San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-08

ing HeI own opinions ana choosing her
own friends, and Dorothy liked Lady
Belvoir. although she so little resenbled
her. What was perhaps more to the
purpose was that Lady Belvoir liked
Dorothy Lady Belvoir may have had
her good Qualities-if so. they were not
very perceptible TO the ordinary male
intelligence; still. she may have had
them. because almost everybody has
| and 1t is conceivable that freshness. can.
dor and an unquestioning faith in the
| precepts and doctrines of the Established
church may have been attractive to her
as reminding her of days when she her
self had been equally unsophisticated
IN any case she had made friend Of
this girl. who it would perhaps be both
ungracious and unfair to remark. was
| not pretty enough to be her rival
The standard of beauty seems to vary
as much and as often as do the points ot
dog, so that it is really impossible t.
tell from year to year what VII take a
prize; but even in these days when ir
regularity of feature is esteemed a charm
it is probable that few people would
have said in so many words that they
considered Dorothy Leslie pretty girl
On the other hand. great many people
admired her very much. Her iron gray
eyes, at all events We're worthy of adj.
miration. and her dark hair grew album
dainty. She had. moreover. a neat little
figure and singularly pleasant voice
In answer to her question Lady Bel
voir said:
oh, don't know: most likely not
have known him for long time with
out having taken that trouble Just at
present am rather provoked with hin
because he Is under the impression that
It was be who broke up my engagement
TO Percy Thorold. and | am sure he j.
limiting as much to everybody who viii
listen to HIM"
Had he anything to do with it," Miss
Leslie asked, after pause.
Not he! He did his best--for Percys
sake, of course-to persuade me that
was going to make very great mistake
but had found that out without his
help. There was a time. continued
Lady Belvoir with retrospective yawn
when was seriously enamored of
Percy. He was good many years
younger then, and | was very young in
deed-a mere child, in fact. remember
promising in a vague sort of way to marry
him some day Well, then | married
poor Belvoir. and Percy, like a goo4
many others, was shocked didn't see
much of him until was free again, and
then he came back, and was touched by
MS constancy, and so before knew where
| was, 10 and behold, | was engaged
TO him! But it would never have done
He is good fellow, but he has old fash.
ioned ideas, and he has gone in strongly
for politics. which bores me to death
Besides, he disapproved of my ways and
style of conversation, and he took to ex-
pressing his disapproval, which was in,
tolerable. He pretended to be quite cut
up when told him that | had had
enough of him, but in reality he was
inst as relieved to be set at liberty as
was. We are now the best of friends.
think you would like him, because he
is awfully clever, and takes serious views
OF T.. IL. yoG do. and be is going to be
pr;.4r minister or something of that kim
before ne dies. Co",e &u! meet him
some evening al dinner, wiz your
THANK You. | shonld like it very
much, answered Dorothy ''But-but
does he still come to dinner with your
He will if ask him. Why shouldn't
he: We are cousins, you know, and, as
| tell you, we are very good friends.
Added to which it would be little too
ridiculous to allow ones self to be cut by
all the men whom one has been obliged
to throw over.
Percy Thorold had never mad the least
intention of cutting his cousin, and she
was not far wrong in her assertion that
the recovery Of liberty had been as well
come to him as it had been to her. That
she and he We're the best of friends was.
however. not quite so accurate state
ment. She had treated him little too
badly for that, and although he no longer
loved her he had been in love with her
for great many years He was glad to
have been Tilted. but he could not alto
gether forgive the jill; nor, in truth, is
any man likely to forgive a woman who
has destroyed his faith in all women
Nevertheless he accepted her invitation
to dinner for the following Sunday, his
chief reason for doing so being that he
did not want her or anybody else to i'm.
agine that he was brooding over his
wrongs.
Dorothy Leslie received a somewhat
hesitating permission from her mother
70 be present at the informal gathering