Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-03
WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 1889

all got up to go, feeling that it was cruelty
to keep her up a minute longer. Mrs.
Stuart asked her about her SUNDAYS and
whether abe ever got out of town. oh,
she said, with sigh, and lcok at her
uncle, who was standing near. 4 think
Sunday is the hardest day Of all. 1t is our
set home" day, and such crowds come
Just 70 look at me, l suppose, for I cannot
talk to quarter of Them Wkereupon Mr..
Worrall said in his bland commercial way
that society had its burdens az we'll az it's
pleasures, and that his dear niecs could
hardly escape her social duties after the
hatterlDg manner in which London had
welcomed her. Miss Bretherton an
swered, with sort Of lapguid rebel
lion, that her social duties would soon be
the death of her. But evidently she is
very docile at home, and they do what
they Ike with her. 1t sesms to me that
the unole and aunt are a 70 ID deal sbrewd.
er than the London public; it is borne
in upon me by various indications that
they know exactly what their niece's pop
ularity depends on, and that it very posi-
bly, may not De long lived enc. Accord
lnely they have determined On two things;
first, that ehe shall make as much money
ior tee family es can by any meana be
made, and, stcHn5ly, that she shall find
her way into London society and secure if
possible great parti before the enthusiasm
for her has had time 10 chill. One hears
various stories Ct the uncle, in this sense.
[ cannot say how true they ere
tHOWaVSr fha unahnf IS ~. ...
party wss that rext day Wallace, FORBES
end INST st Mrs. S.uaIt's house and
foGed Sunday league for the protection
OF Miss BEether.on from her family; in
other words, We mean to te.ure that she
bas occasional rsst and country air on San
day-hev only free day. Mrs Stusrt hes
already wrung out CT Ms. wcrrel, By
LITTLE jud;cious Gearing, permission 10 csr-
~ her of for two Sundsys-on this month
and oae next-aud MIes Bretherion's ro-
mantle si5e, which is cur.ousiy stropg in
Ger, has baea touched By the suggestion
that the second Sunday shall be spent at
Oxford.
Probably for the first sunaay-a weak
hence-we shall 90 to Surrey. You re-
member Hugh Farnham's property near
Lelth Hill? knew all the farms about
there from old shooting. days, and there is
one on the edge of some great commons
which would be perfection on May Sun
day. l Will write you a full account of
cur day. The only rule laid down by TIE
league is mat things are TO De so managed
that Miss BrsthertOn is to have no possible
excuse for fatigre 80 loag as she is in the
hands OF the society.
My book goes on fairly well. / have
been making long study OF De Musset
with tie result that the poems eesm to me
fer finer thsn / he'd remembered. and the
Confessions dan Enflnt du Steele mis-
srabls performance How vas it it i'm
pressed me 20 mach when l read it firs,?
HIS poems have reminded me of you at
every step. Do you remember how you
used to read them aloud to cur neither and
me after dinner, while the father had his
sleep before goirg down to the house?"
Ten days later Kendall spent long Mon
dsy evening in wIitiDg the following letter
10 his sister
"Oar yesterdays expedition was, l
think, great success. Mrs. Stuart was
hsppy, because she had for once induced
Stuart to put away his papers and allow
himself holiday; it was Miss Bretherton's
first sight Of the genuine English country,
aud she was like child among the gorse
end the hGwth0rng, while Wallace and l
amused cur manly selves extremely
well N befriendiDg the most beau.
tifol woman in the British isles, in draw
lug her ont and watching her Gtlong naive
impressions Of thipgs. Stuart, 1 think,
was no. quite happy. 1t is hardly to be
expected Of lawyer in the crisis of his
fortunes that be should enjoy ten hours
divorce frcm his briefs; bat re did his beet
to reach tie common level, and mis- wife,
WHO in devoted to him, and might as we'll
not be married at all, from the point OF
view of marital Compan;oaship, evil
dently thought him perfection. The day
more than confirmed my liking for Mrs
Stuart; there a:e certain little follies about
her; she is to apt to regard every distin-
guished dinner party she and Stuart at
te2d as an event Of enormous and uni
versal interest, and beyond London society
her sympathies hardly reach, except in
that vague charitable form which is rather
pity and liberation than sympathy. But
she is kindly, womanly, colt; che has no
small jealousies and none OF that patty
self consciousness which makes so many
weariscme TO the great majority of plain
men, who have no wish TO take their social
exercises too much au serieux.
FRO DR. co,-rrN-r-u,D