The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-05
MISS LIRkIPiP'S LOVERS.
lChambers Journal.

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 Miss iirnpip had d pretty face and hse thousand year not 10 speak of ex- pectatons. Pretty faces are common enough. even in these days af agricultural depre>ssea and stagnan; trade but girl with hse thousand a year IS rarity and girl with five thousand year and pretty face m the bargain Is a positive phenomenon, and as such, cannot fail to be greatly admired by number of more or less eligible young men with taste for beauty ot the most substantial kind. Even middic-agcd bachelors awake from then habstual indifference when. on being introduced to lovely lass of two and twenty, they are conscious that the possessoT of a considerable fortune stands before tsem for, although money is ,hc root of all evil, Il is a root which most people very willingly undertake the risk of cultivating
 Since Lydia LrrIplp was thus beautiful and thus noh, It IS not surprising that she had moi only admirers men who dared to wish uncertain things but lovers, too men who had the presumption 10 hope. it IS true that Lydia encouraged none of them, toT she was quite sa,ished ,o live A, home with her father, General lirripip. m bruton street Grosvenor Square. and to ride in Rotten Row in the morning and to dnve Tn the park in the afternoon. But unfortunately. young men do not re- quiTe encouragement nay, in certain affairs the less encouragement they re- oeive the greater their persistency be- comes 1, and considering that healthily- Constituted young women seldom. If ever. give any encouragement to young men. Inc persistency oi the latter in ,he tace of alarming dif,cnliies IS a ina,,rr on which all of us may heartily congratulate our selves. Indeed, but for the persistency. who knows whether the world would to round
 IL was the height of the London season. and Lydia Erripip wen, with her father one evening to great ball al the coun. tess ot CarnaSy's. Everybody was there -eseryoosiy, tha, IS. of rank and fashion and ere she had been Tn the brightly lighted rooms for five minutes, Lydia was engaged for all the dances on the pro. gramme. Now, to mos, of her partners she vas only engaged for single valse er potka, but, for old acquaintance sake. CT tor snxne other reason, she allowed three gentlemen to take two dances each It was no doubt very indiscree, for her to do SO. But in one case at leas, ii was also very good-naiured of he-. for she permitted old Sir Pertinax Popinjay. who as every ose kaew, was far too stiff and gooiy to move about properly. to put down his name tor the only two sets of iancers. Sir Portinax was effusiyelv prate- tui. and smiled his sweetest upon her as he returned her programme and Lydia, instead of regretting her kindness, felt thoroughly rewarded by seeing that she was giving pleasure to the grsy-haired oarones, who thirty years before had been noted dandy, but who now struck her as being simply prosy old fellow, whom very few girls would be likely to dance with. Lydia ofher favored part ners ~ere Mir. Horace treake-a young artist who had that year for the first time exhibited al the Royal Academy-an MT Merton Muriey, man who had no profession and no occupation, and who, If As had private income, derived i, nom a source nor generally known even to his friends
 In this world many strange coin- cidences happen. Two chemists have been known to make exactly the same discovery on the same day; and two astronomers have claimed to catch the sight q . new comet at almost the same moment. his not. therefore, incredible that, while dancing these six dances with her three favored partners. Lydia casually mentioned 10 each q them that upon the tollosinx evening her father was going to take the chair as the annual meeting of the Society sf the Encouragement of Cosd-~aaes BasAing oa the Continent: that sAe vas not going, but would be at home that she wished that girls were AhAe 6ke mep b amuse themselves and