Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25

not. OF course Lofty presentsd him to me,
and walked along on the inside, greatly
triumphing, and, to my surprise, perfectly
cool. He had on a gray walking coat,
rough and loose, his trousers were gray
and Of elegant cut. and it seemed to me
then as il there was something almost di-
vine in the way his collar and cfsvat har-
mnmized with his unburned neck and crisp
golden hair. He naturally directed most
of this conversation TO Lofty, and at inter
walls only slipped In a word to me. When
we reached the doorstep there was q halt.
could not go IN, and Mr.. Boulfter de-
clined Lot.y's invitation to lunch. We
/ had met him going IN the opposite direc-
ton, and though knew that his concern
was only with Lofty, just as he was pre-
pairing to pretend to leave me with her
looked at him. He afterwaxd declared that
I gave him beoadside that raked me
fore and aft, assure you, Miss Ethel"
but ut tho time he behaved with great cool
ness. merely remarking, as if he had in
tended to say it all the time: And if
Miss Jones will permit me, Will escort
her home. l am going to my Office, pro-
test, and 1t won't take me at all out of my
way" I wanted horribly to wink at Lofty,
but was afraid to do so, 30 l walked off
without throwing my umhrella up in the
air or indulging in any expressions of tri-
umph.
He was actually by my side, my property
for the time being; on me those eyes were
bent, to me that adorable voice spoke. He
was just trifte more interested than he
had been, but I was rather calm. l knew
that this walk was only tentative He
%,lb L., -
from my friend, Miss Hathorne; limited
that he understood that was clever at my
pen, and said he hoped to SEQ me next win
ter.
st don't think it likely that shall 90
out much, Mr. Boullter," said l. went
on Immediately (for didn't want him to
think was ''fishing'). "a young person
who is possessed of talents as remarkable
as mine are, according to your account,
had better occupy herself in cultivating
them rather than IMP
Now, don't blackguard society before
you see it, said Bran, interrupting me,
''it's-quite jolly place. you know"
81 am very fond of my books, however"
answered.
''The proper study of womankind is
man. said he. Then he began to smile.
"If you prefer to study the individual
rather than the race shall be very happy
to give you object lessons"
Il think" said I, that should prefer
to begin with race characteristics. Then
could better understand the individual"
Il fancy" said he, that you understand
both pretty we'll"
am free to say that I think l did l
knew iustinct,vely that it would be COM
monp4ace to ask him to be good to me if
did go out; knew that / couldn't make
him want to do SO by asking him point
blank to do it, or by letting him see that
had led up the conversation to making him
offer to do it, and felt that the true way
to encourage him was to refuse his advances
by word of mouth and accept them by word
of eye. !
THANK you for the compliment" said /.
ON return for which / shall have to accept
your offer Of the object lessons-on condi-
ton that you let Inc choose the object" n.
Certainly" he replied; Il should not
care myself to be the object"
ABR" said l. l came terribly near be-
ing afraid that he has piqued, and hasten
ing to say that wished him to be the OBJ
ject, for did not foresee bubble.
Because" he went on, Il should prefer
to be-a-your subject, you know" The
pun vas not good, even for pun, but it
certainly pleased me; and the killing little
way in which he said your subject" quite
overcame me. Luckily for my presence of
mind our door was just at hand, and
could ask him to ring the bell. Goodness!
how victorious felt! Unless my unprac-
ticed eyes deceived me, he wanted me to
ask him to come in. But / did not do so,
and as he held out his hand lit was IN
necessary, to be sure, but I had made eyes
at HIM he said:
when l next come this way hope that
it may bel
with an object" said /, finishing the
sentence for him with as much camness as
possible
My delight was only natural; and my
rest was disturbed that night by dazzling
visions of future successes and glories. My
anticipations had formerly been somewhat
vague, but that day felt the fall force of
a material, distinct desire. l wanted to
know every man in town so that might
vauqnish each one In turn if possible-snd
wanted, oh. how wanted, to get into the
full swing Of pleasure and go it! That
familiar if vulgar phrase exactly expresses
WudG utsAkft, anu Qctoff1liicu G1dt Wncu
1 got the chance I would go it," and 1
think that before finally stopped building
air castles and dropped OF to sleep added,
land with vsRgeancef'
The chance to know more men arrived
sooner than had expected.
Lofty had been permitted by her mother,
in anticipation Of her going out, to i'll
their country house with young people Tor
a week in the end of June. and the dear
girl Immediately wrote to say that she
must of oourss have me. 'As you may
imagine. Ethel" she said, you and are
to be the mot outs of the team. A Ger
tain person." she continued, may be angry
if he likes, but he Is only boy, even if he
is at college, and 1 shall not ask him. Did
tell you how furious he was when in
formed him that we had been reading
Juvenal. he said that he knew we couldn't
do it. and az any rate it wasn't fit reading
Maybnrn could give it to US. You may
imagine that did not tell him that it was
only twenty lines, and that Miss Mayburn
had to read them to rs after ALL"
1t Yves rather ruthless in Lofty to ask
only the older men and pass over her
younger admirers, but was very glad she
did.so, and profited accordingly. What
jolly time we had! For a really consistently
perfect time commend me to q weAeeocked
glimpse OF Society Canaan, and L saw 1t,
not from a height, but face to face. How
pleasant it was to sit on rug. under the