The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05
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The same year that Lady Jane Mag nus presented her beautiful daughter, Adela, Lord Glencore was the match of the season. Just of age, of an old family, with vast possessions, and a heavy rent roll, swelled by long minority, the instant the hawk-like eye of Lady Jane fell on the young peer, thrill of joy assured her that there stood the husband Providence had provided for Adela.
 Little mattered it to Lady Jane that Lord Glencore was silent, awkward, most painfully shy, given to blush to the very roots of his hair if woman but addressed the most commonplace remark to him. Adela had been too carefully trained to pin her faith to externals. Besides, as regarded mar riage, Lady Jane always arranged these little affairs for her daughters. She had brought out three before the advent of the lovely Adela, and not one of them, she inwardly boasted, had ever had reason to fling a syllable of reproach at their mother.
 "You think it is all right, mother, do you?" Adela ventured to say, grow ing little uneasy when the end of the season drew near, and Lord Glen core had never addressed a single remark to her which could by any possibility be construed into love.
 "Perfectly right, dear. The society papers have coupled your names to- gether; an approaching marriage has more than once been hinted at, and, as a matter ot course, now, wherever people ask us he is asked"
 "I know still other people are not the same as he."
 "Quite the same. I understand the position perfectly well, my love. Men of his kind would remain silent until doomsday, unless suggestion was made to them."
 "Well, but"
 "Dear child, you may leave it to me. Don't you think SOP" And an ex- pression of mild reproach was shot from the maternal eye. "Do you fancy that, if saw the slightest shadow of uncertainty, l should accept Sir Joscelyn's invitation for Goodwood, knowing that Glencore won't be there?"
 Wont he! Why, where is he go- ing2"
 "Nowhere. I ascertained that, you may be sure. He is obliged to remain in town. There'll not be a soul left for him to speak to. Some business with his lawyers, he said-and said it in very pointed way, too."
 "Stammering and getting fiery red, i" said the would be fancee disdaintully.
 Lady Jane shook her head. "Never mind the manner; it is the meaning we are concerted in. He joins us inn mediately after at Thorndean. There you will see that everything will be satisfactorily arranged. Lady Somer- ton has such happy way of letting young people be thrown together, and, from the first, I have seemed to be very much guided by her."
 Adela embraced her mother with graceful effusion.
 "How clever you are !" she said, ad- miringly; "you have managed beauti- fully, for did want to enjoy Good wood free. When I am a countess, mamma, it shall be very nice for you.''
 Certainly Goodwood week had left London wonderfully empty. You did not meet soul you knew.
 Lord Glencore repeated this fact to himself most cheerily as he walked along Piccadilly with heart and step as light as a birds.
 It scene an impossible circumstance that stalwart young giant, standing over six feet in his stockings, his own master, able to do what he liked and go where he chose, should be in abject thralldom to plain little middle-aged woman who was bent on compelling him to marry her daughter. "And I feel as if I should be made to do 1t, too," poor Glencore had said of late, driven into his last corner by the con- gratulations of all Lady Jane's friends, to say nothing of those horrid para graphs in thoss horrid papers, some oi which had gone 90 far d to mention An nnplv 6ofo 6oSnn, AwaH <fEk,~ kl,~