Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-11-21
THE MONKS PROPHECY.

Curious, isn't it, how the old Gus.
toms still hold their own Here is the
fashion of penance by pilgrimage still
in vogue, with the additional aggra-
walton of calling it travelling for
pleasure
'Well, Edward said swest
voice, that's a very pretty compli-
ment to us-your companions. think
| ought to make you do penance for
that
That's right, Miss Wentworth,
keep him in ORDER ohimed a third
speaker. However going abroad
has this one advantage to US English,
that there we can sometimes venture
to seem amused without thereby com.
hitting the seven deadly sins in one.
Such was the chat that passed
among the group of four-two ladies
and two gentlemen-seated at lunch
on the balcony of the Hotel du Rhin,
Shaft hansen, one sunny afternoon in
the latter part of May. The first
speaker was fine looking young
man, Of three and twenty, whose
comely features, dark, curling hair,
and tall, well-shaped figure, amply
bore out the name of "Handsome
Ned" given by his jntimates. Young,
rich, good looking, popular with high
and low, in the plentitude of health
and vigor, lately betrothed to the
charming girl whose soft, lustrous
eyes, were watching him half
tenderly, half archly from the other
side of the board-Viscount Montague
might fairly account himself an ex-
tremely lucky fellow. But upon that
bright young face, firm and manly as it
was, brooded the doomed look, which
haunts one in the portraits OF Mont
rose, of Claverh0use, of Charles /.
ominously bearing out the gloomy ira
dition among the elders of his native
country. that the 'last of the Mon.
tagues was so in double sense, and
that with him the grand old line that
had left its mark upon every age OF
English history since the days Of the
Tudors, was doomed to pass away
forever
Beside him sat his inseparable as
sociate, Sedley Burdette, whose
square, muscular figure. and frank,
sunburnt face, looked the embodi.
ment of yonng England at its best.
Side by side the two young men had
shot buffaloes on American prairies
stalked moose in Canadian forests,
'bowled over royal tigers in Bengal,
hob. nobbed with Negro kings on the
coast of Africa, and they were now
faute de mieur, escorting their 'Flower
of Kent and her mother on the inev-
liable tour through Switzerland, not
without secret hope that some un.
scaled mountain might afford them a
chance of breaking their necks in
good old British way.
Did You see how Johann eyed me
as he brought in the lunch p said
Montague.
He's evidently devout believer
in the continental creed that an Eng.
lishman's natural pastime is to knock
somebody down, or set a house on
fire or make heavy bet that he'll
jump out OF the window and then dc
it forthwith
Aye laughed Burdette, .just what
DIR. Buchanan said to me yesterday
'Mein Herr, those countrymen OIL
yours When l was praeticine in
Saxony, | had no peace for them.
First thing in the morning, king
king! at my door. What is it?' sAn
Highlander who has broken his leg
trying to scale the Teufel's horn,
which no one ever yet assembled /
set he Herr Englander's leg and am
msking him comfortable when, king
klingi again. what now p sAn Eng
lander nearly drowned in swimming
across the river Elbe for a wager" /
wrap Herr Highlander In hot blankets
and bring him to. Before half an
hour is over, king . king once more.