Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-09-01
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49, NOEL f1dTlley Is as lTeSu us d
rose and wonders why the Rev. Arthur
Greatorex thinks so much of her. The
Rev. Arthur also wonders = many
things.
In crises like these Miranda and
have sometimes limited desperately to
one another of an eternal Separation,
with a capital S. We have drawn
pathetic pictures of how we would di-
vide everything between us, and. she
should go and live with her mother,
while l strobe into lifes highway,
manfully putting the past behind me
in order to become great, and, instead
of going to theaters, spend my even
ings sitting by the fire, waiting her
footstep on the stair. Miranda would
always get quite worked up by this pa
thetic picture until she remembered
that it was useless taking half the
things, because her mother had no in
tentiOn of turning the house into a
storage company for the furniture Of
others. SO the trouble generally blew
over. But this time it went as far as
my making out list of the things in
my "den" before we were reconciled.
Miranda saw then that she was on the
brink of an awful precipice, and it
made her shiver. So it did me, be-
cause there's beautiful bronze Brit
ish lion from Japan in my ''den'
which she has set her heart upon hav-
ing. and know we should have SQUAD
bled over that. When she says, 'Diczy,
you're such q dear! pats my brow and
with the other hand takes the very
thing / don't want her to have, the
pathos of the situation degenerates in
to farce. and-and-oh, you know what
young wives are like! The next time
/ marry l shall choose a solid, estima-
bic lady of mature age, with a false
front and without what little Noel
calls "parlor tricks"
AS soon as Miranda told the Rev.
Arthur GreatoreX about her projected
pingpong tournament he smiled in q
pleased way and said that he himself
would be the first to take a two shil-
ling ticket. He also threw out dark
hints that Miss Jarvis would like to be
asked. They're not really engaged, be-
cause the Rev. Arthur hasn't enough
money to marry, but he calls Miss Jar
Wis "dear sister" and looks at her, if he
thinks he is unobserved, in the same
way that Sir Lancelot did at Guinevere
when King Arthur was out. OF course
Miranda knew all about this 'ge-hilty
passion" as she calls it, and that was
why she told Miss Jarvis that the Rev.
Arthur was going to play and then in
formed him that Miss Jarvis would
also be there. SO she had them Sin the
net" as it were, and the members OF
the blanket club alAost cried when
told they were too old to play. To
please them, Miranda made a special
rule that If they liked to take tickets
they could get some one else to play
for them, and. as the old men were
fond of excitement, they pawned their
remaining blankets and bought twelve
tickets for the tournament. "It do my
old cart good to get little permiskus
sport like this ERE" said CATER Hind
ley to Miranda, land I've got four
quarts on with Joe Burridge as little
missie"-poSting to Noel" ill play
for me and knock his ugly 'ead off.
do ear as 'ow Mistress Jarvis sewing
club be a-goin' to try to knock us out
and there's twelve on us wants little
missile to do her best for u.s. 1t dc
warm our old carts, it do to have a
bit of real sport like this newfangled
game. Most as good as q days rattin
it be, surelie."
When Miranda asked her little niece
Noel to stay with u.s. she said thai
Noels blue eyes, golden hair, mournfu
Nth L. 20 no
before heaven claims me for it's own
kind of expression, made her uneasy
1t did me also. l knew the child, anC
was also aware that heaven could
get along very we'll without her--for
time, at all events. She was q littlC
demon at lawn tennis and could picl
up any new game in ten minutes. Be
sides, as she told me, she had beer
working hard at plngpong in order t,
slick Brother Tom" | had a littl
practice with her before the tourna
ment came off. and she But antici
pate.
Miss Jarvis. although she loved Nj
randa dearly, did not like the success
of the blanket club. After all. we wer
only newcomers, and we ought, lik
Agag. to have walked delicately" 70
few years before bursting into sue
meteoric fame. 1t occurred to Mis-
Jarvis when she saw the special rul
that il would be a sporting kind G
thing for her sewing club members
enter en- masse. Though most of thel
were the wives of the blanket clu
men. she never seemed to realize ths
a house divided against itself cannC
stand. SO she bought dozen ticke
for the sewing club and, when Mirand
demonstrated with her on this prolf
expenditure, as good rs limited that
was no business of Miranda's. Nev
corners in the place could not be e
pected to understand 'the dear people
rs well as she did. OF course when 81
got ..,n 80 liI.a .k.aA IL l.a laln nj c.hL