North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

My Prince KATIIMKIXK, please lie seridiis tnr (nice, mid lell me wliy ynu Ircal Mi ' . Dc.xler as vmi ilo ( " " My dear emisin Mai ' v, i\ asiniiiid nie. Am 1 iicit serinus imw ^ Am 1 not always the \ery eiiililem (if seriousness itself f — which limad sfatemeiit the rosiiiish laniihter in her clear grey eyes cdntradicted. " llax-c 1 udt always heen ihankfid to Kat( — jiiKir Fate! wIkhii vwyy une almscs- that siie did iml make nie fri\-iiliius as utlier girls ^ _Marv, (Inn " ! Idnk sd inerediddus, 1 hcg vuii. Now, consin mine, is this frown dee]) and dark enough, oi ' shall I make it several degrees darker in shade, as I denuind to know, in stei-n tones, wlier^ ' of 1 have failed in my duty to your protege, iMr. Dexter^ ,Vm 1 not a model of pulite- ness — a veritahle ' I^adj Chesterfield C " " Oh, Katherine, Katheriue ! Spare me any more eloquence; I feel that I could not survive it, " said Mary, laughing. " And please straightway remove that serious look. Had I known what to expect, nothing could have teui]ited me to ask you to lie serious even for a moment. I merely wished to ask why y iu treated Mr. Dexter so coldly. Did you ask if you were polite to him ( ^ ' ou are a regular iceherg of politeness. " P)Ut why are you so ]ierverse and say that you cannot love him, Katie dear ^ He is so Well alile to make you happy, he idolizes you — evervoue can see tha t — and he is y iuug, handsome, gifted, wealthy — " " Would you have uie — " " " No, let me finish before I am overwhelmed with another hurst of eloquence. Here you are, just at the very time you should he happy and enjoying life — for you deser\-e hajijpiness more than anyone I know of, little girl — and yet you banish him, bury yourself in a hot, dusty schoolroom, with dii " ty little urchins — I cannot luiderstand it, my child ; if he were old and ugly I might — but such a model young man as he is, and one whom half the girls would jumji at the offer of his love and fortune. 1 know it is very nolile in you to work to sup- ]idrt your mother, and think of how nnich more |ileasure it Wduld give her, when such a release frum the drudgery of tea(diing, I feel that you are making a gi-eat mistake not to accejit it. Couldn ' t you love him just a little J " 121