Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-19

Aileens s. Lady margaret tePAe1
'.Ah, yes. L. she not very pretty'
Very pretty said Lady Margaret;
and remarkably nice girl in every way.
By the bye. her Young brother, Stuart. .
lust gazetted TO the Blankshire regiment
From that they passed on to other top
les of conversation. the Biankshire regi-
nent among Others, and presently two Of
its officers came from the house toward
them Beautiful Jim was one.
Are you not going 10 play. Sir beres-
fordy' Lady Margaret asked
Not today. Lady Margaret, thanks l
will look on and make myself useful" he
answered
Very well. VIII you have some tear
or there is some cup on that tablef
Many thanks. will help myself to
cup presently" he said. and then some
fresh arrivals came TO take Lady Marga-
rets attention, and ne was able to stroll
away toward Nancy Earies chair.
Good afternoon, Miss Earle. he BE-
gan. Not playing today"
II do not often play" she answered.
turning fine scarlet from chin 10 brow.
There seems no time for tennis in town
or, ~ least. do not find that there Is "
Yes. and during the time when you
can play tennis in town, there is always
such rush OF other things do do
Yes, Just so; and however much they
bore You, You have 10 do them all the
same" replied Miss Earle. keeping her
attention well fixed on the tennis players.
For few minutes this highly uncom-
Portable and unsatisfactory state of stilted
stiffness continued Then Beautiful jim
played bold stroke that they might get
out of it, and at the same time into less
prominent position
Don't YOU think. Miss Earle he said.
in semi reflective tone, that we should
get much more comprehensive view OF
the play from the terrace
Miss Earle looked round at the terrace
and admitted that it wouldn't be half bad
up there So they abandoned the chairs
under the big tree and betook themselves
TO the terrace, whence they could com
mand good view of the tennis courts, and
consequently of players and play.
There were some basket work Hurting
hsm chairs on the terrace. and Miss Earle
settled herself into one of them with
desperate kind of feeling that she would
have to hear what Beautiful Jim should
choose to say about the letter she had
sent him. and that the sooner he began
the sooner it would be over After ALL
this Beautiful Jim was gentleman. and
had before shown himself to be a man Of
others So there was really but little to
be afraid Of; certainly he would say moth
ing disagreeabe, and yet. as she settled
herself in the Nottingham. she could not
help wishing devoutly that il was at that
moment big enough TO bury her.
But Beautiful jim seemed in no hurry
to begin discussing the mistake OF the
previous Tuesday. He talked a good
| deal. far more than she did. but he did
not mention that subject, nor, in fact,
did he even seem to be thinking about it.
| He told her good deal about the regi-
ment and good deal about his cousins
and his five days in town, and he con-
trived too. to tell her good deal about
himself; but he never in any way ap-
preached the subject OF her letter or her
unfortunate slip. At last, it would be
difficult to say exactly how, Miss Earle
gathered that Beautiful Jim had not the
very smallest intention of mentioning the
| letter or her mistake at all. Somehow.
the knowledge seemed to make her grow
hot and cold all i'll an instant. and she
shrunk into herself in something like
| horror that she had not sooner realized
the delicacy and generosity of this mans
nature
Jim Beresford himself seemed happy
enough.
by that same token" he was saying.
Il once did an all night deck passage my
self. Faith, it was the most awful night
ever passed. Nothing ever saw in the
Soudan was a patch upon it. TWAS when
l was lad at Woowich. and home fer
long leave, that my young brother and
ana another fellow went off to Scotland
for a trip. We hadn't much money. for
my governor hadn't come into his prop
erty then. SO Neil and had to do 1t
pretty much on the cheap, don't you
know? We'll, it did not much matter, for
we were young and strong. with awfuHy
healthy appetites, and roughing it a bit
didn't hurt us. But, of course, we spent
more money than we ought and says to
Neil one morring'-at once dropping into
the true freshman S way OF telling yarn
Says L. We must Just pack up our
traps and be off, for we have but enough
to get ourselves third class passage
home by way of Glasgow and Belfast.
so home we started from Glasgow by
the steamer lalna-a fine big boat she
was. But the crew on board of her-I
well remember there were about hun
dred and fifty harvestmen-all Irish
came on board at Grcenock, most Of them
rather drunk, and tho row they made
well, it WIS just sonnet hing too awful 1t
gut very ME ana IL Got very coid. 30 we
went down and tried tie cabin. first one
and then the other, but we couldn't stand
them. couldn't nj INV nricc Ga we Ieft
the chastity crush Of irbting men and
crvipr sea Sick women in Tho mil enjoy.
ment of them. and went mon deck orai1
where the cold was the worst md the or
was pure enonqh not In insnlt onr lines
ALI we'll remember il that il wasn't iii
as smooth os honey nm on decl, Fortbara
were two Irjsh. Americans awful feIlows
on hoard A bio oneopd a iit,la avn ~
very drunk mud both verv onarrelsoma
The biz one was brarpinc abon, b;s hoyyia
knife and ,breatenin5 70 Al, ssbn,t a,,,,
one who presumed tn interfera x,-b b;,;.
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