The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-10-14
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A MODERN CINDERELLA.
Margaret Hunt in Longman's Magazine.
CHAPTER 1.

They had dined half an hour earlier and
had their hair done before dinner, but it
was halfpast nine, and Glenton was begin
ming to wish that her young mistresses
would come up stairs to dress. They were
going to Mrs. Glendinning's masked ball
at the Neville Rooms, and their pretty
white dresses, which Glenton had only
just finished, were lying ready on the bed.
There was to be no great variety OF cos
tune at this ball, disguise apparently being
the main condition to be observed, and
Mrs. Glendinning seemed to have made up
her mind that disguise was best obtained
by making all the women dress alike. They
were to wear plainly made white silk
dresses, black silk dominoes, and large
sized masks GlentOn knew that the two
white dresses that she had made did her
credit, but as she surveyed them while
waiting for the girls, who were so long in
coming, she felt in her heart her talents
had in this instance been thrown away, for
almost any maid worthy of the pane could
have run up dress that was good enough
to wear under black domino. She had
put all her art into them, and it was scarcely
fair of their intended wearers not to come
up early enough to give her time to dress
them so as to look like young ladies who
had good maid.
While thoughts such as these were
traversing her mind, in came Miss Dorothy
Delaney, looking altogether Disconnected.
"You may put those dresses away, Glen
ton," she said almost tearfully. ave are
not to go to the masked ball, but to the
Reltons' dance instead, Papa insists on it.
We all thought that he kgeE about our
having to go in dominoes and masks, and
supposed that he didn't mind it, as Mrs,
Glendinning is such a very, very careful
and particular person. and his own cousin
too but he declares that We must have
told him about it when he was half asleep,
for if he had understood that it was a
masked ball, not for one moment would he
have given his consent to anything so i'm
proper. We have been trying to persuade
him to let us go, but it's no use, so there's
an end of all our pleasure. 3"
80 Miss porathy and after the pains
l have taken with those pretty white silks,
and when you and Miss Alice do look so
nice in them 1t would Just vex saint p
at vexes sinner, assure you, said
Miss Dolly; 'but it can't be helped. |
have said everything that can be said, and
so has mamma, but he won't let us go, so
you may put those dresses away, for we
can't 20 in spite of him, mores the pity.
There is no way of doing that"
Alice came in time to hear what Dolly
was saying, and exclaimed
'Don't order those dresses to be put
away, Dolly. Why shouldn't We wear
them at the Reltons'? And as for our
not being able to go to the masked ball in
spite of papa, that's just what we could do,
if we were not going somewhere else with
mamma, and we're naughty girls who didn't
mind stealing off to the Neville Rooms
without hcr knowing; for, as every one is
to be closely masked, no one would ever
find out that we had been there,
Glenton, who was quietly putting the
dominoes, masks, and other things that
were not wanted ont of the way, and get
ting out other things that were, paused in
what she was doing, and appeared to take
some interest in this speech.
Dorothy sighed, and then, having
fine, deeply seated conviction that, as SER
wants belonged to an entirely different
world from her own, it did not in the least
signify what she said before them, for they
could not possibly understand it, and it
WOuiu HOG Hucil uidtteE Ii tuey uius sHc
burst into tears and threw her arms round
her sisters neck, exclaiming:
''And after what happened to-day, too,
just when I did so want to put things a
little straight o Alice if you only
knew how miserable I feel r
Alice, who saw signs of interest in
Glenton's eyes. though she still appeared to
be giving her mind to what she was doing,
did not at all approve of taking her into
their confidence, and answered in French,
'Miserable because you can't go where
Cosmo Clare is, because you want to put
things straight You have not sense enough
to put anything straight you would be
much more likely to make it ever so much
erookeder than it was before. Why, if
mamma were to go to the Neville Rooms
tonight, and sou were to dance every dance
with him, you would just behave as you
always do.
sIIow do ! always behave"