Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-29
HY EDWARD F. oAHrLL.

| stable boy or murdered pigeons az harlng-
ham, but then the label on the bottle was
that of a first. class growth, and spurious
wine is not easily detected when the
palate is vitiated. The An9lo-Saxon
races viii never learn that the per.
lection of social life is possible without
either rank or money. The conditions OF
true society are, perhaps, as easy OF al
taiument IN village as in the great and
wealthy centers of civilization, and
| it is only their generic vein of ingrained
snobbishness that prevents those races
! from recognizing this fact. The clique or
! coterie IS the unit of true social enjoy
ment the English language has no word
to express the idea, and is compelled TO
/ borrow from the French. Social enjoy
ment, ike first class whist, is scarcely pos
! sibly where one changes partners too often.
and society, SO called, IS become a kind of
! exhibition where our wealth or our wit or
| our beauty is exposed Lord Hubert WAS
accompanied by Lambda New, who had
| followed him from Boston in the hope of
catching the English nil Gdmirari manner,
/ and the Bostonian was sadly puzzled ct
times to find that his model failed in spots
10 realize the ideal ne had built up from
ading-construete mainly of the attri-
butes OF muscular Christianity, horsiness
and sweetness and light. To the latter
Lord Hubert remarked in the early part of
the evening, with that charming caEdor in
relation TO women which distinguishes
some Englishmen
'0f course she wants to marry me,
and she's clean built little FLY enough
and worth a pot of money, but, you see,
the governor Is such beastiy cad =
Couldn't you get MN to come down
with the tin, and then get back to town
without him :" suggested Mr.. New, who
rather affected English slang in preference
to the American article. l may explain.
for the benefit Of the uninitiated, that there
is only one town, and that is London.
Perhaps l might, said the noble lord !;
but l fancy ne can hold on precious
tight. Governors are the most unreason-
able class of men in the world. But hush,
here she is How do, Miss Charkup
Aw Haven't seen you for an age ''
W Z saw your arrival In the Trunapet,
and sent you card.
Thanks, very much. VIII you dance
-aw-this valse with me % looking at his
programme as if his head was too full and
too overworked TO carry such trifing
fact as the name Of the next dance.
with pleasure, my lord ?" Miss Char
kup was very respectfully
My lord, like most Englishmen, could
not dance one bit, but Miss Charkup was a
first. class performer, and after a few foun-
dering plunges on his part, managed to
accommodate herself to his hopping, pop
ping gait.
During the enactment of this fashionable
interlude our friends Gertie Bake and
Charlie Gould were dancing together,
breathing the same arisbocratic atmos-
pheFe and swallowing the same aristocratic
dust as Miss Charbup and the noble lord,
and when the music ceased Charlie pro-
posed walk in the garden, which was
agreed to by MS companion, for the sake
Of the cool, fresh air, as she suggested.
This is pleasanter than that heated
furnace" said Charlie, drawing long
breath as they emerged. Isn't that Jack
Holmes yonder, standing by that great
torch ?"
It was in truth our friend Jack, stand
ing, as Mr.. Serawley would say, SHIN
merirg IN weird Ike beauty in the torch
light, not habited, alas, in the "aristoeratic
swallow-t tail, to quote the same noble
jackass, but hugging his old crush hat under
his arm, and feeling TO the full as indie
pendent as if he were the owner of every
thing around.
What's that funny thing you have got
under your arm, Mr. Holmes ;" asked
Gertie 9 1t looks like black plate. You
haven't been stealing one. hope, and a
dirty one, at that?''
"Bo!" said Jack, as he opened his bat
tered head piece with a bang, which caused
Gertie to jump back. That's what one
says TO a goose. 1t is weapon either of
offense or defense. Opened in the face of
the enemy, as the old lady in the story
book did with the umbrella to the lion, it
Is very effective"
perhaps" suggested Gertie, the old
woman made speech to the lion, | have
known some old women do fearful execu-
ton in that way"
The speeches the young ones make are
apt to be more deadly nowadays" said
Jack, with glance at Charlie Gould.
"Solong, old man See you again, "
said Charlie, as they passed onward down
the shady avenue. Let US go into yon-
der conservatory" he continued, to Gertie,
pointing to bit OF the tropics under glass,
where pleasant seats by FLASHING fountain
were to be seen.
What do you think OF Miss Charkup?"
asked Charlie, as they seated themselves
under the broad plantain leaves that almost
hid them from the view of over-curious
passers-by.
well, what am l to say 2 she asked
Il suppose she is very nice and very pretty,
and all that.
fear you are a little hypocrite. II
you ask one girl what she thinks of another
she viii tell you that the other is so pretty,
or if she isn't pretty, she is SO good, and
that Is still better, you know"
Well, If you knew my opinion so well,
why did you ask We women are often
compelled by custom to hide our real
opinions from men until we give them a
legal right 10 know them, although that
is not the case in the present instance.
q think the custom would be more
honored in the breach than the observ-
ance.
81 scarcely know, she answered. at
might be so If we knew exactly whom to
trust, but men are so deceitful.
Don't you think you eau trust me,
Gertie =
90 nOt Know stF, as Sue s4uWty
plucked the petals from rose.
- hope you do know, Gertie. Dearest,
have, once already, told you that l love
you, and ! now tell you again" He drew
closer to her until he heard the loud
throbbing of her heart, and he gently
slipped his arm around her waist but she
answered him not in words, and still
nervously plucked at the rose petals OF the
flower in her hand.
is it yes, darling?'
q suppose it is, she whispered, after
long pause and sigh, for she was awed
at the solemnity of the act of giving her
life away.
My darling, he cried eagerly.
There, sir that viii do now. hear
some one coming"
There was, IN truth, another couple
ssuntering that way, but Its better half
Immediately took in the situation, and
finding she had left her handkerchief or
her fan or what not in the ballroom, she
hustled the other half, incontinently, out
of the way, and we, gentle reader. will be
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