The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07
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ace and 1 will tell Miriam TO pack up
will write telegram to people where |
ways lodge asking If can have a sitting
pom and three bedrooms, and if not they
lust find me them somewhere. There
nothing so hateful as looking for lodgings.
like to drop IN and find cosy fires and
lTarm rooms, and snug luncheon ready for
Inc. There is no reason in the world why
ine should not bs comfortable if it can be
managed with little trouble. We need not
put that in the telegram; if we write for
this afternoons post they will have plenty
of time to get everything in readiness be.
fore We arrive.n
II have been thinking" Miss Peyton said,
as thy were on the road to Bath the next
day, rthat it would be just as well that
your name should not be known. it is not
| at 81 common one. and of course we do
| not want to provoke com nent. Therefore,
whenever it may be necessary to mention
name, shall call you Miss Constance l
don't know that ever did meet family of
that name, but there is no reason why one
should not exist
'sVery well. Miss Peyton, / think it
would be prudent; especially if we happen
TO meet MIR. Clitneroe, or any of his rela-
TONS only IL might be rather awkward If
some Of the people to whom you have intro
duced me as Miss Coroyn should be staying
down hero"
at is not likely. my dear. People don't
60 out OF town much In April"
Miss Peyton had sent down very particu-
lar instructions on the previous day, and
everything was ready for her on their arri-
val
There, my dear" she said, as she sat
down to lunch, II call this comfort. If we
had trusted to chance the utmost one could
have got would have been a chop cooked in
hurry, and we should have had to wait an
hour for that. Now, with this bright fire
and luncheon five minutes after we come in,
one feels at home. 1 like to wander about,
but like TO carry home with me-"
Luncheon over, Miss Peyton said:
"Now, we will go down to the Pump
rooms, and will put my name down in the
visitors book. and see who is here, though
| am pretty sure to meet some people |
know. Everybody goes to the Pump room
IN the afternoon very good band plays
there, and 1t serves as an excuse for people
to go and meet each other. l always drink
the waters when come down from Lon
don. After a course of three months Of
dinners, ones constitution wants a little
assistance, and fortuna ely the waters are
neither b i'd tasting nor bad smelling, so that
it is not a serious penance"
As Miss Peyton expected, she met several
people whom she knew, and was soon in full
conversation with them, Consta nee,
quietly seating herself aud watching the
scene TO which she had been too pre-occu-
pied on the occasion of her last visit to
Bath to pay much attention. The music
was very good, but it was evident the
great ma jority of those present paid very
little attention to it, and the buzz of low
talk continued unbroken during the PER
Torrance Of the pieces.
81 suppose you are alone, as usual, Miss
Peytonp she heard the lady sitting next to
her say.
mo; for once am not alone, l have a
young friend with me- She has bsen stay
ing for a short time with me in town, aud
when got tired of the place l brought her
down here with me-"
"Any one l know?
''No, think not. She is Miss Corbyn,
and her friends do not live in London. Let
me introduce her to you. She is almost the
same age as your daughter"
In the course of the next two hours Con-
stance was introduced to several psople, and
always in her right name. Miss Peyton
said afterward:
"These people are all Londoners. Con-
stance, before introduced you found out
that they knew none of the local people, so
that it is better to introduce you under
your right name, as you will very likely
meet them again in town. | have not put
your name down at all in the visitors book
only my own; so that it won't get into the
local papers"
A fortnight passed away, Miss Peyton en-
| joying herself thoroughly. She drank the
water, looked over the papers in the Pump
room, chatted for an hour or two with ac
quaintances, and then went for an hours
walk with Constance. In the afternoon
they went for drive the first thing after
Al l. i
| then went back to their lodgings. Here
almost every evening Miss Peyton had two
or three friends to dine. These dinners
were very cosy little affairs; the cooking
| being excellent and the wine good. Miss
Peyton was capital hostess, and although
| Constance knew none of the people whose
doings were discussed, and whose peculiari-
ties were laughed at, she enjoyed them
much. She had never heard conversation
little ill-natured. but it was certainly
amusing. The visitors were for the most
part gentlemen.
Women do not appreciate good dinner.
my dear, as men do" Miss Peyton said to
her one day; 'besides, | have a motive for
asking most of the men who have been
here. Several Of them. as you have no
| noticed, are military men, and just at pres
emit they are more likely to be useful than
any one eise;
Certainly. We have come down here
partly on your business, haven't we9
have not forgotten about it, though, dare
say, you have suspected that l have"
II did not at all think you had forgotten,
Miss Payton, but did not see in the least
how you could do anything"
81 don't know that we can, my dear, but
l am trying, and it is for that reason that
am specially cultivating military men down
here"
Constance looked surprised.
my dear, Bath swarms with military
men and Indian officials, aud that sort of
people, who settle here either because the
place suits their constitutions. or, more fire.
quently, because there are a number of
their friends here, and they form sort of
colony, and get together and talk over their
districts, or what not, with each other at
the clubs, and play whist to their hear vs.
content. These people, of course, get &c
know the couDty folk and hear the gossip of
the town. Now, as rule, very few of our
set in London have any acquaintance
among the residents here, but when men
like Col. Forsyth and Gen. Bangles and
Maj. Hersee come down here to drink the
waters for their govt they fud a host of
acquaintance among the military settlers.
So through them we may hear Of some
thing about your people. / told Col
Forsyth and the general that want to
know something about the Clitheroes, as l
hqys heard Of tnen from friend of mine,