San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-22

gether, however. for he looked admira-
blein ilannels. .. .... ..r
At last came the great eyent-Mrs.
Hathorne's dinner for Lofty. .....
feel again my thrill of delight on
hearing our door bell ring rs | stood in
my room on that well remembered even
ing, for knew that it must be Olive
Creme, who had promised to come, for
me i'll her coupe. | scarcely waited for
the little maid to tell me that the car
rage had come, but kissed my mother
ahectonately, gave peck at my sister
Bessy, who had been bothering me a
good deal with persistent questions and
suggestions, and flew down stairs in or
der to escape any family demonstration
on the doorstep. | found Olive in quite
a whirl of excitement. Her wildness in
fected me, and when we rustled in from
the dark Street to the blazing hall at the
Hathornes' felt almost ready to rush
into the little ante-room, through the
half open door of which caught
glimpse of masculine figures and heard
a snatch of masculine laughter, execute
fandango and dance out again, just by
way of prelude to the evenings diver
sion. ..4 .a.. . h '.i ' "
But was sobered by suddenly finding
myself in Lofty room face to face with
two or three girls whom did not know,
and with Lefty Risquict, who instantly
tried to snub Inc, and my thoughts were
turned to the graver aspect of the situa-
tinn I thra,1, of ,.1aol, n,,l f,1
~ inspected myself. and then FASTENED
To the assistance of Olive. who had mis-
placed ribbon or lost a pin, and pres
emily we went down to the parlor, where
stood Mrs. Hathorne. calm and gracious,
and Lofty, who was looking very pretty
and little flushed. The men We're all
on the field before us, and In a very
short time we had formed our procession
and were parading into the dining room.
was taken in by Mr.. Mason Temple,
as had expected. Indeed, when Lofty
offered me my choice among the men,
determined upon him. | longed for Mr..
Boullter, it is true, but did not dare to
ask for him; and | remembered that
when Mr.. Temple saw me sitting ON
haycock at the Grene's garden party he
told Olive that made the prettiest
Phyllis he had ever beheld, and so
uaDled him for my A,nintor. When
announced my determination to Lofty,
she said that as | had declared for senti-
ment she would see that did not lose
any worldly advantage, and that she
would put Mr.. Charter on the other side
OF me. .....
Macy" Temple, as everybody called
him, was a tall, slight young man, with
good humored expression, who made
fun of himself when nobody else could
be found for victim, who was some
thing of a dilettante, and supposed to be
contributor to the magazines; Mr.. AL
gernon Fairfax Van Strouslaer Penn
Charter (his mother had been one of the
Van StrOuslaers, and her mother Fair
fax possessed pedigree before which
Englishmeu might have bowed, and
Symnastic ability which was said to be
the delight of professionalism addition
to which he was of considerable fortune,
v"ry fond of entertaining and as he
Va, accustomed to call himself, "a well
lllown sport" Between these two young
meu felt eminently well satisfied, and,
E, M surprise, perfectly calm.
lvoEed around the table as drew OFF
my gloves. II was large dinner-twen-
ty-six, | think--and Lofty had male it
up very carefully. 1t was supposed to
contain the choicest of the men in socie-
ty aud the most promising Of the buds of
the season. 1t was quiVe Il distance from
one end of the long table to the other,
&%l the room looked magnificent with
its high walls covered with family por-
traits, and this splendid glittering paral-
telegram in the very middle under the
chandelier. looked down the row of
faces: everybody was talking and laugh
'ng-there was Il rattle Of conversation.
laughed softly to myself and drummed
on the table The cloth was dellciOusly
white; my fingers looked so smooth and
clean and delicate that ! quite fell in
',va with them.
The plate before me was Scvrea; 4 love
" basket of Jacqucninot roses was
placed in front of il: any number of be-
"llueTlng Nlilc SLte'co. solHe CuJ GLASS
some Bohemian, stood ut hand; the sill
yer was King pattern. Further off was
IA gorgeous epergne. ro1nd the corner of
which | could see Olive smiling at me;
drew a long breath in the fulluess of my
JOY, and, as Mr.. Temple was looking
away, | turned to Mr.. Charter and
beamed upon hun. His face lighted up
in remarkably sudden manner, and he
gently took my dinner card. which had
been twirling in my fingers. and pro-
posed to draw diagram Of the table on
it for Inc.