Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-11-29
PENpERLEITH.
sv THE AUTHOR OF 'FLoRANCE BRAND
ON 'wRoNeED AED RIGHTED, ETC
CHAPTER VI.
LADY PENDERLEITH.

LADY PENDEhLEILhs
IN the meanwhile, how were affairs
going at PenderleithP Quietly enough,
to all outward seeming, with her lady
shin. after the post had brought her sev-
ersl letters.
On reading them, she had given or
ders that the search for Miss Pender-
Ieith should cease, news having reach
ed her that she was on a visit to her
aunt. Then her ladyship, with her 1su-
al distant silence and pride, had shut
herself in her own rooms, leaving COM
mands that, needing rest after the ex-
citement she had undergone, she was
on no account to be disturbed.
Not 80 quietly was the subject taken
in the servants hall. There each seem
to regard it as a personal affrOnt that
the young missis' had not either elop-
ed, committed suicide, or done some
thing else very dreadful. 1t certainly
was scarcely right to have shocked peo-
ple's nerves for nothing. Indeed, the
cook who had more than once protested
that she felt she didn't know how, was
half disposed to give warning.
HInever did see sich house." she af-
frmed. Her ladyship is as 'ard and
stuck up as the kitching poker, and a
deal too severe on poor Miss Alma, who,
as gentle as lamb, is sight too good
a child for her?'
And to git scoIded all becOsshe wants
to have a sweetheart like the re st OF us!'
broke in the lady's maid whose proclivi-
ties tended towards gamekeepers. It's
a right down burning shame! I'll wager
her Iadyship had a young man when
she was Miss Alma's age
'Hif her lRdyship's temper was the
same then as it is now remarked the
footman, sententiously, airing his calves
on the fender, and affectionately cycling
their symmetrical proportions I pities
the young man. wouldn't have been
in his shoes for hever so much
iHer temper was bad when she heard
the news, Symonds, wasn't it?'
bad! It were hawful. Fust, she grow
ed hall white, then red, her eyes a-star-
ing outof her lead. Then she began to
give tongue-rampaging about the room
like a wild cat; calling out as how she
knowed who'd enticed Miss Alma away
and she'd be revenged."
''Do you know, Symonds," inquired
the cook, being a newcomer, who did
.entice her?
LLor', o. course he does-we all does,
interrupted housemaid, with giggle'
'Irs Sir Gerard, her cOusini over al
R2seden; and an handsome man. he is.
"A beauty, with such lovely nous
tache, and sich eyesp interpolated an
other, with immense gusto.
pTben, Ior' a-mussy! why don't hel
Iadyship let her have him"
,Ab! that we don't know. 'SpOse she's
taken a dislike to him. Her ladyshiI
and her sister-in-law don't 'ma'gamate
together very well. They quarreled
when she came yesterday
Hi know one thing said Symondsr
stretching his stalwart form.
'Wot?' was the instantaneous demand
from every lip.
In matters Of mystery, or other peO-
ple's business, he who knows anything
Immediately becomes an important per
sonags.
Why that 'er anger and Ter grief
hain't deprived Ter ladyship of her ap-
petite. Wen took away the dinner,
Pm blessed-iadies being present, I
-On't use stToRger. langwidgde-if she
ia, 't.eEten IS much, if not more nor
~ IT,, =, WIN rs that? cried the house
maid.
'On'y her Iadysh..t . missed ringing Of
her bell. The wi1ss are .S-q@iVerinr, caic
gymonds.
tOh! ! fanoied it was-I o,.oE't know
wot. I'm SO nervous since we ehough'