Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-12-10
THE GIRL IN GRAY.
Irresistible Impulses which called Her to
IL Iife of Rcnnn relation.

irresistible Impulses which called Her to
Life of Remuneration.
Susan earned her daily bread by try
ing on hats in one of the majestic dry
goods palaces of the metropolis. Her
beautiful head, fine eyes, eXquisitely re-
fined expression and beautiful figure
had been the source of a splendid in
come to her. She did not know it, but
nature had been most kind in making
her an ideal model for the millinery
business.
Susan was n gray girl. She was
perfect poem in gray. Her eyes were
deep. twilight gray; her skin the cream
gray OF the white flesh about blue
birds beall; her eye that crab gray
brown which is noticeable in the eyes
of Welsh girls, and her cyelashes such
tint of chestnut gray as ornamentcd
the name of the famous race horse Sir
William.
Susan was full Of gray moods, and her
favorite position was TO sit half bent
over in one Of the guests chairs in the
aforesaid emporium, with Paris crea-
tion upon her fair head. and to gaze out
of the window.
People came and people went, and
they wondered that such beautiful
girl was not fairly carried away by
some rich and appreciatiye wife-hunter,
who had n taste for the fine arts. An
artist who went to the shop to sketch
hats and bonnets raved over Susan,
but Susan didn't mind. To all his COM
pliments she only smiled Il cold, gray,
far-away smile that could be easily in
tcrpreted. Susan interested an author
one time enough to have her question
the girl and find out why she always
wore such pensive look and seemed
altogether removed from her environ
ment.
She found that Susan was all alone
in the world; that she came from
good English family; that she was
obliged to cross the ocean to earn her
living; that she cared little for dress
and worldly things.
After becoming better acquainted
with Susan she learned that most of
the girls female relatives had been
| nuns.
Susan said to her one afternoon, when
| they were friends: ~ have q perfect
horror of ever becoming a nun myself,
but day after day the idea grows upon
me, and | am sure that some fine morn
ing I shall go 10 the "isters and ask them
to take me in. l truly believe that
Lereditv has called me to that mission.
7 think 50 much ahout not becomipo
nm that INV mind is drawn TO them,
ard tboir 1ivcs own mo
~ rrconeciore1,, road all ohont tbcn
in nubIicotions. follow them about
in tbe streets. I oast my eyes down
whom meet tbem and aIyyay,s s--coI, TO
+r,o,,, e t,vo - .I,rce corro+1,o
o,-ov fror, tbc nun costume, md eycyv
dress have is made as near like theirs
ne If con nossiblv bo. wonder if it is
bvnnotisb or thou~bt trauzforcuce. or
+bo cfract cf tro;ri,,a orv,bato
"Do vou l-now much ohout r,vsti-
cfer1 and mortal science? [fvoud tell
mo y, peor}e aIyavs feel drawn TO
do vhat fbefr hearts tell thcr1 not to
do"
1,hc ort1.or co,.IG not.crsy.or. hut w1s
Igrt o1ceeircr ne }l,a c,;rl had l,ccu
Ono dgy lie author went to the SHOP
IN rrt . rav, hat for = swell matinee.
and Of c,Drsc asked for Susan and she
,.as toId thot erear had grdGcrlv he
,,--,o vc,.y I,fo,ls andba.l o.fycn ND bc, no.
sitfo0 ia dI RELIGIOUS crnbroi,lery in one
5f tha technical s5oDs connected with
,la.hprcb
,-b.. ot,I.,r, bc,rl not tI,i,,cr ,-,or,o from
,br ufrI .rrti1 o,a DIV. while iDyasrfgat-
i-r - ch,ri+v ON the east side. she saw
frrtIiar Goure Ait rast. UroD look
Inc, intensely a+ II. il tproyed to be Susan.
one sli'io, oHu 1 lSlq I .t-@eu we itI, %l
Won? | have answered NV own Qucs-