Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1894-10-13
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diincuity IN represeing laugh.
Then, with the recollection of the
numerous peculiarities of his lady
wife, look OF perplexity overspread
his face as Cousin Jethro Black
maundered on:
$50 guess I'll leave Assrea with
you, Cousin Wallace, for my train
leaves at 2 o'clock"
A sudden burst Of tears from As
trea-a feeble wall of "Grandfather
grandfather!n-a whispered Good
byl'-and the old man was gone,
leaving Astrea looking piteously in
to Mr.. Eldon's face.
What will Mrs. Eldon say p
thought the lawyer.
But there seemed 10 be no alter.
native but to obey the pointing fin
ger of fate, and the evening train
bore Astrea Black toward the haven
of fashion on the far Maine coast
with the distant relative by her
side.
She was only seventeen, and she
had never been out of Kidds Valley
in her life, so that all the surround
ing world was full of the indescriba-
BILE favor Of freshness.
She exclaimed aloud with delight
at sight of the scenery.
She was not at all seasick on the
boat, but bought peanuts and
munched apples, ate green peas with
| her knife and questioned Mr.. Eldon
| in very audible whisper as to the
use of the finger bowls at the steamer
| dinner table.
What q wild girl OF the woodsF
said the New York lawyer to him
self; and again he thought of his
wife's probable verdict. " But she
has got eyes like a young deer, and
those straying curls make me think
of a wild grapevine, and | do not
like to hear her laugh"
John Eldon was at the pier to
meet the Portland boat on which his
father was expected.
Astrea ran up the gang-plank like
kitten and stood on tip-toe to kiss
| him.
dts Jack ~ she cried, breathless'
ly; sand Jack don't know me! Oh
Jack, don't you remember that aw.
full day when me and you threw eggs
at the old minister's chase? DOM
you remember"
And Jack, an elegant young gen
| tleman in white duck suit and eye
glasses, stood appalled,. But he i'm
I mediately recovered himself.
| Why, it's little Astreal'' said he
aOf course / remember you-only
! you've grown SO tall"
"Motner will be surprised" sale
MIR. Eldon, with a queer shrug o
the shoulders.
"Yes," said Jack, hurriedly, 81
think she WILL"
Mrs. Eldon viewed the new arriv
al with CONSERVATION.
Barbara, a graceful girl Of nine
teen, dressed in the extreme of @s
thetic fashion, stared at Astrea's
pink gingham frock and country
boots.
Elaine kissed her cordially.
" What red cheeks you've got 7
said she. Sand, oh, what do yor
put on your eyelashes to make then
grow so long 2"
Wallace" said Mrs Eldon, "wha
are we to do with this human pan
there's who jumps over the lower
half of the colonial door instead o.
opening it, and laughs 80 loud, and
chews gum like cash-girl?"
"The best we cam" Mr.. Eldor
promptly answered. ashes an or
phan, Cleo, and she alone in the
world"
But couldn't we get her some sor'
of a place?"
An untamed creature like this
Why, it would be as cruel as caging
thrush /! What could she do in a
place 7"
Mammal" whispered Barbara
sits dreadful! With our garden
party tonight, and Mr.. De Ravelle
coming, and the Biltervans, and all
those people. Astrea is determined
to be there. It's impossible to put
her OFF,
:" But she has nothing to wear p
gasped Mrs. Eldon.
Elaine's maid is fixing her that
old heliotrope tulle with the crystal
bead trimming" said Barbara
Elaine is SO very peculiar about
it. She declares that Astrea is our
cousin, and should have everything
just as ourselves"
"Elaine is a goose - petulantly
uttered the matron. "She doesn't
know that business is getting worse
and worse every year, and that our
only hope is In this summers cam.
paign. I wish to goodness this CIR
had stayed In the country raising
turkeys and straining buttsrmiIk-
If that's the way they do it. Blu,
your father is different from any one
e'se, and when he once gets his head
set in any one directions sixteen yoke
of oxen wouldn't turn it."
So Astrea stayed at Bar Harbor
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