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street, or some such thing!"
The other laughed heartily. "I sup
pose having girls of ones one makes all
the difference; l don't mind their chat
ter and fun it is rather pleasant than
otherwise. If this young woman is any
thing like her mother was, she ought
to be the most charming creature in the
world"
"The very thing 1 wanted to ask you,
exclaimed Gen. Biddulph. Whom did
DAILY marry?"
"She was the only daughter of Bruno
you remember him out in Cashmere.
1t must be-let me see, continued Col.
Goodwin: leaning back in his chair and
musing; ut must be about twenty or
twenty~one years ago since l saw her.
She was the most lovely girl, with a
face like an angels"
The generals face frightened.
"Daly fell a hopeless victim, and in
return / think she loved him passion
ately. He was nearly distraugbt when
she died. The girl must be just the
age her mother was when j first met
her."
The generals hand stole UNCONSCIOUS
~ to his gray mustache. "And you say
Mrs. DAILY was very lovely?" he asked,
glancing for the first time at the mirror.
The breakfast had certainly refreshed
him.
"Veryl" emphatically.
"Ah, well, perhaps it may not be so
bad. bruce DAILY was a good-looking
man."
HE was, indeed, responded Colonel
Goodwin. "Let me know when the girl
arrives; L should like to see her, so I
am sure would my wife. Ifshe gets be-
yond you, pack her off to Combewall to
play with my girls"
Thanks. Are you going to Spen-
GERS? 1 will come with you; I must
speak to him about my new mare"
Somehow the news crept out. When
Gen. Biddulph took his stroll in tire
park a few days later, he was greeted by
hints and tender inquiries after his
ward. Fair faces beamed on him. and
lips murmured kind promises to
take the young stranger in hand and
show her life. He began to shine with
reflected glory. Miss DAILY, accord
to Col. Godwin's authority, must be
a beauty, and-this was gently whispered
1t was well known bruce DAILY had
dollars collected in goodly numbers.
The ne'er-do-wells and out of-pocket
young men exhibited an extraordinary
consideration for the generals welfare.
They were always dropping in upon
him Notwithstanding th5
grimness of Scott and the unmistakable
frigidity of their welcome. Every
m morning Gen. Biddulph eagerly
searched his letters in quest of some |
dispatch informing him of the arrival of
ward. and he called twice a day re-
gular at Charges street only to receive
the intelligence that Mrs. Comyns and
Miss DAILY had not vet arrived"
A week had elapsed since he received
Maj. Days letter, and still no tidings
had come. Contrary winds or recall
citrant engines had delayed the P. & o. |
with its fair freight, and the general
beginning to be uneasy. At last
one morning he was grati1ied when he
called at the house by the announce
ment that 'the ladies were expected
that evening"
Now that the actual moment was APP
preaching when he should come face to
face with the much-thought-of, much
talked-of ward, he found himself actu-
ally rvo and excited. Scott. who
had received the news with stolid silence,
gazed with establishment at the specta-
Gle of his master, fdgeting-actually
1idgeting-from the window to the arm
chair, like the veriest school boy. The
generals mind during the unusual mi
grations presented a brilliant panorama
of future success. He saw a vesta of
long social triumphs in which he shared
largely. Then he fell to thinking what
the queen of all these joys would be
like; tall and stately, small and fragile;
blue, gray, brown, black ewes; complex
ion as fair as a lily or dusky as the pro-
verbal berry a Cleopatra or a Gretch-
en-, soft as a ball of down or sturdy
as the Morse daughters. One thing, at
any rate, he was certain of: she would
be young. With life's spring dawning
on her cheek, how could she be aught
but charming? 1t is wonderful how a
many years and had so much experience,
could have made this mistake. Pigs
beauty is all very well; but youth is
more than often connected with indif-
erent skins, lengthy limbs and gawky
forms generally DESTROYS of wriggling
out of their garments. His wishes in
this case were father to the picture, and
he ended by starting to welcome the
traveller with the personifcation of fe-
male lovliness before his eyes.
He knocked ,briskly at the door in
Charges street, and smiled benignly on
the man who opened it and preceded
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