The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-28
PART II.
TWO wEnISG lated

! (Mr. N. B. Brown is discovered looking
out of the window. He suddenly starts and
| comes hastily forward.)
Brown calling -"Winnie! Winniei She's
coming-the models comng Where is
that girl! She knows l can't speak Italian
worth fiddlestring, and yet she leaves me
to meet her alone! That model is the love
lest being ever saw in my life-such eyes
"Opens his own widely.) Such teeth! (Grins
broadly) Such lips! (Pouts.) i'll wasn't
such an old-setled-in-li sort o. person I'd
goodness knows what l ,Couldnt dol A sort
o. sadness in the eyes touches me-has she
a sorrow? What can it be! I'll get Winnie
to find out, and if money can relieve her,
she shall be relieved. Old fool} Yes, |
know it; but don't go crazy often! Some
folks would say was crazy to send the boy
off to Monte Carlo-but there was method
in my madness, yes, sir; method Gone a
whole fortnight and not a word from the
scamp in all this time. Must be Win
ming, or I'd heard, fast enough. Jane Gray IS
not troubling him much nowadays I'll be
bound. Why, this lovely Italians worth
forty Jane Grays! If he made her a niece
of mine I'd give 'em my villa on the Hudson
and thousand shares in the X Y. u. Cen
trail for wedding PRESENT. By Jove!
Another idea! I'll telegraph him to come
| homo at once and-rll match her against
the Gray every timep
(Mr Brown sits down to fill out a te}e.
graph blank. AS he writes, Jane Gray,
dressed as an Italian peasant girl steals softly
up behind him, peeps over his shoulder and
nodsa smiling appreciation of what she reads.
Suddenly she breathes softly in his carr
Jane-"BHon qiOrno, Signorp
Brown Starting to his feet)-"O, Ow-
| good morning, dear, good morningP'
Jane-"Fd 5ellisinso tempo, SiJnore"
| Brown-"Bless my soul, you don't say so
wish Winnie would come-sit down, seen.
ereener, sit down (motioning and speaking
very loudly sit down."
Jane-"Ah-Si-noa u no capitor'
Brown-"Don't mention it! Seenereener?
Jane-"Si Signoreg"
Brown-''Do you not speak little-iust a
very little EngllshG'
Jane-"Ah, 81. Signore--a leedle-am
| Brown (delighted)-' leedle-a'-why,
that's splendid, magnificent"
Jane-"Ella me cjtlI1i, geatite=ze."
(Winnie enters.)
Brown-"Well, my dear; l don't know
anything about Ella or gentle Lizzie"
Winnie (advancing) says you are
too kind, Uncle Nappy. Bno" giorao, Clio
vannina-come, Uncle Party, move away
please; l want my model to get into place
quickly. Prepdd ana Sedia Giovan,li1la!"
| Brown-"Seems to me you're in an awful
hurry to make the poor thing sit with her
chin up in the air-cant you let her rest q
bit before you beginP'
Winnie-"Not an instant Sta quicto,
signorina."
Jane-"Son pronto."
Brown--"Wh hat does she say3"
| Winnie-'That she is ready, Uncle Polly
isn't she darling9 Did you ever see such
beautiful eyes-like liquid seas of golden
brown"
Brown-"Did you ever hear of solid seas.
But they are lovely, and it's gloriously
good thing the child can't understand a
word you say; I'd be afraid TO say such
things to her very face"
Winnie-"O, she don't mind it. See how
unconscious she looksm
Brown-"And how sadr
Winnie-"She does look sad. She told me
little about her sorrow when you went of
TO Ia galleria--"
Brown-"Speak Englishp'
Winnie-"Very WELL sir; the picture gal
lery. And now, drddte 0ia-I mean &C
away please, and I'll try to find out the
rest of it. Possibly we may be able to hell
her. tho poor girlp'