New-York tribune., 1884-10-26

Pend,e,on in the most afably courteous tones
could employ. az, ma.
avon have a very charming house, said. bnt
doubtless you are tired OF being told that very oo
vous truth" c.,
Twas at once dsarrayed. Nv outworks of refined
civility, so to speak. were promptly dehoiisno'
Mrs. Pendleton answered me WIN ia'no' ''o'0'
blow of her fan on my left arm 49,
@Oh. You get right along Mark Manhattan Sho
cried. with oviality that came little short ol evoR
inc nv awe. Don't you come any o your .r'dic-
,lous airs over me- talkin bout my house as II you
mint had the entr6e to It" tthe French word was
pronounced excellentlyl since you were youns'
ter IN frocks! But you've never come mere ''h W.
day. an Just want TO tell you. sir that thuh IL
pretty shabby You haventV
"Shabby - | faltered. "Really, Mrs Pendleton'
I..." >,
The fan wns once more applied to my person It
is my belief that now suffered on the right arinIp
stead of the left
"Oh, don'tl you realy Mrs .Pendleton me
amt goin' 10 stand IT. gDew that poor uc"''
darling mother o yours before you were pofh i.'' %
did, You see. give myself away. IA they put III
nowadays But It's true, an don't care. ! tel' NY
husband. tell him II he's satisfied with me ~ am,
guess amt afraid to pass for old woman any
where's An you ought to be ashamed, Mafk Man
haitian. not 10 have come here more. It's the same
old house I've always lived In since was married
and that's half a century ago. more or less,-so
don't say you didn't know II. Besides. fhis wash
ington sgnsfe house was mas long belOfehanh' ana
evptyt,oly knows where the old llnhsonbatk fahiily
mansion H. SO don't vbb put oh airs ana say YOU
tnnidnt find me I don't believe yon ever came w
saly's bail. when brought her 0ht at Delmonicvs
IN sevesty -Diae ,houeb m rive ~ " you sny you
Usts there fUt n was satb biz crush, shh got fh
t.u
yotL iint still aeytoU, s0n bstrHt bbah soeis'hes
Lt Ana van oppbi ~ haze ieuiemho,pd We, ~
yoa, mmbsla old friend iiesdes, wFie islaleh
tbe MaDhalisDs an The iiudsonbsnhs have hlwsFH
bean sort ~ aOuslDs, tbonpb vow biannb lst't ."
near ns 10 tho uraoeobufob Ons h, Oll l'oity Man
haitian. your great grandmother, married ''nhH",
bank, though, ., Now, Marx. look here h"nt
want 10 talk family guess its better not 10 ,''h
n, lust now when Tom. Dick and Harry are pnshlh
an scramblin 90 get INTO everything thatb gwen
It's nothin' nowadays but money, money money,
! d'carc, | get Just sick at the way things "io'
1Isre II mistake not. my right shoulder was vono
ncntly assaulted with the FAM "'Pon my wofd
don't know what Now-York is comm tol somc
people any Pm snobbish. I amt bit. Bot I'm OPP
posed to haviu regular rabblc IN place o the good
old stock. We're the good old stock. Don't You
ever forget that. We've got the real fistocratic
blood IN our veins Why. dclarc 70 goodness. Ia
rather sce my Sally corpse than have her marry
one o those young Wall Street upstarts that might
go 10 smash before tho honeynoons over.
There! There's Lord Ronald at last was 'fraid he
couldn't get here. Ie had to some horrid feller
from ont West who's been takn care OF ills cattle
ranch there. 'Xcuse me a minute"
Away darted Mrs Pendleton My glance followed
her in melancholy dismay. But nobody elses
glance so followed her. She was the lady who
ba mi |
less because of the devout snobbery which revered
her position and name. 1t was not to be questioned
that her deplorable style remained unnotlced. but
am really of the opinion that it always renamed
uncriticzed. She made people forget what she was
because of recollecting who she was.
| left her entertainment, that afternoon in com
pany with old Courtlandt Canal suppose Court
landt Canal must be sixty-fve II day. and yet lie
carries his years az he carries his jaunty, breezy
little gray moustache, nonchalantly and buoyantly.
He has been great beau in his time, and is still
very popular He is 1lppant, but he Is after man
ner WISE. lie KNOWS MS narrow world "eIi. ana ne
has so many neat, apt things to say about it that
,ou are sometimes almost led to regard it as wide
world.
"a very lovely woman, Mark" said
Courtlandt Canal to me. as we strolled along to-
gether. He answering bit of rather bold
scorn which had delivered concerning Mrs. Pedi
gree Peldeton. very loVely Womdo, anu
woman you should not sneer at"
put my hand on his arm. thin as cane and
hard $ nut. Good heavens said, " do you
not think her stupendousy vulgar ~
My companion frowned, and shook his head In
brisk negative. "Vulgart" he said, almost stam-
meringy. d" Why-why-damn it, Mark. do you
know that she was a Huds0nbl1k3"
"Oh, yes" replied dryly. " | am very well
awa are that she was a Hudsonbank. | ought to be-
"Vulgarr continued COurtlandt Canal, scan
ming my face with his din. senle, kindly eve.
"Not at a-not at all You young chaps got very
funny ideas. Mrs. Pendleton ahem belongs
we'll we'll say that she belongs to past genera
tion. She hasn't the modern way OF speaking 0i
acting Tl-pil grant you that And, indeed. now
that you remind me of it, Ishould say that ahem
looked at from a modern point Of view,
she IN gbt even he called . well. YES. ruiJdr But
then. my dear Mark, Mis-. Pendleton. reoOect. is a
lady who E"
lie paused laughed an he did So and ended his
sentence for him. "She is a lady who can DO vul-
gar with safety" said. E,R
Copyright, 1894, by Edgar FhvCeft