The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-22

the basement promenade at recess, while
Emily stood afar on ana felt aggrieved.
She ~As doing good deal OF feelink
thsse days, but principally she folt cross.
1for one thing she was having TO wear q
sailor suit In which she hated herself.
It takes Jaunty juvehiilty bf spirit to
wear q sailor suit properly, and she x,as
was feeling tall and conscious Of her
angles rhe tears, too, came easily, as
mt Thought Of heraef desc rte BY Hattie
Dnd Rosalie. or at sight OF herself IN tho
Eaior suit. II was IN Aunt Cordela' .
mirror mat sho viewed herself with such
dissatisfaction: but whilo looking the. es-
peciai grievance was forgotten by reason
face She was wondering II she was
pretty. But even while her cheek famed
/ with tho thinking OF Il, she forgot why
the cheek was hot In the absorption OF
watching It fade, until.-eyes met eyes
h Bhe turned quickly ana hid her face
against the SOFA. Emmy Lou had met
set 80 a
Bit later she almost duhrreled with
Aunt Cordslia about the sailor suit.
Ono day at recess A.newcomer who had
entered late was standing around. Her
check wa pale. though her eager look
about lent light to her face. But all
seemed paired on and absorbed and the
eager look faded. Emily, whom she had
not seen, moved nearer; and the new
ooin>rS TACO frightened. They. give
long recessos. = she said. @
Emily fslt drawn 10 her. for since being
deserted she was not enjoying receases
herself. "a "a
next day another pair. Emily and the
newcomer, Joined the promenade about
tho basement.
The now pupils name was Mar saset.
that IL, since It stopped being Maggie.
Emmy heraelf with a middle name OF
. Lou beside, ana after that they told
each othAr everything, Margaret loved}to
read ana had lately come to own a GER
tain book which she brought to lend
Emily, and over It's pages they drew
together, Tho book was called "Percy's
Rel!Quss.
Beside the common way lies sne ballad
age. but Emily would have passed; UNI
Knowing, had not Margaret. drawing the
branches aside. revealed It; and into the
sylvan glades she stopped. pipes and
tabaret Turing with life and self at on ce
In tune. '-7 "a; 3fss 5ss .tt &
And then, Margaret told her something,
h'lf she would never. never tell''--Margaret
wrote things herself.
It was about this time that Rosale was
moved to seek Emily, Alb OK old, to re-
late romantic situation. She. warned
her that It would be sad, but Emily did
not mind that. She lovsd SAD things these
days. and even found an exultatton in
them II they were very. very sad.
Rosalie took her aside 70 tell t.: There
was BRIDE. ready even TO her VEIL and
he. tho bridegroom. never carae-he was
dead"
Rosalie called this romantic Hitua-
ton. Emily admitted It, feeling, how
ever, that 1t was more. though she could
not toll Rnsalle that lit was like the
poetry In the book. only poetry would
not have left It there
o mlther. mlther maxi my bod
o max 1t saft and narrow;
Since my love died for me to-day,
1se die Tor him Tomorrow. =
i'It's about teacher right here IN
the high school," Rosalie went on to tell
Then 1t Was true. (which one7" asked
Emily.
But that Rosalie did not know.
It was like poetry. But life was all
turning to poetry now. One climbed the
stairs to the mansard now with winged
feet, for rhetoric Is concerned with met
nphor and slmileT and rhetoric treats Of
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