Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-30

ooh, yes, he's all right, thank you.
People who stay indoors as much as
he does are always rather inclined to
exaggerate their ailments, you know
AS for his sight, of course it never has
been very good, and sitting up read
ing half the night doesn't improve it.
But he has made no complaints late
1y."
complaints! No, he never would
complain if he was ever SO bad. He's
too afraid of worriting your ladyship.
I'm glad to hear he's no worse, indeed,
my lady,
And as her mistress wished her
good morning and drove on, she shut
the gates and retreated into the cot
tage.
II think that is such disagreeable
| woman" said lady KiIdonan with some
| irritation, as the sleigh wound round
the curves of the snow-covered drive,
| between wide white lawns dotted with
gnarled oaks and shaggy, black
| fingered cedars. shes an old SER
vant-of course you could guess that
=
| servants I would have pensloned her
off the premises long ago; but Lord
Kildonan, who has a sympathy for
fossils, and who besides has a national
aversion to pensioning anybody who
still has an hours work left IN his old
bones, has installed her here
"She seems civil sort of body, and
not so very Old" suggested Anna
thwaite, who had been rather favor
ably impressed by the woman.
ooh, civil in the aigre doux manner,
yes. She doesn't dare to tell me quite
to my face that I ought to sit indoors
all day making poultices for my hus-
band-which he'd be perfectly certain
to eat in a fit of absence of mind-or
reading to him in languages I don't
understand, like Millions daughters
Selfish old wretch Milton must have
been: I feel quite glad he only got
five pounds for Paradise LOST And
wonder, by the bye, whether Archi
bald would get five pounds for all the
learned treatises he's always writ
ing; suppose there must be some
other people in the world who like
their literature dry. # he'd only turn
out to be a genius one wouldn't mind
so much"
She didn't seem to mind much now
for already she was in high good
humor again, laughing at the thought
Of the sensation she should create
) among the guests she had left tc
amuse themselves the whole morning
without her, by her temperance
with-er-weu," and she looked a
, him with saucy, bewitching uplool
of her child-like blue eyes, with {
very presentable hostage from the
savage tribes of the prairie"
Lord Kildonan doesn't quite shu
: you up without any society Them sale
Armathwaite, who had imagined from
her representations that her darins
sleigh-drives were the only resource
from perpetual tete-a-tete.
She burst into a ringing laugh az
she answered:
society! Oh, no, when I tell him
, want society, he sends out invitations
to bevy of assorted bores; and whe1
I say I am dying for lack Of excite
ment, he goes over to Liverpool ant
brings me back bagatelle-board
Luckily he took an old aunt of mine
with the fixtures when my marriage
| brought him this house, and shes
=, been a great success, cheap, neve1
out Of order, and treasure who takes
into her own hands all the trouble O
the idiots whom my husband invite:
, as companions for me. Shall I describe
them to you, or will you wait to bt
dazzled by their effulgence wlthou
any PREPARATION"
II would rather hear your descrip
, ton
To be continued.