Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-05-09
BROUGHT TO TIME
GIRL EASILY LANDED HER BASH
Full ADMiRER.
Skisful Handling of Conversation Got
Fsim-Of Course 1t Was All IN
expected, and All That
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woman whose immaculate lingerie.
waist and deliberately done up hair
bore witness to the fact that his call
had been expected. He was so shy,
however, that he removed his gaze
from her face quickly whenever she
looked at him.
NO" she was saying, Clara may be
a nice girl and all that and some peo-
pie think she is pretty and of course
she is popular in a way but I'd rather
be unnOticed and plain-looking as /
am if l had ITO be as heartless and
selfish as she has shown herself to
be-"
The young man saw an opening, but
his shyness hampered him. "Plain!"
he repeated. why, nobody could call
you that"
The young woman looked as if he
had fallen short of what he might
have said, but she was used to it.
Look at the way she has treated poor
| George Peabody" she went on, indig-
nantly. Amy girl who lets man
grow to care for her and then deliber-
ately throws him oXgr-well, l have
my opinion of her!"
The young man swallowed hard. us
it-does a girl always know when
man likes herr" he asked When he
hasn't told her, | mean?"
The young woman looked as imper-
sonal as a judge. We'll, in most
cases she does,' she admitted. That
is, if he has been coming to see her
for a long time and-and-oh, well,
she generally knows. Of course, there
| are cases where she hasn't any idea,
because the man is so careful not to
give her a chance to think so. OF
course, then she can't be blamed"
mo, of course not" agreed the
young man, looking dOwncast.
81 don't see how Clara had any ex
cuse, though" went on the young
woman. George had been coming TIC
see her regularly for a year and
half and taking her everywhere anC
bringing her things!"
That's Just about as long as I've
been coming to see you, isn't it?" he
asked, daringly.
why, I believe it is" said the
Young woman in apparent surprise
and she had given him every reason
to hope Letting him come so Otter
and wasting so much time on him wa
enough to give any man the right t.
think she cared about him"
The young man in the new suit look
cd as if a brand-new Illuminating fac
had dawned on him. "That-that Gel
tainly would make any man with sens
think So" he asserted, crossing on
knee over the other.
. But. as | said, Clara is so selfish
sighed the young woman. All sh
thinks about is herself. Surely 1t wa
: shame for her not to conside
5 Georges feelings in the matter at al
3 A girl of real worth would, can te
3 Won She would have managed to sen
r him away long before he reached III
y noint of asking her to marry him. Sh
d would have spared him that! But 81
t inst wanted the fun of refusing MIN
Now | call that simply wicked!
Y think if a girl really lets a man pr
|, nose to her without making any enc
l. TO stop him he has right TO expe
+ that she is going to say yesl
o The young man crossed the oth
l. knee. 81 wish all girls were like you
he began, huskily. mo, l mean L
e. glad you're the only one-i think "
are simply an angel, Sadie, and II "
would think about marrying me Ia
,, the happiest-"
Il ooh. Henry" fiuttered the you
s yoman "This is so unexpected