Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-04
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THE WAYS0F THE WORLD.
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BY JUN1Us HENRI BROWNE.

"That's more than anybody can do,
Oscar. Kinmont says that he's retired
from the world of pleasure to reflect and
compose. He has a number of novel
theories to develop"
she always has-hasn't he q
, 20 Yes. Kinmont ia an unconscious hum
bug. There is no such work as he is con-
tinually talking of. He is forever thinking
about writing, and he never writes. I've
learned through Rivers that Kiamont
hasn't page of MS But I'm willing to
believe that he believes he has filled reams
of paper with the profoundeat disquisitions.
He's been very much in love with Elise
Northrup until recently. But learning that
she's engaged, he's fallen back on the i'm
aginary Philosophy
" Is that arch coquette actually engaged ?
And to whom"
&c You would never guess, Oscar. To
De Witt Yardley, who has always Dragged
and still brags of his knowledge of women. !"
els it possible, Archer? That's the pen
atty of Boosting have always thought
Miss Northrup both shallow and selfish. !"
She's all that and more. She's mean,
even cruel. While she prattles about SEN
timent and fine souls, she abuses poor wo-
men who've done work for her, because
they want their money. She'll pay three
hundred dollars for making new gown,
and then cheat her laundress out Of ten
cents
"If Yardley has any deadly enemies, his
marriage ought to glut their hstred."
s'After he has been husband few years,
Oscar, he can read Dante's Inferno, with
new sympathy. He might have escaped,
too, imagine if Elise's father hadn't sus-
tanned heavy losses. You know that
Northrup has been a great politician, and
his associations have debauched him. He's
been in ring of plunderers, and some of
them have lately turned upon him and
swindled him badly. He has, under the
circumstances, no redress, and his connec-
ton with the ring, has, learn, seriously
injured his legal practice. He's been act
ing for years against his convictions; he
has Willingly espoused the wrong side. and
now he is reaping his reward"
$50 the fair Elise, fearing financial
crash, secures Yardley, who has ample ex-
pectations."
Precisely, Goodwin. If Elise's popu-
larity.seeking father had been half SO
shrewd in his own interest as his gushing
daughter is in hers, he wouldn't have fallen
into bis present straits. But another
equally oaeer marriage is soon to take
place"
Who's the next victim?"
flames Rivers. He is to marry Miss
Grayson next December.
Miss Ruth Grayson? You don't mean
her, Archer"
certainly do
Why she was furiously opposed to
matrimeny, except in very few cases.
She advocated individuality for women
above anything else, and declared thatmat-
rimony destroyed individuality"
That was her position when you quilted
the country. But few months have
wrought radical change in her opinions.
met her the other day at the Profile
House, and L should not have recognized
bor f-o,,, I,ar ,,1aaob 0La nop, holds Al ~
a woman is not half woman who remains
single that almost any marriage is prefer
able to ceEbacy. 1 felt tempted to remind
her of the recent past, but l heroically re-
sisted the temptation"
at wouldn't have done any good, my
dear doctor. She would have shown that
circumstances, not she, had changed. Miss
Grayson is very bright and very well read.
and has also a deep and passionate nature,
as it seems to me-"
':She has. She will make an excellent
wife, and Rivers is lucky man. He used
to think her very disagreeable- could
| hardly endure her. Doubtless he told her
that he disapproved her +; hurt her vanity !;
gained her dislike, and her dislike, under
favoring conditions, turned to affection.
The hatred of woman is the forerunner
of her love. Secure her hatred, and her
love will come in due time"
Chow wise you are, Archer! 1t is you
who ought to write Philosophy Of
Life"
"Don't be ironical, Oscar. l know that
L am an interminable babbler. 1 have so
many opinions that their expression ex-
hausts my judgment, and leaves me to the
mercy Of circumstances. Come with me
down TO Long Branch. I'm at the Elberon,
which is quiet You would like to be off
to Newport, of course; but Barigues is
just now in Canada, as 1 happen to know,
and won't be back for several days. He's
been spending most of the summer at the
Ocean House, and has been within three.
quarters of mile of the Roydens. He's
going back there, believe. You want to
see him, imagine, at the earliest mo.
ment."
eyes; wrote to Margaret, as We were
coming up the bay-.he letter is already
posted-that should, if possible, have an
interview with Barigues before seeing her
that hoped in very short time to rid her
of him forever"
81 fancy, Oscar, that you and she have
ceased to hold the relation of simple
friendship. You've probably thrown off
the disguise and revealed yourselves as
lovers"
''rm very fond of her, and think
she-she- likes me"
"Modest youth! 1 shouldn't wonder if
she did-a little"
ITO be Continued.)