The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-08-07

travagance,"
"What sweetly amiable idea Do
you know you're getting to be ater-
rife cynic now that" dividing her
sentence with asaucy laugh "you've
lost your property? If I buy you !
nice tub, will you promise me occa-
sionally to sit in it? But about Lily
Martel. Do you think her clever i?
TArchiesays she is,and Archie knows,
you know.YTTA VAnDCT
"Does hep / suppose that if John
Stuart Mill talked croquet with Ca
lyle, there wouldn't be much result
ante brilIiancy in conversational
way.''yag 1t y1uliai 151 bsia.5gs n9od al,
Il (Which means that Miss zMartel
didn't interest you. "loI am sorry to
hear it. She has been out SO little,
and I wanted her to have q success
next year, ifpossiblea A realsuccess
II mean; mot mere stupid belleship
founded on the fact of her money.''no
II I perpetrate an effete cough. Peo-
| pie are apt to use a cough as an am
RDuscade for some sudden amaz ement.
CHER money!" I presently repeat,
enough on my guard again to attempt
a little hypocritical unconcern, goa ~
didn't know about it." 1.saadssa,g sdr
Mrs Heath raises astonished eye
brows. fssSYou haven't heard p, You
don't tell me! I thought nearly ev-
|erybody knew" More dainty com
municatlons with the honeysuckle.1
son. yes; very rich indeed. Got it
from her grandmother. BY the way
.f(sweeping my face for a second with
keen seyes0 "these tidings are not 60
ling to dam the currentaof your future
clvility, | trust. Some men are SO
morbidly afraid of being thought tor
tune-hunters. And ifIyou're not just
as pleasant to Lily henceforth as you
have previously been, 7 shall feel that
I have done her quite a serious injury
by throwing you this little apple OF
knowledge"
| After that our interview Is more or
less concluded. THAT woman has
grown to be the very sultana of dip
lomatists. Could anything have been
more delicately' put? % The blow to
my dignity and the balsamic salve of
healing were offered simultaneously.
In those few strong words, too, she
forgaye me all tie past-she who can
so well afford to forgive now! Her
benign finger has pointed for me a
path to prosperity. So many finger
similarly circumstanced, would have
withered in its socket rather than
perform any such piece Of digital be-
nevolence., Bless her she has taken
the noblest of all revenges-utter for
giveness, r1
1t will be best for me to gain lit
tie. time with Uncle Crawford, / con-
clude, about that Cleveland business
he offers me. Let there not be any
out-and-out refusal of the proposition;
let there be only polite denlur, q
! gentle procrastination. AFTER all, /
still further deliberate, a few days
will decisively settle matters. am
too old a veteran not to understand a
! final repulse, when it is final No
I doubt, indeed, the repulse will come.
am decent-looking enough, have
perfect enough manners, am as yet
distant enough from the seignoriai
J domain Of 40 (although it is true |
feel the pangs Of premature decrepi
tude to the extent of at least one ay-
erage gray hair per fortnight, each
being paIlid little gh6stly ,aven ger,
! / suppose, of some separate sin, pee
adillo, indiscretior, late supper, 9rail-
! dy-and soda Of the past)j and lastly,
when | get up my best energy toward
the putting together of words, my de-
] sign escapes respectfully enonrh I