Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-26
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THE WAYS0F' THE WORLD.
BY JUN1Us HENRI BROWNE.

won DSIIay tuS ConuueHc6s we nave ndu.
A man of judgment does not seek TO injure
his son in-law. Besides, it is to my adj
vantage to be considered as Miss Royden's
future husband"
Bat you know, Count, why you are SO
considered you know the hard terms you
have made with me. Have you no gen.
erosity, no feeling, no pity %
Do not, my friend, angle me with SEN
timent; do not play the wcmanl i"
81 viii try to be a man to show all the
manliness have left. But cannot under.
stand you. What are you:"
Simply man of the world"
sit is dreadful world that you repre-
sent-a world of selfshness and evil"
"What is the world else? Do we not
all prey upon one another when we can?
We are ali wild beasts, though some of us
wear better disguise than others.
Some of us have pity, Count
"Yes, after we have gained our euds.
Man is the cruelest of animals. !"
"Some men seem needlessly cruel You,
Count, might make easier terms with me. ="
81 made such terms as are to my inter
est. So we all do. If a man comes to
your bank and begs you not to protest his
note; swears that he can get the money
next month that your action will ruin
him, do you obey his request? Do you
wait for him to pay when it is convenient"
Cuisines demands that we should fol-
low the rules of business. We have no
power to accommodate him in that way,
even if we would"
But would you? Bah All the iniquity
and humanity is practical in the name of
business. It is the business of mankind to
get all that it can out of one another, and
to destroy what it cannot rob-"
els business so monstrous ?"
at is, Mr.. Royden. You seem to think
me strange 1 am but business man.
Fortune has placed knowledge in my
hands, knowledge can use for my benefit.
It is my capital. I do with it as you do
with the funds of the Babylon Bank:
employ it where it will the most return
make. If trade in regulations you trade
in credits. Where is the difference?"
You are memorable. Heaven prevent
me from being such man of business"
You are such man of business. You
would not as President of the Babylon
Bank release me from my obligations; I
will not release you from yours"
What obligations, in any strict sense,
have 1 to you, Count ?"
"The obligations of a man who has done
what he wishes to keep secret, and is found
out. 1t is the fortune of war. Now it is
my turn"
Tomorrow, Count, it may be mine"
Precisely. 1 wish to protect myself
against the chance by marrying your
daughter. Come, why need we parley
further? 1 am determined; when shall it
be-"
81 wish you would see Margaret again.
1t is she, as 1 have said, who should be
consulted"
"But she has, repeat, left it to you.
I'm not to be trifed with. 1 have business
to perform that requires that 1 shall be
husband Can 1 see Miss Royden this
evening""
81 think she is in. I will find out"
The servant, having been summoned, in.
formed Mr.. Royden that his daughter was
in her room. Will you tell her that the
Count de Barigues would be happy to see
her here alone %
Will you not favor us with your
pleasant company asked the Count, re-
turning to the very polite, half.ironical
form he so generally adopted.
"No, I cannot. I've grown to be such
a coward that dread to see my daughters
honest, anxious face. Be gentle, be con-
siderate to her, Count"
"Be gentle How can I be otherwise ?
Is not the Count de Barigues known, the
world over, to be model gentleman? And
is not his treatment of ladies the admira-
ton of two hemispheres p
In few minutes Margaret entered,
paler than usual-her father had gone
and asked at once. without any greet
ing to the Count, When shall 1 be spared
the pain and modification of seeing you
alone? I had been led to hope that these
interviews, SO inexpressibly painful to me,
had been discontinued.
"Do not be cruel, fair Margaret,
81 forbid you to call me Margaret.
"Surely man should have the privilege
for calling by her first name the woman he
has the happiness to consider his betrothed.
cease this hideous mockery. must
; endure it in society; but in private it is
altogether unnecessary. Between ourselves,
hypocrisy is superfuous. You know how
1 feel toward you, and that at least see
you in your true light"
"I think, Miss Royden, that you mis-
Judge me. 1 am not SO bad perhaps as
seem. When we shall have been married,
you will learn.
EDO not speak OF our marriage as any,
thing but an internal compact. You
exact it for your own mercenary ends;
1 accept it outwardly to save my father
from know not what.
"Can 1 not persuade you that I am
growing fond of you ?" and he approached
her with something like passionate tender.
ness.
She started back in sudden alarm, cry
ing, DO not profane me with caressing
touch Remember that, at the very worst,
am to be your wife only in name"
But if 1 should demand more, Miss
Royden? ?"
| "Your demand would be vain"
/ "Besr in mind. please. that hold the