The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-08-27

d. sue CCulu uOB HAlh dOOut h0uuOU
alone, she fraternized strongly with
the landlady, Mrs. Rogers, and took
her about with her, as the best thing
in the circumstances.
Mrs. Rogers was lady of consider
able conversational powers, but per-
haps she was most graphic when she
talked about her dodgers, past and
present. Her ground floor was oc-
cupied by an old gentleman who
|. spent the greater part Of his life in the
library of the British Museum. The
top part of the house was tenanted by
an artist, who had many merits, and
one great fault, poverty which caus-
ed him to be backward in his rent
payments. He was accustomed to go
away for weeks, or even months, to-
! gether, without leaving any address
, he was thus absent now.
One steady wet day, when Sybil had
played, read, worked, till she got the
tidgets in all her restless limbs, Curl
Osity which had already been awaken
ed became imperative. She sent for
Mrs. Rogers, and asked whether she
could not see the deserted studio.
"There's only rubbish, miss" said
the landlady; "but please not to move
any of it, or he will go on at me like
anything when he comes back. Not
that he has any right, being in arrears,
but he has way with him, and am
soft-hearted, and he pays what he
can. Here is the key"
Sybil took it and ran up stairs. But
when she turned the lock g feeling Of
shame came over her, as If she were
prying, or at least trespassing. How
ever, she pushed the door back, and
entered a most untidy apartment.
There were easels, one with half fin
ished painting on 1t; there were vari-
GUS articles of costume, male and fe-
male, scattered about; in one corner
stood a dummy figure, attired merely
jim yellow boots and spurs aud cava-
lier hat and Feather. Specimens of
ancient armor lay in a heap, from
which protruded likwise q modern
musket and bayonet, 3 erieket-bat,
foils, and single-sticks. There was q
rack Of curious pipes, German and
Turkish. There were casts Of famous
statues, and what seats and tables
there were were imitation antiques.
Two large portfolios on stands took
up q good deal of room, and the litter
was completed by the heaps Of pic
lures, in various stages Of progression
very early stages, indeed, most of
them,-piled up here and there. The
walls likewise were covered with pic
lures, some Of which were finished.
One, an Ariadne, just waking up to
the fact of Theseus' desertion of her,
was hOnored with very smart frame
which had been hung almost out of
| a srhN hrr ho tfIanHfnor fNapa fffaa11
of the Royal Academy Exhibition.
The longer she looked at the picture,
the more It pleased her, and at last
she got quite indignant with the
Academy officials, who had hung it
in bad place, and, with the public,
who had not bought it. Then, gradu-
ally feeling at home, she went in for
a regular inspection of all the studies
and sketches and half-formed designs
in the room; and at last even dipped
into the portfolios. The result was,
that instead of passing the ten minu-
tes she first proposed to herself in the
studio, she spent the whole afternoon
there, and talked of nothing but her
discovery to Cousin Emily all dinner
time. Not content with that, she in
troduced her to the studio on the fol-
lowing morning, though the weather
was fine, and the elder lady took
fair interest in the pictures, she was
not so enthusiastic as heyounger; en-
thusiasm is apt to fail us before our
eyes and teeth.
"Oh, Cousin Emily! is it not shame
full that such a beautiful painter
should get so little for his works-bare-
ly enough to live on-while mere
daubers are paid--oh, ever so much ?"
SIT is a pity he does not try daub-
ing, them"
"Oh, he could not do it !; real gen.
ius cannot be concealed. He is hand.
some young man, melancholy eyes,
and beard-dark, of course; but he is
not really melancholy; quite the re-
veroe. And 90 good! hO h0lf supports
his mother, who is the widow Of an
Indian officer, with only her pension
to live on that is why he has debts"
"Why, Sybil how did you come to
know all this Mr. What is his
name?n
"Dorfa is his name, but I have new
er set eyes upon him. Mrs. Rogers
told all 1 have just repeated"
"Oh," J" said Cousin Emily, who had
experienced the nearest approach to
the feminine sensation called "turnnl
which her placid nature permitted.
She was at all events affected.
It became quite habit of SYPHILIS to
run up and look over the absent ar
lists sketches, and no doubt she would
soon have begun to criticise and find
fault, only, before she had time to
reach that stage, she left the lodgings.
1t was not likely that well-connec-
ted young lady of good fortune, and
subject to no authority but the law of
the land and public opinion, should
be allowed to remain long hidden in
London. People who have money al
ways find relations, connections, and
friends, who are always glad to see
them. In fortnight, Sybii and Cous-
In Emily were domiciled in hOspit-
able mansion in Belgravia.
One June morning, Harry Doria
was in his studio painting and talking
at intervals to friend who was sad
loafer, but atoned for it by buying
picture now and then, and who was
at present lounging on q sofa smoking
Turkish pipe, the flavor of which
pleased him.
"Well, how do you get on-pretty
well, hope ?' said the loaflng friend.
''Excuse me mentioning it."
Harry was not the least discompos-
ed. "I am,D said he, "certainly doing
better this year than I have ever done
before; this year, when it does not
matter, and 1 have only myself to
provide for"
"Don't talk like that old fellow; you
made your mothers declining years
comfortable, and have no cause for re-
gret. As the old ties break we form
new ones. Apropos, are you going to
marry the heiress ?"
"What heiress ?'
"Mereenary man Have you so
many in your eye? Why, Miss Nu-
gent, of course everybody has set
tied it for you"
"Perhaps everybody has decreed
that am going to have the KOh-i-
moor set in q scarf-pin. Poor Miss Nu-
gent 1 imagine that she expects to
do better for herself than to marry q
third rate canvass-spoiler."
"Well, you are pretty intimate, at
all events"
81 haYe met her out at parties, GER
tainly, and we talk together a great
deal, having many subjects Of inter-
est in common but the idea is ridic-
ulous she is great deal too rich."
"That is q fault most fellows would
look over" observed the other, laugh
ing.
az could not" said Doria. "Fancy
its being in your wife's power to tell
you, whenever you had a row, that
but for her you would be pauper
that your house is hers (; your servants
hers yourself thing she has bought.
No, thank you"
"My dear Lucifer, you exaggerate.
II you are getting as much for por-
traits as expect you will a couple of
years hence, you will be able to mar
~ any woman and preserve your in
dependence. How sharply your Acad-
emy picture was snapped up. 1t was
not sold beforehand, was it ?''
mo; and 1 put an extravagent
price on it, out of a sort of bravado,
because Jones tried to cheaper it one
day before it was finished. What q
funny animal the public is The price
that picture fetched brought me mora