Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-02-05

eny might have been the irate old gen
tleman whose slumbers were ruthlessly
disturbed at dawn, or the malicious Mis-:
Sandilands, but the recipient alway;
suspected Mrs. Brown. The newspaper
was enc of those gazettes of strangers
printed in the English language with
many typographical errors, which twin
kle for brief space in foreign capitals
only to suffer speedy extinction. Miss
BrowR's eye rested on the following par.
agraph:
LADY Pounce is among the latest ar
rivals at Rome. 1t will be remembered
she married the late Lord Harry Pounce
on his deathbed, and she lived in retire
ment for some years. She will soon
enter the welded state for the second
time, with the Russian Baron Nicholas
Rolgerowsky. The frequenters of the
hippodrome and summer circus will re-
gret the loss of the peerless amazon,
Mary Ann Hodges, better known as
Mademoiselle Celestine. Her daring feat
of leaping through five loops while rid
| ing bareback, has never been equaled.
Lady Pounce is sojourning at the Pen
sion Brown"
"She is circus rider" shrieked the
three younger sisters, in chorus.
When the amazon returned the Misses
Brown went to meet her in solid phal-
anx, with outward display of lady-like
dignity and inward trepidationA young
man dsrted up stairs in advance of her
and inquired for Mrs. Sandilands.
How are you, Tom ?" called out Lady
Pounce in loud and cheerful tones.
He WINGED at the recognition, but re
moved his hat.
Surprised to see me here, eb? Well,
don't know how 1 have put up with
this poky little hole myself. Your grand
mother is over the way, my boy. Give
her my best regards, child, and tell her
have never led you astray, although
you did back loser once at GoodwoOd,
and tried to jump your horse after me
on that Hungarian hunting field one day.
Tai tap
Thanks" stammered the youth, pre-
pairing to depart.
She laughed, half defantly, half scorn-
fully.
"Houp-la' she said, and snapped her
riding whip as he disappeared.
The Misses Brown confronted her.
Madame" began the eldest sister.
LadyPounce yawned behind her gaunt-
let.
al say have the servants packed up ?"
she interrupted. 81 am going to Naples"
"I fear-we fear there has been some
mistake in your coming at all, said Miss
Brown in freezing accents.
Lady Pounce stared at them with her
grey eyes.
"Oh, no, 1 have been made comforta-
BILE, and your people have really done
very well, she replied.
The Misses Brown were petri6ed into
silence.
Lady Pounce departed. She married
the Russian nebleman the following
summer.
How can the emotions of the unfortu+
nate gentlewOmen be described2 Cha>
grin and modification rendered their
nights sleepless and their days misera-
BILE. With the morbid self elf-consciousness
which exaggerates personal importance,
they believed that the finger of scorn
pointed to their hitherto irreproachable
abode, and tortured themselves by i'm
agining derisive glances directed toward
the balcony haunted by the late heroine
of the sawdust. Perhaps the gentlemen
who visited her in billyeock bats and
waistcoats much plaided were clowns in
disguise and the harlequins off duty. AS
the Misses Brown shrank into obscurity.
oppressed by these reflections, the rival
pension of Mrs. Brown frightened daily.
A current of animation, and even gaiety,
pervaded the premises of the odious per-
son with a double chin. Each evening
strains of music greeted the ear, and the
giddy maidens from the British Isles and
America could be seen dancing in the
gilded salons, while their doting MAN.
mas looked on in fatiitous appreciation.
The cavaliers were officers of the garri-
son, those graceful and fascinating he
rOes understood to be in search of Anglo
Saxon brides with suitable settlements.
There were bersaglieri from Lombardy
and Piedmont, in uniform of black and
red, artillerymen in gray with green fac
ings, and cavalrymen respondent with
gold embroideries. The blonde of the
north met the velvet-eyed southern with
Greek and Spanish blood in his veins on
that common field of speculation, the
dominion of Mrs. Brown, who took the
world as she found it, in an easy going |
fashion, and let people have their own |
way. Before spring several matches
were made. An American school girl |
of Is danced into matrimony with dash
ing AouSOhoue, OOoobhk AuAAOU Soo1AC |
in one of the Piedmontese valleys and !
his regulation pay. The young couple
were given unlimited Venetian glass and |
Paris bibelots. and promised, somewhat
million or so in the future
The Scotch widow of Dundee MARINA
lsde manufacturer plighted her troth to
a Neapolitan marquis, captain of the
whilea blue-eyed maiden from
enabled Siciian major to
retire to the realms of the sulphur king
once more.
The Misses Brown were witnesses of
all this unseemly revelry through the
lace window curtains, and marveled to
behold old Mrs. Sandilands trotting about /