Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-08-09

"10u ADMIT, Lnen, ndb you are 3 UNIV
81 admit nothing. II, as your word
seem to imply, Miss Kingsley says
acted unbecomingly at her house, SIT
does not speak the truth. She is jeal
Gus. The long and short OF it is, MIR
Spence was polite to me, and that made
her angry. l believe she wishes &c
marry him herself" said, in the full
ness OF my anger.
virginia! l am astonished at you.
1t will not mend matters to insult your
benefactors. What motive had MISS
Kingsley, pray, in asking you to her
house but kindness?'
"Pshaww 1 cried, now thoroughly
reused. "She asked me because she
thought was fashionable, and because
It would read we'll in the newspaper
that had been at one Of her tea par
ties. She imagined l was so silly and
brainless that her friends would take nc
notice of me, and when it turned out
that they did she lost her temper"
"You have lost yours, Virginia. |
presume you will tell me presently that
Mr.. Spence flirted with you. l never
heard such nonsense in my life, and
wicked nonsense too; for you are doing
your best TO injure the character OF q
young woman who is in every way your
superior, and has had none of your adj
vantages. AS said, | presume you will
claim that Mr.. Spence firted with you,
and that he wrote to you first.
Wrote to me? He has never written
to me, nor to him, except to ask his
advice about a teacher"
lyon admit so much!"
"Why shouldn't l? l was interested
in his theories, and l applied to him as
the most natural person 10 consult"
cit is very easy to explain it away In
that manner, but unfortunately for you
my informant adopted"
''Why don't you say Miss Kingsley,
and have oone with it, Aunt Aynes?"
Very we'll then, If you prefer, Miss
Klngley adopted very different style
in speaking of you than you employ OF
speaking of her. She tried to spare
you as much as possible, and said what
she did only with great reluctance. l
could see that she was holding back,
and was resolved not to tell the whole.
OF course she said, L know
Miss Vagina did not mean to
offend, and very likely in general
society her little indiscretions would
have been quite proper; but at a pure
ly intellectual gathering like ours,
from which as you know all vanitieS are
vigorously excluded, it did seem to me
unSympathetic of q new conner to intro
duce an element of coquetry. When /
say that since then she has written
notes to Mr.. Spence, whose time Is
precious as gold, asking kim to call
upon her in q social way, you will, am
sure, my dear Miss Harlan, excuse my
speaking. 1t is for her own good that
I have ventured to do so, as word
from you would convince her OF her
thoughtlessness.
THE hypocrite!" murmured, too in
dignant to restrain myself.
"There you go again, .villifying her
with abusive epithets ghen she has sim
ply done her duty asia friend. Con-
trast, for instance, your various express
sions with hers. Jealous, invited you
to her house because you were fashion
able "a most unwarranted aSSumption);
"a hypocrite;' and, worst Of all, you ac-
CuSO nCl VI VI gluE w VIII pAlO 0hONbiOnS
of man whom she venerates rs mas
ter, and, who, though he has
never taken the vow Of cell
bacy, is too much absorbed in
the life work he is pursuing to give q
thought to marriage. And what does
she say of you? She merely calls it 'un-
sympathetic OF new conner to disturb
the harmony of sober minded people by
the introduffiqHnn Of cC.SuetFgmatiiz5dY SUI sun
Behavior l should call it disgraceful'
was mortified, Virginia, thoroughly
mortified; and especially as Mr. Spence
had been here the day before and spoken
of YOU in terms that made me feel really
proud. As Miss Kingsley said, how
ever. he is the last man In the world to
notice such thing as coquetry."
| made mental interrogation point,
Int | did not dare to give utterance to
the heresy lest | should seem to be car
rying out Aunt Agnes insinuation that
| would next accuse Mr.. Spence OF tllrt-
ing with me. Ireplied with as much
ouietness as l could at the present COM
mand:
81 can only repeat what I have al
ready said. Miss Kingsley has SIAN
dered me, whether intentionally or not
I do not know. But her charge OF
coouetry is utterly without founda-
ton
"Did you not make eyes at Mr.. Barr,
and give him rose? she interrupted.
"You see know all"
mo, did not" answered, flushing.
"On the contrary, Mr.. Barr made me
feel excessively uncomfortable during
most of the evening by the absurd COM
pliments he paid me, and by the way in
which he stared at me. As for the rose,
I dropped it accidentally as was get
ting into my carriage, and believe he
picked it up"
Accidentally" said Aunt Agnes,
with a sniff. Gas my informant said,
when a young woman filings herself at
the head OF hot soued poet, what Is
she to expect?' Human nature is human
nature, and there are not many men
with the self control Of Mr.. Spence"
miss Kingsley seems to have given
YOU a great deal of information, Aunt
Agnes"
"You are mistaken again, as usual
The person who told me this is sober
minded woman of middle age, who could
not have been influenced by jealousy"
"Mrs. Marsh, Isuppose. l might have
known it from her choice vocabulary.
Talk OF gossips, Aunt Agnes; | never
heard worse one in any drawing-room
in the city. Who is Mrs. Marsh?"
was glowing with indignation again,
and Justly so as it seemed to me. l had
been cruelty misconstrued, and my self
control on the occasion of Miss Kings
ley's tea had been wholly unappreciated.
"Who is Mrs. Marsh? You may well
ask who is Mrs. Marsh, afterw hat you
have said about her. Gossip or no gos-