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An officer of the Navy, detailed for the purpose, is now on his way to Siberia bearing the testimonials voted by Congress to those who generously succored the survivors of the unfortunate Jeannette expedition. It is gratifying to advert to the cordiality of our intercourse with Spain.
But at that moment there came a knock at the door, and Jeannette, entering the room, told her mistress that Captain Bellfield was below and wanted to know whether he could see her for a minute on particular business. "Show Captain Bellfield up, certainly," said Mrs Greenow. "D Captain Bellfield!" said Mr Cheesacre. Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light
"I must consult my father before I let you go," said Pierre. "You would not keep us prisoners against our will," said Bill, laughing, as if Pierre could only be in joke. "Come, call your mother and father and Jeannette, and let me wish them good-bye. I haven't many minutes to stop, and I've got something to tell them, which I've a notion will be satisfactory."
Prohibition was carried; Miss Jeannette Rankin was elected the first Congresswoman in the United States and Miss May Trumper was elected Superintendent of Schools. That year an eight-hour-day for women was secured. This record was continued. Mrs. Maggie Smith Hathaway and Mrs. Emma A. Ingalls have served two terms each as State Representatives. All the county superintendents of schools are women.
Wheeling, she beheld a vision which brought a boyish whistle to her lips. Jeannette, enveloped in a long silken garment evidently thrown on over her night attire, a little cap of lace and ribbon confining her hair, the most impractical of slippers on her feet, stood smiling at her cousin, sleep still clinging to her eyelids. "I'm down," she announced in triumph. "So I see.
"I beg ten thousand pardons," said he, "but as I did not see Jeannette, I ventured to come in. May I venture to congratulate my friend Cheesacre on his success?" In the meantime Cheesacre had risen; but he had done so slowly, and with evident difficulty. "I'll trouble you to leave the room, Captain Bellfield," said he. "I'm particularly engaged with Mrs Greenow, as any gentleman might have seen."
"Oh, my dear Jeannette, what pleasure does it afford me to meet you again. Oh! I see how it is; you are the friend of the comtesse du Barry, and it is to you I shall owe my future good fortune, as I do this present mark of her favor." "No, my good Genevieve," cried I, weeping for joy, "she who now embraces you is the comtesse du Barry."
"I didn't ever think I should ever care so much about anything," he said, as he took himself up to bed that night. That evening Captain Bellfield did call in the Close, as he had said he would do, but he was not admitted. "Her mistress was very bad with a headache," Jeannette said. Preparations for Lady Monk's Party
She can't get over it, or get used to it; she sits and looks at Jean as if she were an actress in a play, and by and by would take off her make-up and be herself again." "I wonder how far that is from the real truth," thought Georgiana to herself, as she watched the young mistress of the place with fascinated eyes. Certainly if Jeannette were acting it was very skilfully done.
Boys and girls ran hither and thither, tumbling over each other, and over the chairs and stools, and all talking and screaming at once. "'Bring a broom or a flagpole, Johnny, called Philip. 'I'll shoo him down for you while you stand underneath and catch him. "'Shoo, shoo! said Jeannette, catching her dress skirt with both hands and waving it back and forth rapidly.
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