Daily Colonist (1898-12-25) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1898-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

v^KlORmDATLY COLOmSl StJNDAY DECEMBER* 25 met

Sydney Oiilo.

OF COLOIL OftfS

i"Slio is a sliy, quiet little tiling; not used to society, you. kiipw; Been uUu-catoil iit tin old-'fuslilonicrl school iii iiu lOnjiIisiii oomitry town, so of coiirso wo iliil not ox|)C(.'t iiuicli."'

So Jliss M'.ii'ii'l Ayliii''!- lii'scribcil her cousin Violet, who had r(>i:i:iUl.v orossinl 1lu> All.'iiuic to visit lu'i- iiii<;li.''s Ijiiuily io ^'ictoriii, Biilisk Coliiiuliiii. Shu wiis just cii-'lili'i'ii, II slim ••iii'tilc" girl, with iioIhiiiH rL'iuiirUalilo iilioiU, licr oxccpl :i of liir-fjc eyes, tho slimlc of tlu? llowiT afli'i' which slu? wms iiiinu'd. Slic liiul 11 pull', lilth' face- ami li;-'lit 1>l-owii Iwiii-, bnishcil scvcrt'ly hack from her ^^•llit<.' fori'licail, a ilL'ciiloil (.'oiitrast to hci- c'ousiu's tresses, wliifli wore clalior-aloly iLrraiifceil in llie proviiiliiiK fusliiou. lliii- uuclii's wile, wlioiu she Irnd been tiuight to call "Aunt Leouom," mia a .stately, miissivtj woiiiun, with a siniliuK cxtL»rioi-, Jliul £111 iron will. Her four diiufclitors, the elilest of whom was iiiiUTied, -were luiudsonio, lively girls, and iiL Violet's eyes, nlniosl alarmingly ••ill^-to-dnto." both in thoir manners and C'onvt»rs>atiou. 'I'heir fiither was a wtMlhliy, casy-goia),' man, who allowed tlu'tu •Vafti> blanche," as far as enter-tainiU!* and dressing vere eoncerneil. 'I'hi> result being that thi'V were ex-triMueiy pu|)ular in the little colonial l.iiwu. Doris, the yonagcst. who was a \<ar Violet's soninr. took her luider hci- siic<'!al charge.

"If yon want to know anything, or arc iudonht, eoine to me:" she said in tlio privacy of '\'iolet's bedroom. "The others will only laugh at ycni and chalT.'

'•'riiniil; you," returned X'iolet. whose blue eyes were lilli'il m itli wc.nder and aniazcnicut at the new scenes around her--"I suppose 1 shall beeonn' aeeus-lonicil to things after a time, and yon must forgive me if 1 ai>|"'ar stupid and countrylicd" .she added.a pathetic rinj; in hev low voice, " you know I have lived 'lit "Woodtrldgo" all my life, iiiul it's so vory difCereut from tills pliiee."

"I eiin quite believe tliai," obscrveil Doris. "Never Uliiid, Yi: Don't bi' afraid: ami iihove nil. don't look ner-vons. That never does: you will soon gei the •swim.' .and I'll blick you

up."

^Vuil with this eoniforting assurance, Doris palled her cousin kindly on the sliouhh'rs. If Violet failed to under-stauil all Doris' exiircssions. she was lirudenl enough to e<]nceal the fact. She luid listened in silence wlien ailvised "no! I.J s<'em sur|ii-iseil a.l' her surrouml-ings. or the penjdc she met. If she thonglit iinytliing unusual, not to show her feelings, ll was "l^ail I'lii'm' to be enmrional" "Take in evi^rything. biu don't let any mu' know ynu are idiscrv-iug them." So Doris linished her tirst "Icciuri'," as she called it, and \'iol|.t detcnniued to prcdit b.v it. \\'hen the two older girls, .Muriel and A<lela, appeared at breakfast ibc following morning. loo!<ing pale end lii-cd. and nu're shadows ijf the sparkling lioiinties of the jii'ovious evcjiiu;;, she just gave one swift. glance ret their altered faces, and Doris' sharp e.ves were the only ones to Hlelcct it.

,."1 savV-you!" ahe oxclaiinod a.s soon as ■tlio.v -Nvofp alnno. "You only looked once lit the girls.

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