New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-20

Mrs Sears spoke quite sternly, but there was
| twinkle in her ewes.
Il don't know said Row.na again.
We'll, we'll try to fnd out call myself a
woman Of progressive views. / am positive that
love art profoundly but not even for one of your
hest canvasses, Mrs. Bradford. am going to have
| you lost to U.s.
She rose and gently put the terrier down on q
chair.
Did you see vanessa Phillips often during
her last visit abroad?" she inquired
|. Not often. She seemed much absorbed"
"Yes. She has just returned. 1 see you didn't
know that. She is at her home on Chares-st.
She thinks Of giving up society. here Mrs Sears
smiled. She is now in the midst of profound
Irritation with an Episcopal Sisterhood. am not
sure but that she will have chapel added to her
house. somewhere She may get as far as con-
fessor before the tide sets the other way. I don't
know exactly about these sisterhoods Good-by
Pm glad 1 found you. You are worthy
| Of Marmaduke You can't expect to say
| more than that" With another smile" You
will hear from me soon."
Mrs. Sears stood near the door a moment. She
was fastening her cloak, but her eyes were on
her companion.
ut is really absurd in me to feel such an
interest in you, Mrs. Bradford. Not because
you would not naturally inspire interest but be-
| cause am old enough to know / ought to care
really for nothing, but my dinner and my easy
chair. And then l have a tendency to wish to
plan the life of young people, and l have noticed
that young people have equally strong tendency
TO plan their own lives. Now you. for instance.
Mrs. Bradford, are one Of those young people
who think they know what they want"
"Yes. decidedly. / know what l want" said
Rowena.
"Of course. It is great mistake. Don't want
anything Young folks usually try to be happy
Ridiculous You might as well try to dream a
certain dream. You never will be happy as long
as you try to be-. But you be comfortable
Youth. however, does not call for comfort; it
desires ecstasy. Good-by again. 1 shall write
to Keats that 1 have called on you and found
you looking and seeming happy. That will dis
quiet him far more than anything l can tell
him."
80 But why dsquet him P" inquired Rowena.
"On the general principle that ought to
be disquieted. / am really going now. l shall
send you card for my next reception. And you
must come. Be as earnest as you please about
your vocation, but you must not neglect society,"
mean Boston society, of course"
She kissed Rowena and went away.
When Mrs. Sears was established in her coupe
she said audibly to herself:
1t is truly astonishing what idiots young
people can make Of themselves II that Rowena
Bradford did not look at you in just that way and
have just that tone in her voice you would
certainly take her by the shoulders and give her
good shaking. She won't know any better than
to make people talk But they will do well not
to talk before Inc. What is Keats Bradford
doing. incoming about in New-York? But poor
child !"-suddenly reverting to Rowena again
She really is cursed with true genius in the
way Of putting pigments on to canvas. NO wonder
she has headache if she can't have her brush
in her hand If were man should say, What
the devil did she marry for" But l won't say
it, / believe in marriage-for some people, l
could have sobbed when she asked If it were
Gods will that men should have everything. And
| might as well have said yes 1T was. For II
certainly does seem if it were His will. and
we who are not men might as well submit
gracefully"
When she had been particularly interested it
was sometimes Mrs Searss habit to converse with
herself in her carriage! Occasionally her dog was
present to listen to her monologue. She said that
he was the most appreciative listener She ever had
because he could not answer back. And 1t Is
ones own idea in which one is interested, not
the ideas of another.
Rowena left in her room at the hotel found
she could not sit down again. She was dis
turbed Her thoughts would not again flow IN
that channel of eager hope about what she wished
IN do She was not naturally restless, she
had never thought herself so. She almost wished
she had remained In the country WIN her mother
and Sarah Kimball.
She sent down for a daily paper and looked
over the advertisements Of apartments to
LET. 1t seemed to her that she had
only lust become accustomed to the
knowledge that she need not think of the cost of
anything
"If keep by myself and am busy, why need
ANYTHING be said about me ?" was her thought,
flying off from the sense of gratitude that lack of
money need not hamper her.
She ordered carriage, and thus luxuriously she
went about looking at rooms. She rejected all
fats. She hesitated between two sets Of apart
ments, but finally took on Park-st. She
really knew very little of Boston, but she had
an impression that this place had an odor of bust
ness and would seem as if she were engaged in an
occupation. while at the same time its business
odor was not too strong.
To be alone in hotel was too dreary. She
took away her trunks and her terrier the next
morning. Before night her easel was set up in
north room.
She and Marmadulke walked back and forth
through the apartment. They were furnished
if by the wholesale. When / get few things
set round here" she thought /" l shall feel more
as if were not thrown in with the furnishing.
She sat down to write to her mother. As she
did SO she smiled. She was thinking Of Sarah
Kimball in those rooms She would be COM
panion, and she was her sister.
Her redundant verbs, and some other pc
culiarties, will keep me in good spirits when
| would succeed in mixing the right colors. And
what will she do in that hotel restaurant when
6-1e waiter sets her up to the table? Oh, yes,
Sarah Kimball must come"
In a week Sarah Kimball did come She
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