The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-08-21
WON AND LOST.


But in all the glory of q June suElight
the bright river glittering as it runs on
to the sea, roses fiinging th"lr rich per-
fume on the air, soft music blending with
the song OF birds, the excuse and the OBJ
ject are sometimes forgotten, aud q delici.
Gus sense of purposeless idleness and in
explicabte enjoyment alone remains. At
least such was the case with Phillip Kerr
Captain in the Royal Rifles, as leaning
against a tree, he looked at the scene
around him. sfes7 C8 Esqa .vabr
| What to him was the remembrance that
two brothers stood between him and q
title? What the apparently certain fact
that his fathers broad woodlands and the
halls where he was BORN were not for
him? That his only home was the hsad
quarters of his regiment in q garrison
town, or the dining room of the Rag and
Famish? It was nothing to him at that
instant that his pockets were empty. and
his banking account overdragn. Had he
not irreproachable lavender kids on his
hands, and as far as he was concerned,
| priceless boots on his aristocratically
small fset!a Above all, was there not
smiling on him, between her turns at
croquet, the only unmarried daughter of
the great city firm o. Richley, Alpaca s.
Co..? Not very young, and not, very hand
some, to be sure, but then there was a
dowry of thirty thousand down, and
seventy thousand to come when the senior
partner should take his flight To better
world. and that surely would balance
thirty years of age and a remarkably
plain face.
Besides, she was we'll inclined to regild
with her wealth some vermont coronet; or
failing that, to attach herself as branch
grated on to some long descended family
tree, and SO enter society" in her own
fright, as fourteenth cousin BY marriage to
a peer of the realm, rather than be ad-
mitted by sufferauce of dowagers on the
lookout for heiresses.
Whilst awAlting this desirable event,
she kept her hand In by series of IN.
Limited and sentimental firtations with
every agreeable and intellectual man she
met with; for Theodosia Rlchley went in
for lntellect-high art, Broad Church no.
tions, and womap's rights-and Philip
being particularly agreeable and passabl y
intellectual, and above all, the third son
of Scotch Baron, Theodosia had selecte d
him as her present aid-de-camp and at
tache. She had always the alternative in
all cases when in tellect asserted its supe-
riority ard beca me too troublesome, of
referring it to tie senior partner, without
whose consent, as she plaintively remark
ed, 81 should but infict on you penni-
lie IS wife, myself Henry" or Robert, OF
whatever might be the Christian name OF
the present aspirant; and this reference
generally term mated in the dismissal o.
the agreeable and int llectual being, No
particular reason being given, and the
fair Theodosia gently hoping, that
though things We're MOI propitious, still
friendship need not be broken" Thea
DO wac of consolation would arrive an
nonymous presents, and a sentim entail
correspondence would be kept up with
the family; but to this stage Philip had
not yet arrived. 5 .'.
He was content to be smiled upon, tt
disregard tn warnings of wiser men thar
himself, and drift down the stream, care
less whether it stranded him on the sun
ny shore Of home paid for bv his heir
ess-love, or dashed him on the barrer
rocks Of foreign service. q.
There were just two or three things
that Philip could not do. With all his
many destinations, his perfect mustache
his talent for soothing irate tailors, his
seat on horseback, and his step in the
valse, he could not be angry or stern with
a woman, or indeed with any one. HI
could not take anything deeply to hear
he could not fret or fume as to wha
might or might not be h is destiny; and
he leaned lazily against the tree and
thought Of nothing
The game was ended at last, and Miss
Richley came towards him. .-...