Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-22

H 90 being second edition of Eleanor
Ey&SR1SSW They meant it for compliment,
&N@3TAlGO of course,-about Eleanor l mean
|5INSNlE31W for if girl couldn't look like
EGESSNSk13 just herself, but had to be second
NSASE%4&A edition of somebody she d be glad
enough to pick Eleanor for first.
Why even Johnny who is her own brother says
she is a sumner, and as for the things I've heard
other men say about her. they are really too silly
to repeat. She has perfectly enormous blue eyes
with back lashes, and simply hanks of golden hair,
and skin that is dead white except when she
Greek and her mouth perfect rosebud, and she
has the tiniest waist l saw, though she isn't
exactly thin "Svelte" think Jimmy Rogers calls
her; but I'm not Really, though, this list of
her good points doesn't give even approximate
conception of her surprising loneliness, said in
The Lost Heir of Brentwood" To truly appre-
cate her you must see her for yourself and you can't
by any means take her all in at session. Harvey
Dnsmore has been ring ing our front door bell
every Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday after
noon about tea time for over year, and heard
him say fortnight ago that he had never realized
until that moment how beautiful she was.
Poor girl! it must be something of a trial to con-
stantly have lot of men hanging about casting
sleeps eyes at one and max ing idotic remarks. |
wonder how it would seem? It's awfully funny
but the fact is that though I'm supposed to be her
living image, not of the lovesick creatures
casts so much glance at me. Aunt Jane told
papa the other night, when she thought too
busy mending my racket to notice what going
on, that she was afraid [ was utterly lacking in
that subtle quality called charm, which Eleanor pos
sessed to such marked degree, that my good looks
"a.
didn't say word and controlled myself perfectly.
All did was to make face that would have put her
into jolly rage if she had CHANGED to turn around
But didn't she slip up, though on her prophecy!
just guess didn't waste anything the other night
when the grand coup off! Why, Harvey
Dinsmore was just crazy about But must begin
at the beginning.
YOU see, Harvey Dinsmore, though he is fright
fully rich and descended on his mothers side
from knight of the court of Charles H., isn't bit
dbOm1nable
horribly stupid and solemn too, and always treats
if l was child It's rather a ridiculous
attitude to take when one remembers that was
fifteen last March, and have my hair up three
times to dancing school. Aunt ane happened to
be away on visit each time; but that doesn't
alter the fact.
But to return to Harvey Dinsnore He is so
mad about Eleanor, to put it elegantly, her
beauty enthrals him that he sends her dozens of
American beauties every week, no matter how ex-
pensve they He has the reputation of being
awfully stingy too.
Now l, who know every thought of Eleanors
heart though she isn't aware of it. have always
realized that she didn't care for Harvey Dinsmore
in the way that makes woman think a man is all
sorts of things that he isn't Why, remember that
Mildred, in The Lost Heir of Brentwood" loved
Reginald even more after he of the duel
with the villain, scared and crippled for life She
said "Oh, my king! Never have you looked so
beautiful to in this moment when your noble
head is bowed with | cant remember what it
was bowed with but anyway it is perfectly clear
that Mildred looking at Reginald with what
Miss Belts, our Sunday school teacher, calls the
inner eyes of the spirit Now Eleanor never had
any such eyes for Harvey Dinsmore She always
realized perfectly that his hair ugly color and
often I've seen her trying not to yawn when he
talking about his trip to Japan or the alterations
he was going to make in his town house. Once
when he had been holding forth for nearly an hour
and suddenly stopped right short and asked her
whether she preferred Louis Quatorze or Louis
Qulnze tor a drawing room, she actually jumped
and turned as red as fire, and then mumbled. oh
yes indeed, think it would be lovely"
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