The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-01-05

dict, and she pronounced him "a Duke
every inch of him. y
.'That's Just what l say" said Lady
Trump. zone feels his superiority 50
perceptibly. There is that about him which b
nothing but blue blood ever gives. There
is the unmistakable aroma"
'He has on me, said the Ritualist clcr
gyman, Mr.. Austin, "the effect of a Swiss
mountain. l feel as morally and physi-
eally the better for his presence as | do for
the air from the Jungfrau. 1t is as Long
fellow SAYS
But breathe the air OF mountains.
And their uuapp7oAchAbie submits
shall lln thee 70 The level Of themselves,
Yes, said Lady Speldhurst, "only he ;
no, unapproachable at all. He has only
Jus, that amount OF reserve which falls
short Of hauteur and is the surest pledge
of aris,Ocrasic breeding
Hes perfect gentleman, Of course
said Mrs. Rossendale; there's not trace
Of yulgarity about his COMPOSITION. nothing
bourgeois. But we must do car best to
keep him select,
we must, indeed, said Capt, Fo~ss,
we must hedge him round. To meet by
chance any Dissen,er or Radical woaid he
real physical pain to him,
4 understand, said Lady Pump. that
be has resolved in future not 10 employ a
single Liberal rsdcsmaa. That's your
daisg suppose, Captain p
The Captain smiled modest atEirna-
,irc. aRowan,rce. I'm afraid, viii bc "a
rioas, he said
-I.,t hia b farious, said Lord Trump.
chaeklins. If be wants the Dukes custom
les him adOps the Dako's politics.
So the conversation lspsSd into politics,
those muddy shadows into which ne need
10, follow it. Fitzhubcr,, pcreeiving The
marked attentions paid BY the Daks 10 hi'
sister, came up at las TO hi. mosher aud
sid in hi. profane boyish way
n say, mamma, how loog are yoa going
70 al!0w ophelis ~ easiFely tn mOuopoltEs
.he astcuiioas Of Pure Crrulsans
aFi,rhubers, yoa silly boy, she replied
Il rcally must beg that you wiil eease to
apply thai insulting expression TO Person
Of she Dukes diaiesion.
AN right, dear mamma, ssid the boy
-.bat who was il questioned the Dukes a.
oen,2 Who was IL wanted to put bin On
ia Racine" and the youth laughed coaval.
sively Il ,he recollection.
Thea the Dake came up cScusiing uphe-
Ia. who beamed radiAnee Ike blashing
roSe. While she iurned TO speak with hes
brother the Duke in the Politess manner
assured her mother og the great pleasure
Be had derived from her conversation, AID
expressed the hope that that meeting
naisht be ,he first Of many The exprcs
sion Of hope vas recipFoeaied, and again
before the mothers active mind flashed
the thought of those Objectionable relation.
Of her husband, and Of the excuses that
could serve for COS inviting them to par
take Of that cake. of the manufacture oI
which Ganter was intended TO hase ,h,
honor
The most hospi,able welcome that You
among others have accorded to me, ssiC
the Dukc, Il shall never forget but
hops the time may come, aHd that soon
when you viii allow me repay my debt Il
you By your konoring me with visit Il
Normandy; when am again resident upor
my teTes | hope none Of the family vii
refuse my poor hospitality.
Il am sure NJ le Due, she replied
"thai we shall accept your most generous
invitation with the greatest possible pleas
ure. But trust that you do not yet con
template leaving us?'
Far from il, said the Duke, Il shal
not leave Littleswamp ill am obliged By
circumstances. But there are. you know
circumstances and times when, as they say
aob5esse oJtige
That is precisely, she replied, what
am constantly saying to nay husband =
The Duke smiled and shortly after wen
and carried ON the same sort of converse
tions in the same gracious terms with othel
ladies' This won him golden opinions
But i, was rather blow to Mrs. Rossen
dale, when she referred with justifabl'
pride to Mrs Austin TO the Normandy in
vi.ation to learn that Mrs. Austin's family
too, had been quite as pressingly asked II
those mysterious terres beyond the Englisl
channel.
1t was not long before the hospitalitie
at Beresford Hall became the talk of tn,
country. Parties of all kinds succeeded
one another with startling rapidity. PEG
pie even came from a distance and tool
houses at Littleswamp for the summer
1t got bruited about that the Duke wa
contemplating matrimony, and Vincent ex
pressed himself as nervous on this score; h
sad that the Duke was forever eoneludin;
arguments with him on this subject will
''Eafn, Finceat, je me range" Thi
really kept up state of boiling excitemen
which threw even politics into the back
ground. Politics in fact almost ceased t.
exist, for very few of TIE Liberal part
resisted the social pressure of the Primros
party, supplemented as it was by the duca
influence Most of them became Conser
vatiyes, of course under the name of Union
| ists-a convenient term which salved thei