Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20

enjoy yourself at wallack's last night
| i saw YOU there?' >4Oh. delightfully."-,
saws she; Il never laughed so much in
| ali my life.' Laughed, Miss Linn?'
/ saws i, feeling shocked. I'm surprised
at YOU! and the play tradgedy Of the
I most heartrending kind, where one
half kill the other and then kill them
selves; and all the rest go stark staring
mad. A pretty subject for laughter, /
must sayh We'll, know says she:
III wasn't so much at the play-it made
me cry, but before Ieould get my hand
kerchief arranged and get properly
started Mr.. De Fernie would say some
thing and make me laugh; so / didn't
feel so delightfully."- miserable as tradge-
dies generally do make me- 'Oh!then,'
said i, with as whitening sheer Is |
could get up at moments notice, 1T
was that De Fernie made you laugh. L
have heard of that fellow before. who
is he6-what is he? "a young man, as
YOU observe says she, as cool as . GU
cumber. Pooh, / know that! What
does he follow? says /. Me, as gen
eral thing says she; and, when I'm
not there, he follows his nose. Now,
Winnie, appeal to you once more:
wasn't that pretty speech for young
lady to make?
'Pshaw! Annie only wanted 10 pay
YOU back for the contemptuous way you
spoke Of her beau-served you rign''
think" replied the candid winnie.
Served me right! Winnie Nevltte,
you are a heartless girl! VI course, 1
might have known you would nave
taken her part; but that's not the worst
oft. While 1 was sitting, dlgesting my
modification and Miss Inns last
answer, the stage-door was jerked open
and in walked that nIoustAched puppy,
he Fernie bimself-a little contemplate
yiper! | wanted to strangle him, when
he got to shaking hands and bowling
and smiling to Annie; and that girl re-
turning his foreign grimaces, just as If
she thought there wasn't another such
a two-legged angel this side of paradise.
Ugh! its positively disgusting to think
ofthe way girls will go on about the
most effeminate, sickening little ape,
and overlooking men. It's pity, since
the sex has been inflicted on the world,
that they weren't gifted with q few
brains at the same time, and not have
them all set Of"
"Come, Frank, won't stand this;
you know l positively WON'T" said
Winnie, decidedly; "it's sex Pm proud
to belong TO, and I'm not going to hear
il so shamsfully slandered. Go on with
your story, and let the abstract question
Of female brains alone. You never were
q woman, and consequently are not
capable ofjudging. How did you get
on in the stage"
''Oh, beautifully said Frank, in a
tone of intense sarcasm. "You can't
imagine how happy 1 felt all the time
/ sat there, with those two talking about
the theatre and the opera; and
heavenly tenor at the Academy, that
Annie went raviDg about; while Mon
sieur de Fernie, who knew him in the
Alps, or the Grand Mogul or some other
distant and impossible region, was
describing what he was pleased to term
his antecedents; and all the time l was
sitting there, trying to look easy and UNI
concerned, and feeling diabolical in
spiratiOn to spring upon the sweet little
pantalOOned Seraph, and pitch him head
first out of the window. And L would
have done it, too, if he had sat there
much Il niger; but, luckily, Annie pulled
the check. string in front of one OF those
snares for the unwary, adrygoOds store,
and rose up to go out. Both De Fernie
and sprang to our feet at the same
time to help her out ; and, may be, at
tend her on her shopping expedition,
and each one struggled to get ahead of
the other. Annie, the malicious little
hOney-coOler, followed us, laughing;
and made a spring forward to helpher
out, when somehow my foot caught in
L. rrhnNEf Hnu-n
pitched backward, head over heels out
of the stage"
80. then, you put your foot in it
literally, as well as metaphorically?"
81 believe you. Well, rs there were
about a dozen carriages ca elS S.... behind
and unheeding the shouts OF
laughter that arose from every side, L
cast a fierce glance at that grinning
baboon, DE Fernie, and held out my
hand to assist Annie to alight.
.'She allowed you to assist her, OF
cOurse%
s'Not she, indeed! 'My dear sir said
she, in her sweetest tone, Just stand l
little aside and let me out. 1t would be
so disagreeable if ! were to fall on the
nayement, too. Mr.. DE Fernie, may L
trouble you?" =.
"Weli, that, was rather too bad of
Annie! What did you dO?'
"Why, did what she told me, of
course; stood aside and let him help
her out. Then turning to him, said,
politely: 'Mr De Fernie, you must be
Tired after that eXertion; and as Miss
Linn may require you to carry her par
GELS instead Of her servant, you will
need all your strength; so allow me to
carry YOU across the street" And so,
before he was aware Of what 4 was at
| lifted the dear little popinJay under
my arm and in spite OF his kicks and
struggles tip-tOed with him across
broadway amid screams of laughter,
and landed him daintily into q bed OF
slaked mortar that lay on one side
where a building was going on,
so Frank! that was too bad
"Oh, Of course! know it was worse
than the whole seven deadly sins to
mortify that blessed little foreigner; but
then, my nature is so deeply depraved
that. strange to Say, don't feel the
slightest computations about 1t. Of
course Master st. Lo was furious
rayed, and stormed, and swOre, like =
cat with the measles, and was going to
hurl the whole universe into ever
lasting space, if something wasn't done
for his wounded honor, then and there.
A crowd was collecting, and not wish
ing to figure in street row, l drew
myself q straight as my pantaloOn
straps would admit of, and says L:
My dear monsieur DE Fernie, you
may as well take things cOolv; no use
getting into a passion for trifles. am
Just going to step down here a few
blocks, and ifyou will come along with
me, | shall be happy to settle all diff.
culties over glass of wine anda cigar"
Now, Winnie, l flatter myself that was
doing up business in the coolest posi-
BILE manner"
"And what did De Fernie do?'
why, the little dandy saw q police
man coming, and that vision Of majes-
~ brought him to his senses. Glaring
| upon me ferociously, he exclaimed:
"No, sir, / shall not go with you, but