The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-13
CHAPTER 1.


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the respe' CHAPTER l.
thev nroy an early November day in the year
audience In Bath. Fine rain is falling and
The gen clouds hang low in the valley. A
hapuh 1 a. Irky depressing day anywhere. but
elas frrIv % in Bath than elsewhere. Given
age and ather and bright sun, and Bath is
occasion '; worthy of the praises that have been
sngl 6 osed upon it. Seen from the railway
u Ao,,r other side of the valley its aspect is
exnressed with its terraces climbing the hill
J. A. Sea n another. its many patches of green
too i'll to its stately monotony of stone; but
john n. meath a leaden sky, with driz-
sto05 that fallen uninterruptedly, Bath is
Carolina to t depressing Of towns Proud of
section. only city in England constructed
Capt u. stone, Bath has been content, save
ar9 scents and squares, to dispense with
is visiting itectural adornments its streets
Since the ne impression that the houses were
following ao solid wall, and the windows and
r, alderman then cut out as with knife, so
% Nc NJ cary, so monotonous is their ap-
Savannsuce
Rain. tie as 1t is when first brought from
Ttory larry, Bath stone is a greedy absorbent
of dirt and SCOT. The houses facing south
fall so frequently that it would almost seem
as if nature spent herself in the vain en-
deavor to wash the city white, and retain
something of the gray hue of the stone;
but the streets facing north are as black
II a mixture Of SCOT and water had been
rubbed into them; while those looking Q lst
and west are banded with alternate stripes
or black and gray such as Londoners are
familiar with in the lower portion of st.
PauIs. But Bath is proud of its grimy
h1nnIr rasNd fhavn g.
ding the scraping or painting of the
houses SO impressed are the inhabitants
with the idea that external dirt is an evil
dence Of internal respectability that they
maxi TO effort to brighten the houses by
Nv W decorations, and nowhere else are
dingy blinds the rule and clean blinds the
except as at Bath.
The nonotony of the streets is unbroken
by bay or bow window or other proiec-
tons, all is fat, regular. bare and ugly
4anE"n the crescents and terraces, which are
get ing -'He of Bath, are monotonous in the
we'll again y of their style aud frippery of the
An sctural decorations, and these are in
place cases fast beginning to crumble away
week. 70 fall in sooty fragments.
SIX IN on a fine day, when it gets one and
rev JAth bright sun, Bath, with it's broad
tlon al vell-paved streets, its handsome shops,
ness Ul s stately stone work, is city t. be
fra red seen on such day as that in queS-
Come tbs inexpressibly dull and dreary.
at the band was playing in the pump room
The canty audience. The bathing atten-
Efhngh. we're idle, for the equity and rheu-
spring. Jared not venture out a day like
MISS ne streets were well-nigh deserted,
MI an ack fronts glistened with the vet, and
ne rises sent up clouds of steam as they
celenra yed with their loads up the sharp
GuvEn5. Those pedestrians whom business
compelled to be abroad hurried along under
their dripping umbrellas.
1t was getting dusk now. and any one
passing down Royal Crescent who CHANGED
TO look up would have noticed the glow of
bright fire in, the drawing room of No.
100. A lady ssitting there alone looking
into the fire, d indeed there was no temp
tatlon to look outside, the great meaning
less columns b. 5ween each house-columns
winch support nothing and whose sole Oh
Ject appears to be to limit the view Of the
lnhablt nts-tpnfned the prospect to the
garden in from. and to the tops of the leaf
less trees in the park below, beyond this the
failing rain and the thckening gloom shut
In Che prospect
Mrs. Clltheroe, the lady gazing into the
IRE, Vas woman of some As years of age.
her figure was we'll formed and would
nave been stately had it not been for its
suLAess and the absence of grace in her
curves She IS sitting there bolt upright.
lights of the c seen 5er j., o ,oora cnu,for+ ~
Titt7o Sto. u l Per hair was light and still
ave,,; S''-i' nv, re, her eyebrows were thin
Ior etiie' III, eyes were cold gray, her
weiRiInnhn and e. mly set together, her nose
~ ormed and straight. Ms. Clitheroe
art leader of society in Bath and was a
bower there; woman who was respected
rather than liked, and who owed her posi-
tion as much to her own determined will
au I character as to the fact that she be-
came W. N-0 VI VIC 0lue'' Aali4lleS "a Vne
stools
cellent stpg. doctor of the place had summed
bsfle dpscrinti7r to a small party of init
Scene to Ioatch | would rather have Mrs
c unterInarcbI, lend than as an enemy, for
Of the most IA lslike to one she would never
DURING IT, had driven him out of the
visitor and call her a clever woman,
many, regaIad ermined one. l suppose she
her rare nia, ny particular reason for 60
loudly an,leiIj beaten path, but if she lad
The Last Aain | would back her to at
pated in bv ny means, and should be sorry
club, Mes Jan who stood in her path. |
Rogers. Fo Iteresting as a study of charac-
the play were ID not marry her for the
cellently render eciation of Mrs. Clitheroes
parts and W recognized by those who
applause II a true one
fully comm. which Mrs Clitheroe twisted
Instrument niger as she sat looking at the
and u cir littirf one
Ueorge was (UGUsTA-I want to have a
5oung Maste Will YOU drive over at 3
Th Oh eve rrowi We can talk here more
nr wv close than at your place, where
Ti Ia W one IN every five minutes. Your
rated oung brother, ALGERNoN."
affair to the such as would be thought
70 uneasiness, and yet it has
SAtheroe thoughtful. What