The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-05
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discussing their five O'Clock dinner.
At an adjacent table, half hidden be-
hind newspaper, sat,another gentleman,
waiting for his order to be delivered.
$50 Glenham has been caught at last
You've heard of his engagement, OF
course?"
The gentleman addressed laid down his
knife, in the very act of carving slice OF
roast duck.
"Glenham to be married Mark, where
did you hear such astounding news? Nom
sense; it can't be true! Glenhdm! Why,
he must be-well, nearly fifty
"Forty-four-I happen to know. Well,
he certainly is engaged to be married.
in very short time, to Miss Baldwin
"Miss Baldwin? Miss Lillian Baldwin?
OH" and the tone of voice said as plain
ly as words could have said: "Well, if
that is the case, l don't wonder. Miss
Baldwin is young, pretty, and society
belle, and it has always been understood
that she was to marry money, and Glen
ham has any quantity of it,"
eyes, she is the lucky girl who has Sc
cured the greatest match of the day. OF
course it is his money that has done it
only, with his well-known horror of being
married for it, it is decidedly very much
to the fair young angels credit"
cts all very well, but you see am not
so sure of it. | tell you Glenham hasn't
the girls heart; for know to certainty
she was engaged to Harry Marion, and it
nearly killed her when her people broke it
off on account of his impecuniosity. L
shan't believe Glenham's S marriage to Miss
B. until read it in the papers"
Then these two noble specimens Of the
sex that never is guilty of the weakness Of
gossiping went out, and Mr.. John Glen
ham took his absorbingly interesting news
paper from before his face, behind which
be had heard every syllable.
Was it true? Had these gentlemen
spoken the truth2 Was his little Lily
only accepting him because he had so
much money wherewth to deck her out
like princess? His dainty afectionate
little bethrothed, who had so often clung
so lovingly to his arm, and looked in his
face with her sweet, pure eyes-was 1t
possible that she had simulated the tender,
modest love she had shown, while her
heart really was with Harry Marion?
Mr., Glenham remembered young Marion
) well-a fne-looking, dashing fellow, over
whom girls and women had way of 60
ing into ecstasies-a gallant, lazy, good.
; natured fellow, who had made love vic.
lently to pretty Lily Baldwin, and who
rumor declared, had been engaged to him
and the engagement had been broken
/ on account of Marion's general shiitless
: ness.
:, Mr.. Glenham thought of all this, as he
s ate his dinner - with less keen relish
e than usual-and the more he thought thu
more uncomfortable he became.
{ He knew he was, as his noble friend hat
e said, on the shady side of forty-"prett!
{ old for my little eighteen-year Lily" he
e thought, with pang; but he did not taxi
II into consideration the fact that he was tn
fine, manly, self-possessed, cultivated gen
. : tleman, or that his grave. inteligently
I handsome face, with its luxurious whisker
IS of dark brown, and the heavy moustache
q q and the thick, curling hair, sprinkled witt
e gray, was far more attractive to most wo
men-women of refined tastes-than Har
% ~ Marion's effeminate blonde beauty.
e Mr.. Glenham's was warml y-atection
l. ate nature, which had never gone out
"a "a any woman but Lily Baldwin; but all hi
d life he had suffered horror Of being maj
ried for his money.
T. 81 believe Lily loves me. l won't b
a. a lieve she is 30 false as these tonguey, jea
m Gus fellows would make out. There is n
r r reason why l should fret myself into
m 70 state of misery until have some foundt
ton, at least ....
~ AnQ ne bravery stIoNS W PuP Ch0 iolii
70 to little suspicion out of his mind, and wei
of on with his dessert as if he had risen 81
u perior to the disturbances that annoy o
Is dinary mortals.
as But after he had got into his carriag
If If and was being driven slowly up Broad~a
r, the thoughts came back again with r
doubled force.
ne 'If she doesn't love me! l wond
le whether or not could be mistaken
ot ot thinking she does? How could she a
~ and look as she does if she were playing
a game? My precious little girl Am
nh lh wronging you and Furnishing myself
such thoughb2 Or is it one Of those su