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TUEE ACTRESS' DAUGHTER;
OR
THE DII81110,! OP itICIDiOND HOUSE.
A TALE 011 WRONG} AN» etsef t resets
Ey 31es. LAY AQlNES FUMING,
lIING?<,
,&utho.+' of" front 1,br n R'o aetn,'••tpred
11"cc rl'a fiocret," i7Ctf., Sao.
leaned back and laughed until the tours
stood in his eyes. While he was yet fu
a paroxysm Richmond entorod.
"Has she gone?" asked Charloy, find.
i lg voice.
Yos, looking as sober as Minerva and
her owl."
"Oh 1 that girl will be tho Hoath of
sue, that's certain. By George! it was
as good as a play. Tltore she stood with
a taco as long as a coffin, and as dark and
solemn as a hoarse," and Charley went
off into another fit of laughter at the
rocolloction.
"She has coudesoondod to forgive you
at last, you sec."
"Yes, Miss Georgia and I havo, figura-
tively spoaking,smokedthepipe of peace.
Touching sight it must have beau to a
third person. It was a tight fit, though,
to get hor to do it."
"I think I could manage that proud
little lady, if she were a sister of mind.
I shall conquer her more thoronghlyyet
before I have dono with her. I have a
plan in any bead, the rosultaf which you
will see protty soon. I expect sho will
struggle against it to the last gasp, but
she shall oboy loo," said Richmond.
approotat!ng solid wit and bidden genius back lila a pail of colli wator, are per-
-00, to use lauguago more fitted for petrated! Aud man — biinik•hcartod
your uncultivated hltellucb, my yonug man --is tlla author of those deeds I
friend—silo cloesu't know on whelp sick' What other auimal wdttld perpetrate
the broad's buttered, Any person with such a orilno? Would a horse, or a cow,
hie somas about hint would 800 ata or ovnn a dol)koy, now, with malice
glauco I am wort]) a dozen of Mich aforethought, malice, at which wo ehud•
mond," der as if we had taken a dose of °actor
"No, you're' not," would h0 Emily's oil, take off its hat and smash all to
doeidod anewor; "you only thinks se Eke
au upright member of socioty—
youreolf. I heard 'Uncleledward haying pike that dilapidated butterfly, who at
your brother Waa wise for his ago. and the time was probably thinlciug of his
Rum moro than any young man he ever ],sappy wife and ohildrou at home—that
mot, and he only laughed about you, is supposing it wasn't an old bachelor?
h t
and said you were a 'curled das+ ,,711 Aekk you again what other—but por.
nature,' whatcrcr th, Menus. He, Viso, haps we havo hardly Limo to do the sub.
I guess l'uelu .letlwar....uctts bettc.r t1c,In joot justice at prosenb," said Charley,
you," changing his tone with startling abrupt.
"Now, cries l inily, I can't stun 1 this; nese from ono of the deepest anguish to
I positively cant, you kuow. Ifee Out. the indifferent ono of every -day life.
ragoous to expect ma to lie up bore as 1 "Whore's Rich, Georgia ?"
be abused in this shameful faelsfeu, mid "Here, room frere,''replied Richmond
told anybody's Uncle Edward knows, himself, as ho came up and throw him.
more abort me than I do myself. 1'vo self carelessly ou the grass. "Come,
1111insmonsaamount ofrespoetfor 1'tither Georgia, throw away that dead insect,
Murray, but still I won't permit ilio or and don't stood looking so piteously obit.
anybody els() to insinuate that tbey There aro pleutymore butterflies where
know moro about Mr. Charles Wildair
than I clo. I'vo boon aognaintod with
that promising youth ever since he was
tllo sizo of a well -grown doughnut, and
I am prepared to say, without montal
roservation of any kind, that he is a per.
fact oncyclopeclia of all sorts of learning
—a moving, living Websbor's Dictionary, oh, Em ?" said Charley,
neatly bound in cloth. I've undorgono "I didn't dream," said Emily, blush.
grammar, declined verbs, and other log.
vicious parts of speech. 1 havo suffered ",1 tlreamod last eight," said Georgia,
a severe course of geography, and can soberly.
toll to an iota where Ireland, Liam- "Aooub me, wasn't it 2" said Charley,
schabka, and lots of other aggravating briskly,
places are situated; I have fought ivy "About you," sold Goorgia, contempt.
way through French, and Gorman, and uonsly. "No; I ain't such a goose! It
Latin, and other dead languages; and woes a dreadful dream—ugh 1" and Geor-
when I go book to New York I'm bound gra shuddered.
to havo at them again, and have ovary "Oh, Georgia, tell us—what was it
singlo one of them, dead and alive, at about?" oxclaimed Emily, eagerly.
my fingers' ends. I have a taste for „Do, Goorgia, and I'll bo the Joseph
poetry and the line arts, as I evinced in who will interpreb it," said Charley.
early life by a diligent perusal. of that Goorgia looked grave and dark, and
work of thrilling interest known as was silent.
'Mother Goose's Melodies,' and by be- "Como, Georgia, tell us," said Rich-
comiog a proficient on the Jew's-harp. mond. "I should like to hear this dream
I have a soul above the common, Miss of yours."
Nancy, and eau discover beauties in a ""Oh. it was awful!" said Georgia,
tallow -candle, and sublimity in it mug speaking in a hushed tone of awe. "I
of milk and water. And now, if after thought I was walking on and on through
this brief and inadequate exposition you a dark, gloomy place, following some one
don't aeknowlodgo that my thing -um- who made me acme on. Tho ground was
bob.sentiments do mo honor, then your full of sharp stones and hurt my feet,
intellect, like small beer in tbundor, is and they bled dreadfully; but ho
something to be looked Imola with pity wouldn't let me stop, but pulled me on
and contempt." and on, till tho ground where I walked
As Mr. Wildair, Jr., usuallypromuigat. was all covered with blood."
od psis sentiments to an admiring world oHarcl•hearted monster!" said Char.
in an exceedingly slow and leisurely ley: "should admire to be punching that
mannor, it took him same time to got to fellow's head for him!"
the end of this speech, and when bo was "As wo went on," continued Georgia,
done he found that Emily, overcome by looking straight before her with a dark
the heat and his ln0n0t011oua tone, was kind of earnestness, and speaking in the
dropping asleep, Making a grimace, he tone of one describing events thou pass -
was about to lounge back into his former ing, "the ground grew sharper and
lazy position, when Goorgia, who had sharper, and the blood flowed so fast
left them a moment before in full chase that at last I screamed out for him to
after a butterfly, accompanied by Rich-
mond, returned, looking so woe -begone further. Bothe only laughed at mo, and
and disconsolate that Charley, after a pulled me out,
baro of surprise, felt called upon by the "Tho scoundrel !" broke in Charloy.
claims of common humanity to offerllel' i "If I had been there, I would have
oousolation• ' masse him laugh on the other side of his
"May I ask, Miss Georgia, what awflll
mystery of iniquity has come to light to
niako you look as if youlrlast friend had
boon hung for sheep.stooling? You look
about as intensely dismal now as a whole
grove of weeping willows."
"Oh 1 it's my butterfly 1 any poor bola
barfly I" said Goorgia, sorrowfully, hold-
ing up the dead insect, its bright colors
all faded and gone.
"Oh, I soo—as the blind plan said—
tho insect has departed this lifo, leaving,
no doubt, a large and bereaved circla of
frionds to mourn its untimely end.
Funeral this evening, when Montle and
relatives aro respectively invited to at-
tend—that's the nowspaper style, cls?
May I venture to inquire, Georgia, if tho
butterfly in question was a personal ac-
quaintance of yours, that you look so
afflicted at its death ? Because, if it'was,
I should feel called upon to shed a few
tears myself, out of regard for you."
"Oh, it was killed; and it was so petty.
Wasn't it pretty?" said Georgia, looping
in real grief, amusing to witness, at Um
poor little crushed insect.
"Strangely beautiful," said Charley.
"I remarked it at the timo; every Mohave
was perfect. Roman noso, intellectual Jerusha's Shanghai rooster to trying the
forehead, woll.formed head, with the experiment again."bump of bonovolonee largely developed, "Did you recognize tho eau who was
blue hair, and ourly tooth. And so it; was with you 2" asked Richmond.
killed, was it ? Georgia, my frioud, fu ",Yes," said Goorgia, in' a low voice.
the name of common humanity, in tile. ."You did, eh 2" said Charley; "who
name of tho law, I ask you who was the was 15 ?"
cold-blooded assassin?"I sho'o't toll you."
""Poor little tieingIRichmond. killed it, " "011, now, you wouldn't bo so areal.
said Georgia, too deeply troubled about Como, out with it,"
the loss of the bright -hued insect to "I won't," said Georgia, with one of
notice Charley's highfalutin tones. her sharp flaslios; ""hob it's true, avow
"Blood -thirsty monster l let him be. word of it."
ware! the day of retribution is at handl" ""You moan it will tomo true 2" said
exclaimed Charley, in tones so tra ,ic Richmond.
that it would have made his fortune on "yea..
the stage. "Yes, the day i8 at baud ""Why, Goorgia, do yen boliovo in
when the oppressed anti dOwn.t1'oddon dreams 7" sal Emily,
"Oh, that's
race of butterflies will rise in arms wicked; mother says so."
against such tyrants as ho, and Mr'"" 1'iokod 1 it's no such thing. What
Richmond Wildair will probably find do poolplo clm for if thoy'ro not to
himself knocked into a cocked ]pat. Ent comm Brno 7"roa
how did it happen? Explain tho horrid ""So you believe you are destined to
deed' I have steeled my soul, and oath- , bo burned up ?" said Richmond.
Mg can movevie more.' I "yea," said Goorgia, unhositatfngly.
And Mistor Charloy struelr hey Euro ; "Ops, I haven't tho slightest doubt of
head with his fist, and assumed an ox- ' it," Saul Charloy ; "if you miss it in
pression so frightfully despairing that this world, you'll—"
an artist wishing to paint a patriot bc. "Now, Charley, bo quiet," said Rich.
holding the ruin of his country would mond, soothingly; "you have no oxpori-
have given all the spare change he euc0 in diffeifont .kinds of worlds, s0 you
might have for a glimpse of that agooire I are not oapablo of judging, Georgia,,
ed face. you are tho most silly -wise child I aver
CHAPTER VII.
0EOn0IA'S Dnl:Abf.
The wild sparkle of hor eye seemed caught
from high, and lighted with clnetrio thought
And pleased not hor tho sports which please liar
ago „
Two weeks passed. Charley was quite
well again, and had left no effort untried
to reinstate himself in the good graces
of Goorgia. As that young gentleman,
in the profundity of his hiumility, had
ouco told her, iso seldom failed in any.
thing ho undertook, and with his scorn-
ing tenial good humor and handsome
boyish face, he never found it a difficult
task to mako people liko him, and
Georgia was 110 moro able to resist his
influence than the rest of the world.
And so they became good friends again
—"brothora in arms," Charloy. said.
At first Georgia tried to rosist his ad-
vaucos, and felt indignant at herself for
allowing hien to talk her iuto goodluumor
and make her laugh; habit was all of no
use, and at last the struggle was given
np, and she condescended to patronize
chaster Wildair with a, grave superiority
that clistnrbncl the good youth's gravity
most soriously at times.
Richmond had not lost his interest in
tilt' unique child, and his influence over
her iueroasod every day. But still he
won tho only ono who had any command
over hor; to tho rest of the world she
was the samo hot, peppery, iiory little
Soap -dragon, defying all wills and cora-
me miff that clashed with her owe. And
°Ven itis wishes, wltou very repugnant
to her, sho openly and fiorcely braved;
hut, as a geuoral thing, she began to
ho anxious to ploaeo hor young judgo,
who; o grave glance of stern disapproval
con ltl trouble her fearless littlo hood as
tail: of -no other in the world evor could.
'nil, though silo was too proud to openly
lot him see she cared for his approval or
disapprovals still he did sae it, and ex-
ulted therein.
Georgia had made hor new friends
acquainted with the pretty littlo Emily
Murray, whom Charloy had unhesitat-
ingly pronouuoed atfirst•"ight"aregular
stunner," and those four soon became
inseparable friends. At first Emily was
shy and silent, which Charloy per-
ceiving, he also assumed a look of ex•
trams timidity, not to say distressing
bashfulness, which so imposed upon
simple little Emily, that, pitying his
evident embarrassment, she would timid.
ly try to help him out by opening a con-
versation.
"Is it nine to live in Now York 2" Emily
would Buy, hesitatingly. '
"ios'm," would be Charloy's reply, in
a tone of painful timidity.
"Nicer than here 2"
"Yos'm—I—I think so."
"Won't ,your ma miss you a good
deal?" Emily Would insinuate, getting
courage.
"Nom—I moan men,"
"Ain't Goorgia Amo ?" •
"Splendiferous I"
This long word being a puzzle to
Emily she would have to stop a moment
to reflect on its probable moaning bo£oro
going on.
"So is your brother.."
"Yes, but 110's nob near so rico as 1
am."
Again there would bo a pause, during
which Emily would look deoply sbocicer
by this display of vaulty—and then
"It ain't nice to praise ono's solf,"
Lsnily would observe, seriously,
"Well, but it's true," Charley would
bogie, in an argumontativo tono. "Now
I ask yourself—don't you thipk I am
,,icor than he is ?"
Now, as it was Miss Emily's private
'onviotion that Iso deoidodly was, she
could not say n0, and as sho dict ,not
"veil' to commit herself by saying Toss
oho w0nift Toa 1 <.111
Bub C.harigv, who a‘ ru .
passed. away at rills point, 1.0.1.
put off, and would hurtle.
"Now, Emily, '1181 tell the truth, 0'
ovcry well-braug'term littlo girl "t,ln,t.0
and say, don't v0n liko me twico me sail
as yon do Rich )'
"Well, yo os":Emily would roply
Hesitatingly, "but 1 guess he knows nor
Shan you do; lie looks awfully wise, any
way, and thou Goorgia Minds prim, au
elle don't mind you,"
"P tab's beaatl % she ain't ii pable of
that came from. Why, Emily, you're
not falling asleep, aro you 7"
Emily started up, blushing deeply at
being caught in the act, and put on a
wide-awake look indeed, as if t0 utterly
repudiate the idea of such a thing.
"I hope your dreams were ploasaut—
mouth." '
"pion, all of a sudden, we came to a
groat, rod hot, blazing fire, that looked
like burning serpents with tongues of
fume.. All was lire, fire, fire, on every
side, red -bot, blazing flames, that crackl-
ed and roarod, and made everything as
red as blood. I screamed out, and tried
to break away, but he held me fast and
pushod mo into the fire. I felt burning,
scorching, roasting. I soroamed out,
and fell all burning and blazing ou the
ground; and thou I woke, and I was
sitting up in bed screaming out, and Miss
Jerusha was standing over me holding
me down."
Goorgia paused, and there was some-
thing in her blanched face, horror.
dilatod eyes, and deep, awe-struck tonos
that for a moment sent a superstitious
thrill to every heart. It was but for a
moment, and. then Charley carelossly
remarked:
"Nightmares are pleasant quadrupeds,
I know. I made the acquaintance of
one after eating half a mince pie and
three pigs' feet one night before going to
bed ; but for constant exercise I must
axy I should decidedly prefer riding Miss
Georgia, you ought to go to 84001."
Now, school was Georgia's pot atom.
ination. Mies ,Iorusha, partly to bo rid
of her and partly for the proprioty of
tho thin, lied often wished to send lior
but the idea of being cooped up a pri.
sonar within tho walls of a school --room,
and obliged to obey every command,
was abhorrent to the free, uufetterod,
untamed child. Go to school, indeed l
Not she. She laughed at the notion.
Richwood bad uovor spoken of it before
to bar, and now, conscious of his power
over her, and trembling for her throat.
°nod liberty, all the old spirit of daring
and fierce doflaneo flashed up in her
bola black eyes, and, springing to net
feet, she confronted hon.
"I won't I I'll never go to school 1 I
bate it!"
Georgia never said "I can't," or "I
don't like to," but her dauntless, defiant
"I will," and "I won't," bespoke her
nature. Emily said the former ; Goorgia,
never.
Richmond oxpooted exactly this an.
swer, therefore loo only fulled slightly,
and.oarolussly asked:
"Why 2"
"Because I won't bo shut up in a nasty
old school -room, and nob be abieto speak
or move without asking leave. I'll not
go for any one l" she said, flashing a
threatening glance at him.
"Every one also dims it, Georgia."
"I don't care for every one also."
"I did it, Georgia."
"Woll, I don't caro for you!"
"Whew!" whistled Charloy. "Sharp
shooting, this."
',Then you prefer to grow up a—"
"What ?"
. "A dunce, and be laughod at."
"Let them laugh at mo 1 lot thorn
dare to do it t" eriod Georgia, fiercely.
"And dare to do it they will, Pooh,
Goorgia, have sense. Yon can't roll up
your sleeves and go to fisticuffs with
the whole world. What elso can you
expect but to be laughed at when you
are a woman if you know nothing but
what you do now. Wait till you see the
wise little woman Em here is going to be.
Why, your friends will be ashamed of
you, Georgia, by and by, if you don't
learn somothmg."
"Lot them, then! I don't caro for
them I"
"Oh, don't you ? I thought that as
they cared so much for you, you might•
caro a little for thorn. I am sorry it is
not so, Georgia ; I am very sorry my
little friend is selfish and ungrateful."
"I am not ungrateful," said Georgia,
passionately, but her lips quivered.
"Then provo it by doing something
to ploaso your friends. Think how they
have tried to please yon, and just ask
yourself what you have done in return
to please them. Come, Georgia, bo
reasonable. You will think better of
this whoa you come to reflect on it."
"Why," said Georgia, "I couldn't catch mot in all my life."
and Richmond was d°terminetl to do "
'What," t Soh t k h s hat town oval Y n
I and: when 11e took it off it was diad, and some ways, and so childishly simple in
all its beautiful colors faded and gollo ; others. You kuow the most unexpected
, poor little thing I" ' things, and aro fguorant of tbecommon-
0 "Olt, Amy wretched country!" exclaim- est facts that any infant almost oompro.
- od Charley, raising his hands and oyes, bonds. You' aro morbid and aupor-
d "aucl it is under the shadow of thy laws stftfous—hilt I knew that before. A
it, What, said Goorgia, ibh a scowl.
x. o s true i i" Yon aro so onnatnxall procoelous l
" ' ' n"ibkw aro 001)10,i1a:OA' tdta
lfbtlo lamming is a clangorous thing.
Met "yam" hail boeit uttored, he ,know I
her word would bo saeredlykept, How
he exulted that moment in bis power,
"When will you go 2" said Riohmoud,
following up lits advantage on the prin.
oiplo of striking while the iron is hot,
"On Monday."
"Oh, Georgia, I'm so glad! 0h,
Georgia, that's so uioo I" exclaimed
Emily, deeming around delightedly, and
clasping her hands.
Georgia's face was blank—colo and
meaningless.
"That is right. Georgia, you are a
good girl."
"If 1, had refused to do as you toldmo
I would have been a selfish, ungrateful
thing—I understand 1" said Georgia,
turning away with a coiling lip.
Richmond started. Thom was the
look of a woman in her childish face at
that moment. It was one of hor pro.
cocious turns.
"Now, don't bo cross, Georgia; it's
real nice to go to school after you got
used to it," said Emily, in her pretty,
coaxing way, putting her arms round
her waist.
"2 must go home—Miss Jerusha will
want me," said Georgia, by way of
reply. as she resolutely: almost rudely,
unclasped Emily's clinging amus.
"Shall I go with you?" said Rich-
mond, making a stop forward,
"No !" exclaimed Georgia, with one
of her peculiar sharp, bright flashes, as
she turued away in 5110 direction of the
cottage.
Richmond and Emily sauntered back
to Bonifield together, chatting gayly.
As Richmond entered the grounds of
his
unolo's stately residence he saw his
brother standing in tho threshold ham-
ming a classical ditty.
"Bravo, Richmond, old boy I" cried
Charley, giving him a sounding slap on
the shoulder-; "you deserve a leather
modal ! Do you think any of tho blood
of your namesake of evil memory has
descended to you 2"
"Pshaw, Charley, don't bo a fool !"
said Richmond, impatiently.
"I don't intend to, my door brother,"
said Charley, dryly ; "but the scales fell
from my eyes today. 'What a world we
live in l"
"Tush ! will you never learn to talk
souse, Charles 2" said Richmond, biting
his lip to maintain his gravity, as ho
shook off his :land and passed iuto the
house.
"That's right, Rich," cried Charley;
"go iv and ' win! I always know yon
had a native talent for teaching young
ideal how to shoot. Splendid parson
you'd maim."
"I have tried to please them ! T have
tried to please you I"
"Well, did I over ask you to do any-
thing but what was your duty to do 2 I
am afraid you have nob a good idea of
what that word moans. I am your
friend, you know, Georgia, am I not?"
he said, gently.
"I don't know," sho said, with a
trembling lip.
"But 1 am your true friend. What
difference can it make to,me whothor
you grow up loarnod and accomplished,
oe as ignorant as your little servant,
Fly ?"
A groat deal, if she know but all,"
muttered Charloy.
"Ent I hate senool l I should die if I
was kept in," said Georgia, with a sort
of cry.
1iNonsenso I You would do no such
thing. Do you remember the bird I
caught for you and put in a cage ? Yes •
well, it struggled to get out, and beat
its wings against the bars of the cage
until you thought it would have beat
itself to death, yob now it is a willing
captive."
"Yoe, it is like a wooden bird, without
• life ; it lies in the bottom of the sago
and hardly ever sings or moves ; it isn't
worth having now," said Georgia, her
Hp curling with a sort of scorn.
"Well, it will be different with you;
you are ambitious, Georgia,. and in try-
ing to pass your schoolmates you will
feel a delight and pride you never ox.
porienced before. A new world will bo
opened to you; you will like it. Do go,
Goorgia ; if S wore not your friend, if I
did not like you very much, I should
not ask you."
Charloy, with his head bent down
whistling "Yankee Doodle," was shaking
with inward laughter.
"Oh, Goorgia, do come," pleaded
mGeofly:
rgia, with her lips compressed,
hor glittering block oyes burning into
the ground, stood silont, motionless,
turned to iron.
"Woll, Goorgia 2"
No reply.
"Georgia!" Richmond criod, sus.
iously.
She lifted hor eyes.
"Wolf 2"
"Goorgia, will yon go—I want you to
—yon don't kuow how .deoply grieved I
shall bo if you reuse; so dooply griovod
that we shall be frionds no longer.
Georgia, .T, am going away from Lore
soon—I may never coma back—never
soo you again, and I should bo sorry w0
should part bad friends. Geaigia, will
youo?"
It was o hard -wrung 580011t. The
ea,
word dropped from hor lips as though
burned them.
Charloy's whistle at that moment
spoke volumes, Emily looked delighted,
and the face of Richmond Wildair lit
01) with triumph and exultation. Once
CHAPTER VIII.
""000IING 1:VEOTS CAST '21111(11 an.lIowa
=FORE."
"A look of pride, an eye of flame,
A full drawn lip that upward curled.
An 070 that seemod to scorn tiro world."
The little town of Bonifield contaiued
but one school, within the old brown
walls and moss -grown eaves of which
the "fathers of the' hamlet" for mauy a
generation had sat at the seat of sono
worthy podagogno, or pedagoguoss, as
the case might be, to catch the wiedorn
that fell from their lips. In summer
woman hold her sway there, but in win.
ter man reigned supremo on the throne
of learning, and "boarded round," a 011s -
tom not yet obsoleto.
Once every yoar came the great an-
, nivereary of the school, the last day of
April, when the master's term expired,
and he loft the town to the dominion of
the naw schoolumarm, Then took placo
the groat public oxamination, in which
lanky, youths, weighed down with the
consciousness of their responsibility and
first tail coats, and cherry -checked girls,
bursting out of their hooks and oyes,
showed off before tho admiring Burn.
fieldians, and received their rewards of
merit, more highly prized by thorn than
the Gross of tho Legion of Honor would
bo by some old French veteran. A new
innovation had lately boon introduced
by one of the teachers, that of speaking
dialogues at these distributions, and
wonderful was the delight young Burn.
field took in these displays. The more
strait-laoed of the parents at first ob-
jected to this, as smacking too much of
"play acting," but young Burnfiold had
a decided will of its own, and looked
contemptuously on the "slow" ideas of
old Eurnfioid, and finally, in triumph,
carried the clay.
Tho great day arrived, and tho
anxious parents who had young ideas
at school, were crowding rapidly toward
the largo old-fashioned scbool-houso
Under the hill. Among them, in grim,
unbending majesty, stalked Miss Jerusha.
Skamp, resplendent in what she was
pleased to term her now"kalilcer gonnl,"
a garment which partook of the nature
of its forerunners In being exceedingly
short and exceedingly skimpy, and the
gorgeous patterns of which can be
likened to nothing save a highly exag-
"orated rainbow. But 1Yfiss Jerusha,
happy in the belief that nothing like it
had appearod in modern times, walked
majestically in, upsetting some loose
benches, half a dozen small boys, and
otbor trifles that lay in her way and
took her seat on ono of the front bonohos.
The boys, gorgeous in bluo and gray
liomespun coats, with brass buttons of
alarming sire and brightness, wore
ranged on ono side, and the girls, arrayed
in all the hues of to flower-gen:him au tho
other. Miss Jerusha's oyes wandorod.
to the side whoro theirls sat, and
mated with ib look of evident pride and
soli -complaisance on ohe—e, look that
said as plainly as words, "There, look
at that! there's my handiwork for
you."
Aud oortainly, amid the many hand-
somo, blooming girls thorn, not ono was
30000 worth looking at, than alio on
whom Miss Jetusha's eyes reetod. The
tall, slight, but well.proportiouod form
lead nano of the aw1-w races common
to girls its their transition stages. Tho
queenly littlo head Wag poised superbly
on tho sloping nook, the door olive skin,
with its glowing crimson lips audelteoks,
was the very Moat of dark, rich, south-
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