The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-19

you to speak German when YOU were
saying anything you did not wish me
to understand" ft M
I'VE will, Glenton, but still think
that you ought to have said YOU knew
some French"
Don't reproach me- Miss DOROTHY.
Take my world for it that YOU shall
never be worse Tor any thing 1 have
heard"
We'll, must trust you. Glenton.
but do be careful not to repent anv.
thing; and take the French book. as
you can read it and sit down by the
fire and doyour best to be com for tn BILE
You can go to sleep If you like, of
course. Now must be off; there's the
bell; the carriage has come round"
oh, dear! oh. dearT" thought Glop-
ton, girls are funny things! There they
go. They are just my own age, not any
thing like 50 clever as am, and don't
fancy much better looking, if any. and
they seem to think that it will make
me quite happy to sit by their Preside
for two hours quite alone and yawning
over one of their dull books. For once
it is French novel. 1 wonder they
did not insist on my amusing myself
with some old story book they had in
their nursery. It's just too funny for
/ anything. Well, Miss Alice did say
one sensible thing before she went out,
and that was that it was shame those
two tickets for the masked ball should
be wasted. / quite agree with her
there, and it shall be my duty and
pleasure now to see that one of them,
at all events is put to a good use Let
me see, it is ten minutes past ten; l
can soon fling on dress, and easily be
at the Rooms by eleven. l shall not
have much more than an hour and a
half OF it but that will be n thous and
times more amusing than sitting here
by this fire.
She hastily arranged the bedroom;
then she went to the servants hall,
and declined, on the plea of head
ache, the supper that they had kept
warm for her. II shall rest for an hour
or two, think" she said; II shall not
be wanted till one o'clock" Then she
went into the deserted morning room
and took n ticket for the ball from the
rack Other tickets for that evening
were there which she might have used,
but this ball was the thing she most
fancied. She skipped oyfully upstairs
with the ticket in her hand, saying to
herself: And now my turn for lit
/ tie enjoy ment has GOMEZ What do
young ladies think your servants are
made of? l don't suppose l shall have
enough to hurt me much; it will be q
bare two hours Sit down and rest by
the fire, indeed, when can put on a
| dress that will cost me nothing, and
wear mask that will disguise me so
| completely that even Miss Alice. sharp
| as the poor young woman thinks her
sci, could not recognize me; as for
| Miss Dolly, she has no eyes for any
thing but her own stupid little love
| ublcS."
Then Glenton got out white silk
dress Of Miss Dollys that was not by
any means in the first flower of its
youth, but had much credita BILE wear
in it She knew that it would fit her,
because her figure was very like Miss
Dorothy's, and she had a still better
reason for her confidence, for she had
worn this same dress before, and it had
fitted her like a well-made glove II
will take these shoes" she thought;
they are not quite so clean as l should
like, but will make them do, and
these gloves 1t is shame of Miss
Alice not to get them a button or two
longer"
She took Alice's gloves, but she was
careful to take one of Miss Dolly's fans
and no ornaments that did not belong
to her. Then, armed with her young
ladies' little gold latch-lsey, which they
had not taken because their father had
his own key with him, and having
carefully secured her mask. she flu ne
over her the domino that had been