Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-08-23
IN AFFAIR IN A COLLEGE TOWN.

ougLored.
Nj Abner Sykes, big Westerner
with gsunt features and lsnk limbs,
made this remark, as he came out oi
the college campus. adjusting his
glasses meanwhile for q more critical
survey of the young lady in question.
His friend, Eliot Greenough, cast a
careless glance in the direction OF the
'nice-looking girl"
'G0llssasEid0s. ussd - b sssy
good style, before che was heart-bro-
ken Has cut Oft her bangs, and goes
, to conversations and the College Club
aov.
= college widow what al express
I sion that is not 90 inappropriate,
either What figure girls do make
Q. themselves IN American civilization,
being made love 70 bv half dozen men,
d, he east, aGd engaged TO one or
! two besides the one they marry #
there are any girls whom men OF any
se..-respect would think OF marrying,
they a.e those who have been Prov.
dentiaily kept out Of society"
"0h. come. now, Sykes, you re too
hard upon them, altogether You
don understand them any more than
those PEOPLE across The water DO.
don't know whether you got YOUR no
lions out on the Texan ranches, or
among these demure German mad
oheus, but they are very mistaken
ones, and you'll find it out before
long. Expect to see you spoony on
the greatest tiirt in town before the
end of three months, and engaged to
a college widow before you are fully
fedged lawyer
Heaven forbid {" CALCULATED Alb,
neI Sykes, fervently.
Now that's nice girl if she is 4
college widow" pursued Eliot Green
ough, indicating bv nod the young
lady Of whom he had before spoken,
who, With a companion, vas walking
along the sidewalk in front of them.
'She had had several little fi-tations
Lat nothing 10 speak of. when she met
Homer Fem. He was New York
e.. society fellow, with plenty Of
the airs and graces that take with the
girls lie had precious little money
and precious lot of old family, and
1t IS pretty much the same way with
lar. I: he had been endowed by
providence in Just the contrary way.
lots Of tin and little family, ike your
self 'or instance, things might have
been all right"
Abner Sykes WINGED perceptibly.
lie had moods in which he expressed
great scorn for pride of birth among
Ameucans, and announced the fact
that his father began life as drover.
with quite unnecessary freedom, but,
strange to say, he had other moods in
which |; evidently Jared upon him to
have MS humble origin alluded to.
lie had been brought up on West
arn farm, and graduated from Vest
IN -3iloge. and afterward spent sew
e.al years in travelling abroad, and
haI now settled down to the study Of
law At New England University.
His scquaintances IN the Jaw school
;ouut him. as Eliot Greenough ex.
pressed I. "a queer mixture 0: West
cIa rawness and old world civiliza-
ton They wondered what sort OF
compound the addition 0; little New
England culture would make. But
Abuer Sykes despised New England
culture, and didn't mean to absorb
any.
Eliot Greenough wen, on talking,
without the least suspicion that his
companion had been annoyed by the
persona. aIlusion he had made.
They became engaged in Fenns
junior year, and the engagement lasted
until after he had graduated. l Idon't
think she had more than one or two
letters IRON him after he went home.
The @. F, that he belonged to mar
riei him OF TO a rich California girl,
su heiress from Poverty Flat, within
six months, And she. as I was telling
You, took to good works and self.in.
provement. I rather thought che
would take TO the aesthetic when that
came in fashion, but ! think she has
: ,4st a little too much sense. She has
not foEsaken society altogether, bat
you meet ner at 1--WE clock teas and
such mild festivities. oftener than any.
where else"
a French girl would 60 into Q
convent, it would be infinitely better,
remarked Abnsr Sykes.
Why, man alive, She II marry, yet,
/ aud marry we'll, too. It's pitv II a