The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-28
TIE EVENING STORY
The CI1aDeron Speaks,

The CIlaperon Speaks.
Marianne scowled fierceiy at the shiny |
tips of her shoes and threw her head |
back against the chair. $50 you see
how it is,''' she concluded.
Not in the least" protested why
don't you just tell the man plainly you
don't love him and that you never can
and certainly won't marry hirn?'
Marianne looked at me with ming
ling of despair and pity. Haven't I?'
she moaned. 1--WE made a regular con-
tinuous recital of those sentiments and
they make about as much impression
on him az though I were a street spar
row chirping at a brick wall. Evidently
when John Paramount makes up his
mind to do anything, whether it is to
marry a particular girl or to have din
ner at o'clock, ne is accustomed to do
| ing it, Sometimes really think If he
were a little less determined wouldn't
| fight so.''
| sat up straight. "See here,
Marianne, 1 began severely, you have
practiced deception with me. You led
me to think you didn't like hirn-though
I don't in the least see why you shouldn't
and that you wouldn't marry him II
/ he were the last man on earth Yet
from your last remark I believe you
are just stubborn and want to be coax
| ed! I believe you do like hirn!"
Marianne arose in cold dignity, slight
ly marred, it is true, by a flush on her
i
all that. IT thought you would be a.
sensible person to talk to-" she observed
| and that you could advise me how to-
| to get rid of him, but"
| tFiddlestickSi'. I broke in, rudely.
/ You don't want advice. All you want
ed was to be urged to accept him and i
shan't do it. I've my opinion Of
girl who knows her own mind and then
balks.''
Whereupon Marianne departed to
lwrite letters highly incensed 1 thought
lit over and laid bets with myself that
before that house party broke up she
would be engaged to John Paramount
/ I admire persistence in q man and he
lcertainly had that quality. Sometimes
it is better than brains, but John had
both This determination that Marianne
should marry him showed his good
Judgment for there was no earthly
reason why she should not and five
hundred very good ones why she should,
only she is a willful creature who lodges
any restraint.
/ John Paramount told her she was going
to marry him--he had quit asking-and
as regularly she informed him distinctly
that she was not knew it because she
| always passed the remainder OF the
| evening flirting desperately with the
rest of her admirers while his jaw be-
came a trife more set and his gentle
smile more beaming. Diseoura cement
| acts like a tonic on men like him.
why don't you give in, Marianne
and say yes?'' I asked her once as we
went upstairs to dress for dinner
| | You'll have to in the end, you know
and this long drawn-out battle is wear
ing on you-and the rest of usi You've
no idea of the state of our nerves.
Marianne closed the door of her room
empha tically by way of reply. I coul6
: have shaken her, for that very day
i had caught her gazing at him wheT
she thought herself unobserved and
her eyes did not lie as her obstinatel5
pretty lips had formed the habit of do
ing. No womans eyes can lie wher
she really loves a man.
It was her very stubbornness which
finally trapped Marianne into surren-
der. It wasn't my fault that they were
SO foolish as to walk out on the yer
anda right in front of the music room
window where I sat.
I Marianne" began John as usual
Then he made change in his set after
dinner speech through some lucky
within. Marianne he said, you are
mot going to marry met!
"Yes ami" flashed back Marianne
thoughtlessly, bent only in opposing
him and not caring how.
ooh, all right John Fairmoun
said with apparent calmness when HI
: and I can't help myself. Excuse me
but I'll just go and tell your aunt ant
she can announce it to the others
Then he was off before Marianne
could catch her breath.
ooh, ohi' she cried Historically
ldabbed her eyes-and then laughed
There was such happy, surprised re-
lief in that laugh, such sincere joy o.
surrender that my heart went out t.
her. But maybe I didn't say 81 told
you SOL" the minute I got hold OF
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