Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-13

81 hope yOu don't bear me any grudgc for
buying the old place."
A rumor had gone abroad in the
neighborhood to the effect that the new
owner of two-thirds of the old Beverley
estate was u very wealthy man. 1t orig
mated with the lawyer, who, to be eau
tious and we'll within the limits of prob
ability, estimated his clients worth at
| fifty thousand dollars. 1t did not stop
Mt that, of course, for every one told it
and added ON ten thousand moro at least
for the credit of the story. They never
grasped the actual sum, because as yet
the arithmetic of the south stops Il good
way short of millions, but they speedily
made out enough to know that they had
among them a rara avis i'll the shape of
a man with Il great deal of money.
AT first they talked about it among
themselves. and rolled the thousands
| over in their minds and mouths to get
accustomed to the taste Of the gold.
| Then they began to call and to invite
him to their houses, for the aroma of
wealth is pleasant II the n0Strils of
| Puritans and Cavaliers alike, aud they
took to calling his plantation Lower
Req. on" to distinguish it froll Rrpton
proper, which was still attached to the
Beverley name, and the oversccr's house
they called 1.-THE cottage"
Anthony was not without II sense of
humor, and he enjoyed some quiet
chucklcs over the turns of fortune. He
valued his money and he valued himself
both more highly than either deserved
but he valued other things also. He
liked to feel himself welcome and we'll
received among the gentry that had al
ways seemed to him the flower of the
earth, because of its cXCluSiVenCss, its
traditions and the position of his own
class in regard to it. He made no effu-
sivo response to their kindly advances,
but he was gratilied by them; neither
did he haunt their houses. because of
subtle consciousness of difference, which
oppressed him most in intercourse with
ladies' II shyncSs that had never afflicted
him in the society of women of lower
grade. S,ll, the knowledge that he
| could miuwl' with cultured and cOurtc-
| GUS women un terms of outward equal
ity ut least was tlattcrinE to his self love.
With mon, this feeling rarely troubled
him. for in his nonadiG life he had brvn
thrown into intimate association With
all grades, from gentlemen to "Ercaa-
crs," and possessed to the full his share
of American adaptabiity. He was
clever and UlSCrVant. and shades of
coarsrucss i'll men are rarely conspicu-
Ouslv defined in their intercourse with
one another.
His sturdy self respect prevented any
approach to snOblshncss; and if in his
ruul he considered sense, or "smartncss,
rs he called it, and ability in money get
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,xprrssiou of his views, and did not
swagscr to any offensive extent.
His apnparancc WAS also in his favor
FOR he N;Ii y handsome man. in the flesh
and blood stvlr Of the athlete who
! hounds into the ring with Il triple Somcr
d sault and rides four horses abreast, and
: from the high esteem in which imam
, lncrs" are hell among the common PEG
- pie of the .oath. Erd Anthony's coulC
C pass muster tolrrably well. They lacked
o grace and Suayity, certainly, but tho
want WAS not NOR, conspicuous in hin
than it is in many nen far better &C
credited.
On his return FROM his initial call OF
med him up To his wife with pith an'
TO- pcrspicuity:
Giles something of Il gentleman, m
dear, but not quite SO. In the neN
school, l suppose, he would stand rathc
above the middle of the class, but in tn
r. old he would grade lower. There's goo
metal in him. but Il wonderful deal Q
alloy mixed in. Among men he is
shrewd, intelligent and rather agreea
bic fellow, quick and clever i'll converse
ton on all practical subjects (Which al
the only sort likely to be preached wit
him), and not aggrcssivcly braggy, COZ
sidering that he can fill up tho bush'
measure and shake it, while none of h
or neighbors can conveniently even up I'll
to quart, but think that when you ladit