The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
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AISQ " ut<ss sioh1f A'<n N.Y. 1870 AHAr1>'<%
allGws that there is q difference between
smatturs and professionals Ia difreSepce
that he summed up as "gate money" a
formula Hat observation justifies me in
thinking hat The former spend and the
lstl,ls abe money by their professions.
Al q IS iiem The day was born till now,
sl,lf q my beauty have never made
f;iiin j an certainly not entitled to the
.ladfaucn. Therefore, on my aunts
n,sills lie reason fer calling myself 50
.tn crstrated. To begin at the egin-
ne, ne tniy remarkable thing about me
is ii at l. sm a living example of human
.rstitr6e;.1d lied that fact morelre-
ms,kahle lie longer i've ard the more
learn.
NV mother ard my aunt were only
clalltptf SiLane, the Cumberland from
King, ard tley wee as opposite in char
meter ard li,ts.s only sisters occasionally
can be. Aunt AlI La had been as exem-
plary in her marriage as mamma was The
reverse; she Lad conscientiouly fallen in
love with, and obediently married an
Irish peer, whese title did not date from
The Act OF Union; marriage that was
emintnily satisfactory to every che, fer
Uncle Marcus, whatever else he may have
dore, shcwtd no wish to waste or fling
her meney ON his ancestral boys, which
had been the one fear in my grandfatber'sl
otherwise unslloyed delight. But neither
my aunt's brilliant example nor her
fathers threats stopped my mother mar
rying comparatively poor captain in the
Black HumaIs, and going with him when
he exchanged into an Indian regiment
Just before was born he had been Made
lie resident Of q half-hostile State; and
though he was warned that on the arst
opportunity the rajah meant to revolt, and
as a first STEP weuld kill him, he accersed
the appointment without hesitation. As
it happened the outbreak was already
planned, the hour fer his assassination
fixed, when, returning from long ride,
he bad the good fortune to save the rajah's
favorite wife from tiger. The bearers
had fed, and the animal was sprinsing on
the palapquin when he shot him. s
From thst moment the rajah was Eng
lands faithful ally, and from my infancy
my willing slave, companion, or play fell
low; but beyond accepting his friendship
ard calling me after the raish's wife, nay
father would take nothing from him; and
my neither, who had been dislHherited for
her marriage, was hardly likely to urge
him to; and the rajah was fain, during bis
lifetime, to shew his gratitude by treating
me as If had been his own dearly beloved
daughter Only when he died, year or
two before my mother, it was found he
had lowered me, the only child of the
companion of his heart, whom he had
once intended to assassinate, SO richly
that, though Twas not, as people persisted
in saying fabulousy rich, it would have
needed more than lifetime for me to get
through the fortune my father had truly
made for me. He had died before was
six years old, but nothing would induce
mamma to leave the place where she had
been so happy with him, though my Aunt
and Uncle Marcus came out to take Der
back to England; and when she, too, left
me three years later, she directed that /
was to remain there till I was seventeen,
and then, If Aunt Alpha still wished nae
to go 10 her, was to spend a year with
her, and then do my best to carry out my
fathers wish, and, if / possibly could.
marry the sen of his Oldest friend and
lifelong companion, Lord Ryvenbourn.
But, unlike most wills of that kind, as Tar
as could Judge, nothing was to happen
If wouldn't.
or Lord Ryvenbourn himself, who had
been killed in q skirmish in the hills, III
had very definite memory; of his sen or
two sens knew nothing. and cared net
at all. 1t was no little wrench to leave
the lovely Eastern home that had been
father and mother and home in one to Re:
but nv mother had wished it. and when
my guardian, the head of the great Anglo
Indian bank, spoke of taking the neces-
sary steps to exile me to the Nerth, could
not demur; 90, with Mrs. Ireton, who had
been my mothers maid and my house
keeper, as she called herself, my own
ayah, Hyder, my fathers syce and his two
subordinates, i found myself met at Brin-
dist by my aunt, her husband, and my
cousin.
There was OILY one incident on the
voyage that concerned me-my ayah fell
overheard, and but for the quickness Of
one of the officers of the steamer, would
have been drowned. When / wanted to
thank him the captain assured me he was
only an ordinary engineer, as if that made
any difference. But / did thank him,
though / had TO send Ireton to find him.
think be was the very shyest man i ever
saw-at first-uHtil l offered him ten
pound note; then he said he would rather
wait, and, If he might, ask me to let him
choose his OWE reward.
He may not be gentleman-Mrs Fusi.
lou asserted authoritatiyely he was not;
but it didn't need genlleman to save
poor Raj Mahai; it needed q man, and Bio
was the only one whe did it.
There was dinner the first night We
arrived in London, and | was introduced
to three msR whom Aunt Alpha had
selected to be a body guard and keep on
detrimental Marcus said. Although
Lady M.ckron audibly whispered to one
of them that had been brought up in
secluded seraglio haramzenana, had i'm
proved my mind on the voyage by study
ing English manners and customs as mir
roreS In novels And either people run
ia a groove or the types are very bread .
Toar M;olxran,a chosen COMPLIANT IL Au01ls