Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-06-06

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your whole body. 1t makes me die with
laughing to see you.
Delighted to afford you so much
amusement. Sorry 1 make myself SO
ridiculous! You are excessively polite
I'm sure"
"You were a great deal worse your
self You said that p
Nothing Of the kind. You misun-
derstood Inc. I simply remarked'-
Don't contradict! You said was
al ugly thing and that it cxasperated
you only to see me. You did! 1t makes
it worse to deny it. l can't think how
you can look me i'll the facen'
"Why get excited? It's really not
worth while, and you will make your
self so hot It's not becoming to be hot
was about to say when you so rudely
interrupted me that you had misunder-
stood the meaning of my remarks. l
simply observcd''-
81 don't care little bit what you OBJ
served. 1 am not going to talk to you
any longer. l am going across the room
to mamma. Good afternoon, Captain
May. You needn't dance with me at
Lady Bottoms this evening, as my hair
annoys you so much"
II shall ask Miss Cunliffe instead.
She is a capital waltzer. Your mother
is waiting for you at the door. Fourth
and sixth, wasn it, and the first eXtra2
1 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 SO
much for a pleasant afternoon.
ON THE WAY HoME-IER soLILoQUY.
''He never thought CT such thing
1t never occurred to him to think of me
in that light. Hateful creature! And
why not, should like to know? Doesn't
for him, but he has no business not to
like me. What hCrrid taste! And
to talk Of dozen other girls! That
means Lucie Charvie, l suppose, and
Adeline Rowe. l have noticed that he
dances with them. Il l don't see
why he should like them better than
me. I'm the pretticst, and I can be aw-
fully nice if l like. I have never been
really nice to hin-not my very incest
or he wouldn' t have talked as he did
today. l might try the effect this
evening. l meant to be offended, but
perhaps the other would have more eff
feet. I believe I'll try it. No one can
ever say that am a firt, but there arc
occasions when it is Il girls duty to
teach a man a lesson, and he had no
business to say that about my hair.
X 7 xxyOnla,. IF no III fy1,tS Jn ho
awfully good taste, as a rule. I believe
after all, it would be rather becoming
I'll get Elise 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 to
dance with me, all the same. Then, when
he sees how nice l am, he will be vexed
with himself for being so hasty. 1t will
do him no end of good. I'd give worlds
if he would only propose to me before
the season is over. I'd refuse him, of
course, but that wouldn't matter Il
would be kind Of me to take the trouble,
because it is dreadful to see a man so
conccited and if it were not for that he
would be quite charming. I'll be.
gin this evening. How exciting! Poor
Captain Mayn'
HIS sOLILoQUY.
"She looked disgracefully pretty
Nothing like putting a girl in good,
stand up rage to see what she's made
of. l never knew she had SO much in
her before. And she would just as soon
think of falling i'll love with the man
i'll the mooIi, would she? That's pretty
tall. Hang it all! Why do they put
things in fellows head? 1 was happy
enough before, and now this has un-
settled me altogether. A man
may not want to marry girl, but that's
no reason why she should be so precious
indifferent. l always fancied that she
had decided weakness. n So she
wants to laugh at me, does she? Little
wretch! She is always up to some mis-
chief. wouldn't object if it was at
some other fellow, for those dimples are
uncommonly fetching. l believe she is
right about the collars, all the same
thought so myself more than once. If
another shape would suit me better, it
seems rather absurd to stick to these.
Man in the 1uou1l, eh? Humph! Well,
it doesn't do to be too awfully sure-it's
a bad thing to get into the way of boast
ing How would it be if took her in
hand and tried to work cure? Do her
all the good i'll the world to be brought
down a peg or two and find her own
level, and the process would not be un-
pleasant. Hi, cabby! Stop at the first
decent hosier's you come to. l want to
get out. :"
Extract from The Times Of four
months later:
"On the Goth inst, at st. Georges,
Hanover square, by the Right Rev. the
Bishop of Oxbridgc, assisted by the Rev.
Noel Blanchard, the brother of the
bride, Cyril Aubrey May, captain Royal
Horse guards, second son of James Eaton
May, Esq, OF Brompton manor, Hants,
to Phyllis Mary Olivia, only daughter
Of Major Blanchard of Barcombe, Co.
Wicklow, and Floraire, Alpes- Mari
times. '--Sketch.
Chrysanthemum Salad.