Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-09-06

In your country
You'll find nothing green las We
say IN America, count answered
Fairwealher, With an attempt ut good
nature. Then remembering an en-
gagement, no walked of mattering to
himself The fellows poor, He'd
like some Yankee money. Sorry !
introduced him. Dora's a beauty
A few days later when Won Held
called on the Warren family, he spoke
Of his intended trip, whereupon Mr..
Warren said; We'll, We can't brag
Of castles, but I'll show you mills
We shall be at our seaside place At
Rockporl the lst of June, Come there,
and stay with US
Won Held explained, while thanking
him, Il 30 to America to crafty the
longing Of years to enjoy young civil
ization to find something more natur-
al, more vigorous, than our old type OF
humanity
Aler the German had gone. War
rem nodded knowingly to his wife with {;
Talk TO the marines. I've found out
all about that count. Ancient family,
splendid education, nice old castle, but
poor actually hasn't means to keep
up the place.
Hes u gentleman, remarked Dora.
Whats that, missi said Warren, in
the tone, half banter aud half reproof,
yet wholly pride aud affection, with
which he alway addressed this hand
some creature he had the luck to call
daughter. Whats that, missT A
gentleman. is he? Well, We don't
want him, do WEI Let him keep his
|
aristocraey, chT
There is something in birth and
breeding, papa. Fairwcathcr, with all
his money and all his boasting, can't
impress one rs this quiet German does.
Impress? Whom does he impress,
miss, ch? Me or your
sOh, have your joke, papa; but you
know what l mean perfectly Dora
was never embarrassed about men.-
40 an American belle, she had too
long been surrounded by admiror, to
treat their existence otherwise than a
matter of course. So she Strengthened
her ichu in front of the glass quite
coolly, and met her own reflected eyes
with n calm acceptance of their limpid
beauty, that was something more dig
nifcd yet more vain than vanity itself.
When she had left the room, Mr..
Warren said to his wife, Sarah, do
you suppose our Dorry is taken with
the foreign fellow"
Mrs. Warren had II strong claim to
gentility, based upon being naturally
not given to much talking, and being
artistically barricaded in the best of
black silk, which her husband thought
the clothing most suited to her years
and her estate, and always bought it
himself, in the heaviest grades. She
answered, slowly, Il think, Samuel,
our Dora is fit for any society, and
could grace any European title
so do |, Sarull--so do |. There's
no discount on Dorry; but the question
is, is this chap worthy of her, and will
she be likely to accept him?'
'Somehow l think she would. |
never heard her say as much in praise
of any man before.
All right, Sarah; I've got money,
and I'm not going to stand in Dorry's
light. She shall marry just whom she
I;kos or course I'd rather she didn't
fancy noblemau. I'm republican to
the backbone. Still, if it is Dorry's
whim. why
Don't make believe to me, Samuel,
Mrs. Warren gravely reproved him,
You want Dorry to marry high just as
much as l do.
Now Sarah he laughed, good
humorcdly, don't you get too sharp.
Then he kissed her, and whistled a
tune. Just before doing off to sleep
that night he asked Sarah, can Dor
ry speak in this counts own language!
All his family might not speak English
as well as he does
Dora speaks German, her teacher
says, well enough to talk to the En-
pcror himself
All right, Sarah l thought so, but
was not certain, and he fell TRANQUILITY
asleep.
About the middle of the following
June, when the family were home from
their European tour, and settled at their
Rockport place, Mr.. Warren anncunc-
ed one day at the dinner table, 'I've a