The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1896-02-27


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Yes
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~ Here is your y .ieuiiut, Aud may goo
iaek strepd a.
With many boss sud tbsuks, Christ.
departed
Then the yong doctor, vrth sm,l
and Sigh. took his hat, snd crossing th,
street asoeoded the steps Of the opposite
bouse 90 professional ,isit Of M,ss liz
ltday,
TIE smart ooIoted girl who opened to,
door and whom be had more than Gu,
peoted Of being the intended recipient o
the gorgeous Valentine, recosn zad bIu
WITH a courtesy. Her mistress was just
risen, and not quite ready ,c see BIN.
Would be walk into the librSty2
The library was the room With the bow
widow and here the doeler found Miss
Mtble Stanton seated at table sketch
iug.
She bad turned her bead with half
startled look, which at sight of him 10
stautly gave place to 90 expression Of
relirf
Oh, j. It yon, Doctor Liwton2 she
said 10 tone which convinced him that
she bad been expecting au unselcome Wis
itor.
hope am not disturbing you9 said
the young doctor, spuIoReticslly II | bad
known that you were here
And then be sbruptly checked himself.
with a blush at his own laundering awk
wardness'
Yon would not have entered, said Miss
Stanton, demurely taking him up You
need not have told me lhst, Doctor Law
ton,
And, taeu, before be exactly knew what
to reply, she requested brs criticism on
the water color sketch upon which she
was engaged,
1t appears to me perfect quite perfect,
be replied, looking down, not at the
sketch, but at the white band which so
held the pencil
You are 20 artist, else you wouldn't say
so, she answered, lightly. Do you not
see that my poor rose might be mistaken
Tor hollYhock and the bee for winged
elephant Don hesitate to inform me
bat my attempt is an Insult to art and a
ourIesque to nature.
Being, IA you say. no artist cannot
be expected to see that But, with rash
attempt to sppesr less stupid and ignorsnt
II amateur art, don't you think that this
esf here, Just under he other. j. lit
lie too indstinct and undecided 10 out
Inc
Here he glanced at the model form
Ehich the yonng lady was copying, and :
discovered that what be bad mistaken for {
leaf Was simply the shadow OF one rsth
r heavily executed. :
II stopped IN CONSERVATION, but Mabel c
aughed She could never succeed with |
hadows, she said; and then sbe chatted
u IN her pleasant, lively way, causing him t
0 forget bis em barrassmeut and himself, '
nd everything but her grace and sweet
ess, unti summoned to see Miss Hsll
ay
In the hall, he almost ran against Col +
Del Barrett, the handsome. dashing, veal
~ widower, who was considered the best a
sich IN town, and whose late frequent
sts to the house he had noted Could
be be whom Miss Stanton was expect A
u.
Ha al hour aiterwsrd, Doctor Lawtop, ~
neasily watching the Halliday msnsion- !.
by could he not get his eyes and bis h
hts from that directiou2 saw the n
,sbIng colonel descend the steps. and 4
ting his monstache aud crushing his :,
loves 10 bis hand, walked hastily away
So be had been discarded; there could c,
no doubt oi 1t. An then the doctor b
II into t7ouRbtfnl mood, rsmem berlDg .
abel's look Of rell + aud pleasure, when
) had entered the library. Could 1t be OF
At she liked him better than she did the Y
lshiue colon !? His heart quckeued at IF
e Thought. to
II only she could like me-if only | dur Al
hope that she did,
Across the street, the smart, serving r
II was sweeping oosn Miss HaIIiisy's =,
ia addressed her from the pavement ec
Ere's letter for yer, 1t
For shof itqured Lucinda,
For you'll De en'lmun as euv it TO pr
. said as Twas Tor the Young lady UbeT T.,