The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-25
A June Bride, A Good Looking Husband And A Bitter Rival-Just The Story
 To Read On Your Summer Vacation
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tCopyrlght ios4 Ry sophie Kerr

tCopyrlsh By sophie Kcrrl
 "No, I'm not going with you and you know you don't nd" Jane very slim and pink and deant hung the baner at the top of the stairs and threw the words down at her waiting aunt
 Miss Rosa Terry offered this question mildly, meanwhile fitting white gloves on her plump white hands.
 Say I've got lots of peasanter things to do than to
 "What, for nstance?
 "Tell Mrs March that I'm right in the middle of Ann Veronica and can't bear stop She won't let Louise read
 "rm to tell Mrs March that although you said you'd her you reading book she disapproves of and couldn't bear to stop" The gloves and Miss Rosa turning in front of the long hall mirror She elegant in dark violet tafeta and violet toque with white dotted veil Her purple and white striped paraso with ivory handle waited the table with her shiny dark purple leather handbag She annoyed Jane She was comfortably stout, 80 inexorably serene.
 q don't what you tell Mrs March," Jane said riy. "Shes old cat, and won't there to be looked the way she looks at and then picked afterwad Who she to make the rules for the young people of this ing Louse she'd have plenty do instead of watching the rest & Of us; ...,.. .A, .o,a 70. o ,.n. ar n., Henry Berwn at that last beach picnic and stayed from nine to eeventhry and pert to the chaperons when sy ps o b sGeI ted % silly You knew per-
 q don't care if am don't care what anybody says about me in this dump"
 Miss Rosa picked up her bag and paraso gave herself
 "If you don't what people say about you, Jamie And in little city like Marburg where social circles small and intimate eyerybodys always under observation
 
 spuous things and not be conspicuous are desert islands big cosmopolitan cities"
 "I'l probably say it again. Don't think that mind fl you talk to Henry Berwyn for two hours and half stead boy know perfectly well you wouldn't have done it ex. cept you thought would shock and bother the chaperons YS too smart to eny being with Henry but n yus % not thing you don't enjoy for the sake of appearing odd and different and making people notice you and disapprove of word Miss Rosa opened the front door and the other side of it before an answer could catch her.
 Jane came dashing furousy downstairs but Miss Rosa had walked fast and she reached the pavement she fortunate enough to ladies whom she knew, also dressed up and their way to the March tea she cetded with them riumphant having managed to read scene Miss Rosa Terry detested scenes just as she tested hard bed badly cooked dinner poor partner tt since she had her brothers orphaned daughter to live with herJane was then lovely dmped, wilfu fve-yoar Jane Without drama To-day Miss Rosa smiled to herself at her in dodgg all but the prelude They had not an e and Gs w @ a girl in the world that no one cared what she did or how door Jane watched Miss Rosa out of sight angriy "od people horrble she thought conusedy "They don't her aunt would urge her to go to the tea and really she wanted to go and show off her new organdy startling Miss Rosa and the dressmaker had begged her choose either pale yellow or Nile green Of course she could ski appear put then Aunt Rosa would say, Oh knew you'd come and that would bc unbearabe. She picked up her book and read with sense of being tantazed and cheated not only about thu March tea but about her whole life.
 Marburg wasn't county seat, just nice old sprawng college town with few factories at the west end to give faint flavor of And Marburg College was just nice old sprawng college with only claim to distinction that great geoogs Professor Benjamin Eer whose and work were known wherever civilized man con sdered the earths bones The Elert Geological Mu sal but authentic and complete and scholars from all the world came to see it.
 
 Two lines of thought went side by side in Janes head she read, both slight but distinct The first gret that she couldn't do something exciting and the ond that there she had met at all like Ann Veroncas ddy blond Capes Presently Jane dropped her book and hunted the bottom bureau drawer for the pack of cigares she had hidden there At least she could smoke and Aunt Rosa disapproved of girls smoking. So did everyone in Marburg Even Jane didn't have the dar ing to buy cgarets for herself in the focal tobacco shops Henry Berwyn had given her these and that was Henrys greatest attraction, though he didn't know 1t.
 Jane smoked gloomy and choked when she tried to n hale If there only something exciting to do! She stared around the hating the dark tall dresser the massive high bed the large carpet and wallpaper the noted spread the pair of aabaster the tel "ooks if General Grant chose it. she announced aloud "wth his whskersr Aunt Rosa might be ibera' minded the subct of Henry Berwyn, but when it came changes in her house she rock The room had the solidity of her will