New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-06

MISS Arnott.. she mas accepreu," nanung the
letter across to him.
sOh. that girl saw her driving through town
Yesterday; / thought II was circus" he salu con
temptuously, as he helped hismelf to some game
PIE. Nevertheless, he was quite as much lntefestea
in Miss Arnott as his mother; but nothing dlsgus1ls
you more than your own sentiments carlcatuIeu,
just its likeness to a man makes mohkeJ
nglneso so repulsiye -. o4ho, awbot do
you mean ~ ,n
The whole turnout was so gorgeous ana tne
girl herself was in keeping with 1t. she WASH
exactly in tights and spangles, but very much 'n"'
kind OF thing, You know" -,
aWhat was she like p asked his mother eagerly.
Rather Jolly sort, | shouid say WISH,
mother you wouldn't let the tea sue" ln'o
ashe has seven thousand pounds year if she has
penny piece, replied his mother IN her olssus'
with his seeming indifference.
"Shell want it ali. he retorted dryly.
"Oh, nonsense Hammond: Mrs Pollard tod me
she was greatly admired in Bath" :, Path for
She couldn't have been ad mred In Bath; Ior
she hadn't penny when she lived there he
answered with a short laugh.
"Well. she was. greatly" his mother went on 10
saw. with a wooden Inconsistencies OF the sar-
casn. al do wish. Hammond you would MAKE
Yourself agreeable to her at the pcnc she Is one u
the best matches in England"
. us time enough 20 think about it when she
throws me the handkerchief" he replied careessly.
what handkerchief r. asked his mother perpleX-
eddy. But Hammond was burned IN the note WHICH
lie had taken up to reread. 80
:" see she's going to drive herself there. he said
rage, that believe she'd drive to bed in it, If she
could. Who is this Miss POnsonbyT T.
She's a companion or chaperOn she had 10 nave
some one to 90 ABOUT with, you know"
oh. sheep-dOg She'll have big lot oil BARKING
to do, | reckon"
With the exception of this enigmatic remark.
Hammond made further reference TO the
subject beyond saying casually as he Quilted the
room, Let us have something decent to drink this
time, mother; even the women couldn't STAND the
champagne ut the last
Mrs. MurgatrOyd had frugal mind even when on
pleasure bent, and so, III sooth, had HAMMOND
himself He never spent except on hlms"II-a
single farthing he could help; and he was at least
as anxious his mother TO double his already large
fortune by a wealthy marriage lie was an only
and spoiled son. intensely SELFISH and tor a young
man extraordinarily avariciOus But for his avarce
he would have quilted the profitable business left
him by his father and have gone south y; LOT ne
mad an extreme and absurd contempt Tor his own
place people and trade. All he had or was that was
worth ANYTHING he owed TO Yorkshire and to trade !
but to hear HIM talk you would imagine he had
dropped from another planet down 10 " the smoke
and stir of this dim spot" Mlllsborough, TO ma
himself in uncndurably uncongenial surroundings
His cOncet. egOtiSm and mseusIblty to tne
feelings of Others allowed him to express freely IN
his biting wav his scorn of the miserable duckhngs
he happeuCd-as a swan-tO have been hatchcd
among, which the Killings not unnaturalY
resented. Hammond thereiOre-hls wealth not
withs anding-was exceedingly unpopular, and his
unpopuarity intensified his desire To seek the civil
lied south where alone he would be nj home and
appreciated. Now, if he could marry TINS heiress
he might bring himself at last to cut the concern
and the county" as he was so continually threat
enlng to do.
Besides, for all his sneers to his mother-whose
naked and fussy matchmaking eXa-perated hih
into apparent OPPOSITION he really liked greatly
the glimpse no had had yesterday Of the girl. He
rather admired a bouncing barmdid, hurId style oi
beauty such as one would have supposed, hrs
exquisite refinement would revolt against