Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-02

lady'S reserve by the usual observations
about the weather, ratified on so pleas
antly that Mary quite forgot that she
had not been introduced to him, and
was emboldened to say, with little
blush:
81 am so much obliged to you for
your kindness this afternoon; had you
not given up your seat we should have
all had to stay
81 was very glad to be of service to
you. Do you stop here long?'
| "A week at least, 1 believe"
&c suppose you have private rooms
here. and you viii disappear after din
nerp'
son, no; my father likes to see
strangers, and the coming and going
he thinks it a change after home life."
Very true" answered the gentle
| man, with look of content on his face
that was not lost upon Mary. She be-
gins to feel that the Lake holiday prom
ises to be at least as agreeable as she
had expected. Women are quick, very
| quick, to read mems thoughts when
turned toward themselves-even such
shy little Hampstead maiden as Mary,
just released from the governes<'s thrall
dom, and still suffering good deal
| from repression at the hands of her
mother and sisters. She steals look at
him while he is engaged with his entree.
| He is not handsome; tall, with black
mustache, flashing dark eyes and impos-
| ing manner; only keen sunburnt face is
his, with small black whisker, and with
eyes bright enough, but of no particular
color. But if his clothes are old and
shabby, he seems at home in them, and
perfectly at ease with his company; she
is certain that he is a gentleman, mot be-
cause he gave up his seat to her, but by
hundred tiny proofs. And she enjoys
her first hotel dinner very much, and
wonders whether the same seats will be
reserved for them every evening
So when she rises and he bows, Mary
| is inclined to view the world through
rose-colored spectacles. Not so her
mother. Mrs. Salway has, during dim
ner, been talking to an old gentleman
who CHANGED to sit next to her and
whom she does not know from Adam !;
but nevertheless on the road to the
drawing-room she puts before Mary the
enormity of talking to a gentleman to
whom she had not been introduced, and
| begs her to behave herself like Agnes
and Laura, who, having been walled in
from such approaches by those heavy
flanking parties, MIR. and Mrs. Salway,
have had no chance of SHINING in the
same way. Her father is instructed to
see that Mary is not allowed to outlie the
party another evening; and when the
Objectionable young gentleman s'actu-
ally has the audacity, " to quote Mrs. Sal
ways words, to enter the drawing-room
in his knickerbockers, and looks inquir-
ingly round as if for some particular
person, he finds Mary penned in cor
ner by her mother and sisters, who re-
gard him, and especially his neither gar
] ments, with looks in which wonder and
scorn are finely blended. That richly
dressed matron having set the example,
he finds himself rather coolly received
in other quarters, and soon retires from
| the scene in search, if / may make a
guess, of the smooking-room.
| But strict reserve in the club-like life
of tourists hotel is difficult to main
tain. If you do not meet your bugbear
| Cor tace Uersa, for it is more polite to
| suppose that you, reader, stand in Mary's
place than in her eldersO upon the
coach to Ullswater, you will do so most
| probably next day on that going to Con-
iston; if not in the drawing room, then
in that favorite resort the verandah; if
not at breakfast, then at dinner, or lunch,
or lighting a bedroom candle, or on the
| steamboat, you will be sure to find him
or her opposite to you. So it was with
our young friends, and Mary suffered in
consequence. The sisters persisted, as
sisters will in such a case, that Mary en-
couraged him, but l believe that he
needed small encouragement. Now and
then, too, he suffered a little; Mrs. Sal
way would be rude to him, and the girls
overlooked and sighted him with a
naughty contempt that was certainly
felt more by Mary than by the person
for whom it was chiefly intended. Mrs.
Salway had made up her mind that he
was commercial traveller, and was not
chary of stating her belief; SO that the
young fellow without black coat came
quite uncounscionsly to be considered a
rat her Objectionable member of the lit
tie community; wolf-and worse, a
low class of wolf.
This had gone on for more than a
week, when the Salways went by coach
to Coniston, with the intention, as far as
the younger ones were concerned, OF
ascending the Old Man. 1t was bright
and gloriously fine morning, one OF
those SO sparingly granted amid this
beautiful scenery. The party were in
the highest spirits; the careful mother
had begun to contemplate changing
their plans, and running away from that
vulgar young man, who had last even
ing crowned his other enormities by
drinking beer out of pewter at the
table d'hote dinner; but now she con
graduated herself on his absence. II
must be confessed Mary was little dull
no doubt the scenery was beautiful, and
her sisters were prepared to join in any
amount of loudly-expressed admiration
of it as they swept past Esthwaite
Water and over Coniston Pass and
through the thickly-wooded slope that.
like a shrubbery, surrounds Coniston
Water, and forms so rich contrast to
the bare, gigantic sides of the Old Man
But she frightened up directly.
81 declare, now" cried Mrs. Salway,
as they came in sight of the village no.
tel, eff there's not that dreadful young