Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-08-06
BY
BERTHA M. CLAY

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Jane, sharply.
| 81 have never tried" was the quiet
reply; "but l will do so now"
Miss Harcourt opened drawer, and
took from it some remnants of Grape
and black jet beads.
TRY If you can make something
ornamental of this for my Dress she
said. and then stood moodily watch
ing the slender fingers as they rapidly
moved among the jet.
How do you contrive to keep your
hands so white?" asked Mabel. They
look as though you had never done
one days work"
Il work very hard" said Florence
my hands are naturally white, | sup
pose. / do nothing to make them so. -
And in few more minutes she had
finished an elegant ornament out OF
the materials given to her. She held
it out to Mabel perhaps in her sim
plicity expecting kind word.
ut will do" said Mabel ungracious-
ly. Now take this black silk care
fully to pieces. We shall find you
plenty of work in time"
The sisters had each a suite of pref
ty rooms-a bedroom, dressing-room
and sitting-room; there was also at
tached to them a kind of anteroom
and here 1t was arranged that Flor
ence should sit to sew.
1t was Miss Jane who proposed this
sp'teful arrangement.
Then we can see that she is always
at work, and she is within call" OBJ
served that sagacious young lady: and
from that hour the tortures com.
menced for poor Florence.
Mrs. Morgan had been very kind to
her; she had given her light tasks.
easy OF accomplishment, and had al
lowed her to spend all the rest of her
| time in reading or study of some kind,
but that was now all at an end. She
was obliged to rise before six; she had
| to see that both young ladies had a
cup of tea brought into their rooms.
and then to prepare all kinds OF lux
uries for their toilets; she must at
tend while they dressed If they hap
pened to be good-humored she
escaped, but II not they did not hest.
tate to abuse her to their hearts con
tent.
| No lady s-maid would have put up
with half that she patiently endured
When the young ladies went to break.
fast she went to her sewing; some
times she found time to take cup OF
tea, but both sisters, II they could
help 1t, would never allow her one
minute away from her work. The
whole day long she was busy at her
sewing. 1t was impossible to say
which was the greater, her patience
or their insolence to her; they In.
sisted upon her work being perfection
she must undo and do over and over
again to satisfy them; with aching
head and half-blinded eyes she must
leave her work to dress them for
dinner. How they ordered her about,
scolded her, and found fault with
everything she did, words could not
describe. When they went down to
dinner 1t would only have been natural
for the girl to have gone out into the
fresh air: but no. she must return.
without loss of time, to her work-she
must sew until It was time to attend
to the undressing of the two young
ladies, then she must prepare dresses
for the morning, Lest she should
escape their vigilance, and contrive
either to read or so out of doors, they
set her so many tasks, and would have
them finished. No galley-slave ever
worked harder than this young girl
beautiful, graceful. and accomplished.
Her meals were brought into the little
anteroom to her lest she should lose
time by talking ii she went to the
housekeepers room.
At first she wept wildly: there were
whole nights when the servants could
not sleep for the sound of that pififul
passionate weeping. After time she
ceased to weep. tears were all un
availing-a dull kind of apathy crept
over her, her lovely eyes lost their
light, her beautiful face grew pale and
sad. she was never seen to smile: she
grew thinner and paler day by day
she seemed too wearied even to com
plain; she would lay her head on the
housekeepers knee. and, looking visit
fully up at her, ask:
do You think shall live very long
Mrs, Morgan? | shall be so glad wher
it's my time to die; often think thai
God will be, oh. so much kinder to me
because | have had no happiness here
below, and he knows it is not my fault
lis itg If any one told me had tc
die tomorrow, | should be so glad
am not complaining. but am so tired
so tiredi"
AT last she looked so i'll, so altered
) that Mrs, Morgan took courage ant
Went TO Mrs. Harcourt to ask permits
sion for the young girl to so out some
times. That lady accorded it very un
graciously.
/ She did not see what such girls
wanted with so much fresh airl
Il do not think, madam. she has left
the house for the last two months,
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