The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

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Mainwaring Trumpet as clearly as if
they had been azure or ietty orbs, sig
mailing from the most delicate environ
ment of hair and cheek. Mrs. Main
waring Trumpet saw that the Rev.
Arthur Arrowsmith had fallen in love
with her. To show her appreciation of
his taste and her reciprocity, she
bounded into love with him-took
kind of header into the sentiment, and
immersed herself with an amazing
splash. They were engaged two days
after. Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet talked
about the affair everywhere. She
laughed over it, cried over it, grew
crimson about it, published it on the
housetops, swore her friends to secrecy
about it, and generally behaved like
Mrs Mainwaring Trumpet gone mad
outright, which may be taken to denote
mania of sevenfold power. 2fr
She courted Mr.. Arrowsmith at the
Sunday-school, and stood so close to
him when he came to visit her class that
one morning she trod on his corn and
made him jump three PAGES clean, with
a squeak that frightened the whole
room. She ogled him from her front
seat in the gallery with such directness
and power that several times he lost his
place and spoiled his best sentences.
She ran after him in the street, coming
up to him--sly, solemn and cadaverous
as he was-all breathless and heat,
which, at her time of life, did very well
for bushes. She sent him presents of
slippers that he could not wear because
they were too small, and worsted jack
cts for the cold weather, which hung
about him in vast loose folds, because,
in her headlong way, she had taken the
measure of her own frame for the pat
tern. She never lost an opportunity of
talking about him, praising him, drag
ging him forward and linking him with
herself. Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet
vowed and declared that every night of
her life she dreamed of Mr.. Arrowsmith
without ceasing, and awoke calling upon
his beloved name. In fact, her love
was perfect cataract, always going on,
and making most tremendous noise in
the meantime. f''T t""
At last grand idea struck her, in
pursuit of which she started for London
by the early express, getting to Padding
ton at ten O'Clock. She gave the porter
a half crown to catch her the very first
cab. She told the cabman that she
would give him half sovereign if he
drove her to Dollond's in twenty-five
minutes. She sprang from her cab and
rushed into the shop painting, and de-
manded to see the very best telescope
for field use. She saw
one with stand complete for forty
pounds, tried it in st. Paul's Church
yard, bought it, paid for it in five pound
notes, got her discount for cash, was in
her cab and rafting back to Paddington
again exactly in ten minutes and half.
She caught the return express and was
home again before lunch, having Travelled
between two and three hundred miles
and transacted all her business. Her
lunch was pheasant, and she ate the
bird to the bones and then set about
completing her design.
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet's boudoir
window looked straight across to the
rectory, at a distance of about one mile
In her boudoir window she erected her
aimed full at the dining-room
the focus, and, scarcely breathing with
excitement, applied her eye 70 the glass.
A long silence ensued. Adams, the
maid, who stood by, with a serious ex-
preston carefully spread over derisive
grin, began to think that the experiment
had failed, when, after long interval,
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet sprang to
her feet with violence which upset the
telescope, stand and all. .. 3d.. ...
81 saw him." she cried, triumphant
ly, Gas plainly as if he were in this
room!"
With trembling fingers she set up the
glass again, and now, in more COM
posed frame of mind, began to explore
anew. Another long silence followed;
and then Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet,
never taking her eye from the glass,
called out in a grave voice, like an as
tronomer who discovers a comet, but
who, having expected it, is not amazed,
only gravely elated: N9r'.
"Adams, Adams, he is at his din
ner. l know everything. Soup three
times and fish twice; shoulder of NUT
ton three times at least, and / am not
sure about a fourth, for breathed on
the glass and had to clean it. Sweets
twice, for certain; cheese, dessert and
six glasses of wine in all. / think,
Adams, do think" .,,....5..
'sThey requires it, ma'am," Adams
said, firmly; "it's the call of nature,
that's what it ISIS nF9a@ e.3af ~
"Well, / suppose So" the mistress
said, reasoning with herself, as her maid
to go down stairs, Z" You see
my size, and how little | eat.'' ~, ~.
"Just so, ma'am," Adams said.
"The doctor says" continued Mrs.
Mainwaring Trumpet, laughing, " that
Live on my fat. 4gn3 y,t.,,
That's just it, ma 'am," Adams said,
leaving the room; only when the door
was closed behind her she added:
"Three eggs and bacon to breakfast
his morning, and cold trout, with
narmalade to follow. That's living on
your fat, | suppose. Well, it's easy
what your fat lives on.''
Under the most favorable circum-
stances Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpetnever
Gould keep a secret long, and now, in
Ter citation at her own brilliancy, she
old several friends of the continuance
~ which she was enabled to watch her
beloved one at all hours. OF course,