New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-27

cousins and still others | had met III '"o" NOV
Now \ ork season. of the previous year.
oh. YES IL was very gay last wih'''' ""' |
moi ~ hurried Miss Williams after Po'",'""e
from mo AN alluson TO the social R'S''r, ~ ,,
month. 81 heard good deal about all tha' wa
..t,,. an And ro,v that remember, heard OF
van OH YES cf courSc-Carr' ''""''
lola mo thnt she led the german with you 81 ''',
orct belmont 70 ball given Ivy the ostr"hu'l' '"''
year. 49,, .,,,.i, If ,ninc0
Corrie Houston IL also a sort of COUSIN o' n,'"'
1 .oid | sooctimcs feel an actual u''"u'"'
nj contrasting the immensely oil my No" ''"
cousinship. ,;,., a I
els shcY Oh. yes Now that YOU mention IT,
think that she told me So carrie n"' SUI"
lovely time, saw her the neAt u"J' o"o 'o'' Wv
Well. mamma"
That We'll mamma" on the part oil poor r"n"1
Williams acted for me ms "a burst of revelation
"Mamma had lust approached her daughter Dy
n sort of dctour did not soc the newcomer uil''
she had made her presence quite unaNohanie'
She was a lady of about forty. She did not weal
a worsted shawl; indeed the dark plaInne'S OF her
carb looked as if even so commonplace an eli-
bellishment would have seemed unduly iahtaS'c
there. Sho had face that bore no resemblance TO
her daughters except in certain vague expression
about the eyes which made 1t possible 10 cohccu'
that she might be Fanny's mother II was 'nc
nearest approach to perfectly square race th''
ever recolect seeing; either temple and either jaw
lust missed describing an actual point OF coIhcl'
The chin was 50 unnecessarily long that you won
dercd whether some enthusiast on the origin OF
species conld not give it distinct scientific reason
for existing. But tho whole sallow and high
checked yisago was wlthai so melancholy that IL
nut me in mind of a faded omnibus horse, when mas
all sorts of secret grudgcs against It's driver us plI
and the extensive patronage OF Its particular lHt'
soon found that Mrs. Williams was rs much dis
satisfied and diStraite AS had rapidly predicatcd OF
her.
"Oh, yes. Mr.. Manhattan" she said to me- after
Fanny had made us known to one another dare
say you do think the hon is nice Young lolkS u'u-
ally like hops +; did when was girl
II flashed across me what an abnormal, equine
girI tbe lady would have made. Her voice seemed
TO complete my parallel; it was a kind Of doIeIui'
wbinny But It's complaint had no trace OF weak
ness: it was querulous without being at al
! natbctic You at once perceived that 1t could re-
buke no less than lament that it could scold, exact
threaten or satrlze all in the same uguhrious Key
And it was very nasal voice indeed; ii was Ia ror
pl,uracheuse TO perfection, pcaling from decidedy
! American organ.
Mrs Williams now looked at her daughter ana
| proceeded "Fanny, here, thinks 1t elegant Jun To
prance and galliysnt round tins room sir ana pay
! attention 10 HeT pun ma u II woo 80
Kamskat,ica" Il give the lady's pronunciation Just
as it left was about to say her nostrlls :" wei
7 snose it's half my fault aud half her poor dead
| mas We sent her to a fashnublc school-laddom
| Iaureur's where she was taught moro ffchch
dummcry than you can shake stick at. and made
20 consider her swell gir-friends of more conse-
orencc N her own flesh and blood
! looked at Fanny | expected TO soc her bathed
in bushes of modification ut tins sh0cklngly Ill
| bred speech But her color had not varied IN the
| least | thought. however that her smile, Whicl
had notably decpcneh, hid n positive distress anu
that she had made IT both deepen and brighten from
! this cause.
"Whv, mamma" she said. very amiahy, " sup
| rnsed Won were having pleasant chat with Mira.
| Todd You seemed TO bc getting on charmingN TO-
| gcther'
I" IIumphw sad Nlrs Williams 81 guess yo'
| know hy this time Frances that | ihlrk tla'
woman about the vulgarcst piece I've COM" arr'S
in vcart .Why. shes always Dragging bout h''
honsr in town an her servants. Watts she do'nN
bcrc nt 'lcycn dollars y week, thou. ri like to know
| She -shc-,ots mo di on cite. that woman do'' VA
yon w'i.kci on an lctt mo with hor 'c1usc yon wa
| n,tcA bv that little W'ippotHnpppcr ot u Wutn hir
| mama Co dance tho gallup, lut thtin tho way II D.
! sipIys" continued Mra, W)lRw7 nuldonN h'
drosainp hcrsof e. me, " lm nobody az ''' IN
ho dirt unlor that gnlb feet I dop't care IL ln
tnlkm' before stranger or NOT II hhon m"iIIh"'
she deserves to be- mortified iddh't want 90 come
Ia this holo. l wanted % 30 TO Laho NaiIpor lh'
summer" t. Mdirpao" was presumably M"ho
men, hut no. Fan Thought It was CONNIE"
there Pyc got lots of lady friends there, sir-yc'
Frances. I'll Just tcI the gentleman; don't care
lit; Won can like il or lump it. just as yon choos'
Pm tired q beng made mere s'oolpgeon or tn
that's wat am made by that girl! Pm sat upo
by her from morning till night. It's ma, do tins
and ma don't do that >hfH never mtrc. dooc
, her mother to living soul! I'm to be showed on
q sight and KEEP IN the background. arags! All In
good for is to be alluded to rs Maumaah OF dc,
, mammaah' when she's with her swell friends oi
don't care sir, if my blood up. lrs h0 blood
she is ashamed of it. It.
, 81 am not ashamed of it," said Fanny Williams
, for the first time making any Interruption "No
know | am not
have never seen such perfect self-control. in al
, NV dealings either with men women, as no.
! saw in this young girls face and manner. lie
smile had wholly gone; her face had taken h"
and keeny weary look; almost imagined thci
was "A CLEAN of despair IN the gaze that she lnoh'n
I tarly turned upon my own. But her restraint n'
I eonipoi,e her command Of everything like angr
r resentment or even annoyance, Nas something irul
1 magnificent. felt myself-by a swift intuition
the presence Of a brave, splendid little creature
t She met her mothers sptcfnl glance with on
a calm and soft. Then she stretched out her Han
i and laid it lightly my arm.
/ "Will you come wIt!me somewhere else 81
i falteTcd.
4 gave her my arm instantly. II was one Of IL
n most calamity protective impulses that have eve
( had and / don't think am backward IN glVH
4 help " here believe a good woman needs If.
r We both saw Mrs. Williams rc,oil little viii
f we move away-as i this departure were q crow
4 mo insolencc from her abomiuabc offspring. 81
f wo moved away. nevertheless, and suppose that
was responsible for changing our quarters from ii
C hot, ugly little ballroom few minutes later TO
a long low piazza. charming enough now, whaiey'