Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-31
ATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. THURSDAY. 1889

him, and might as well not be married at ai1. from the point of view of marital companion. ship. evidently thought him perfection Tho day moro than confirmed my liking for Mra. Stuart; there are certain little follies about her; she is too apt to regard every distin- guished dinner party she and Stuart attend us an event of enormous and universal inter est, and beyond London society her sym pathies hardly reach, except in that vague charitable form which Is rather pity and toleration than sympathy. But she Is kindly, womanly, soft: she has no small jealousies and none of that petty self consciousness which makes so many women wearisome to the great majority of plain men, who have no wish to take their social exercises too much au serieux.
 ''I was curious to see what sort of rela- tonship she and Miss Bretherton had devel- oped toward each other. Mrs Stuart is nothing if not cultivated; her light individ- uality floats easily on tho stream of London thought, now with this current, now with that, but always in movement, never left be- hind. She has the usual literary and artistic topics at her fingers end, and so she knows everybody. Whenever tho mere abstract sides of a subject begin to bore her, she can fall back upon an endless store of gossip as lively, ns brightly colored, and, on the whole, as harmless as she herself is Miss Bretherton had till week or two ago but two subjects Jamaica and the stage-the latter taken in somewhat narrow sense. Now she has added to her store of knowledge great number of first irnpre ssions of London notorieties, which naturally throw her mind and Mrs. Stuarts more frequently into contact with each other. But l see that, nfter ali, Mrs. Stuart had no need of any bridges of this kind to bring her on to common ground with Isabel Bretherton. Her strong womanliness and tho lcaven of warm hearted youth still stirring in her would be quite enough of themselves, and besides, there is critical de- light in the girls beauty and the little per sonal pride and excitement she undoubtedly feels at having, in so ci'editable and natural manner, secured O hold on the most inter esting person of the season. It is curious to see her forgetting her own specialties and neglecting to make her own points that she may bring her companion forward and set her in the best light. Miss Bretherton takes her homage very prettily; it is natural to her to be made much of, and sine does not refuse it. but she in her turn evidently admires enormously her friends social capabilities and cleverness and she Is i,npusively eager to make some return for. Mrs Stuart's ki nd l ness-an eagerness which shows itself in the l greatest complaisance toward ell the Stuarts' l friends, and ill a constant watch: :ulness for
 
 However, here l am IS usual wasting l time in analysis instead of describing to you | our Sunday. It was orc Of those heavenly 1 days with which May starsles us o::t Of our | winter pessimisnl; sky and earth seemed to l be alike clothed ill u young iritesceilt beauty. 1 We found q carriage va tins for LIS at the 1 station, and we drove along l great main 1 road until sudden turn landed us in Q l green track trasersnS land of endless com | mons, as wild and as torsaken of hul.lan kind as though it wero q region i; some virgin l continent. On either hand the sorsa was l thick and golden; great oaks, splendid i'll the l first dazzling sharpness of their spring green, | threw vast shadows over the fresh moist 1 grass beneath and over the lambs sleeping | beside their fleecy mothers, wiiiio the haw-
 thorns rose into the sky in masses of rose
 tinted SHOW, each tree a shining miracle of
 white set ill the enpironiiig blue
 'sThen came, tho farm house-old, red | brick, red tiled, asc.uented-ever'yt that
 the ecsthetic soul desires-tho farmer and his
 wife looking out for us, and pleasant,
 honlely meal ready in the parlor. with its
 last century woodwork.