Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-13

81 think you are particularly nasty
about George, who is my dear friend
and whom love hugely" put in Mrs.
Jock. II know that great many wo-
men want him to paint them and try
hard to get him to do it, but never see
any results of all their sittings. He
painted my picture for Jock, and 1t was
hung in the New and everybody saw 1t
that went there. And once sat to him
for my hair for Venetian picture he
was doing and don't call that much
for a great friend to do for man, espe-
cially when there wasn't model
in all London just then with the right
colored hair. And We're is much too
sensible to be flattered by anything.
BY the bye, Gwen, have you seen any
thing more of Mrs. Anthony Carstairs?"
mot anything" replied Mrs. Hope,
falling into the tran. In less than two
minutes the friends were deep in gossip
appertaining to their own particular set
and We're not being interested moved
away to the piano, thinking very Bit
terly Of her own unspeakable folly in
having let her fancy roam towards a
man who If not all things to all men,
was without a shadow of doubt all
things to all women. He came In pres
emily and found his way straight to the
piano. "How sorry am that Mrs. Jock
mentioned the SKETCH" he said vexedly.
"Why?" she asked coldly, looking at
him with her clear, wonderful eyes, inst
dashed with scorn. "There is surely no
secret about it. All the world may
know"
az would rather all the world did not
know" he said ruefully. Sometimes
one likes to keep things to ones self.
Mrs. Hope has the faculty for letting all
the world into ones little secrets"
We're laughed outright. "Ah! you
ought to have been here just now. /
have learnt too many secrets to feel any
longer flattered about the study for the
Penelope" she said.
"What secrets have you learned?"
"About the little foot-and the hand
and armand the nose in profle-and
the full length-you see have heard 1t
ALL"
Lumley stared at her with complete
establishment. "I don't understand you
the least little bit in the world" he said
plainly-''whose foot and hand and arm
and nose are you talking about?"
Miss Nugent involuntarily looked
across at Mrs. Hope, who was now deep
in conversation with the boy Damery.
mot here" he cried, bis eyes follow
here. MRS. Hope didn't tell you all
that, did she? OH well, of course 1
cannot put my word against lady's. /
didn't know it, that's all. Anyway Miss
Nugent, you'll let me finish the study
for the Penelope, won't you?"
"Ohl certainly" she replied lightly,
for she did not wish him to know that
she was disturbed about it.
"And-Oh, Miss Nugent, do get up
very early in the morning and let US
work before breakfast Mrs. Hope
never shows before eleven o'clockm
How we'll he knew Mrs. Hopes habitsl
She could not help the bitter th5nght
passing through her mind, but she
smiled, all the same, and promised that
she would be ready at eight o'clock to
the very minute.
Then Mrs. Jock asked her to sing to
them, and when she ceased she found
that Lumley was sitting on the sofa be-
side Mrs. Hope listening to her with the
same air Of chivalrous devotion which
had first attracted her. She did not
know that the lady had impera-
lively beckoned him to her, nor
that . desperate resolution had
already formed itself In his mind that
he would put the all-important question
to We're as soon as ever he could get ten
minutes quietly alone with her. For
him Just then the question was wheth-
er he would, With this woman ia the
house. ever be able to get ten minutes
peace until she was oct of IL?
And We're, who was completely de-