Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-09-06

"Threo chnttering, noisy girls, onch
with tongue three times its proper
length! There's my cousin Flora,
Alicc Aymer, and Rosa Fcruall blue
eyes, black eyes and melting gray ; by
the wny, that little monkey Rosa.
isn't bnd looking. l rather fancy that
peculiar shade of brown hair. She
would mako tolerable study for my
next heroine. 1 may rs we'll put her
to some useful purpose. Heigho! |
think Aunt Meg was crazy to invite nil
those girls here mt oncc!"
Ho paused II moment, nv tho merry
pearl of girlish laughter echoed in the
adjoining apartment.
They're laughing ut mo. Girls
always think II bachelor fair game"
Tap! tap! tap! sounded softly On
tho panel of his door, and he hui inst
timo to tako his heels of the table
before Flore Edgcworth put her head
into the room.
cousin Kenneth, aro you thero?"
swell, what's wanting now?"
"Mny we come imp"
II may rs we'll sny yes!"
81 Just want the girls to SEQ what n
dear little den you've got here"
Flora threw open tho door, and adj
mitted her two companions.
Hero ho ie, girls the old bachelor,
MS he appears i'll his native wilds!"
"Now, young lDdies," said Mr.. Ross.
throwing his hnlfsmoked cigar out OF
tho window, "I'll trouble YOU to DO n
little less unceremonious
For Alice and Flora had pounced on
his sheets Of loose manuscript like
honey bees on bed of hcliotrope, md
were laughing over the rather illcgiblc
chiroSraphy. Miss Fernall stood
near tho door, little confused and
very pretty, in her bushes and uncer.
tainty.
Don't DO cross, Kenneth" sa,d
Flora. "We're going down to the
post Office now. Rosa Fcrnall has
written twelvo-pase letter to hel
sweetheart out i'll Canada-'
"Florn! !" exclaimed Rosa.
"Aud, pursued tho relcntlcs.
Flora. were going to post it. Como
girls"
And Mr.. Ross was left alone with
the heavy musk roses holding Mt tn,
open easement and the dreamy muir
muir of maple boughs and fnr-off bee
i'll his ear.
"a twelve-pago letter to her sweet
hcart!" he pondcred. ":5hc must hny,
had something very interesting t,
write. Canada, CHI? l wish it wa
| Van Diemen's Iand ~
Mr.. Ross rose from his easy-chair
and began to walk I'D and down til,
floor.
cts too COMPOUNDED hot to breath,
here!" he said, impntienily taking III
his hat. ''Ill so and take tramp ii
tho woods"
Flora Edgeworth had succeeded il
planting ranking thorn in her cous
ms breast, all unconscious though sh
had been.
Tho sun was low in tho sky whe,
Kenneth returned from his abs tracte
ramble in the woods, and tho wide
old-fashioned country house was yer
still as no assembled toward his ow
apartment.
"aallol'
MIR. Ross gazed vacansly round til
room with something of tho bowl
dered feeling that might. have BE-
longed 10 tho Eastern Prince whom h
found himself transported from pol
to pole in an enchanted dream.
I'm In the wrong room, believ
for there is Flora Edgeworth'sl Ugh
wrap on the bed, and Rosa's hat mn
no end of ribbons and gloves and lac
collars on the bureau"
He balanced tho coquettish littl
Chat" on his hand.
$50 this is the fashionable style
ohapeau, eh? I wonder now wheth,
Rosas hat would fit mol"
MIR. Ross adjusted the artic
Jauntily on one side of his curls, IN
viewed himself III tho mirror.
"Upon my word, it don't look
badl And now where's the sacqut