Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-10-14

d58115 ne. Yea d3dI = makes Y
worse to deny Ii I can't think how you
can look me in the FACET
Why get excited? It's really moi
worth WHILE and Jou will make your
self ho& It Is not becoming to be hot.
was about 10 say when you 30 rndely
interrupted mo that you had misunder.
STOOD the meaning Of my remarks.
simply observed
II don't care little bit what you OBJ
served. I am not going to talk to you
any longer. Good afternoon, Captain
May. You needn't dance with me at
Lady Bolson's this evening, as my hair
annoys you 80 much y
II shall ask Miss Cunliffe instead
She is capital Walter. Your mother
Is waiting for you at the door. Fourth
and sixth, wasn't it, and the first extra!
must ask her at once, as she is SO
much engaged. Good afternoon, then,
Miss Blanchard. if you will go, and as
the good little boys say, Thank you 80
much for the pleasant afternoon!' y
ON THE WAY HoME-HER 1oLlLoQU7.
HE never thought Of such thing.
It never occurred to him to think Of her
In that light. Hateful creaturel And
why not, I should like to know? Doesn' t
he think I'm rice? $50 never cared
for him. but he has no business not to
like me. What horrid taste!
ssAnd to talk Of dozen other girls
That means Lucie Charvie, suppose,
and Adeiine Rowe. have noticed that
he dances with them. - don't see
why he should like them better than
me. I'm the prettiest. and can be aw-
full nice if I like. ! have never been
really nioe to him. not my very incest.
or he wouldn't have talked as he did to-
day. *** might try the effect this
evening.
81 meant to be offended. but perhaps
the other would have more effect be-
lieve I'll try It. No one can ever say
that am firt. but there are occasions
when it is girls duty to teach man
a lesson, and he had no business to say
that about my hair. $50 wonder II
he was right? He has awfully good
taste as q rule.
81 believe, after all, it would be
rather becoming. Y : = TIL get Elsie to
try tonight and wear my new white
dress and the pearls, and I'll say to him
the very first thing that I'm sorry and
ask him odance With me xlI e sa1nA
Then, when ~ soes low -, ke
VIM Be yeasd with hizneel4 III heln6
= nasty e win % hin 3 90 a
good 81
sIsd sive wanfds II - would only
pGopose 10 me before the season Is overl
I'd refuse him, of course, but that
Wouldn't matter; 1t would be kind Of
me to take the trouble, because it is
dreadful to see man SO conceited, and,
il 1t were not for that. he would be
quite charming. I'll begin this
evening. How exciting! Poor Captain
Mayi''
HIS soLILoQUY.
ssShe looked disgracefully pretty.
Nothing like putting a girl in good
stand up rage to see what she's made
Of. never knew she had so much in
her before. And she would just as soon
think Of falling in love with the man
in the moon, wouldn't she7 That's
pretty tall! Hang it ALL why do they
put things in fellows head? I was
happy enough before, and now this has
unsettled me altogether. = A man
may not want to marry girl, but
that's no reason why she should be so
precious Indifferent.
IT always fanoied that she had de-
oided weakness. > y y So she wants to
laugh at me, does she? Little wretch!
She is always up to some mischief.
81 wouldn't object if it was at some
other fellow, for those dimples are nm
commonly fetching.
IT believe she is right about the col
lars, all the same thought SO myself
more than once. II another shape would
suit me better, it seems rather absurd
10 stick to these. Man In the moon
Ell? Humphl Well, it doesn't do to be
too awfully sure; it IS bad thing to get
Into the way of boasting. How would
it be If took her in hand and tried to
work cure? Do her all the good in the
world 10 be brought down peg or two
and find her own level. and the process
would not be unpleasant. Hi, cabbyl
Stop at the first decent hosier's you come
to. want to get out.
Extract from The Times Of four
months later:
"On the 28th inst, at st. Georges,
Hanover square. by Right Rev. the
bishop Of Oxbridge, assisted by Rev. Noel
Blanchard, the brother Of the bride,
Carl Aubrey May, captain Of the Royal
Horse guards. second son Of James
Eaton May. Esq, Of Brompton Manor,
Hants. to Phyllis Mary Olivia, only
daughter Of Major Blanchard of Bar
combe, County Wicklow, and Floraire. "
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