Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-20
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1t did Just occur to Mrs. Campbell
| that her daughter might have been
| some at raction for the bees save in
| the fine, unencumbered estate. and
that she spoke with some acerbitv when
, she described Geraldine as "a girl
with money 1t made her bride up,
and cut Charlotte somewha short in
her next remark, SO that adv Ray
mond feared afterwards that she had
not on the whole done quite SO well as
, she had expected She had meant to
suggest that application as to the
ar.cter and tenets held by the bees
IN question should be made by her
mother to her son. and that Cecil alone
should furnish the Passw ord to grannys
good graces: but she was obliged to be
satisfied with vaguely limiting at what
see had intended putting into good
round terms.
AS for Cecil him elf, he was perfectly
satisfied with the situstion as it stood.
In the double character of his grand
mothers aide de camp. and Geraldine s
| instructor aud companion, he went
about with the ladies everywhere: and
on the occasion OF the ball in quest on
had the honor of presenting his cousin
With her DO I net OF facing her. in the
| carriage and of following her up the
| broad, red-carpeted steps into the fes.
tive halls. -sE
The scene that here met her eyes
was as new as all the rest had been to
| the little Highlander. but, true to her
self. she now walked d. murely through
| tHe banks OF flower and shrub, and be-
| tween the long lines OF silvery lamps,
| looking neither to right no to left lest
| Cecil should see aught amiss in her de-
| 1ortment. They were rather late, and
dancing had begun.
Truth coinrels us to state that Ger
faldine was not a goJd dan er. All the
RAINING and chmb,n ,ng in the world wall
not teach the swing. OF the waltz with
| out some pains being taken in its &c
omp'i5hin ent: and, accordingly. u
tho gh partners were rife, as we have
said, they speedily discovered that the
pretty heiress did not care to be long
upon the floor. and that they might
| .Oyfully exchange the fatiguing exer-
else for a ,uiet stroll through the gal.
leries or, better still, a lounge under
the awning of the balcoay..
The latter was the most affected by
the lady.
She had never done anything of the
| kind. and never seen anything of the
kind before.
To he sitting Or standing outside a
London ball roo n, amidst a crowd ol
bail-goers. in her brilliant bslebress,
on a warm, sweet-scented summer
night, while the music went tinkling
on within the vast saloons, and the
dancers went circling round, and soft
voices and iaug ter and light patter-
ing feet filed the air on every side it
was like fairyland. She wondered ii all
| the girls there were having AS good a
| time as she.
Some OF them looked at her rather
hard. she thought: and so, for that
matter, did the men. What was il
they saw? -.
| With all her shrewdness and her in
torn share OF native self-im portance, 1t
did not occur to her that they were
sayings That is Miss Campbell. That
is the great 5 otch heiress.' and that,
thereupon, some fell amusing, AMI
some to picking her to pieces.
| My dear, you must positively stiC h
a little closer to your grandmother, or
to me "her Aunt Charlotte admOnished
her somewhat sharply at last. ''Do as
| yoar cousins do. Ethel and Alicia are
alwaysscemlng ack'vards and forwards
to US, they show they are nnder our
charge by staying with us when they
are not dancing"
But Ihave been engaged for every
dance" 3
"WheSe then have you been? YOU
have norbeen in the ballroom"
''Outside. On the balcony" begaL
Geraldine, but could proceed no fur.
ther.
.That does not do, my dear; it does
terrific whisper :"I though you would
have known better. Ethel and Alicia
never go out on the balconies es-never.
1 ought to have told you. Cecil ought
to have told you"
'"Why, have just been there will
Cecil" sail Jerry, opening her eyes.
"Oh'" and Lady Raymond wished
she had held her tongue: "Oh?-Oh:
! OH" said, not knowing what
else to say "Well, of course, my dear,
uf course, that-ahem,-m makes differ
euce, to be sure" in an entirely al
tered tone, Ito be sure that-ahem'-
completely alters the case 1t is only
my anxiety that you should be the
sane as one Of my own daughters, you
know, Geraldine; and, no doubt, Ceci
Cecil, no doubt tiopndering on, ~
dare say he took care as t0' whom YOU
were with, 'nconcluded. tamefy:
"He introduced nearly all of them
/ The next moment, however, brought
a new Introduction. Geraldine. my
love said her grandmother's voice
| 'GenSrAl lJ8cfS WISHES W hHOW NOu
He was a friend OF your poor father S,
added she, lower, me asked of him
sell TO be presented" and there stood
fine, soldierly-looking man; with
crisp, gray hair, a thick. gray nous
tache an aauiline nose. and a magnlfi-
cent star of diamonds on his breast.
Jerry had never felt prouder in her
life.
A general with star, at whom. TO:
all her. eig hteen summers she, would
only have ventured to gaze in hum BILE
admiration, bad he not himse II olicited
nearer;acqnaintanee. She did indeed
feel honored, as she took his arm, ana
moved about here, and there. fancying
all al ound must gaze at the pair with
wonder and wi h envy.
This fine'ol warrior, whose notice
| had been felt to confer such distinc-
-tion, and for whom she had been rack
ing her brains to find topics not too
-rivolous and foolish, proved to be
neither more nor less than a Eighty
old fool, anxious still TO play his part
.nono the dandies OF the day. and in
ronse9uence, TO he seen in atte enhance
nm any pretty girl Who was the mode.
That The reigning bell OF the evening
chancst to be the daughter OF an oio
friend dead and gone, was a piece OF
luck not to be thrown away put nav
ling made tepping.stone of the fact.
lbe had not had her ear msny minutes
tere he had thrown it aside: He -hAd
tno notion OF being longer looked upon
in the light in which he hsd nrst pre- re
sented. himself, and, inde eed. soon s's He-
fSSsptly. thar the poor child, disgusted
! and ashamed, begged to-be taken ack
Ito her cha~eron, with a -perenptori-
| ness which admitted o.: no denial. { !,
She was very short and reserved
with her next partner. an. eleeapt
.kyouth, who forthwith legan the. gsnas
nrattle about Ascot Sandown;, -Hur7
i bingham, and the like. to which enc