The Brinkley argus., 1898-02-24
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 Now an engaged couple are a,4 have certain associations with n5 and things. Dicks big dog-cert., a noble animal--was indelibly ass ated, for instance, with csrta;u < ernoon walk, and that walk. acs with certain private and personal 2, ters between the two. Tommy. mn, sciously, had done his worst.
 'sMr Farquhar's dog, of course <. prettier, dear," Isabel answered. hrs: ly; but she felt a burning flush mos' ing to her checks, and hoped. aposS ingly, that Dick didn't rememher clearly as she did. Men were so s., that perhaps they forgot. As for she never could forget. She wa sure she wanted to, now that she D. Dick again. She believed in him. knew he was good and true and all IA and she knew they would have h. happy together. She never should cs3 for anybody else. She never. ney' would have broken the engagement herself. She wasn't ashamed of X. ing loved him, though she was ye,, very angry with him still, and ne,S wanted to speak to him or see hi, She supposed she would never getoys it, for here, at this moment, though si had not seen him for six months. .I felt worse pang than at their partips She was even glad that she had ss him, that she was sitting near hir though after this half hour she woui never see him again. But this was ito speak, to raise a finger, to let hi see any trace of relenting from hs firm attitude, would be impossible a1 unwomanly. Her life was broken pieces and it was his fault--and sl loved him still. We'll, it was won ans fate!
 Poor Isabels eyes filled up with teal here, as she contemplated the tiger rid ing on his bicycle, and reflected that thi show must be nearly over. Tommy3 meanwhile, having been disappointed in her reception of his remarks, pra}9| tied on awhile to Dick, and finding hiuI| also strangely unresponsive, subsided| into silent admiration of the acrobatla|
 
 ! lioness.
 Dick pulled away at his mustache as| was his wont when in deep thought, His mind, too, was back upon the aftersa noon walks. She was just the sweetest girl in the world; he couldn't get awax| from that. He had met all the prettiesf girls in San Francisco, and tried lii best to fall in love with some of them. and couldn't rouse himself to care six. pence for the prettiest. A girl ought to realize, when she threw a man over thai way, that she ruined his life. He never could love anybody else and he didn't want to! Here he had been trying to forget all about her, and now every smallest part of the old overmastering feeling had come back as he sat near her and looked at her pretty half-avert- ed face and graceful figure. She had tho prettiest foot in the world. He would be utmost willing tehave it setnpOn hi1 neck! But no; that wasn't manly--it wasn't right to yield. It was her fault and he couldn't submit to it-but hs loved her just the same. And now that that confounded lion in velvet robe was driving team of tigers round the ring, he supposed the show was about and he could go back to San Fran. cisco and she would go back to New York, and they would never see each other again.
 The animals trotted nimbly out of the ring; the iron doors closed upon them; the crowd rose hurriedly to go forth in search of more shows. Dick felt thai politeness at least required farewell bow; and as Isabel seemed bent upon freeing her dress from some projection on the bench, and did not turn, he hesi tated before stepping out into the aisle Tommy scufl1ed past Jim, and Isabel re |luc1 abserJ th2n i'll kfn9 S1is upon earth, and who were no more fools than the orii' ,snary, would have parted forever. Moth ing could have induced either of them to forego their evident stand on the right of things nothing except nail or the floor, which caught the edge oi Isabel's shoe, tripped her violently, and threw her, in an entirely helpless and undignified way. full Into Dicks arms
 No resolution can be blamed for giv' ing way under q surprise like that. Il was all very we'll for them to sit apart and argue the matter to themselves and come to irrevocable conclusions. But when h man finds the one woman in the world whom he loves flung close into his arms by fate, md when woman feels herself in the embrace of the only man she ever has loved or can love, ir- revocahility becomes but name. It was all over with the resolutions in a flash. Every feeling of ofHnTer and de termination that had tormented the two hearts in that wretched half hour crystalizel at the shock into love, IT. resistible md overwhelming. The mat ter was settled then and there, without word. The amount of tenderness in Dicks touch, and the entire yielding of Jsabers figure, said more than volume of explanations. And when, after q lapse of second or two more, perhaps than was quite necessary, she regained her equilibrium, they would have stood there as in an ecstatic dream if Tommy had not broken the charmed silence by an imperious demand to be taken to see the Street in Cairo at once. Leslie's Weekly.
 Dutter Biscuits.
 Mix one-half pound of butter in one half pound moist sugar, then work into it one-half pound flour and one well-beaten egg; roll it out to the thickness of one-eighth inch, flour the rolling pin we'll, as the mixture is rather sticky; cut into shapes with buscui1