The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-12-08

u ate nose, Lisa was allowed TO RI
rather wild. Nobody paid an
a particular attention to her, thoug
d. certainly Doris was always kin
er enough, IN placid way. She wa
~ sent to school at Boulogne, and a
~ sixteen was taken away, and bega
ne her wanderings with her motbe
at and sister. She grew taller an,
~ thinner, and more objectionabl
r In Mrs Drummond's eyes. Sh
le wore Doris cast-off garments, an,
- was Kept out of sight, as much a
t possible, by tacit consent on boil
le sides. When they stopped at .
u new place, she explored every cor
: ner of it, and knew more of it ir
i month than the other two die
t IN q year. She visited all CALLER.
o les, and museums, and palaces,
{ winch were open to the proprietors
OF empty purses, and, in the end,
, gained, as a fashion of her own
an art education such as few girls
possess. She did not know that
she was gaining anything. She
was only restless and curious in q
childish way, and needed amuse-
mert;; but she assimilated knovI-
edge, nevertheless. Even Doris
was startled sometimes by the
truth and value of her crude cr;ti-
clsm, and by the. amount and na-
ture of the information she found
her able to give.
'She is queer ehild,'' she
would say, calmly. "I don't
know where she learns things"
II see things" said Lisa, once.
faiow can 1 help learning? II
Fuon>t know anything about
schools, and all that; but I can't
help seeing when I roam about 40
much.'
"Where do you roam, principal |
Ely?n, Inquired Doris.
"Anywhere where there are pict-
ures or statuary; or-or-welI.
anything interesting. must do
something"
This evening, as she sat before
the shakey toilet-table, the child
was sunhappyenough. She grieved
over her. own unsatisfactoriness far
more deeply than her mother did
She was full of a hungry longing
Tor some of Doris beauty, or grace,
orgenius. She believed implicitly
IN Doris genius. In secret she
longed, with childish vehemence
for few crumbs of the alteration
laVished upon Doris.
I'm a woman-almost," she
SAID, staring at herself, with bay,
sad, tawny eyes. "I'm seventeen.
and nobody has ever even thought
OF falling in love with me. Obi" ,
clasping her impassionate hands.
"how | wish l had lover-a lover I
exactly like the one down stairsp' ,
She was quite in earnest. There t
was not an atom of coquetry in the
manner in which she regarded the !
face the. glass showed her. There t
were people who woa1d have seen s
a rare enough picturesqueness in :
1t, but she did not. It had not a
thin, fair skin, and a straight nose, /
like Doris. That was enough for +
her to>know, since she had been t
measured by Doris, and had so i
measured herself. adj her life b
II wonder what he says to Doris, l
when he-when he makes love to "
her, she murmured; and then r
she blushed suddenly, remember
ing the eyes she had SO POLITICALLY r
|ikened to deer's. !,
She had not gone to bed when d
Dorli came up stairs; and Doris, S
'ealag the light, opened the door Ii
20 look at her; and, standing il
against a background of darkness. n
With her own light in her hand, a
appeared so additionally charm D
ng, that Lisa uttered a little ad- I,
hiring exclamation.
ooh, Doris! !" she said. .,
"What is it?' asked Doris; and 81
ust at that moment moved her o.
little LAMP SO that its light fell up fl
m the soft pink of her full-blown
ose. o.,
You are $3.50 prettyl' an II
wered Lisa, apd~with so odd and T
infection in her voice y,
hat Doris laughed. tr
so pretty !" she echoed. "My w
lear Lisa, what is your objection?' dl
Lisa shook her head. m
'sNone," she said, ruefully.
Come in and let me re
ook at you II
iDorls did as she was told. It he
nust be adnlitted that she rather to
liked this kind of thing. She was al
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