The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-08-27
Sybil Nugent and the Art
list.

"Cousin Emily, 1 wish you were
twenty years younger"
$50 do /, my dear"
"You would be just as good a chap
erone, and you would enjoy little
time in London"
81 do not think, Sybil, that am
quite past that yet"
"Then we will go. We will take
lodgings in nice part near every
thing; and we will shop every morn
ing and lunch at the pastry cooks,
and shop all the afternoon, and go to
the theater in the evening. And
when we are tired of all that, we will
come back to dear Nutting, and the
dogs, and mare and cows"
"a little change will be very nice"
said Miss Emily Needham, who al
ways acquiesced, and was generally
loved in consequence. That she had
not been particularly loved was loss
TO some one, for she would have made
an admirable wife. Her husband
would have got his own way in eve
rythIng; but perhaps that would have
been bad for him, too, and Miss Emf.
ly's celibacy was pObably all for the
| best.
It was very convenient for SYPHILIS
3tep-father, Gen. Won Flopdollingen,
German soldier and politician, who
married an English widow with one
incumbranee, and, when he lost the
former, felt rather hampered by the
latter. He kept her at school as long
as possible /; but when she reached the
age of twenty-one, she was independ-
ent, as she inherited her own fathers
fortune, which was nice little prop
erty. The General, indeed, would
have liked her to live with him, be-
come naturalized, and bestow her
hand and what was in it on one of his
nephews; and to this end she spent
! several holidays in Prussia, and
might have left school some years
sooner if she had shown a wish to
live abroad. But she called the soil
of the Teuton Step-fatherland, and
did not care much fer he cousins-Ger-
man. So Gen. Won FlopdOllingen,
who had promised to look after her
interests, and who was a conscien-
tious man in private life, was puzzled
till Miss Emily Needham was sug-
gested as fitting companion for her
young and sprightly relative, when
he gladly accepted her services.
As for Sybil Nugent herself, she
was pleased enough to have Cousin
Emily, who had always been favor
vorite, to live with her. She made
an effort at first to promote her into
an aunt, but the familiar "Cousin
Emilyn rose to her lips, and the at
tempt had to be given up. Lastly,
the attempt suited the elder lady cap
| ffa1Irr ha nd
and she liked comfort and eompan-
ionship. A trip to London would be
very agreeable; and SO they resolved
upon the excursion. There was a diff
ficulty. Sybil asked Emily if she
knew anyone at all in London.
Cousin Emily thought awhile and
then said:
"There is Jane, Mrs. Hinchbrook's
lady's maid, who married and settled
in London, where she lets lodgings.
have her address somewhere
"Lets lodgings D cried Sybil. 'Per-
haps they are vacant, and we can
have them. Find ont where she lives
at once-there's dear"
Cousin Emily's huge rosewood desk
yielded up card which announced
that Mrs. Rogers had genteel apart
ments, replete with every comfort, in
Cover street.
SIT must be in quite a fashionable
part" said Sybil, consulting map,
"because it is near Oxford street and
the British Museum"
So Cousin Emily wrote to Mrs.
Rogers, who had been many years in
the service of her principal crony in
the Cathedral City, and to whom she
had presented work-box on her
marriage; and received in reply by
return of post to the effect that, by
the most extraordinary accident in
the world, her drawing-room floor
was vacant.
So, one fine October day, the young
maid Bnd the old one found them
selves transferred from one bright,
roomy home in the country to dingy
London lodgings, which Sybil COM
menced at once to brighten up with
flowers.
They then commenced a life which
the male mind shudders to contem-
plata life of shopping. Not that
Sybil had many wants or made many
purchases, but those which she did
make, went prodigious way. Sup
posing she determined to get a man
tilla, dc you think they went to the
nearest shop for such things and
bought one? Not q bit of it. They
looked in all the windows which dis.
played such things in st. Pauls
Church-yard, Oxford street, and Re
gent street, and, when they saw any
thing which pleased them, they went
inside and overhauled the whole
stock, diverging at the shopman's
instigation, into every article of fe-
male costume, from ball dresses to
stockings, and then they left, saying
they would think about it.
When hungry they turned into
pastry cooks shops, and ate ices and
sweet-cakes. About o'clock they
were exhausted, and went home to
tea; sitter which they sailed out again
to theater, concert, or an entertain
ment, and then wound up the day
with hearty supper.
This kind OF life was all very well
for the young one, who had the con-
stitution Of q cassowary, but at the
end of three DAYS Cousin Emily fell
| i'll. Sybil was much concerned, and
wanted to call in doctor, but the in
valid did not consider that necessary.
'iI think, desI," she said meekly,
'that if we were to dine sometimes
should be able to stand it all well
enough,n