The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-05-28
TYRAWLEY.

TYRAWLEY.
A large party is assembled to celebrate
the feast of St. Partridge at Ravelstoke |
Hall. an old country house about two
miles distant from the northwest corner |
of Devon. The various branches of Eng |
lish society are very fairly represented by |
its component parts. There are two
peers, three members of the lower house,
some guardsmen, some undergraduates,
a clergyman, and lieutenant in the
navy. But our hero is not a representa-
tive man; yet he belongs to class which,
called into existenc by the accumulated
wealth of the nineteenth century, is ever
on the increase.
Frederick Tyrawley has fought in
more than one state of South America,
and has wandered for more than two
years from isle to isle of the Pacific. A
mysterious reputation hovers round him.
He is supposed to have done many things,
but no one is very clear what they are;
and it is not likely that much informa
ton on the point will be obtained from
him, for he seldom talks much, and
never speaks Of himself. His present
mission appears to be to kill cartridges,
play cricket and dress himself.
Such as he is, however, he is an object
of interest to the feminine portion of the
party at Ravelstoke Hall; for he is rich
and handsome, as we'll as mysterious, and
cannot be more than two-and-thirty.
There are blondes and brunettes, and
pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed girls,
who hover between the two orders, and
combine the most dangerous character
istics of both, who can wear both blue
and pink, and who look prettier in the
one color than they do in the other; but
who always command your suffrage in
favor of that they are wearing when you
look at them.
And there is Constance Baynton, with
gray eyes and black hair. And the incest
critic of feminine appearance might be
defed to state what she had worn, half
an hour after; for no one can ever look at
anything except her face.
Yet Constance is three-and- twenty, and
still unmarried. Alas, what towards
men are. The fact is that Constance is
very clever; but as Mrs. Mellish (the
widow says, mot clever enough to hide
it,
In Mr.. Tyrawley she affected to disbe-
ieve. She stated as her opinion to her
friends, that she didn't believe he ever
had done or ever would do anything worth
doing; but that he plumed himself on a
cheap reputation, which, as all were ig-
norant Of its foundation, no one could
possibly impugn.
There is reason to believe that in this
instance Miss Constance was not as con
scientious as usual, but that she really
entertained higher opinion of the gentle
man than she chose to confess. He GER
tainly was not afraid of her, and had even
dared to contradict her favorite theory
of the general worthlessness of English
gentlemen of the nineteenth century.
The day fingered on, after the usua
fashion of wet days in September in full
country-houses. There was little dane.
ing after dinner; but all retired early il
hopes of finer day on the morrow.
Tyrawley had some letters to write, 81
that it was past two before he though
of going to bed. He always slept will
his window open, and as he threw VI
the sash, fierce gust of wind blew ou1
his candles, and blew down the lookin,
glass.
PLEASANT, by Jovev he soliloquized.
wonder whether it's smashed-unluck
to break looking hanged If
know where the matches are never min
can find my way to bed in the darl
What nightv as flash of lightenin
illuminated the room for a moment, an
he bent out of the window The win
must be about nor-nor-west. Cheerfl
for anything coming up to Bristol fro1
the southwark. I wonder what a storl
is like on this coast. have great min
to 60 and see. I shall never be able
get that hall door open without wakir
them up! what nuisance! Stay, capt.
idea! I'll go by the window "' =.
Before starting on his expedition,
changed the remainder of his eveniI
dress (for he had been writing in
dressing grown for flannel shirt al
trousers, whilst short pea-jackct a,
glazed hat completed his array. q
room was on the first floor, and he h
intended to drop from the window sil
but the branch Of an elm came so ne
that he found it unnecessary; as, springi
to it, he was on the ground, like a cat,
an instant. He soon found his way acrt
the country, 'like Bird to the edge
the cliff. The sea for miles seemed Q
sheet of foam. "
But flash of lightning discovered
group of figures about q quarter OF q m
distant; and he distinguished shouts
the intervals of the storm. @@l-
He was soon amongst them, and
found that all eyes were turned on
sci which had struck on a rock witt