Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-05
CHAPTER XIII.


The entertainment at the villa was u grand
success; tie supper most delicious one the
wines we're the finest; the cakes and creams
and fruits the lightest, the coolest, the ripest
Ugly little Mrs. Park Brcntz was the hostess.
She knew how to edo" these things amazing y
we'll and on this occasion she had chosen
everything with more than ordinary care, ard
consequently insured success.
Lide Halstead was silent and depressed, for
the reason that Clarence Gadbury had been
absent-mnded and unlike his usual self all
during their drive from the city to the villa.
1t was in vain that Mrs. Park Brentz excrtcd
herself to talk and act we'll, as far as these
two young persons were concerned for they
did not listen, with any attention, to what she
had to say, and in their self-absorption they
ignored many of the social amenities to which
she seemed most thoroughly alive
Lide had endured bitter disappointment f;
so also, had Clarence Gadbury, and the dis
! appointment of each was ola widely varying
nature. Nevertheless, they both were smart
ing severely under the paugs inflicted upon
| them.
Suddenly there was lull in the conversa-
ton around the festive board. Then Mrs.
Park Brentz resumed her speech with a guest
who sat at her right hand.
"The profession of the stage is vile one'
But Lide was parentless, and had talents. So
we thought it best that she should develop
those talents and become independent. Had
the time to be lived over again-knowlng all
do now-I would work my fingers to the
bone, ere 1 would place her in the position
she occupied last evening, when a woman
holding the rank of this Mrs. Vaughn Fes,
senden, should desert her box, on her dfdM
night, at the close of the first act Think of
scorn or Indifference coming from woman
without ability, and who consists merely of
artfce and show My contempt passeth
speech"
She snapped her teeth venomously, as she
talked in her fine, cracked voice.
"Not so, Mrs. Brcntz" urged Lide Hal
! SLeau, HUI lposlllS III WIG e"H'eio'''on Joo
wrong the lady grevously. All society agrees
in pronouncing her clever, gifted and lovely !!
And then she sings divincly. Had | her
voice-which is music itself-her brilliant ex-
ecution, and her magnificent and queenlike
personal appearance, I would be not only ap-
plauded by a New York audience but the
,porld would encore me- AS she sat in the
box last night although l felt that her beauty
and magni6cence extinguished my light, my
eyes were enchanted by her many and varied
! charms !"
AS Lide finished, Clarence Gadbury looked
up at the fair speaker. Her generous words
made his heart beat with quickened pulse.
She spoke in praise of the woman whom he
loved, and his very soul went out to her in
pratefulist emotion. He addressed her with
considerable enthusiasm
"You are right, Miss Halstead. Mrs. c.
celia Fessenden is wondrously lovely :; and
moreover, gifted and exceedingly clever"
| "Clevcr? O, he p sneered Mrs. Park
Brentz, with lips curling in bitterest scorn.
| ayes, dear madam, do not doubt it. She
is certainly as beautiful as an angel" said
Lide.
can angel? There are different spheres
for them. Some are fallen angels, you know"
retorted Mrs. Park Brentz, without altering