The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899, October 08, 1896, Page 4, Image 4

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ago, wiith the shoirt skirts, the limitless successes. But tWStoeP
waist aud lightly coiled hair. Yes, in- girlish rotundity that flifcvented he la
deed she hal been educated in more ing a scholar., and an ascetife '6eited
ways than one, and she glanced down against her here. $he had d&dced Nfrefi,
with some complacency at her trim fig- that ws the limit of her 'tMritic
ure, still plump, at her neatly shod feet, excellence.
while she adjusted a side comb in the Xow that her college days wtfrfe over
loose masses of hair. She had never shecOwldsee her mistakes. 'Her 4she
been more than an average student in 'regret was that he had tt&v&r "be
Ipoint of scholarship, she might as weE longed to any coBege'Organiiatioli. 'She
confess it. She had frequent "doily was naturally teserved, sh fefcew lHaitfc,
frenzies"" during her whole college life; but not unsocial. "Her social Sh'fcfcfrfratB
and an unsatisfied longing to concoct a had been bound 'up with 'her howfc;
dainty dessert, tto arrange the parlor partly through loyalty (in Iter fferifc
draperies, or even to use a broom, had homesickness,) later through habit, vkto
"never left her. 'She had been hopelessly had formed no new 'ties, Crater hities
'domestic in her tastes. She had lament- were nice. She might have joined 'fe
ed this fact all nhe more, because she fraternity if she had just worked theirls
had an example of pure intellect before a little, but her 'pride would 'never 'have
her, the ascetic looking habitue of the allowed that. She did hate and 'festifteb
'Latin alcove, the girl with the evenly toadies. She 'might have joined ;a.
dreswd hair, the steel-framed glasses and society. There wer some very fciH
ttfoe ill-fitting garments. "She had watch- people in the societies 4u fact, 'Onfc dt
ed her thumbing her lexicons and had the nicest, young: inen vllte- liad 'ever
thought that she ought tto emulate her known hail . 'She "stopped to Wk
and enjoy the emulation. down the street ttosee if theiportma Una
Sine recalled her fads, one after anoth- coming.
er and tenderly laid them away. 'Why hadn't vta, at fa Mti&btL 'Ate
She recalled the stg when she had advances of sotne of tltt mem, $4Nmfe
wanted to belong to something, she men that 'had fatal a tfaufcy 'to ifcit-1!
'didn't care what m she was like other The girls had told her sfcewatOO faat&-
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religious zealot w that she world could she tell WherfWr Mm immr
be an active worker in the noon- men m &ttinr fo tarn mho- ir &
day (prayer meeting, butt after attending gentlemen?
a 'few time, she had given it up asa tube ' In all her college life, tmrnhr
enthusiasm. Aaeeticism and fasting were one startling sueee, and 'that &,
'not, her him, 'She selfishly sacrificed owiugto neotml iKsitioa slit M
the interest off the many foreign heathen elected elpresitat, tha last tevnt dt
tor the comfort off one of native growth, the mnmr y. whn the -tarbrat"
Mums her ten rata off humor gave a fight tan high. She bad tan very taiy
WefcpWm to her character and happy after hit MoilltihiiAwMmma
hich-prevente;! her entering heartily 3n- to ft 'bo mticli all to d!l fe
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