The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-03

NOG al unmarked your sorrows are,
Not all unpited your despair.
Smile, patient lips so proudly dumb
When lifes frail tent at last is furled,
Your glorious recompense shall come,
Oh, hearts that hunger through the world
..s,t.r. DELILAH.
Sir Thomas Winton and I are fellow
directors Of acompens which will never, I
fear, make the fortunes Of either of us; but
it pays itsway- FIVE per cent on capital,
the salaries ia Of Secretary clerks and porter,
always ppnctuaiIY forfhcoming Now it is
D singular fact that lho ever well OFF q man
may be, d guinea has an attraction for him ;
and Sir Tho hon1as Wintoh, when in town, is
very regular in his attendanceat the board
The charms of general conversation are
not unknown at those social gatherings, and
Sir Thomas and 1 often discuss our fa-
vorite topics. He is O sporting character;
my hobby is the drama. If 1 open the con-
versation, 1 politely affect an interest in
Derby prospects; mention the Middle Park
sale of yearlings, or inquire tenderly after
the baronets partridges and pheasants If,
on the other hand, it is Sir Thomas who
takes the lead, he inquiries what think of
the last new French adaptation put upon
the London stage. 4 And SO acertain intina-
~cy has sprung up between pe
care yon anything of b shot, Mr.. Che
VERSE" siE Thomas asked me one day early
in last July: E@
II am very much out of practice" re-
piled; "but IsGsed to be fair average per-
former with the gun some years ago. When
Iget an odd day now. am apt to be too
anxious"
'At any rate, you are fond of the sport?"
Very $3.50
''Then you must come down to my place
and try your hand-will you?"
You are very kind"
"And, If yon like day or two's hunting,
for change, will give you mount"
"You will not mind coming rather late in
the season? We generally have houseful
of young people in November, and I keep
some covers unbeaten for the OCCASION And
if We have touch Of frost, there will be
some snipe4' GO 4, ts ,rstl EE
thanked Sir Thomas Winton again, and
thought no more of the matter g
Invitations of that kind are so very rife
after luncheon-sherry being O heart-ex-
panding fuid-and are SO often forgotten.
that never expected to hear again OF this
one. was quite surprised, therefore, when
a kind letter from Sir Thomas came in No
vember, reminding, me ofImy promise to
come and stay with him, and fixing the
day. ~. s,-.
Sol went down to Winton, and found
that Sir Thomas had very good notion of
fitting up a country house. Every bedroom
had dressing-roo attached, with bath
in it, and hot and cold water laid on; and
warm bath before dinner, after violent exer-
else, is one Of the greatest luxuries in the
sybarite's list Then the breakfast arrange
ments were capital; guests entered the room
OF any hour they pleased, rang the bell and
ordered what they liked, just as if they were
at a hotel. But all this, which is common
enough in large English country houses,
does not give the idea of comfort I wished
to convey, and which consisted in the ease
and smoothness with which the wheel of the
household turned. There was no fuss, or
bother. or forced hospitality; but if you
wanted anything, you got it at once without
trouble or delay.
But am anticipating. [ have only just
reached the house at present. Sir Thomas
Winton was q widower, and his present
family consisted of two daughters, some
where between eighteen and thirty, and q
son IN the Lancers, now at home on leave.
There we're several guests besides myself
Captain Seymour, brother officer of young
Winton's, with a suspected desire of form
ing another fraternal connection with him ::
Paddy O'Bran, of the Foreign Office, a
sort OF social Crichton, and others OF the
fairer visitors, L need only mention one, Ada
Dart; for what man of sound mind could
notice any other girl when she was in the
room. Well, Captain Seymour could do so {:
but then he was infatuated, and not of
sound mind-suffering from younger Miss
Winton on the brain, in fact. 1t surprised