San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-31
B6dtrlX Randolph.
By JULIAN HAWTHORNE.

WITH HER AFFAIRS.
tirawl, would You commit suicide at a
table like this?"
"Oh, I'm awfully Obliged" returned
Mrs Bright, really feeling so on more
accounts than one, though she had never
before been able to endure that horrid
free and easy impresario. She over
came her repugnance, and recouped her
self for Bellinghams scant courtesy by
extracting whole hogsheads of it from
the ample reservoirs of her other neigh
Dor. After all it amounted to the same
thing. So a woman receives attention.
! 1t is small odds whence it comes.
Bellingham and the diva meantime
had taken short cut to q mutual under
standing, and would have been aston
| ished, had they stopped to think about
it, at The vistas of sympathetic feeling
that were opening up before them. Sun
shine arose on their way, and they
rambled onward at their will. To talk
with the prima donna on a subject that
attracted her was like drawing har-
monies from some exquisite instrument.
she responded to the highest touch, and
| you could see the promise and invitation
| Of music in her face before you spoke.
Bellipgham forgot that this was the
| woman whose adventures and audacities
| everybody had been discussing FOR weeks
past; she was to him a delicious outlet
for part of his nature which he had
heretofore repressed even when by him
self7so the seed first discovers itself in
| the earth, and the flower in the sunlight
| When, half an hour ago, he had been
presented to Mile. Mariana in the draw
ing room he had felt that she was beau
tiful. but remembered that she must be
repellent, and had passed on without a
| second look. She, on the other hand,
had been sensitive to his hostility, told
| herself that he looked cross and frig:G,
| and thought it fortunate that he was an
architect instead of singer, liable to
appear with her on the stage. But now,
under the mingled persuasion of happy
| accident and the genial stimulus of
lights, company and the table, their
| averted regards had unawares turned to
acc0rd-an accord which might prove
temporary, but WAS certainly delightful.
Il was strange to both Of them, but with
the sort of strangeness that seems like a
| sweet familiarity till now forgotten.
Now they would let air and warmth into
the secret chambers of their minds; now
they could read the answer to their
spiritual riddles in each others face.
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| CadI ,iader was prospecting blithesomely
with{Mr. GrasneTe on one hand am
MI. lrclyhfe on the other. The CONVEX
satil was of an aesthetic cast-would
theH vagnerian method of musical COM
posi- n prevail, and if so, would not
mus ultimately be chargeable with in
frin kg on the preserves of the other
arts, Mr.. Barclytfe, propping up his
mus che occasionally with his napkin,
wasl' opinion that music was the soul
and kconciliation of all the arts, and
that knowledge of music would hence
fortl be indispensable to enable the
pain +, the sculptor and the poet to dc
theiiA york intelligently. las to archi-
tectt E." added he, 1--WE al know that
in its higher manifestations it has beer
term II frozen music" "SOme of Wag.
ner's music that have heard" retorted
Mr.. tEasmere, was dry enough to be
caller Iharmonized hay lofts"
TIL epigram was overheard by Mr.
DalnSj at the center of the table, and
he ii nediately called out, There's a
| portr4t Of Grasmere down at the club
that said to have been painted to the
tune Ee old cow died Of" Hereupor
Mr.. Bldgood burst into hearty laugh
and observed that the old COW probably
| died from feeding on the harmonious
hay lGtt Mr.. Grasmere, who was prob
| ably d. Scotch extraction, drew himseli
| up to his full height and said to Mrs
| Cadwalader, with CLEAN from beneath
his eyelids, that such men as the last
| two SPEAKERS did more than vice or igno
rance to delay civilization. Mrs. Cad
walader smiled with scarlet lips, and
said in her small, caressing voice, 1.-THE
| proprietor of the Professional Amateur
| cannot believe that civilization is de.
| layedr
| If there was any further danger of q
breach Of the peace it was averted by the
action Of Wallie, who now arose in his
| place and proposed the health of the
guest of the evening. Though our
guest Tonight" he said, ''she is a host in
herselfE and if she was born in foreign
land, We all know that some of the tru-
est Americans have never set foot in the
United States" The toast having been
drunk3 with much cordiality. Waffle
| added, Il didn't learn that speech by
heart N,dies and gentleman. but that is