New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-04-21

gone into all this extravagance-it
makes my very soul ache to
see those gowns-ifI were not obliged
to be all the time en- evidence"
III don't really see the need OF that. .
II do. II you're to be- success. And
didn't come here to 60 home again.
And | came here not only to rule this
summer, but to have my rule remem-
bered in all summers to come"
"Noble ambition!"
cit isn't ambition, I tell you; it. s
business"
"But, Bette, you're not beauty"
$50 much the more to my glory"
"You ridiculous midget"
"She's little, but she's shrewd."
And off she sped asyoung Pennycastle
came along for an hour at tennis; and
l saw her coming back in time, sur
rounded by an awkward squad of the
young society men,,
eyes, they are an awkward squad, :"
she said, in answer to me by-and-by.
"And stupid-stupid beyond any
thing"
'"The idea Of taking so much trouble,
Bette, to please them, then!''
"Tm not doing it to please them,
the jackanapes! Yes, they are jacka-
napes! They don't know anything
but society small-talk and attitudes.
They can dance how they can
dance! First one and then the other,
till there are holes in the soles Of your
slippers. Sometimes go to bed so
tired it seems as if baths OF hot al
cohol wouldn't put any life into my
feet. But I'm up in the morning as
fresh as a rose with the dew
on it. have to be. It's what Pm
here for. And they're a part of
my success, these little swells. I've
got to go about with train of them
as certificates OF it. They're just like
it-where one goes all go.-Oh, yes, in
deed; thank you, MI. vonderbust;
you're always so kind! 1t is just what
| was wishing. Do you know l some
times think you're the most" And
| caught no more of the silvery SEN
tence, for she had gone off with Mr..
Vonderbust, catching up her draparies
as she flashed along Hight and grace,
and presently tripping down the stairs
in a close-ftting dark serge, with a
cocks feather in her little turban hat;
and half a dozen other youths had
sprung to hold her parasol, to button
her glove, to walk beside her to the
spot where Mr.. Vonderbust waited
with his new Hambletonian, whose
pace they were going to try together.
When Bette came back she came d.
rectly to me where | sat on the piazza
with my crocheting. "If you don't
mind going in to lunch with me?" she
said. didn't understand till after
ward that was a part Of her role too.
1t gave people pleasant things to say
Of her kindness to forlorn old spin
ster, for one thing-and Pm afraid if l
had comprehended it in the beginning
l should have put an end to it out Of
hand-was that, quite innocent and
ignorant OF it all, was her chaperon.
"1t is such q misfortune" she said to
the right people, "that my own dear
chaperon, who always takes me about,
was obliged to leave almost as soon
as we came; and should have had to
go too, and be buried alive somewhere,
[ suppose, if my dear little Miss Rug
giles had not happened to be here, and
she has taken charge Of me so kindly"
Take charge OF that mink! I should
as soon have thought oftaking charge
OF a will-o' -thewisp.
"Now, you see what I mean when I
say it is necessary here to be always
en- evidence. You're forgotten If
you're not. Out OF sight, out ofmind.
| am here to be seen. If l hadn't been
sitting here with you, that absurd lit
tie Vonderbust wouldn't have asked
me to drive, and the others WOULDN'T
all have gone to pulling caps about
waiting on me to the dog-cart, and
Mr.. Dunrobin wouldn't have seen it
as he sat there with his cigar. When
| have filled everybody's eyes, Mr..
Dunrobin will begin to see me. So l
am always very plainly visible with
my train OF idiots. Oh yes, am as
froth, but it's a game as deep as the
sea underneath.
"Bettie, Pm ashamed of human ma
ture when l hear you talk"
"No occasion" crumbling her bread.
"You wouldn't be ashamed OF me if
were trying to make fortune by what
you call honest labor. Well, if this
isn't labor, should like to know what
it is"
"Labor!"
"It's labor enough, let me assure
you, just to talk to these whipper
snappers. It's more trouble than it
would be to write q book, tograduate
your conversation to the level of their
little intellects, if they have any intel
lects-Penhurst and De Lacy and Van
Stout and the whole set. You have
to make believe to each one that you
find him perfectly delightful. If you re
the least atom above his comprehen-
sion in your talk, or silent, or slow,
good-bye; and goodbye to one, good
bye to all. If one OF them sees anoth-
er hanging over your chair, he thinks
there's something worth while there,
and he is coming in for his share; but
if he doesn't see anybody, he's going
where it is plain there is something the
other fellows admire. Do you see?
Here they come; I thought they
would"
She ran into my room one night be-
fore going down TO the GERMAN. cam