San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-25

While zoe emptted the bottles of cham
H. -.
IiTparted this welcome intelligence to
my girls-(being now matron, this was
the manner in which | spoke of Lofty
and Olive)-when met them at the gate,
and drew from them the warmest en-
comiums. This was after lunch; and
presently several of the cricketers re-
turned to my side bestowing themselves
on the steps and in the seats of our own
men; and just as our gayety was at its
height in walked Mrs. Naples, the
hitherto acknowledged queen of cricket
matches, looking wonderfully t.ig and
complete in lovely white cambria, only
to find that had been beforehand with
her.
All the girls in the grand stand We're
furiously envious of us already, and our
position was emphasized when Mrs.
Naples took her seat, for she happened
to be directly below us and was unat-
tended save by domestic cavaliers. l
could not resist the temptation to rub it
in little When looked in the direc-
ton of Sir Edward Cover-Poyntz he was
talking to Lofty in the most ardent man
ner. AT Mrs. Charters garden party
there will be dancing, | suppose, Miss
HathorneT
Il suppose so, my lord"
Il say, you know you mustn't call me
my lord; I'm only Sir Edward"
"But that sounds so-familiar," says
Lofty (the wretchD
"Then drop the sir You know. But
will you give me dance? Will you
promise me the first, and the second, and
the third
Goodness, your grace! what will my
| young man say?"
"Have you young man? Do You al
low followers, Mrs. Charters"
(which l will not deceive your royal
highness," said Lofty; 81 have young
man. How was to know about you?"
"You ought to have told me sooner
it wasn't safe. How shall | be able to
score now?' At this point l thought it
proper to begin. MRS. Naples" l said,
IT am going to have a garden party on
Saturday for the cricketers, and You
must come. Will you? And let me
present Sir Edward Cover-Poyntz. Sir
Edward bowed.
Mrs. Charter is awfully good to u.s."
said he; 81 hope you'll come to our gar
den party-it will be jolly affair,
VOW. I'm going to put up wicket and
bowl to the ladies'"
do come" said sweetly; "pray dol"
Then presented all the other English
men about me, none of whom was at all
likely to leave his occupation, and leaned
back in my seat, happy in the conscious
ness that Mrs. Naples felt like fisher
man forced to watch another man hook
ing the trout out of his particular pool.
All through the three days of the
match | stocked my seats with pretty
girls, and the Englishmen declared loudly
that | had laid trap for them and rem
dered them totally unfit for their duties.
They demanded an amount of sympathy,
however, entirely out of proportion to
their not overwhelming defeat, but can
dor cOmpels me to admit that they gOtlt,
and that many girls were so unpatriotic
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afraid to state the number of reed birds
that Sir Edward was supposed to have
eaten at my garden party, and | never
saw man firt in more enthusiastic
and determined manner. Nor were his
associates far behind him. | myself can
testify that so strongly was | tempted to
put myself under the influence of my
10 n11ax,-r tbnt I alT fnrUnt
that was for the first time a hostess.
But my garden party was a tremendous
success. Even the Chinese lanterns
commanded admiration.
And now was coming to pass the full
fllment of all my desires. Now | had
the enjoyment of all the things for which
| had longed as girl. l had but to lift
my hand, and the resources Of society
were open to me. And when | now dis
played myself in my true colOrs society
stood amazed. was no longer Ethel
Jones. the quiet, the well hammered, the
intelligent, the almost aristOcratic-lw was
Mrs. Charter, the fashionable, the dash
ing, the daring, the unrestrained. had
hardly appeared that winter before the
dowagers began to look at me with awful
eyes. Many an ample bosom heaved
with indignation at the thought that this
was the girl of whom they, the dowagers,
had approved, at whose not-to-have-been-
expected good manners they had won
dered, whose severe style they had OBJ
served with admiration, and with whom
they had pointed many moral and
adorned many tale.
"I-~pki" cried their daughters to them