The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-08-03
SOME NEW AMERICAN STORIES
Produced by Combination Of Nswspa-
pe., and Published SeriaIIy.
in Parts, on Sundays.
Z = Z.
cspysisht, ian, by Henry James
All RIghts Reserved.
GEORGINA'S REASONS
By HENRY JAMRs.
Part Third.
CHAPTER v.

Part Third.
CHAPTER
Mrs. peroival proved very pretty. Il 10 more
gracious to begin with this declaration, instsad
Of saying that. In tho first place. she proved
very silly. 1t took long day to arrive at the
end OF her Stiffness. and the two ladies at Posi-
lippo. even after week had passed. suspected
that they had only skirted its edges. Kate
Theory had not spent half an hour In her com.
pany before she gave little private sigh Of re-
lief; she felt that q situation which had
promised to be embarrassing was now quite
clear. was even Of o primitive simplicity. She
would spend with her sister-in-la In tho COM
ing time. ono week in the year; that was all
that was MORALLY possible. II was blessing
that one could see exactly what she was. for in
that way the question settled ITSELF It would
have been much more tlresome II Agnes had
boon little less obvious; then she would have
had to hesitate and consider and weigh
ono thing against another. She WAS
pretty and silly as distinctly a. an
orange is yellow and round: and Kate
Theory would as soon have thought OF looking
to her TO give interest to the future as abe
would have thought OF looking to an orange to
impart solidity 10 tho prospect Of dinner. Mrs.
Percival travelled In the hope OF meeting her
ance with such Americans as she did meet and
for the purpose OF buying mementoes for her
relations. She was perpetually adding to her
store Of articles In tortoise she'll In mother-oi-
pearl In olive wood. in ivory. in Alagree. In
tartan lacquer. in mosaic; and she had Q col
lection OF Roman scarfs and Venetian beads,
which she looked over exhaustively every night
before she went to bed. Her conversation
bore mainly upon the manner In which she in
tended to dispose Of these Accommodations.
She was constantly changing about. among
each other. the persons to whom they were Ne
spectively to be offered. At Rome one OF the
FIRST things she said to her husband after enter
ing the Coliseum had been: Il guess will
give the ivory workbox to Bessie and the Ro-
man pearls to Aunt Harriet" She was always
hanging over tho travellers book at the hotelS
she had It brought up to her. with a cup Of
chocolate. rs soon as she arrived. She searched
Its pages for the magical name OF New York.
and she INDUCED In infinite conjecture % to
who the people were-the name was sometimes
only partial cue-who had inscribed 1t there.
What she most missed In Europe. and what she
most enjoyed. were the New Workers: when she
met Thorn she talked about the people In their
native city who had moved" and the streets
they had moved to. oh yes. tho Diapers are
going mp town. to Twenty-fourth street. and
tho Vanderdeckens are going to b In
Twenty-third street. right back Of them.
Ny uncle, Mr.. Henry Plat. thinks OF
building round there" Mrs. Percival
Theory was capable Of repeating statements
like those thirty times over-of lingering on
them for hours. She talked largely OF herself.
Other uncles and aunts. Of her clothes-pAst,
present. and future. These articles. In %.
pecial. filled her horizon; she considered them
with . complacency which might have led you
to suppose that she had invented the custom OF
draping the human form. Her main point OF
contact with Naples was tho purchase Of coral.
and all the while she was there the word set"
she used 1t as II every one would understand
fell with it's little fiat common sound upon
the ears Of her sisters-in-l law. who had no sets
OF anything. She cared little for pictures and
mountains; Alps and Apennines were not pro.
ductive OF New Workers. and 1t was difficult to
take an interest in Mudonnas. who hourlshed
at periods when apparently. there were no
fashions. or. at any rate. NO trimmings.
I speak here not only OF the impression she
made upon her husbands anxious sisters. but
OF the judgment passed on her The won't 30 far
as that. though It was not obvious how 1t mat.
tered to him) by Raymond Benyon. And this
brings me at jump II confess it's very email
one) to tho fact that he did. after all. GO back
to Posillppo. He stayed away for nine days.
and at the end Of this time Percival Theory
| he had shown his kinswomen- He went IN this
oentleman,s hot.I n ratnrn bja vis,t and
thera be found Miss Kata In bar hr,tb.r,. 49,
ting room. Hhe had coma IN nv anno,ntm.n,
from the villa and was going with ths otha,s
| TO seek the roval palace which sba had not
yet had an opportunity to inspect. 1t was pro-
posed mot by Kate). and presently arranged.
| that Capt Benyon should 60 with them. and
he accordingly walked over marble floors for
half an hour. exchanging conscious common.
places with the woman he loved, For this truth
had rounded itself during those nina days
| OF absence: he discovered that there WINS moth.
ing particularly sveet in bis life when once
|