Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-28

tieties of artistic and critical speculation wers still vaguely arguing themselves out within him as he sped westward dra wing in the pleasant influences of the spring sunshine, and delighting his eyes in the May green, which was triumphing more and more every day over the grayness of London. and would soon have reached that lovely short lived pause of victory which is all that sum mer can hope to win amid the dust and crowd of great city.
 Kendall was in that condition which is proper to men possessed of the true literary temperament. when the first fervor of youth for mere living is gone, when the first crude difficulties of accumulation are over, and when the mind, admitted to regions of an ampler ether and diviner air than any she has inhabited before. feels the full charm and spell of mans vast birthright of knowledge, and IS seized with subtler curiosities and further reaching desires than anything she has yet been conscious of. The world of fact and of idea is open, and the explorers instr,l ments are as perfect as they can be made The intoxication of entrance Is full upon him, and tho lassitude which is the inevita- Die Nemesis of an intending task, and the chill which sooner or later descends upon every human hope, are as yet mere names and shadows, counting for nothing in the tranquil vista ot his life, which seems to lie spread out before him. It is rare state, for not many men are capable of the appren- tlcesh1p which leads to it. and q breath of hostile circumstance may put an end to it; but in Its own manner and degree, and while 1t lasts, it is one of tho golden states of con sciousness, and man enjoying 1t feels this mysterious gift of existence to have been a Kindly boon from some beneficent power
 Arrived at Mrs. Stuarts, Kendall found a large gathering already filling the pleasant low rooms, looking out upon trees at either end, upon which Mrs. Stuart had impressed throughout the stamp of her own keen little personality. She was competent in all things in her criticism of a book, and more than competent i'll all that pertained to the niceties of house management. Her din. ner parties, of which each was built up from foundation to climax with the most delicate skill and unity of plan; her pretty dresses, in which she trailed about her soft colored rooms; her energy, her kindliness and even the evident but quito innocent pursuit of so- cial perfection in which she delighted-all made her popular, and it was not difficult for her to gather together whom she would when she wished to launch a social novelty. On the present occasion she was very much i'll her element. All around her were people mora or less distinguished in the London world: here was an editor there an artist, Q junior member of th4 government chatted over his tea with n foreign minister, and a flow of tue usual London chatter of q SUI. perior kind was ripping through the room when Kendall entered
 Mrs. Stuart put him in the way of a chair and of abundant chances of conversation. a nd then left him with g shrug of her shoul. aers and whisper. "The beauty is shock. inely latel Tell me what shall do if all these people are disappointed" In reality Mrs. Stuart was beginning to be restless Kendall had himself arrived very late, and, as the talk flowed faster and the room filled fuller of guests eager for the new sensation which had been promised them, the spirits of the little hostess began tosink The minister had dsurreptitiously looked at his watch, and a tiresomo lady friend had said good-by in a voice which might have been lower, and with Q lament which might have been spared Mrs. Stuart set great store upon the success of her social undertakings, and to gather Q crowd Of people to meet the rising star of the season, and then to have to send them home with only tea and talk to remember, was one of those failures which no one with any self respect should allow themselves to pisk
 However, fortune was once more kind tc one of her chief favorites Mrs Stuart was just listening with Q tired face to the we'll meant, but depressing condolences of the bar rister standing by her, who was describing to her the absurd failure" of q party to meet the leading actress of the Comedle Fraara:se Go which he had been invited in the previous season, when the sound of wheels was heard outside Mrs Stuart made quick step :or ward, leaving her Jobs comforter planted in the middle of his story, the hum of talk dropped in an instant and the crowd about the door fell hastily back as 1t was thrown open md Miss Bretherton entered.
 What glow of radiance and beauty en tered the room with herl She came in rapidly, her graceful head thro VII eagerly back, her face kindling and her hands out stretched as she caught sight of Mrs. Stuart. There was vigor and splendor of life about her that made all her movements large and emphatic, and yet, at the same time, nothing could exceed the delicate finish of the phy- sicat structure itself. What was indeed in her was this combination of extraordinary perfectness of detail, with a lash, . warmth, a force of impression, such as often raises the lower kinds of beauty into axceiience and picturesqueness, but is seldom In connection with those types where the beauty is. as it were, sufficient in and by
 
 own inherent -harmonies of line and hue to impress itself on the beholders.
 There were some, indeed, who maintained hat the smallness and delicacy of her feat lres was out of keeping with her stature and aer ample gliding motions. But here, again. he impression of delicacy was transformed ,alf way into one of brilHancy by the large lazel eyes and tho vivid wilderness of the kin. Kendall watched her from his corner. where his conversation with two musical young ladies had been suddenly suspended by he arrival of the actress. and thought that lis impression of the week before had been, ! f anything, below the truth.
 'sShe comes into tho room we'll, too," he l aid:to himself critically; "she is not mere | she has some manner, some indi- | An, now Fornandez"-naming l he minister-'.has got hold of her Then, I | uppose, Rushbrook (the member of the gov will come next and we commoner nortals in our turn. What nbsurdities these | hings are!"
 His reflections, however, were stopped by | he exclamations of the girls beside him, who 1 Sere already warm admirers of Miss Brother on, and wild with enthusiasm at finding | Sv,$ l.