The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-11-26

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% delightfully."- lucky, but everybody
asks me TO dance, and every man ]
meet is particularly nice. and nobody
has been very horrid to me-perhaps
because / like everybody"
She rode on beside him. They were
walking their horses now. and as her
silken coated mount paced forward
through the sunshine she sat at ease,
straight as a slender amazon Id her
habit, ruddy hair glistening at the nape
OF her neck. the scarlet Of her lips al
ways a vivid contrast to that wonder
fuI unblemished skin OF snow.
He thought to himself quite imper-
sonally: shes real beauty. that
youngster No wonder they ask her 10
dance and nobody Is horrid. Men are
likely enough to 20 quite mad about
her, as Nina predicts. Probably some
OF 'em have already-that chuckie
headed youth who was there TUESDAY
ruIplne up the tea And, "What
was his manner he asked aloud.
Whose name7" she inquired, reused
by his voice from smiling RETROSPECT
I ton.
THAT chuck lehead- young man
who continued to haunt you 30 per-
sIsteptIy when you poured tea Tor
Nina on Tuesday. or course they al
haunted YOU" be explained politely as
I sb4 shook her head In sign OF noncom-
u prehension. but there was one VINO
ah-gulped at his cup"
..please--you are rather DREADFUL
aren't your
Eyes. So was he. ! mean the iniat,
uated chinless gentleman whose facial
ensemble remotely resembled the fea
lures OF a pleased and placid lizard OF
the rcptilian period"
-oh. George Fame! That Is partlcu
larry dlsagreeable OF you. Captain Sci
vyn. because his wife has been very
nice to Rosamund Fane-and she
spoke most cordially OF you
(which one was sher'
The Dresden china one. She looki
she simply cannot look as though she
were married It's most amusing. to'
people always take her for somebody
Youngest sister who will be out mex
winter Don't you remember see'n'
herr
mo / don't But there we're DOZEN
coming aud going every minute "hon
/ didn't know stIll. ! behaved wen
didn't Y"
Pretty badly to Kathleen Lawn
whom you cornered so that So
couldn't escape until her mother mao
her n without aus Tea
-uere comes Mr. Fame now Win
s,r,singiy pretty girl How beau''fuii.
they arr mounted. smilinely returning
rsner salute. "and sbe-oh. 10 you q
KNOW her. Captain Seiwynf Who
shef'
crop raised mechanically IN dare
.stu,a selwyn's light touch on 10
birdie had frightened TO clutch. VINO
brought his horse " SHARPLY
what Is ny she asked drawn
br.i.e IN her turn and looking bsc
. into his waite, stupefed face
Pain" he said. unconscious that D
, si,oke. Al the same instant the stur
ned eyes found their focus and foun
!, her ieside his stirrup. leaning wid
from her seat In sweet concern. on
rioved hand resting on the pommei
his saddle.
Are you my she asked. Shall "
dlsgnount, II you feel dizzy. pleas
lean against me"
Il am all right he said ecolly. an
as abe recovered Der seat he set ID
borx< 10 mosion- His face had becotn
/, yer, red now. lie looked Al Der, the
! beyond Der with all the deliberate COZ
o c~ntrstion Of sloof indifference.
Confused. conscious that sonetnin
!, hsc happened which she did not con
prebend and sensitiveiy aware OF u
preocrupation which, II II did not !
nore Der. accepted her presence a.
; no eonseqnence. sbe permitted %
y horse 10 set his own pace.
Il Neither self command nor self Co
a tros was lacking now La Selwyn.
siunty was too self absorbed 10 ca
chat ss< thought whether she thoug
Al ell And into bis ecnscicnsnss
,hrobb.ng heavily under the rush's
rvacs,es from shock. erexdfd 10 erp'