Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-10

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and the housekeeper for a month 10 the sen.
side, where by-the-bv, Jack joined thohi
and carefully discussed plans. In tnes
absence their unsuspecting patron M1 wa
having telephones laid on from al
the rooms in which the young, Peo-
pie were TO be together to his noraryi
where he proposed TO elaborate MS gresnys
realistic novel which was TO take the woi.a
by stoIm. He chuckled to himsen as
he thought what march he was stesiiin ny,
upon Zola, who. at the best, studied LIZ
characters piecemeal, and then myenteu
their probable conversations, whilst no
was practically going TO live with MS noio
and heroine and detail the very woi -,
that they uttered day by day ana ho Iaa Ia
hour unconscious though they Woui" W
of his constant presence. II,
BY the time the month was over III
traces of workmen had been cleared 49,
from Rawton Hall, and shorthand "rltsI
had been hired 10 assist the great man III
the Herculean task which lay before MN.
Mrs. Bracegirdle and Kate were thereupon
summoned home, and Jack put in MS ap-
pearance on the day following.
ALL KINDS OF RECREATION.
Executing at meals the young people sa"
very little of their patron. Ihey were ~. IN
formed that il was his pleasure that my
should amuse themselves by conyersatio,Ii,
aud recreation of all kinds in the house al
the morning, whilst in the afternoons . s
were free to 90 out and about, WIN hiiI
Bracegirdle as chaperon, pretty Iiuoaa
as they pleased. Indeed, so Determines
was Mr.. Casaubon that the, whole
affair should go on smoothIy, a au
happily that he put horses and car
riages at their disposal, encouraElns
them TO make what use OF them they
liked. The evenings again were W .bo
passed in each others company III .no
house. and, to their delight, Mr.. CasauoJin
regularly retired to his library lmmeu o.hond
after dinner. There, with his shorthhhu
writer at q desk, he might be seen houI
after hour-in fact, all the morning anu "a. Az
the evening-with his ears glued 10 tne
telephone-cups, whilst he repeated eoi-
yersations which were at once reduceu W
writing by his secretary. iii M
What a power was Love. which could 80
transform the commonplace into tne lueuI'
IL would be tiresome TO multiply li
stances of these conversations. one WIN
suffice az an example Of the sort OF thins
to which he was the delightful listener IL
You said yesterday, MIR. Bracegirdie'
that culture is the essence OF good society,"
What do you mean by that!
1.-THE difference between culture and no
culture. Miss Barton, Is the same az IhaI
between coarse, common, rustic paT1rlle
and the palate of the true ,epicurec INC
former would in all probability prefer the
strong draught OF a smacking salute on
the cheek of a red-faced Joan to tender
kiss slipped from the lips as from a BOWL Oh
nectar"
DON'T"
Mr.. Casaubon could not follow the Sc
ouence of this remark in Rates voice.
After a short pause the conversation cOn-
tinued: .ho
You mean, then, that a man OF the
highest culture is a sort OF emotiohaI Don
vivant?" -, .. Ill
Yes, that is my idea / will, If you VIII
allow me. illustrate what | mean"
AGAIN there was pause and mr. Casau-
hon supposed that Bracegifdle was eXeIn-
nlifying the matter in dumb show. he
could not. however. understand great
rustllng sound which followed, suggestlhS
that two persons were racing madly rounu
the room. -.
conversation would require some explana-
tory remarks, and therefore determined 10
make a sudden raid upon the drawing
room and witness the illustration tnat was
beng given.
4 REALISTIC SCENE.
He opened the door suddenly and found
his two literary models standing hand-lh-
DhIlu i'll Ilt luluulb VI biip AVNA@f
and laughing immoderately. lie tOld
them not TO mind him and pretended ne
was looking for book. On returning W
his library he made note as follows:.
Hero illustrates emotional bon ricdm
bv asking heroine to waltz round the room
with him, which they do accordingly.
Love is evidently dawning." -,
The above will serve as an illustration OF
the mode in which the great book was pc
-. Tho outborfa GREAT trouble
was the immense mass and variety OF ma
terial which he was accumulatlng, ana,
after two months Of continuous labor, ne
determined that things must be DrOughI
TO crisis. He therefore again consulted
Mrs. Bracegirdle, who undertook to give
her nephew hint that If he chose TO pro-
pose Mr.. Casaubon would use what IN
tluence he possessed with MS hlec 90 W eev
him accented. However, no dlfncuItles
were encountered. In the words OF Mr.:
Casaubons last chapter the Dawn OF
Love now blossomed into the full Daylight
of Betrothal and eliminated IN the Merl-
dian OF Marriage, "and so delighted was he
with the quality of his work that he set
tied 100000 upon his niece, forgave Mrs;
Bracegirdle the deceit by which she bad
introduced a son in the place OF nephew:
and hurried on the wedding, an account OF
which ceremony. little changed from that
shire Guardians reporter, brought the mon
umental work TO a fitting conclusion.
There are two sorts of plagiarism; the
blushing. which DISCUSSES as much as pos
sible, and the unblushing, which steals,
word for word. sentences, paragraphs, nay,
whole conversations, aud that without
word of acknowledgements. For baretaced
jmpudence of the latter kind never has
the world been treated TO anything equal
TO that which lies before rs. Az the
beginning of his second volume, for ex-
ample, Mr. Casaubon treats us 10 that VI
yacious conversation on culture with
which we are all familiar in that brilliant
book The Modern Demoeracy,' by vii
liam Murrell Hallock, interlardlng 1t with
remarks so inane and irrelevant that such
STUPIDITY Is almost Inconceivable.
Not content with stealing from George
Eliot. our thief pliers from George Moore;
not content with rihing the pockets OF the
dead. he kidnaps the literary offspring OF
the living"
Every one of the notices was written in
the same strain. More than one, indeed,
appealed TO the despoiled authors, one aud
all. TO bring actions for breach of copy
right and to unite to crush this literary
reptile at his birth. What on earth could
it all mean!
On the door OF q DeautlIul Olu mousse
once in the depths of the country, but
now surrounded by the food of London
bricks and mortar, which beats up against
the high walls of its old-fashioned garden,
may be seen brass plate bearing we'll
known physicians name.
THE DAWN or LOVE"
Within white-headed, old man may be
met with, who. ten to one, will be found
with his hand to his ear, listening intently
TO nothing.
If you get into conversation with him, he
| will tffl Won that he is writing q realistic