that VIII is desperately in love
with me, though don't care fig for him.
I've made his fayorfte salad twice and
quoted from his class day Grafton, but it's
no use.s
'.Oh, well, perhaps he is engaged. .
'.Oh, no, he isn't or he would have shown
me her photograph and offered in patron
izing way to be my friend. AS it is, he
scarcely seems to see me-"
And that is a. great deal worse than be-
ing engaged.
Indeed it is. Why, if he was engaged
we could exchange condolences, and could
lament, with a glance at him, that had
no heart to give VIII. Then on parting we
could have a perfectly lovely scene of eter-
nal farewell. y
$50 you could. Minnie says she misses
Tom awfully since he was married. You
see he was awfully handsome but hadn't
a penny. Still, as he was engaged, he was
perfectly safe, and she could try all her
new tricks on him"
sOf course. And even if he was in earnest
and became troublesome she could say that
she would never, never accept a second love,
or else they must part and not break the
other girls heart
"Iery true. And how furious the other
girl would be!''
Wouldn't shes But, oh, Milly, I haven't
told you the perfectly awful thing that hap
pened the other eyeningF'
"0f course you haven't, you mean, close
thing-but do tell me now ,,
''Oh, it is nearly too awful to tellt'
No, tell mel haven't bit of curiosity,
as you know, but know what relief it is
to tell somebody when thing is really too
bad to speak about"
SO it is Now, when Stella's lovely long
curl came off in Dicks hand while he was
twining it around his finger, she said she
hadn't moments peace until she came
over to tell me about it"
Yes, indeed. And when Matte found
that Nelson was engaged to both Effie and
herself, she said she'd have died if she
hadn't telegraphed me all abouti it at once ),
Il know. Well. if I really must, will
tell you''-
Yes, indeed, p
well, you know, he and my brother
were off on a yachting trip for several
days.
Il know. My brother was of the party.
and he said that your brothers friend was
the only man he ever knew who could quote
poetry when he was seasick. .
Yes Well, they got home in the dusk
of the evening | was alone, for Will had
got offended two hours earlier than usual
and gone home, and p
Yes, yes Don't keep me in suspense
well, had on my lovely white empire
gown, which falls in such long, classic lines,
and, you know, have been studying Del
sarte long time and have learned to take
the most fetching attitudes
''Yes, but
ssWel1, when / heard them coming an
idea suddenly occurred to me, and I deter
mined to make one last effort to awaken
his interest, You know it is awfnlly easy |
to mistake people in the dusk of the even
ing''
Yes. yes, p
"Well. just rushed out into the hall and
flung my arms around one of them and
kissed him.
''0h, but you hadn't's-
No. had kissed my own brother after
all. was always unlucky, she concluded. |
with sigh. Chicago Tribune.