Brenda, Her School and Her Club

ppose she'l

can I

hould think you'd have so

any difference. I've ha

urious?" continued the question

f-almost a year older than we are. She's ne

country

irl exactly, but I just wish she was

ird girl, seated

, five's a perfect regiment. I agree with Brenda that it's too bad to have

only one of the four whom the average observer would not call pretty. Yet in her little circle she ha

da an

arry a

ble of the four. I say "in spite" out of respect merely to the popular prejudice. Nobody has ever proved that auburn hair really indicates worse temper than hair of any other color. Edith almost always

I shall like

r three exclaim

u why, only that

ou had just begun to have your own house to yourself you wouldn't lik

en the others remembered that Nora had had a little siste

ated Nora, "I wish

her they had to a large extent helped to make her selfish. One of them had now been married for four years, and had gone to California to live and the other was in Paris completing her

ing whether Agnes has any plans,-and I shouldn't wonder if I could have a dinner-party once in a while-of course, not a very late one, but with raw oysters to begin with-sure-" and the other

respects. She ordered the servants about when her mother was out, and they were as ready to obey her as her friends were to follow her lead,

led and petted child that she had been when her sisters were at home. Her father and mother had nev

t she is far advanced in her studies. I dare s

me. She'll be an awful bore, I suppose,

," said her moth

ore than I," r

very different from yours. She has led a quiet life, for yo

s Mrs. Barlow's sister, and had died when

s always delicate

, and that is why you have not seen Julia since she was very little. Your uncle did not care to undergo the fatigue of tr

d Brenda, half in a temper. "I believe you are

," exclaimed her

trange girl-who knows more than I, and is just enough olde

mother, it was hardly to be expected that she would

t afternoon when they had talked about the unknow

a's jealous?" said No

hom the word jealousy meant some

leased at the prospect of having her cousin with her. I should

bout letting her invite people-and of course she can't tell how she'

enda turned to Belle, in whom she

how I fe

ill spoil half our fun. It's horrid anyway to hav

ppose she'll do

l uncomfortable all the time. Then if she's wearing mourning, she can't do the things that you d

Brenda began to regard he

e waited until next winter? Come, Belle," she

a moment. "I suppose

, w

rom home, unless she had first asked permission. She fortified herself, however, by saying to herself, "Oh, well, mother won't

ble, her half-deaf uncle James at the other end, and her brother Jack on the side opposite her. Her delicate mother often dined upstairs. Uncle James usually had some story to tell of misdeeds that he had heard some one ascribe to Jack ("and how a deaf person can hear I don't see," Jack would say crossly to

nda's invitation was a st

ging Belle by the arm, she touched the door-bell, a

o have?" asked Belle, as th

of it, Agnes's rooms in the L-that sweet little studio that I wanted mamma to let me hav

poor

thought the studio would be a good place for Julia to practice in, and so

m. The walls were a deep red, there was a cashmere rug on the polished floor, a clock and two bronze figures on the mantelpiece. An o

n black and white, together with water colors and a number of fine photographs and engravings in gilt or ebony frames. Against the wall near the bay window stood a small upright piano with an elephant's cloth scarf over the top. The groundwork of the scarf was of a deep yellow, harmonizing with the tint of the painted walls. There were two or t

rary brought here," said Brenda, in explanation o

you couldn't have it yourself! Why, I thought your mother said that th

probably have a studio down town, and so they've put most of her things

pressed Brenda's hand sympatheticall

n't the same thing as a studio

etting sun. They glanced across the broad river toward the roofs and spires of Camb

is just dropping behind those Br

slight extent impeded the view of the river which was obtainable from this upper room. But the room itself was large and cheerful, with a carpet and paper of bluish tint, a large brass bedstead canopied with blue, comfo

you don't mind, I'm going to write a note that I want to se

sk, while Belle sank in the dept

her note, a white-capped

want him to take it to Mrs. Grey's and bring back my

think Thomas can

y n

go to the station

cous

six-thirty, and your mother left word when she went out that th

coming without any one's expec

other's gone to meet Miss Julia, and she left word she thought you'd better give up go

Everything for 'Miss Julia.' I don't care, I'm going

nda," beg

ear to be interfered with, and mamma knows perfectly we

d to-morrow evening. Yo

te to go the second

ugh as Jane left the roo

ot stay to di

th Julia. I shan't know what to say t

tairs and calling aft

n extra place at th

ing their contents about, and she ran in and out of her clos

od impression on a new cousin? I want to look as

Bre

ng on the band of this skirt it will a

ass with great satisfaction. Brushing her waving brown hair to the top of he

ears old-if you didn't know," she cried to her friend, who

se," as she saw a frown st

ions in giving her hair just the right touch. As a matter of fact she looked rather odd, but Belle did not dare tel

they've come,"

was a noise in

a?" she heard

" she said reluctantly to Belle, and th