The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-05-08

under the disadvantage Of being pain fully shy. She colored deeply when Hubert bowed to her, raised her blue eyes for one instant, and then dropped them; nor could he get her to look at him again until the end of the evening, though he tried hard to do SO
 Mrs. Ogle, on the other hand, looked at him the whole time, and her looks were far from friendly She attacked him presently with series of sharp, staccato questions. Had he just arrived from Russia? When had he started? He had really come straight to Brigh- ton, then, to see his uncle? What be- fore seeing his mother even? " But of course you will go to her tomorrow? No2 Dear me how very strange!
 Mrs Ogle's hostility was not to be disarmed by soft speeches, and Miss Ogle would not open her lips, so that it would have been rather difficult to keep up the conversation if there had been any necessity for doing so. But that necessity never existed when Lord Shepton was present From the soup to the dessert he poured forth deliber- ate unceasing monologue upon the cities of ancient Greece, subject which he had recently made his own, and as to which he was full of information, yet not so full but that he could hold q lit tie more, and hoped to fill up the inter- stices ere long. It transpired that his honeymoon was to be spent in the Peloponnesus, and that he had post poned his wedding until the month of January so as to visit that interesting country at healthy season of the year.
 You will be starved, you will be de- voured by tieas and you will very likely be carried off by brigands," Hubert re- marked
 But Lord Shepton waved these draw backs away. Professor Schulfuchs has travelled through the entire district" said he, and has published a work very foolish and superficial work upon what he is pleased to term his dis coveries. Where Schulfuchs has gone hatter myself that l shall be able to go
 Professor Schulfuchs was, for the time being Lord Shepton's b1e aojre There was generally one learned per sonage or another who enjoyed that privilege, and whom his lordship de lighted to expose and castigate in the pages of a learned review He had an article very nearly ready for the demo- lition of Schulfuchs now, and after din ner Hubert heard all about it. Then, too, it appeared that the duties of the future Lady Shepton had already been assigned to her.
 Ellinor, my dear said the old man, 1 have no doubt that Hubert will ex- cuse Us if we now proceed to our literary lahors. The impatiencc of editors and well, perhaps l may say of the public also-compels me to set myself daily task of certain length, he added eXplan- atorily.
 "Oh, my dear Lord Shepton! I am sure there is no need to apologize for giving us all an intellectual treat cried Mrs. Ogle. But perhaps Mir Nal let does not share our interest in the great peoples of antiquity
 Mir Mallet confessed that he had inn bibed a prejudice against them in his school days, but said he was trying to overcome it; and Miss Ogle with her eyes still cast down, fetched pen, ink, and paper, and seated herself submiS- sively at the table. She was very pretty and very young, and really it was enough to melt the heart even of seasoned diplomatist to see her bending over her work, while that tyrannical old faHcet of hers pranced up and down the room, with his hands under his coat tails spouting pompous platitudes by the yard.
 Now, Ellinor, let me beg of you to write distinctly, and to be very careful about punctuation. To disregard | (nA oA f., ,bl la {c tradict the voice of history would appear to be almost the primary object of the modern historian (full stop). That the ancient history of Mycen@ remained uninhabited and (comma) to all intents and purposes (comma) ceased to exist after its famous siege by the Argives in the year 46S R. c. is a fact in support of which it would be easy to adduce Il mass of overwhelming testimony (semi- colon) yet it has been recently asserted by writer whose sole claim to author ity (comma) so far as we have been able to learn (comma) rests upon unbounded selfglorihcation that large number of its former inhabitants returned thither from their exile in Macedonia and raised new city out of the ruins of the old (full stop) Upon the utter unreli- ability stay that is bad word un- trustworthiness of the evidence upon which this startling theory is based it would surely be needless to dwell (note of admiration).'
 In this style Lord Shepton continued for quarter of an hour, at the end of which time he concluded his period by solemnly warning students not to allow themselves to be led astray by "the au- dacious hypothesis of credulous igno- ramus.' Then he paused and smiled.
 "A credulous ignoramus' he repeated complacently I allude. as perhaps need hardly tell you, to Schultuchs Severe, you will say, yet not, as think unmerited. It is no light ottense to fal- sify history"
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