Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-16

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"You's enough sight handsomer than
| Miss Jenny" whispered Sarah as thet
door opened and Jenny appeared more
| simply arrayed than her sister, but look
! ing as fresh and blooming as rosebud.
How beautiful you are, Rose she
said, "only it makes me shiver to look
at your neck and arms. You'll wear your
wooden sack, besides your shawl and
cloak, won't you?"
Nonsense, I'm not going to be bun
died up this way, for don't you see it
muses. the lace" said Rose, refusing the
warm sack which Jenny brought her.
A rap at the door and call from
Henry that the carriage was waiting
ended the conversation. and, throwing
on their cloaks and hoods, the girls de-
scended to the hall, where, with unusual
tenderness, Henry caught up his invalid
sister, and, drawing the veil closely over
her face, carried her to the covered
sleigh, SO that her feet might not touch
the icy walk.
What? Rose Lincoln here" !" exclaimed
half dozen voices as Rose bounded
into the dressing-room.
Eyes, Rose Lincoln is here" she re-
piled, gayly, divesting herself Of her
4 yet, | guess, neither am I going to be
housed up all winter. The fresh air has
done me good already-see,'' and she
pointed to a bright, round spot which
burned. her cheek.
4 A young girl, whose family had one
by one fallen victims to the great New
England plague, consumption, shuddered
and turned away, for to her eye the
glow which Rose called health was but
the hectic bloom of death.
How beautiful she isv said more than
one, as with her accustomed grace Rose
entered the brilliant drawing room. And
truly Rose was beautiful that night, but
like the gorgeous foliage of the fading
autumn, twas the beauty of decay, for
death was written on her blue-yeined
brow, and lurked amid the roses on her
cheek. But little thought she of that,
as with smiling lip and beaming eye she
received the homage of the admitting
throng.
just then Ida and Mary were an
nounced. Both Aunt Martha and Ida
had taken great pains to have their
young friend becomingly dressed, and
she looked unusually well in the en-
broidered muslin skirt satin waist and
blonde bertha which Aunt Martha had
insisted upon her accepting as present.
; The rich silken braids of her luxuriant
hair were confined at the back Of her
finely formed head with golden arrow
which, with the exception of plain band
of gold on each wrist, was the only or
nament she wore. This was her first in
! PRODUCTION to the gay world, but SO keen
was her perception of what was polite
and proper that none would ever have
suspected it; and yet there was about
her something so fresh and unstudied
that she had hardly entered the room
ere many were struck with her easy. mn
: affected manners, so different from the
E practiced airs of the city bellies.
/ Ella watched her narrowly, whisperins
r aside to Henry how sorry she felt. fol
poor Mary, she was SO yerdant. and real
{ " hoped she wouldn't do anything yer,
S awkward, for 'twould mortify her tt
!, death! sBut look" she added. "and SCI
e how many people Ida is introducing he]
: to-
Il "Of course, why shouldn't she? asked
e Henry: and Ella replied:
e u don't know-it seems so funnvi r.
e see Mary here, doesn't it?,
e Before Henry could answer, a youns
man of his acquaintance touched hi.
q shoulder, saying: Lincoln, who is tha
0 splendid-looking girl with Miss Selden'
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