Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-08

Six years passed slowly by, as years |
pass when We are young. Bryn had been |
gathered to his fathers, painful period |
OF spoonmeat and bullying nv his own |
descendants, and Bill, his son, reigned in |
his stead, and might often be seen fastened
to staple outside Canterbury gate Our
hero was at Christ Church aud his rOoms
in Peck water were favorite resort d all
the Weather and idler youth Of that ia
nous quadrangle. He wa, of course, osthe
elect-of that happy set who never become
entirely Oxonian, but introduce leyen of
London life and the outside world into a
collegiate mass. He rose late, dressed ir-
reproachably, hunted in pink, gave great
lunches and dinners. and generally swag
gered about the house. Life was very
pleasant TO nim- An only son, and heir
to a well-acred peerage. society was eager
to receive him, and every one was anxious
to be his friend. The sunny side OF the
world was always turned to him, and his
lines were always in pleasant places. But
he was not disliked bv the poorer or
less popular men; they had always q good
word for him, and voted him a thorough
gentleman. In this respect ne differed
| from his close chum Charley. or, as his
| friends styled him, Car Bunbury. Car
was a man very popular in that set. for
/ his aim was 10 be So and ne was clever
/ fellow but he insisted in looking over
those whom he thought his interiors. and
was consequently hated BY them. He
was not naturally bad man rather an
artificiaiy bad one, for he wished to APP
pear such, and IN the effort to attain this
he became what he only aimed at seeming.
Some NAV blame him more than the man
who. naturally of strong passions. is hur
ried by them TO commit acts which in his
cooler moments he is ashamed of. Be
that as it NAV. Car Bunbury did az much
if not more harm, than such one He
| dressed his part. As theatrical people say,
cultivated carefully cynical manner, and.
aided by a tall figure, sallow complex
ion. and a dark moustache. he embodied his
ideal very fairly. He and Preston were most
intimate friends they lived on the same
staircase, hunted together and dined to-
gether, and both were in the same house
at | |. Consequently il was quite in the
nature Of things that thew should join in
making one of those little trips to town
in which the undergraduate delights.
II was u wet and miserable night south
of the Thames, and billiard saloon in the
Blackfriars road was crowded with more
than its usual number of guests, II was
the weekly harmonious evening, and sun
dry small stars from the music halls we're
doing their best to amuse throng of me-
chanics clerks, and shop boys. The per-
Torrance was rather dismal one and so
the Young woman who presided over the
bar seemed to think, as she gazed YEARLY
at the clock whenever a f;tvorite song
caused q lull in the employment. Ihough
thu re was an air of linery about her, such
as marks the bar-maid class every
where. yet in other respects she was not
like them. Her dark ewes were restless
and gloomy: her answers were short and
sharp to all alike; and she evidently had
not learned. or did not believe, that bust
ness and pleasure could be combined. Yet
her pale straight features and tall full fig
ure would win her plenty of admirers,
whom her sarcastic temper soon drove to
despair.
The landlord, an enterprising Yankee,
voted her something out of the common
way in barmaids. and valued her accord
/ ingly.. In truth. Hester Lennard had not
grown up into n particularly contented or
pleasant woman she was ambitious, and
that is hardly compatible with content
ment. 1t was rs if that one glimpse years
ago at the life of a class above her. when
she was just old enough to notice and re-
member, had turned her head. 1t had
] probably influenced her feelings and aims
ever since her mind was always running
on the way to get upward in the social
scale, and rs yet without any success.
Still she was "a good summer to quote
her masters words, land as steady and as
honest a girl as any this side the water. -
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