Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-07

pacerneut wednesday week. mol Twill
write Won and name time. You must
come and see me Thursday is my receptcs.l
day, Now, II you will excuse yde. must
run home 10 dress for large luncheon
to-day. Goodbye, my dear, be sure TO
come and see me soon.n AS she buried
ly traversed the balcony, gentleman
rose from his scat TO meet her, and Nora
saw v was he whom she had heard called
Seaton. After q moment Mrs. johnson
turne and retraced her steps with him.
He had evidently asked for an iutroduc-
ton, and this was speedily effected.
"My dear,n said Mrs. Johnson, "Mr.
Seaton desires 10 make your acquaint-
ance. He will thank me all his life for
giving him the opportunity Of doing so;
and, by.the-way, you may be good TO him,
for be is particular friend OF mine"
| SeatoR took a seat by the young girls
side and began talking; so easily and
pleasantly that she found herself speedily
at home with him. He had
that rare gift Of politeness which
causes its possessor 10 seem absorbed
In the person with whom he or she may
be talking. Nora was soon laughing at
her remarks on the people present and
his shrewd comments on social matters.
| 81 saw you dragging that English gem
Fleman from one group TO the other and
Introducing him. said she. az should
not dare TO say he looked bored, but
there was certainly an expression of res
ignation on his face.n
"Of COURSE" replied Seston, "there Is
no doubt he teds bored. He does not care
for society or for knowing all these peo-
pie"
"rhen why do you present him to
them?"
"Ah, my dear Miss Willis, they do want
TO know him. There is an astounding
epidemic, Coloniansm and Anglomania
raging in New York at present. | am
sorry to confess il, but so it is.n
"But you cater to it when you present
your friend, as you did, almost in spite of
himself.n
Undoubtedly, but ] am not reform
or; am what the French call an enfant
du steele. These people are my friends,
and are very good TO ire, so try to crafty
them"
81 suppose you know all of them, do
you not?"
"Nearly everyone; / have lived in New
York all my life. Shah tell you who
they are?" Nora was glad TO have the
notabilities pointed out to her, and she
found the time slipping away very pleas
antly. When the hour Of departure ar
rived she felt as If she had been convers-
ing with an old friend But for him, she
was free to confess to herself, she
would have experienced curious
feeling Of Isolation on the out
skirts of that perfectly self-contained
coterie which filed the Casino balcony.
As it was, her visit to Newport had
opened very successfully. In the after
noon she drove with her parents over the
beautiful "0cean drive,n down the
avenue, hanked by stately mansions, mis-
named cottages" past Bailey's beach,
and along the smooth and we'll
watered road skirting the shore
They looked on the blue waves
shining in the sun and warmed
by the gulf stream, at the Brenton's reef
lightship, and at Nawagansett pier away
across the bay. Indeed, so perfectly
clear was the air that they plainly saw
the outlines Of Block Island, rich in
legend and tradition, over which old sail
ors, even now, as they tell you, see the
CHASTITY form of the Paatine scudding
through the air. To these visitors, long
pent up inland, the whole scene
was revelation of wonder and
beauty. For a time IL withdrew Nora's
attention from the other novel sight,
grand dress parade of society" of peo-
pie of both sexes and all ages, superbly
furnished as to equipages and horses, and
exhaling, as it were, veTitable aroma of
wealth and luxury. Venerable ladies', ac-
companied by beautiful young girls, re.
aliOpH IN
matrons with devoted cavaliers beside,
and melancholy groons with folded arms,
behind them drove with easy assurance
the handsome horses harnessed to
their phaetons. The most elegant of
flush youths, trussed in lofty collars,
tight trousers and pointed shoes, glanced
cpriously from their high dog.carts at
the fresh, pretty Western girl; and now
and then elaborate "coaches," ladened
with the handsome women and their es-
corts, were whirled by, their four horses
at rapid pace, along the level roadway.
1t was all novel and interesting, vet it
affected the young girl with n suspicion
OF strangeness. In Lakeside she had
been sort of princess, whom all de-
lighted to honor; here she had no part or
lot, In the thoughts, the ways or the
NOlh-o VI VIC uSHFtuuIh1t Oh lGOnle
before her eyes. This feeling gained an
even stronger hold upon her at the
"Caslno hop in the evening. IL was
unlike anything she had seen. Nomin-
ally there was no requisite to admission
other than the payment of small sum at
the door, yet it was clear to an observer
that line alike impalpable and impassa.
bic, was drawn around a concrete frac-
ton of those present, and Nora began to
doubt whether her Newport visit, SO
pleasantly begun, was TO bo wholly sue.
cessful or not Nor did she flnd AIDE.
quate consolation In the fact that her own
taste and the skill OF a celebrated dress
maker had made her costume the eoualI
OF any In the room.
The next day opened ausplciously. At
the beach she met Seaton, who brought
SIR John Lyle TO be presented after
formal request for her permission so TO
do. Upon my honor, am telling Won
the truth, Miss, Willis" said he. in
answer to her laughing remark. nHe
begged 20 do 1t, you must not quote me
against myself. This is not In the least
like my performance OF yesterday.n
The baronet saluted the youne