The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-28
A QUAKER JULIET.

tury Philadelphia was aquaint and pic
turesque city. Commercial greed had
not obliterated old landmarks, and pic
turesque features were protected alike
by municipal ordinances and public sem
timent. Rows OF fine trees bordered
the streets, and these were tended and
cared for by householders. This was
especially the case ON Third, near Wal
nut, which was made beautiful by a line
of sycamores reaching to Spruce street.
On the Walnut street side were three
two story brick houses, each having
gardens en- the street, and In the one
nearest Dock at the close of the eight
zenith century lived Richard Pennell,
an Englishman and a Quaker. He was
tall and strongly built and 30 austere in
face that it was generally believed he
had never laughed in his life and was
regarded as an excellent illustration Of
the popular opinion as to Quaker babies.
But although dry and s~aturnine in man
ner Pennell was an upright Christian
man and did many kindly acts In a
quiet way. But all the same 1t was an
instance of the caprice OF nature that he
should be the father of a girl so peer
lessly beautiful as Polly Pennell.
She was now 10, his only daughter.
Her two brothers were at sea following
their fathers calling, as he had been a
mariner the greater part Of his life.
Polly's mother was a member Of the
Church of England in her youth, and
although her daughter was ostensibly q
Quaker she secretly rebelled against the
narrow, colorless life that pervaded and
ordered her fathers household.
It goes without saying that Miss
Polly did not want admirers, but the
father was ~unceasing In vigilance and
repulsed advances with a bluffness nm
mitigated by any conventional civility.
At this time there was but one family
in the state that, tried by recognized
standards, could claim to be a~ristocrat-
ic, and that was the Hamiltons of the
Woodlands.
The eldest and most beautiful of the
Hamilton girls was Rebecca. This
young lady regarded Che usual social
conventions MS restraints made for COM
mon people and so disdained them.
made friends with whom she pleased
and yet was every inch an aristocrat
and grande demoiselle.
After much persuasion Mr.. Pennell
had permitted his daughter to take Les
sons in music from Mime. Genet, and
here Polly met Becky Hamilton, who ut
once became the beautiful Quaker girls
fast friend, and not long afterward, inst
az the Arch street meeting was dismiss
ing on Sunday, after enjoying an exhil-
arating period OF silence for two hours,
they were amazed by the appearance
OF Miss Hamilton or the Woodlands sail
ing down Arch street in the dress OF the
time-a beaver hat two feet I'm the brim,
crowned with feathers like a bunch Of
broom corn, leg of mutton sleeves,
muf and gloves laced to the elbows, 1T
tended by her colored groom in laced
hat and coat. The danntless young lady
folded Polly in her ample embrace,
kissed her, and In her usual resoIute
voice proposed then and there that she
come out to the Woodlands to dinner.
Like a flock of startled hens the
Quaker matrons rescued Polly from the
wilderness of tulle and india muslin,
the fashionable dress OF the time. Miss
Rebecca laughed joyously as she re-
signed her friend and walked away, and
then poor Polly was taken in hand.
warned, entreated TO avoid the worlds
people and their vanities, ETC., and
reached home upon the whole not dis
pleased with the adventure.
Before the week was ont she had Wis
tied the Woodlands, had seen the pic
lures and was led in to dinner by a very
handsome young gentleman from Yir-
ginia described by Miss Becky in her
curt speech as d Jimmy Jessamy from
the Tidewater. |" name francis Dulaney.
The dress Of this gentleman would sur
prise D nineteenth century belle, AZ
though it was dc regIe 100 years ago.
A canary waistcoat rugged with flowers
In red silk, claret colored coat with
deep Cuffs, laced steel buttons big as
toy saucers, claret hreeches and stock
jngs, bnckled shoes and steenkirk cra-
vat smartly laced. Very commonplace
people looked like stately gentlemen In
such apparel, while In the hideous ufi-
form of today the Apollo Belvidere
might without discrimination be taken
for the butler or undertaken.
Nj. Delaney made himelf very agree
able. He told OF his life In London
when he had been d student, Of his lone
IL plantation In Virginia, his widowed
mother and sister who had married iii
England, and Polly, to- her surprise. felt
81 IL they had been friends for d long
time, and then Becky carried her of,
warning Mr.. Frank that he must NOT 10
philandering abont Third and Walnut.
ID 1t would make trouble. On the road
home the girls had q long talk, and
Polly made mp her mind that the Hrst
era In q girls life had opened for her.
She had q lover, and, as ii always the
result, such knowledge gave her, with
3 sense OF respors dlity, Il new feeling
cf SELF confidence and respect.
1t wal d fact. Mr.. Francis Dulaney
was In lore with the beautiful Quaker-
ess, and Becky Hamilton took charge Of
the courtship with characteristic energy.
After three months spent In alternate
hopes and fears Francis Dnlaney pFo-