Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-07-30

hospitality N something like the old
| southern style, but none Of their north
/ ern friends had returned since the war
| No doubt many of the latter were dead,
and the rest swept past Savannah every
winter in the gay stream of pleasure
hunters going to Jacksonville, Fernan-
dina and the upper waters of the St
Johns.
Mrs. Roosevelt dreamed of making
! Rosalie the means of relightiug the So
cial fires in her house, and she was not
disappointed The strong and merry
mountain girl brought breath of the
up country with her She had her hours
of homesickness, it is true, and cried
over her fathers letters; but she rallied
readily. taking up her cheerfulness and
girlish activity where she left off, and
making the most of the opportunities
her surroundings offered. She was, in
some indefinite way, aware that she was
taking into her life some new and pow
erful elements She had been delighted
with Chicago. she was enraptured by
Savannah.
quaintances among the Young people of
her aunts set. one of them, Mildred
| Fain, becoming her devoted friend. Miss
Fam was three years older than Rosalie.
petite brunette, with finely cut features
and "a faultless grace of manner. Her
family traced itself back to the early
DAYS of the city, where it was honorably
connected with colonial history. Her
grandfather had been a cabinet officer
or something of the sort under a Demo
cratic administration. and her father had
fallen, a distinguished Confederate gen
eral in one of the terrible battles of the
Virginia campaigns. In many points she
was quite Rosalie's opposite.
Rosalie loved her from the beginning;
and in fact that sweet affection that girls
have for each other was quickly formed
between them, greatly exaggerated by
their wholly opposite temperaments and
characteristic elements. They found in
each other something new and fascinat-
ing. quite unlike what usually draws
girls together They soon fully conhded
in each other; and so Rosalie discovered
that Miss Fain had lover, a Colonel War
ren Talbot. lawyer and politician, whose
name seemed much honored by the daily
newspapers of Savannah This young
man often dropped in at the Roosevelt
mansion to smoke and chat awhile with
Mr.. Roosevelt, but it CHANGED to be some
weeks after her first momentary meeting
with him that Rosalie found herself in
conversation with him on the broad
veranda. 1t was the merest accident,
this little tete-a-tete. but Colonel Warren
Talbot found it most charming bit of
experience,
"What a delightfully."- naive and pretty
girl your new friend isr' he said to Miss
Fain soon after.
''I'm quite charmed that you think
SO. responded that young lady; "she is
the sweetest girl ever saw, and she
knows SO much, and is so brilliant, too,
and so good and kind, and altogether
unlike any other girl ever saw"
"Oh," exclaimed the colonel gayly,
"you are an accomplished eulogist. Go
on, however-it is a bird singing of a
bird, one flower shaking out its perfume
on another-it's all very beautiful"
The next time he went to Roosevelt
place he again talked with Rosalie. He
had not been much in the north, and her
vivid descriptions of the great cities and
the social whirlpools into which she had
merely dipped while there were to him
as charming as anything of the sort
could be, aud they gave him as imme-
diate an impression of western power
and eastern agility rs if they had been
sketches and photographs of the scenes
and persons mentioned.
Il like those people," she said in a
tone Of enthusiasm; their vim and
movement, their alert eyes and bright
shrewd faces, give one the idea of ire
sistiole energy"
"Then you like the north better thar
the SOUTH" he remarked in a careless
tone. but fixing his eyes questioningly
upon her,
mo, sir like the south immeasur
ably better" she quickly responded, q
half suppressed rebuke coming with hel
words
Colonel Warren Talbot was thorough
man of the south, both physically and
mentally Tall, well proportoned, witt
olive complexion and large, dark eyes
finely cut features, black hair, mustacht
and imperial, a refined, naughty bearing
and IA voice possessed of all the passion
ate music of the low country. he was
representative of the long boasted chiv
airy which in the proud days of slavery
kept alive the medieval fires and en-
throned physical courage and literal pur
ity at the expense of liberal hunanities
"As compared with your north
Georgia mountains, how do you like oul
low country" he presently said, as if t
change the subject
"Oh, ! cannot compare the two, they
are so different, But | am charmed
with everything here. Our life in tn,
pocket is sweet and drowsy, much as il
is here; but there we have no society, nC
beautiful homes, no tropical things, nC
churches, no theaters." She said this il
voice indicative of retrospection
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