Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-11-15

Cock "Glengary" on one side over
Jerry'o golden curls, tuck them out OF
view. and none could have wished for
d 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 to respond in the widest gutteral
Gaelic now and again to her myst1hed,
haIf-ind ignant relative, and she was
seldom seen without piece Of bog
myrtle the badge of her clan-in the
bosom q her frock.
For her looks, her dress, her speech,
or her manners, care she had none.
1t might have been from an innate
sense of superiority, it might have been
from sheer pride of birth or certainty
Of position, it might have been from
the mere heedlessness Of fife en- but
certain it is that rom whatever source
1T sprung, no cottage maiden on the
lonely moorland thought less. or in
deed thought us | tt e, about the effect
she produced on those around her, as
did this wild and winsome Geraldine of
Inchmarew.
The toughest plaid, the wrap most
Soiled and stained and worn by weather,
suited her better than any finerv pro-
cured from fashionable warehouses;
and when compelled to array herself
10 the latter one day III the week, and
present something of a suitable APP
pcarance at the parish kirk, truth
compels us to own that the trans
termed and elegant young heiress was
fe,rS, md oil hi
En3cOnded in the grand old family
pew, she would tidget rom side to side,
after the fashion of FESTIVE colt
newly caught and i'll at ease. She
would kick her smart toes against the
boards in front until the delicate
French kid would all be worn and
shabby, to be regarded by its owner
@ith contemptuouS disparagementa and
mental reference to her own dear, de-
lightful, ciamping hobnails at home.
She would lean back and crush her
eine Leghorn hat-well aware that she
WAS doing SO until not all the efforts of
her long suffering maid could restore
Its normal shape or freshness, She
would pail Off and on her many-but-
toned gloves. AMI spread and twist her
fingers in them. She would shrug her
shoulders in her pretty cape, as if it
were dH allnoydnCc- t.llu f6Sbidllt
upon her movements. AS for her
trock itself, it would be crumpled and
creased in every possible direction;
aud il was only by dint OF having
freshly crimpcd and starched muslin
or cambria ready for her to put on
every Sunday morning that the ire
pe4ssible young lady of the manor
could be rendered presentab,e at ALL
And yet and yet -grandmamma saw
through it all.
With prophetic vision she beheld,
through the vista of few brief years,
the hour of triumph when her da-l;ag
should be proclaimed peerless among
beauties, fairest among the fair.
She could afford to wait.
n faint remOnstrance, bravely
started, but ending in thin air, as al
ready described above, was, indeed,
froIA tune to time essayed: but the an
noyance would be transient. the doubt
or lear raomeutary, while the abiding,
deep rooted conviction Of her heart
vas, that there was bu. one created
being matchless in the world, and that
.oae was Geraldine.