Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

downstairs on errandS Thus, going and
coming, she had six glimpses of him, in the
aggregate, without seeming to look in his
direction: and she tried to endure thes e
electric ecstacies without showing any sign,
hut they huttered her up a good deal, and
she felt that the naturalness she was putting
on was overdone and quite TOO frantically
sober and Historically calm to deceive. The
painter had his share of the rapture. He
lad his six glimpses, and they smote him
with waves of pleasure that assaulted him,
beat upon him, washed over MIN deliciously
and drowned out all consciousness OF what
he was doing with his brush. So there were
six places in his canvas which had TO be
done over again.
At last Gwendolen got some peace of
mind bv sending word to the Thompsons, in
the neighborhood, that she was coming
th.:c 10 dinner She wouldn't be reminded,
at that table, that there was an absentee
who ought to be Il presentee-a word which
she meant to looi out in the dictionary at 4
calmer lime.
About this time the old earl dropped in
for a chat with the artist, and invited him
10 stay TO dinner. Tracy cramped down his
iav ard gratitude by sudden and powerful
exercise of all his forces and he felt that
now that he was going to be close to Gwen
dolen and hear her voice and watch her
had nothing valuable to add to his life, for
the present
The Earl said to himself, "This specter
can eat apples, apparently. We shall find,
out. now. if that is a speciality. think,
myself that it's specially. Apples, with
out doubt, constitute the spectral limit. 1t
was the case with our first parents. No. I
am wrong-at least only partly right. The
line was drawn at apples, Just as in the
l,,f - ha 9th
rection.' The new clothes gave him
thrill of pleasure and pride. He said to
himself, I've got part OF Linn down to
date, anvwav.
Sellers said he was pleased with Tracy's
work, and he went on and engaged him to
restore his old masters, and said he should
also want him to paint hiS portrait and his
wife's, and possibly his daughters The
tide of the atist's happiness was at food
DOW. The chat flowed pleasantly along
while Tracy painted and Sellers carefully
unpacked Picture which he had brought
with him. 1t was chrome; a new one, Just
out. Ii was smirking, selt-satisied por-
trait of man who was inundqting the
Union with advertisements inviting every
body TO buy his speciality, which was So
shoe or a dress suit or something of
that kind. The old gentleman rested the
chrome fat upon his hap and gazed down
meditative. Presently Tracy noticed that
he was dripping tears on it. This touched
fine Young fellow sympathetic nature, and
at the same time gave him the painful
sense of being an intruder upon a sacred
privacy, an observer of emotions which a
stranger ought not to witness. But his pity
rose superior to other considerations and
compelled him to try to comfort the old
mourner with kindly words and a show of
friendly interest He said:
81 am very sorry-is it friend
whom"
"Ah, more than that, far more than that
"a relative, the dearest 1 had on earth,
although was never permitted to see him.
Yes, it is young Lord Berkeley, who per-
ished so heroically in the awful confa-
why, what is the natter"
''Oh, nothing, nothing. 1t was q little
startling 10 be so suddenly brought face to
face, so to speak, with a person one has
heard so much talk about. Is it a good
hkeness?"
Without doubt, yes. / never saw him,
but you can easily see the resemblance to
his father said Sellers, holding up the
chrome and glancing from it to the chrome
misrepresenting the usurping earl and back
again with an approving eve.
Well no, / am not sure that make out
the likeness. 1t is plain that the usurping
earl has there a great deal of character and
long lace like a horses whereas his heir
here is smirky, moon-faced and character
less"
We are all that way in the beginning
all the line," said Sellers, undisturbed.
1--WE all start at moon-taced fools, then later
we tadpole along into horse-faced marvels
of intellect and character 1t is by that
sign and that fact that detect the resem-
blance here, and know this portrait to be
genuine and perfect Yes, all our family
are fools at first
''This young man seems to meet the
hereditary requirement, certainly"
.'Yes, YES, he was a fool, without any
doubt. Examine the face, the shape of the
head, the expression. It's all fool, fool,
fool, straight through"
Thanks, f" said Tracy, involuntarily.
'Thanks?"
"I mean for explaining it to me. Go on,
please"
LAS was saving, tool is printed all over
the face. A body can even read the de-
tails"
what do they say?"
Well, added he, he is a wobbler."
"A which?'' ,..
"Wobbler. A person that's always taking
a firm stand about something or other
Kind of a Gibraltar stand, he thinks, for
unshaakble fidelity and .everlastingness-
and then, inside of little while he begins
10 wobble; no more Gibraltar there; no. sir,
mighty ordinary commonplace weakling
wobbling around on stills That's Lord
Berkeley to dot, you can see it-look at
that sheep. But-why, you are blushing
like sunset. Dear sir, have l unwittingly
offended in some way?"