The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-07-20
TWO RAINY DAYS.

Ina comfortable i(otseinI egV4ttemely
snug, genteel looking square at Knights
bridge, resided an artist named Ransford. =
Mr. Ransford had not always occupied the
prosperous. nay, enviabIe position .inthe
wonrld lie did at the period of which Z write.
Time was wher he bad painted signboards
Tor gaudy public houses, and touched up
the figure heads of dingy GOLFERS in dreary
Seaport town. George. Ransford was then
apoor man y but one-day a patron Of Rams
lords, an M. F., and an art critic, detected
latent talent In .afh interesting portrait Of
Fallstatf, executed by the latter for burly
publican who knew very little of Shaks
peare, and still less ef-his- fat hero but pos
sessed a vague idea that the one was an ex
ceeding clever fellow, and the other Tx him.
sell, good, portly- man, i'faitb and cor
pulent.' - s~-s5 - 3 -
You are capable of doing better things,
young man, said the n. p. to Ransford !:
ana the young man determined to do better
thin%ss. C2TA i
Five years after. George Ransfordswas in
London1 selling his: pictures rapidly, and
getting good prices for them. He was a
Jolly socia5le sort of fellow; something OF
a gentleman; not iol extravagaut, nor I'M
DULY proud. Although he has almost for
gotten the dull fshingtown where the days
of his poverty had been spent, hewotild will
hngly have shaken hands with any of bis
former provincial copfrereS. If he had been
winner in life's lottery he was not the man
to'despise those less fortunate. " r. &
Now Mrs. Ransford was of very different
stamp. Uneducated, and, xtoyareertain de-
gree, vulgar, she yet fell into her improved
worldly position with great facility. -ftwas
new to her, but, woman like, she assimi
lated with it readily; and were it not that
she had become imbued With the false pride
of ignorance, would have been very estinla-
bic and attractive person.
ans Georgia, fine, handsome girl of eighteen,
was the only child of the persevering artist.
Her remembrances of her parents less pros
porous days were hazy and indistinct. She
seldom looked back her mother told her to
forget the past-advice the daughter was
nothing 10th TO take-and limited that as her
father was getting richer every succeeding
year, it would be necessary, in considering
the attractions of her admirers, and she had
not a few, to bear in mind the all-impertant
fact that she might some day become an
heiress. 20 E-.a 'f44 t.~43
Honest Flooding George Ransford as he
sat at work in his studio, often thought that
his Georgy was growing up cold, undemon-
strative, and altogether different from what
she promised to he as child. +
4 am afraid, Jane he once said to his
wife, 'Georgy is becoming too stately and
frigid. don't like it; it seems SO uunatur-
al. wish you'd tell her. of it.. yrr-,.,., q
. ~ Nonsense George, it isn't fashionable for
crirlo II, npGoY, ha nd f,coxy
returned his wife. Since we've been what
we are, I've taken few lessons out of the
books of some of our neighbors There's
Mary Clyde, at No. 6, walks as stiff us a
ramrod. She never laughs and she never
cries, but keeps her mouth as close as an
oyster when she isn't talking; and even
Luck Gray, next door, Georgina's bosom
friend, who's not in the least proud, looks
more like lump OF ice than warm flesh and
blood = -s. se..-.s 50 ,ssi'rl g. sls
Among the daDdies who thronged round
Georgina Ransford was Lieut.. Carter. This
young officer was evidently smitten with
her beauty, He was Of good family, and
81 his expectations were supposed to be equal
ly propitious. Between him and Miss Rams,
ford sprang mp a Irritation, on which the
s. young lady's mother smiled auspiciously,--
as The artists wife did not think for moment
that her child could he otherwise than seri
Gus in her admiration of the handsom,
soldier, who was. of course, first drowning
his. bachelor existence in the pleasant
pelucid, yet treacherous waters Of the oceai
of love, from which he would Use resus
ciated and a Benedict. q 49,
81 Mrs. Ransford, by no means woman o
Z either experience or penetration, was mis-
taken. Georgina had at heart no real at
fectiou for Lieut. Carter, who in making
saalove to the young girl, was also acting as
trifer. He was III debt, and for the presen
at all events, had no idea of marrying.
WAS while this pseudo courtship was goips
e on that poor. relation of Ransford's turne'
up. 5'f 1881
One morning when Georgina and he
friend Lucy Gray were out walking togeth
- er, they were obliged to take refuge from
sudden shower of rain, in shop, the pro
prietor of which welcomed the two girls wit
an over yhelDing amount of courtesy and
superiority of bows. A handsome younj
, q shopman danced attendance with coupl
of the best chairs the premises boasted, an
Georgina, having seated berself commences
a conversation with her friend, in which th
words 'tiresome, 'horrid miserable wet
'wretched, were frequently iterated +.
Mr. Ransford, said the proprietor, 4 ar
going into the city; remain in the shop ii
l return, if you please
q On hearing him addressed as Mr.. Rams
ford, Georgina looked up at the shopmar
who bowed as the owner of the establish
ment made his exit into the street. Oh {
Blue eyes, light auburn hair, feature
regular and intelligent, and wonderfully RI
sembling her fathers, met Georgina's gaz
She started at the young man as though
dream. Presently her face flushed wit
surprise and smile came to her lips
is it-can it be possible? shemurmure,
Ed-Edward y c.t@7 q
- oh, Georgina--Miss Ransford-cousin
cried the shopman, hurriediy, and in conf
sion. $50 EfF 81 6
The recognition was mutual. The u
holsterer's assistant was cousin 20 Geor,
Ransford, with whom, when the parents
- both were poor, he had often PLAYED in Il
ga dirty, hsh smelling streets of Schoonerton.
friendless orphan long since forgotten
his rich relatives, the London artist. his vi
and his daughter. -