New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-03


twenty at least. However. hope IN future You'll
remember that ! don't wish YOU 10 be qnite so
familiar in your intercourse with Nlr. Nardon.
NerV well, mamma, said Gladys quietly. draw
ing herself up; ] have heard what yOu want to
say, and | shall try to do YOU wish. But
should like to say something IN return, II you Il he
so KIND as 10 listen 10 me-
'Certainlv darling Lady Surrev answered, with
vague forebodine OF something wrong:
don't say care ans more tor Mr.. Nardon than
Tor ANYBODY else | haven't seen enough of HIM to
know whether care for him or not But II ever
do care for anybody, it will be tor some tOdy like
MN, aud not Tor somebody like Lord u. Ives or
Monty FiHiOy. | don't like the men | meet IN
town; they all talk TO as If dolls or
tables | don't want to harry a man whO SAYS to
himself, as Surrey says already. All shall look
ont for some Tlch girl or other and make her
countess IL she's a good girl, AID il she suits me.
I'd rather have "a man like Mr.. NardOn than any OF
the men We ever meet IN London.
But, my darln-. said Lady Surrey, quite
alarmed at Gladyss too serious tone, surely there
are genteme quite as clever and quite as inteec-
tuai Nh Nardon.'
Mamma, cried GLADYS rising. do you mean to
say Mr.. Nard0n Is not gentleman
&C auys. Gladys. sit down. dear. Don't get
excited. OF course he is. ! trust have "a great
respect a. anybody for talent and culture. But
what | meant TO say was this-cant you ind as
much talent and culture among people OF orr own
station us-as among people OF Mr.. Nardon'sr
No, said Gladys shortly.
Really, my dear, you are too hard upon the
prerage.'
well. mamma can You mention anyone that We
know who Is asked the peremptOfy glrl.
Not exactly 10 our own SET, sad Lady Surrey
heSitatlnglv but surely there must he some.
| don't know them Gladys replied quietly, and
till 40 know them, shall remain OF my own
opinion still. II you wish ne not to see 30 much OF
Mr.. Nardon, ! shall try 10 do a. you say; hut If
happen to like any particular person, = neither he's
a peer or a plOughbOy. | can't help liking MIN.
there's an eud vf It, And Gladys kissed her mother
demurely on the forehead. and walked with u
stately ~ eep vut OF the ROOM
It's perfectly clear said Lady Surrey TO herself
that that girls in ove with Nj. Nardon and what
oh earth I'm to do about il is 10 me a mystery
And, indeed Lady Surveys position was by no
means an easy one. ON The one hand, she ielt that
whatever she herself, who was person OF mature
years might happen to do. 1t woud be positively
wicked IN her 10 allow young glrl Ike GLADYS 10
throw herself away "a man La Harry NarlOn's
position. Without any shadow of an drrtere peHsee
that wa. her genuine feeling as mother and a
member Of society. But then on the other hand
how could she oppose 10, II she really even Thought
herself. c0uditOnaliy, OF marrying Harry
Vardon Could she endure that her daughter
should think she had acted as her rlvaIY Could
she press the point about Harry conventional dis
advantages when she herself had some vague IDEA
that II Harry offered himself as GlddNs steptather
she would not be wholly dsluclned 10 consider ms
propOsalf Could sh' set It down a. a crime IN her
daughter to form the very >elisame affection which
she herself had well igh formedf Moreover. She
couldn't help feeling IN her heart that GLADYS was
right after all and that the daughter defiance OF
couveutIOnalty was implicitly inherited from the
mother. II she had met larry Haidon twenty
wears ago she would have thought and spoken
much like GLADYS; IN fact, though she didnt speah
she thought 20. very nearly, even Row. am sorry
that am obhgrn wGte out these faint outlines
of ideas m all the brutal paiune,s of the English
lauguave As -poken by men ] cannot give all those
fine shade, of unspoken reservations and wOmanly
,..ll-deceptve subterfuges 10y which the poor little
countess hIlt-disgu sed her own meaning even from
herself; but at least you VIII not DE surprised 10
hear that IN the end she lay DOM on the little
couch i'm the corner. cred her :acr with chagrn
and disappointment and has good cry Then
She GOT an hour later. washed her eyes carefully
10 take off the rrGueas put ON her pretty dOYe-coi-
ored morning gown with tine lace rrlmmlng-she
looked charming IN la'e-and went down smiling 10
lf.rtU uIp L
thlrty-scveu as ever yOu would wish i0 see. Upon
my soul. Harry Nardon. really almost think sou
viii be tool II you don't finally marry the
GLADYS said little Lord Surrey to his sister that
evening. when she came INTO MS ro, in on her way
upstairs 20 bed Gladys its ny opinion you re
getting too sweet on this fellow NdrdOn'
4lail he obliged, Surrey, If you'll mind your
own business and ALLOW, me 20 mind mine.
ION. iris no Use coming the high and mighty over
me can tell Won, so don't Won try 10 0u. Besides.
nave something | want to speak to you about pI-
ticuary It's my opinion also that my lady
WHAT nonsense. surrey cried Gladys. coloring
IN 20 her eyebrows IN a second how dare yCu say
silch thing about mammal But light broke IN
upon her suddenly all the same and number al
nrtle uuuoticed circumstances flashed back at once
upon her memory with fresh food of meaning.
Nonsense not. It's true, know ana " mar
want io -Iv to you Is this II old NardOus o marry
either OF Won, 10 ought % Dee YOU, because That
wcuid save mamma az any rate from max ing fool
oi herself As iar a5 10 concerued 10 idtHcI
neither of Won did; Tor ! don see why e'turr Oh
you should want 10 marry Deg-7rlY fellow OF ID
tutor -ttiadYs5 eyes flashed Ire tnou-h aidon
Il decent enough chap in hi, way. if that was all
but no any rate. or other of yOus cock sure
~ do H. | don't want him for q stcp,ather so YOU
Soc as 1ar rs that goes back the lilly. Now, say
mo- more about II. but 90 10 bel Ike good glrl,
aud lnnd. whatever Won 40. yOu don't forget 20 say
your PRAYERS GO0d-nlLht. Uo girl.
wouldu r marry icl IOw Ike surrey rdil
CLAWS o. herself she went upstairs, uO, not II
hc was the premier duke OF Ln-Lnl.
For the next three weeks there was such comedy
fft|rr fsar.f ft..
was never seen before anywhere outside Of one of
Mr. GilDcrt's clover eAtr3vagaulas. Lady surrey
tried to Keep Gladys ia every possible way our OF
Harrys sight; while her brother tried m every
possible way 10 throw them together GLADYS on
ner part half avoided him. and yet grew somewhat
more confidential than ever whenever she happened
IN talk with him Harry did not feel quite SO
ntuch az home as before with Lady Surrey he had
an uucomtorta able sense that he had failed 10 acquit
himself he ought TO have done whl.e Lazy
Surrey had "a hall suspicion that she mad let him
see her nm ardg-d secret Little too early and too
openly. The natural consequence oi al inns was
that Harry east far more than before upon the
society OF Ethel MartIudale with whom he often
strolled about the shrubbery till very close upon
the dressing gong. Ethel did not come down TO
dinner-she dlned with the little ones at the family
luncheon: and that horrid CALLING distinction cut
Harry 10 the quick every nght "neh lac ielt her 10
20 in Every day. TOO, 10 began To dawn upon MN
more clearly that the va9de reason Wllcn Iu Atpt
him back IRON proposing to Lady surrey Oh thaV
evrutful night was Just thIs-that Ethel Martindale
had made herself "a certain vacant ulchc IN DIS uu-
furnished heart. She was dear. quiet uuassuning
little girl hut so very graceful 30 very tender. -
very womany. that she cTept INTO his affections
unawar6s without possibility OF resistance Inc
countess was beautiful and accomplished woman
OF the world with real heart left IN her still hat
NOT quite the sort of tender. shrinking elrsh heart
that Harry wanted. Gladys was lovely girl with
stately manners and "A wonderfully formed char
acter but too great and too redolent Of society Tor
Harry He admired them both. each IA her own /
wav but lie couldn't possibly have lived Lifeline
with either Bu' Ethel. dear, meek pretty, gentle
little Etne-well there, I'm not going 20 repeat Ior
Won all the raptUres that Harry went INTO over that
perenulal and ever relu, enescent theme. FOR. 10
Tell ,ou the truth about three weeks aiter the /
NIGHT wneu Harry did NOT propose to the countess /
BE- actually did propose TO tthrl MirllhHaie. anu