Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-12-05
CHAPTER I.-Continued.

Cock 'Glengary' on one side over
Jerry, golden curls, tuck them out OF
view. AMI none could have wished for
BONNER Highland laddie. She pos
sessed the blue. bright eye and saucy
lip OF every Jaunty ancestor. She
could whistle. she could stamp, she
could featly execute more than one
step of the sword dance and shant-
reuse: she could go through the High
land fling to admiration. 1t was her
sport 10 respond in the W wildest gutterai
Gaelic now and again to her mystified,
hsli-in .ignaut relative, and she was
seldom seen without piece OF bog
myrtle the tadge of her clan-in the
bosom OF her frock.
For her looks, her dress, her speech.
or her manners, care she had none.
II might have been from an innate
sense OF superiority, it mi g ht have been
from sheer pride of birth or certainty
OF position, it might have been from
the mere heedlessness OF fifteen
certain II is that rom whateve- source
1t sprung, no cottage maiden on the
lonely u-oorland thought less. or in
deed thought as TT q, about the effect
she produced on those around he, as
did this wild and winsome Gera dine OF
lnchmarew.
The toughest paid, the wrap most
soIled and stained and worn by weather.
suited her better than any tinery pro
cured from fashionable warehouses:
and when compelled TO array hersel
in the latter one day in the week, and
present something OF a suitable ap-
peaFance at the parish kirk, truth
cOmpelS us to own that the trans
formed and elegant young heiress was
usually sulky, and always miserable.
pen Se sdpa ia tas s9a sid ss, sds
after the fashion Of resuve colt
newly caught and Ill at ease. She
would kick her smsrS toes against the
boards in front until the delicate
French kid would all be worn and
shabby, to be regarded by its owner
with contemptuous Encouragement an !
mental reference to her own dear, de
nghtful, clamping hobnails at home
She would lean bach and crush hel
fine Leghorn hat-weN aware that she
was doing so until not all the efforts o.
her long suffering maid could restore
its normal shape or freshness. She
toned gloves, and spread and twist her
fingers in them. She would shrug hel
shoulders in her pretty cape, as II il
were an annoyance and a restrain
upon her movements. AS for her
frock itself, il would be crumpled ano
creased in every possible direction
and it was only by dint OF having a
treshly-crimped and starched muslin
or cambric ready for her to put Oh
every Sunday morning that the ire
Uressible young lady Of the manor
could be rendered presentab!e at all.
And yet-and -grandmam ma saw
through it all.
With prophetic vision she beheld,
through the vista Of few brief years,
the hour of triumph when her darlin Z
should be proclaimed peerless among
beauties, fairest among the fair.
She could afford to wait.
a faint remonstrance, bravely
started, but ending in thin air, as a.
ready described above, was, indeed,
from time TO time essayed; but the an
noyance would be transient, the doubt
Or fear momentary, while the abiding.
deep rooted con fiction OF her heart
was, that there was but one created
being mstchless in the world, and t. 1t
one was Geraldine.