The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-10

or lofty manner of showing superiority.
He has genuine contempt for man who
talks art and plays classical music as Mr..
Lascelles has for one who thinks of moth
ing but hunting, lawn tennis and polo,
though he rides fairly straight, and is
an average shot himself.
Not little Disguised is Lascelles. there
fore. When Dolly, whose sorrowfulness ana
its cause have greatly soothed his com
placency for the last twentyfour hours,
seems TO have eyes and ears for 10 one but
this half witted soldier at dinner. She is
looking charming in dress of delicious
apricot tint which he has not seen before
he is great connoisseur of dress. If he
could only catch her eye he would beam
on her one Of those glances which would
have intoxicated her maiden soul. But
whereas it has been his wont to meet her
tender pleading glances everytwo minutes
heretofore. to night he might be Banquos
yhost. and she one Of Macbeths guests,
for all she seems to see him. His memory
serves him up several sneering and savage
quotations on the theme of solvent femme
varie. He is so little congenial to his
neichbor Mt dinner that she expresses the
most unfayorable sentiments regarding
him in the drawing room later on, causing
/ Dolly to halt between the desire 10 defend
aim holly, and a sense of pleasure that
some one else beside herself has suffered
from his GOODNESS. Mrs. Dalton makes
pretext for calling Dolly aside
Excellent, my love~ she cries, in high
good humor, pressing the girls arm. He
/ IS enraged beyond measure. lie scarcely
/ took his eyes off you. Go on and pros
! per
/ prospers exceedingly. When hr. Las
celles and Dick approach simultaneously
she devotes her whole attention TO the
latter, and has scarcely word for the
former, who presently retircs in tragic
/ dudgeon and leans against the wall, look
ing ike Hamlet, Lord Byron or any other
blighted being in the sulks,
/ In reality Dick is the person most to be
! pitied, although his face is alight with
Smiles. and his heart aglow with anticipa-
/ tions Of possessing a lovely woman, and
satisfying the debtors who, metaphoric-
ally speaking, take him by the throat,
CRYING: Pay me what thou owest! In
nocent creature that he is he suspects no
treachery. nor dreams that milk white
bosom palpitates for the internal young
prir" over the way. Dolly viii play bill
/ iards and lawn tennis with him on the
morrow; in the afternoon they are 10 ride
torcther; and as he sits smoking after the
ladies have retired, he reflects on the
most approved method Of asking certain
question.
Up to this moment Clement Lascelles
has not seen any necessity fc- putting MS
fate TO the touch, because he had been aD-
soiutely certain of winning; bu. now that
for the first time lie has a rival, rival
who Is progressing by leaps and bounds IN
his lady's favor, he secs that something
must be done. He cannot have been be-
fooled. She loves him, or-or he the
adept at reading the secrets Of souls
must for once have been deluded. PERISH
the thought
With gloomy brow and stately step he
retires from the smoking room and seeks
the solitude Of his chamber, but not ms
couch The dawn has long broken ere he
courts repose.
Marian. " cries Dolly, a few hours later,
bursting into her friends room whilst
that lady, no early riser at the best OF
times, still nestles among her pillows
read this" and she seats herself on the
} bed in state Of great excitement whils'
! Mrs. Dalton languidIy peruses the letter
thrust into her hands.
| Il call it great impertnence. she re
, marks, returning it to Dolly.
"Impertinence" with wide open eyes.
Certainly" And Mrs Dalton. taking
it back quotes from 1t.
Though | cannot pretend to oiiel
; YOU the one great passion Of .lie-sa'
t passages beyond the ken Of other mortal'
. have furnished the pure luster which once
surrounded my soul as with halo-yet
if YOU will take heart weary with IN
e doubts with which an intimate knowledg'
of humanity clouds the spirit, take me q
YOUR tender breast. and let me find shell
, ter there from LIES griefs and disap
u pointments What recOmpense near
blighLed as mine has been can bestow'
- will strive to make to your angelic sym
u patty and goodness.
Is il not beautiful cries Dolly, in a.
q ecstasy. Il wonder what he means
o SUPPOSE some horrd woman threw hir
8 over onceT
# II think it is exceedingly impertinen'
and hope you will resent IT.
% Resent it, almost shrieks Dolly
Ne why, it's declaration!
" Get me my blotting book of that "a
l. BILE" commands Mrs. Dalton resolutely
is Now, " she says, beginning TO write, 'yo
O will answer it in this way. or wash N
@ hands Of YOU, and tomorrow he Will nav
y reduced you to abject misery again
10 She writes hurredly for few minute.
10 and then, with a heightened color read
e. the draft aloud.
Dear Mr.. Lascelles-l have receive
Is your melancholy letter, and am truly sort
for all you seem to have suffered bu
Ia for nv part, look upon the world as
very pleasant place. and have made up II
- mind to enjoy myself as much as possibl
SO. as | could not console you, ana yo'
IS with the ideas you express. would maf
ly me miserable, think you had much be
ter look for somebody whose Temperance
n is more like your own. | suppose y'
x. mean me to understand that you hay
" been much more in love with some Oh
is else than you have with me, which;
lie say the least, is not very hatterlng. \