San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-12

lowed a crumble or Two at Halves II you
shut our mouths on the subject of Miss
Brctherton."
"Hawes does his best" said Forbes, with
touch of obstnacy. "He looks well, be
strides well, he is fine figure of a man with
a big bullying voice | don't know what
more you want in German prince. 1t is
this everlasting hypercriticism which spoils
all ones pleasure and frightens all the char
acter out of the artistsl"
At which Mrs. Stuart laughed, and,
womanlkC, observed that she supposed 1t
was only people who, like Forbes, had sue
ceeded in disarmng the critics who could
afford TO scoff at them-a remark, which
drew n funny little now, half petulant, half
pleased, out of the artist, in whom one Of
the strongest notes Of character was his sus-
ceptibility to the attentions of women.
you've seen her already, believe" said
Wallace to Forbes. Il think Miss Brother
ton tOla me YOU were at the Calliope ON Mon
day."
"Ycs, was Well, as | tell you, 1 don't
care to be critical ! don't want to whittle
away the few pleasures that this dull life can
provide ne with by this perpetual discomfort
with what's set before me. Why can't you
eat and be thankfuli To look at that girl Is
a liberal education; she has fine voice, too,
and her beauty, lRr freshness, the energy OF
life in her, give me every sort of artistic
pleasure What n Curmudgeon | should be
what srudging ungrateful fellow if, after
all she has done to delight me, | should abuse
her because sho can't speak out her tiresome
speeches which are of no account and don't
matter, to my impression, at alias well as
= Al H..
who have nothing but their art, as you call
it; nothing but what they have been care
fully taught; nothing but what they have
laboriou>lv learned with time and trouble,
to depend uponw
Having delivered himself of this TRADE,
the artist threw himself back in his chair,
tossed bac!. his gray hair from his glowing
black eyes, and looked defiance at Kendall,
who was sitting opposite
But, after ALL" said Kendall, reused,
these tirCsUmc speeches are her mctier; it's
her business to speak them, and to speak
them well You are praising her for quail
ties which are not properly dramatic at all.
In your studio they would be the only thing
that man need consider; on the stage they
naturally come second"
'Ah, WELL" said Forbes, falling to upon
Stuart that tho carriage would soon be
round. Il knew very we'll how you and
Wallace would take her. You and | will
have TO defend each other, Mrs Stuart,
against those two shower baths, and when
we so to see her afterwards | shall be invalu.
able, for shall be able to save Kendall and
Wallace the humbug Of compliments
Whereupon the others protested that they
would on no account be deprived of their
share of the compliments, and Wallace es-
pecially laid it down that a man would be
poor creature who could not find smooth
things to say upon any conceivable occasion
to Isabel Bretherton. Besides, he saw her
every day and was in excellent practice.
Forbes looked little scornful, but at this
point Mrs Stuart succeeded in diverting his
attention to the latest picture, and the dinner
| flowed on pleasantly till the coffee was
handed and the carriage announced