"It is no use to say anything against it if _you two_ have made
up your minds," exclaimed a good-natured looking maiden of
seventeen, who had been trying to convince her audience that they
had not selected the most fashionable characters for the coming
parlor entertainment.
"That's just what I always have said, Mattie. You know well what
Damon proposes Pythias will ever agree to," ventured another devotee
with a "cute" little face, tiny hands and tiny feet, with decisive
tone and dignity of manner showing that she was beyond the ordinary
type of girlhood, whose highest ambition is to have a good time,
cheat her teachers out of as many lessons as she can, and walk,
skate and dance, with a train of admirers ever at her command.
Helen Rushton was a native of Halifax and had been bred upon
strictly conservative principles, but there was an innate generosity
of heart that converted them into a happy medium.
She had relatives in St. John, and hearing much of its advantages
And disadvantages, had accepted an invitation to see for herself,
And now, after six months had been passed amid the grateful breezes
and invigorating fog, she dreaded the approaching season, which
demanded her return home.
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