Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-09-22

aud JsSe are up to their necks IN the
kitchen making sausages. Fetch herl
No. Jeanne, you'll nave TO bear the
torture alone; aunt wouldn't leave go
the sausage-machine for fifty pill
makers daughters! Gooc-by!p
stop" cries Jeanne, in dsmay.
But Hal is deaf TO all prayers. and
Jeanne hears a distant door slam az
ter him, as James thin voice an
nounces: "The Miss Lambtons."
Jeanne smooths her dress and the
delicate wrinkles from her forehead
at the sametime, and comes forward,
as two acknowledgement young
ladies mince"-to use Halls express
sion-into the room. They are both
tall and thin ('.scraggy,' as Hal would
describe theml; and for all their rich
and fashionable attire, look som chow
wanting and unfinished. It is diff
cult to look elegant With red nose,
and the truth compelg US to admit
that both Maud and Goerginas noses
are slightly tinted. 1t is difficult to
assume that peculiar, easy grace
which marks the patrician If you
carry about with you DerpetualIy the
consciousness that your father made
his fortune by making pills.
It Is difacult to be even ordinarily
graceful when your clothes fit you so
tightly that you can't move your legs
more than two or three inches at a
time. It is difficult. not to say inn
| possible, to assume an ease, when you
know that pair of clear, searching.
cruelty frank eyes are fixed on you,
revealing in their crystal candor the
consciousness of the owner.
| One of the Misses Lamb TONS seal
skin jackets would have bought up
/ the whole of Jeanne's wardrobe; they
had ten dresses to her one; they lived
in a huge barrack of a house, moved
in cloud of servants, possessed
chariots and horsemen, and yet, for
all their arts and graees, they We're
conscious that Jeanne possessed
something that they lacked, and they
we're never quite at their ease N her
presence.
Straight as an arrow, her fresh,
shell-tinted face serene and still, her
graceful figure fully at ease IN her
well-worn, plainly-cut dress. Jeanne
comes forward, with no rincing gait
but with a placid grayisy-comes for.
ward the most direct contrast 70
them It is possible to imagine.
my dear Jeanne" says Maud, in
the affected falsetto, which she deems
the correct high tone" I'VE are Sc
glad to find you at home. We were
afraid you might be out"
L wish I'll mean" says Jeanne
correcting herself quickly but com
posedly Il mean It is a beautiful af
| ternoon. but l have been practicing
have to practice for an hour every
Afternoon"
poor darling" murmurs Georgina
minclng to a chair. How cruel
Don't your hands get cold?"
mo" says Jeanne. promptly.
/ eNor your feet? Oh, dear" says
Maud. we're obliged to have the pat
emit leywarmer, aud we have tho car
riage foot-warmer, too, don't we
aeorgna? but then we get so cold"
.Yes." says Jeanne, cycling then
calmly; = don't"
rhls direct blow to the conversation
threatens to STAY It outright, and The
two fashionable young ladies smooth
their muffs and look at LnelI boots
and smile namely.
Jeanne comes to their rescue.
Il will let aunt know you are here.
she says, doubtfully "She is in the
kitchen think"
'Oh, please-please don't disturb
her" says Maud. putting up hel
hands imploringly, something aftel
the fashion in which the ill.used hero
inc on the stage beseeehes mercy O
the hard.hearted tyrant. I'VE only
: came in to ask you If you would
, come over tomorrow to the park ant
skate with us. 1t won't be party
will 1t, Georgy?'
"Oh, no, not a rarty," murmur'
Georgina, deprecatingly; only our
|, selves and the Honorable Mr.. Fitz
james"
"Only the Honorable Mr.. Fitz
jamesl" echoes Maud. with due EN-
phasis on the Honorable" He is
staying with us, you know. Such 8
j charming man, oh. quite too charm
fng,- goodrnatured and-and---'
Attentive" chimes in Georgina
"You must comet"
i "Thanks!" says Jeanne, in her dt
rect fa< hion; I'm come il l may
! I'll ask aunt"
dot" sung both in chorus. And
your brother-bring him. too, Jeanne
dear"
II will, If he'll come" says Jeanne
with a shrewd suspicion in her mind
that Hal would prefer to skate-or
slide--on the butchers pond rather
than on the park lake, in the corr
pany of the Miss Lambtons and an
honorable.
Then followed a silence, broken at
last by Georgina with a gggle.
4 We are getting gay in Newton
Regis. aren't we. Jeanne?"
Are we?" says Jeanne, placidly;
Il didn't know 1t. Why"
Haven't YOU heard. really?" says
Maud, We've got a visitor--a real,
genuine visitor. Fancy. in the winter,
. / entfN