Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-08-02

that there is what those dreadful people
10 Parliament call a third course Which
Is TO stand my ground, and let this brave
sabreur see that whatever / was foolish
enough to think Of him, am cured now.
We shall have to meet sooner or later,
and i Is Just as well 10 bell the cat at
once"
"Fanny, Fanny, you are lmprudeDt !"
"Gerty, Gerty, you are goose !"
perhaps" she added coming back to
the charge, "he would not come II he
knew you were here-for his own sake"
"For his own sake I" repeated Fanny
opening wide her great violet eyes.
"Exactly. If be still cares for you, to
See, Waybridge spooning as he does,
would not be pleasant"
81 don't intend ii should be-" said
Lady Fanny.
! think that the wise little matron was
right when she said perhaps the Red
Lancer would not come If he knew he
should meet his old love. When-driv-
Ing himself In the dog cart that had been
sent for him TO the station-Captain
Darcy Millville passed the croquet
ground, and received a merry nod from
the golden head that for q moment had
nestled on his heart In that fatal conver-
sation, he was so troubled in his mind,
that he drove Into his flower-bed, dropped
his cigar into hls lap and burnt a big hole
Into his trousers.
Was 1t possible that his flight was not
understood, or, If understood, unresentedi
More strange still, was Ii possible that
the conduct which led TO his flight was
not understood, or, If understood, unre-
sented He hated himself for harboring
such a thought yet there was the out
ragged dsmsel patching the broken turf
with her mallet, and chatilng-aetually
chatilng-him for his awkwardness.
Why had he not let the groom drive she
asked. And for six months he had been
eating bis heart in remorse for the wrong
be had done her
eyes, the dashing soldier, the boon
companion, the keen sportsman, who
was TO have been the life and soul OF
that yachting party, turned out bore
as Is every man in love. A pair of sweet
violet eyes haunted him, sometimes sad
and dim with tears, sometimes flashing
with scorn and he had come home more
In love than ever. Often and oflen had
he assured himself that the best thing he
had to live for was to see those dear eyes
undimmed by sorrow, unlit by anger; to
know that he was forgiven, and she was
happy. What he saw on the croquet
lawn, and WAS told later in the smoking
room, ought to have afforded him supreme
satisfaction but il didn't.
She was engaged to the Marquis OF
Weybridge. She introduced the Red
Lancer to her future lord without tTem.
bic in her voice or blush upon her
check. She called him Darcy, ae
hitherto she questioned him about his
voyage To Norway, and observed how
Jolly il must have been She said she
would make Weyhridge take her tO Nor
way next year, and would Darcy come
too Never did fair lady Seem more
bright and gay and her future lord no
ticed with delight that those attentions
which Lady Gerty called his 'spoonngs,'
were suddenly accepted much more gra
ciously than they had been.
| am surry to he Obliged TO speak evi
Of dignilics, hut truth cOmpels me to STATE
that the most noble Marquis of Wey
bridge was cuban unlocked cub
Left an orphan when almost u baby, h,
had been taught by long line OF toadiei
that he was to be the greatest man of BIZ
day, without the least trouble 10 himself
He grew up ovcrbearing, ignorant ant
i say II with bAted breath, of "A peer o
, the realm-VulEar.
Now, however sincere a man may bl
in wishing the happiness Of the wonal
he loves, but cannot marry, il is askinl
l too mach to expect him to like her NOR
/ fortunate suitor. Under no circum
/ stances could Lord Weybridge and Capt
- Millvile have got on well together, but II
r an evil hour the noble Marquis, who SC
I up wit, and could not get on without I
l bult, elected the grave and silent Ltnce
( to that honorable post, snd took the Inc
r vitable consequences. Never was ma
so thoroughly sat upon" and never wa
G a man So happily Ignorant Of the TACT.
/ The shooters were sometimes hOnore
4 by an invitation TO the ladies' live O'cloc
. tea, and on one of these occasions Lor
p. Weybridge burst out with;
= "Oh, you fellows, come here and &c
} my new smoking-cap.
/, Lady Fanny was embroidering one @
/ those useful articles, and perhaps she ha
= begun il rs Il present to her future lord
!. but she did not like his claiming IL as hi
8 own before presentation to his conhder
o style, so she said, "Who told you it wa
e for you :"
Y "No one but of course ii is"
Il 81 don't know that"
o 81 know IL is not for any one else" b
II replied harshly, with a look on his fac
e that Fanny had not seen there before
IT and which made her shiver.
"llow do you know it is not fora fame
z fair !"
4 "If il is, I'n buy II IL II costs thol
n sand SO 1t will beNnine all the same.
Ie 81 wish you would not talk 80 muc
h about your money" she said, in 10
Z, voice, bending over her work, sit ism
p good form."
s. "Wait till you have the spending
Dt some of il. You'd find ii deuced gOc
, form then; ha, ha, ha! Come, let n
Il try IL on :" aud he held out his hand Il
h., the cap.
Is 81 tell you it is not-that is, perhaps
N is not for YOU"
r. "How comes the perhaps ."
IN Il will tell you. Philip says he wan
re big bag tomorrow, as he has promis'
IN to send lot Of game. So this cap
y, honor (holding It cOquettishly to q
le hght) is to be the prize for the be
lis sportsman. In those dear olden times
m would have been given TO the champiS
en- who killed most giauts aud enchanter
re and rescued most damsels in distress, b
In this degenerate age it will be the pro
q, erty of him who Stays most partridges
he ''Then again, l say it will he mine, {
cd | am the best shot here" said his mode
lordship.
H. saThat you certainly are not" into
10 rupted the bluff Philip Boucher, wi
Il, had heard the loud boast.
n. "Oh, give in TO you you're alwa
nv al il. | spoke Of your guests"
d. "Millville is out and out the best sh
n here"
an "Why, he gives up at twelve o'rloc
sr, and loafs oil ~ a farmhouse, to drll
N. cider"
nd "That proves that he doesn't ca
m much for shooting, but not that he isl
IN The subject was brought up aga
Int after dinner, when the Red Lancer "
rs present.
sd 81 don't exactly sec how things are
nd be decided" be said.
'sorry for you," replied the Marqui
ad the prize is for the best shot any i'
,cn can count the bag"
ow at does not follow that he who ki
dy most birds is the best shot"
81 suppose you'd have II go to whoel
ar kills least. You'd be all right them
Ost ha, ha roared the Marquis.
me A man." continued the Red Lane
not "goes out with two guns and three ke
es. ers to load for him"
re- Meaning me-" interrupted the NJ
md quis.
nd, "He fires away Il hundred cartridg
nth hap.hazard, and he bags thirty brae'
in pursued Millvllle, taking no notice of
a interruption. " Another carries and loi
the his own piece, and kills, say twenty, "
my fifty shots-N hieh is the better spol