Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-01-11
ms. spErTIeuE's xATcE-xAxINe.
BY elizabeth BIeELow.

bring him round In tlme-Dut IL mas
been such hard work, that Pm most
beat outv And portly Mrs. Spet-
tigue dropped, painting, into the
chair where her daughter Dora's
pretty new summer hat was repos-
ing.
La, child, never mind your hat!-
there's plenty more. You don't
seem to realize that your father has
struck oil, in three places, and the
wells pumpin' thousand barrels
a day? And says / to him, three
ago, when he first struck,
pa says /, Dora ought to see
of the world! You're a
rich man, now, pa says I, 'and it
wont do for Dora to marry 10 Simp-
son, or Job Hodgkins, or any of
them fellers; she's a beauty, and an
heiress, pa says |, 'and she ought
to marry a nobleman, or the presi-
dents son, at least. Why, wasn't
l readin' only last night, Dora.
that a Miss Stevens was a goin' to
marry the Duke of Montrose, and
her pa was only a hotel-keeper like
your pa, Dora!
Dora had rescued her hat, and
was trying to bend it into its origi-
nal shape; but her color did heigh-
ten, and her eyes shine as her moth
er went on.
'Your pa never did have no am
bition. Dora, but l do hope there's
a little Robinson to you! If you
was clear Spettigue, | should expect
you to be willing to marry Job
Hodgkins, and settle down here in
Shamberg, strugglin' with poverty
and ten children, all your life!
Probably there was "a little Rob-
inson to- Dora, for she heaved q
sigh at that prospect.
4 always had an impression that
you'd be great lady, Dora. Ifelt
it when You was little mite of q
baby. The Robinsons was always
great for impressions; we could al
ways feel in our bones what was a
goin' to happen, and
'How am going to see anything
of the world:' interrupted Dora.
You always had to interrupt Mrs.
Spettigue, if you wanted to bring
her to the point.
Says to pa, Dora shall 60 to
Saratoga this summer, and you and
| shall go with her. and says he
Are we really going to Saratoga
cried Dora, clasping her hands, and
letting the hat drop forgotten on
the foor--though Job Hodgkins had
said only last night, that IT was very
becoming.
Just as soon as we can get ready
but first you and | must make 9
journey to Pittsburgh, and buy q
lot of handsome clothes. We must
let it be seen that your pa is rich.
and we can't help maxim a sensa'
ton, and if there's a nobleman, OF
senator, or governor there, you'll
be sure to catch him, Dora!'
MA, you don't seem to remember
that there'll be lots of prettier girli
than l there, and this is such ,
rough part of the country-w'
haven't manners like other people
and we shall only be laughed at!'
Laughed att we'll, if that isn't
pretty to-do, / should like to know
if your pa didn't send you a year t,
the Blairsville Seminary, when h
could hardly afford it, and yol
ought to kave a beautiful education
and as for manners the Robin
sons was always said to have bette
Manners
20 yes, l have no doubt we shouli
get along we'll enough said Dora
fastening to appease her mother
indignation. And / should like t,
go!'
Anybody who saw Dora at tha
moment would doubt very mucl
whether she would find 'lots of pret
tier girls at Saratoga. She had
bright gipseyish face, with a clea
olive skin and eyes as black as sloes
yet her hair was light enough t,
have dash of gold in it. She ha,
a light 1.-THE supple-like little figure
and "a W; y with her. that bewitche,
everybody.
1t was hardly to be wondered a
that the Robinson ambition ha,
been aroused in Mrs. Spettigue b
her daughters beauty, now tina
/ wealth had come Tn Give har an ~,