New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-18
"JINI."

muIa that observation justi6es me in thinking that
the former spend and the latter make money by
then professions And as from the day was born
till now myself or my beauty have never made a
farthng, ] am certainly not entitled to the qualif
cation. Therefore, on my aunts principle, the
reason for calling myself so is demonstrated. 10
begin at the beginning, the only remarkable thing
about me is that am living example OF human
gratitude; and feel that fact more remarkable
the longer | live and the more learn. ~
NV mother and my aunt were the only children
of Shame. the Cumberland iron King, and they
were az opposite in character and lives as only
sisters occasionally can be. Aunt Alnha had heen
reverse she had ccnscientiously fallen in love
with and obediently married an Irish Peer, whose
title did not date from the Act Of Union; mar
r:aoe that was emnently satisfactory ta every one,
for Uncle Marcus whatever else he may have
done. showed no wish to waste or fling her money
in nv grandfathers otherwise unaoyed delight.
But neither my aunt's brilliant example nor her
fathers threats stopped my mother marrying a
comparatively poor captain in tie Black hussars,
and going with HIM when. he exchanged into, an
Indian regiment Just before was born he had
though he was warned that on the first opportun-
ity the raiah meant to revolt, and first step
would xii him, he accepted the appointment with
out hesitation. AS it happened the outbreak was
already planned, the Lour for his assassination
fixed when returning from a long ride. lie had the
good fortune to the rajahs favorite wife from
n tiger The bearers had ted and the animal was
sprin gipg on the paanquin when he shot him.
From that moment the rajah was Engands faith
full alv, and from my infancy my Wiling slave,
companion or playfellow; but beyond accepting
his friendship and calling me after the rajahs
wife. my father would take nothing from him :;
md nv mother who had been disnherted for her
marriage mar was hardly likely to urge him to; and
the raiah was fsin during his lifetime to show his
gratitude by treating me as If had been bis own
dearly beloved daughter Only when he ded,
wear or two before my mother, 1t was found he had
lowered me- the only child Of the companion OF bis
heart whom he had once intended TO assassinate;
80 richly that though was not as people persisted
In saving fabulously rich, it would have needed
more than lifetime for me to get through the ior,
tune my father had trnly made Tor me ne ndd
induce mamma to leave the place where she bad
been so happy with him, though my Aunt aud
and when she too left me three years later she
directed was to remain there till was seventeen,
and then if Aunt Alpha still wished me to 20 to her
hest TO carry out my father WISH ard, II possibly
could. marry the son of his oldest friend and lite
long cOmpaaOI Lord d B% G ndas
OF lord Ryvenbourn himself, who had been
killed in skirmish in the hills, had very definite
memory Of his son or two sons knew nothing,
aud cared not at all. IL was no little wrench to
leave the lovely Eastern home that had been
father and mother and home in one to me but my
mother had wished it, and when my guardian, the
head of the great Anglolndian bank, smoke of TAX
ing the necessary steps to exile me to the north
been nv mothers maid and my hOusekeeper, as she
called herself. my own, ayah. Hydcr my fathers
syce and his two subOl dlnates, fOund myself met
at Brindisi, by my aunt, her husband, and my
There was only one incident on the voyage that
ayan fell }Ns spd Put Put
steamer would have been drowned. When | wanted
TO thank him the captain assured me he was only
ence Bnt did thank him. though had to send
lreton to find him. think he was the very shyest
man ever saw-at frst-untl offered him ten
pound note then he said he would rather wait, and
IL he MIGHT ask me to let him choose his own
reward. .
lie may not be gentleman, Mrs. Fusion assert
gentleman to save poor Raj Mahal, it needed man,
and he was the only one who did 1t.
onGan anSa Was Dtroduccd to three men whom
keen off detrimentals so Marcus said Although
Lady Mickron audlbly Whispered to one OF them
2enana. had improved my ind on the voyage by
studvng English manners and customs as mirrored
typcs are very broad. Lady Mickron's chosen con-
fdant is Angus Forehor Macfusilade Maclintoch,
will be. as she condescended to inform me, lord of
here else when his uncle dies. In the mean
while he is every inch Red Donald. He told me
he was a politician in the Engish-not, he
careful in repeating, the American sense. | asked
Marcus afterward what was the difference, and
he said in England a man was fool to be politi-
simple. 1t sounded so, but Red Donald could not
have meant to be candid for in the intervals of
millionaires be translates the Psalms into sonnets,
each with a moral as EnvOi. and judging from my
reminisceDce of dinner lie always talks in the
language of philosophy. abhor PIN losophy.
lie second man was more disappointing, having
told Inc we were bound TO fraterDize because he
was a captain in my fathers old regiment and
was a soldiers daughter. He added he hated
soldering only it was the thing for year or two.
after that he proposed to spend his time in horse
racing and chemistry Though ;, he didn't care for
know" and fellow can't be that unless he keeps a
racing stable don't believe Sir Ralph COurtois
is ever :" in the know" don't think my novels
youth. ,,...
ing His name Eustace ST. Hermine, was terrible
but when he played Hymn to Nature of his own
composition i didn't think was sure detested
him. Miss Mickron, who Is a de6utaate like myself
at the Drawing Room next week. assured me she
was a genius greater than Wagner, and resentlng
nv inability to be awed, crushed me by saying 1t
needed to be educated no to 1t. So ! was fam to
supply my lack of education by listening to Marcus
making himself unpleasant to the other two.
Aunt Alpha says that regal style oil leaning back
suits me. l don't understand, was not amused,
and never told her 1t suited me; it doesn't; it
bored me excessively. ! fell asleep that night
dimly thinking that If her motive had been to show
me, er Omnes, the WEAKNESS and vanity OF
society, her selection could not have been i'm
proved upon. don't wonder mamma, having been
brought up in England wonld never come back.
Tie Drawing Room was happily over didn't
tread on my train or stumble over wand or back
into anybodys face, and Aunt Alpha remarked /
was as self possessed as an American. haven't
asked Marcus Tor an explanation remembering his
last If people rude enough to stare, IS that n
reason why should blush and gigge' She says
they look because they don't believe my face is my
own that it's painted but if it were should not
he the only one. Lady Mickron told her it was
absurd for an Indian girl to pretend to such lovely
pink and white skin. II / 20 to Lady Mickron's
ball / shall stain my face brown.
Lady Kingsroyars ball the same evening, every
one told me. was a most brilliant Inauguration.
Perhaps it was l can imagine why Cinderella
and She knew that night OF triumph would be over
at IL, and perhaps she would never again have
what my aunt calls society at her feet" If she
The prince-I think she would have gone back more
than contentedly to the hearth and left society to
her siaferS.