The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-10

be cOnstderAt6 also OF mine. IL were Dest 10
cease from using my family name. now. Lady
Rossmorc". .......
Goodness gracious! well. never! What
am Il to call you. then y
lin private the ordinary terms OF endear.
ment will still be admissible to some degree.
but in public it will DO more becoming II
your ladyship will speak to mo az my lord. or
your lordshp and OF me as Rossmore. or the
Earl. or his lordshlp. and"
"Oh. scatl can't ever do It. Berry"
"Bnt indeed you must. my love: we must
live IN to our altered position. and submit
with what grace We may to its requirements"
"wcll. all right. havo II your own way: Two
never set my wishes against your commands
yet. Null. my lord. and It's late to begin now.
though to my mind it's the rottenest foolish
ness that ever was.
Spoken like my own true wife! There. kiss
and be friends again."
"But-G wendolen! I don't know how am
ever going to stand that name. Why. a body
wouldn't know sally Sellers In It. It's too
largo for herr kind OF like u cnerub in an ulster.
and III most outlandsh sort OF a name. any
way. TO my mind"
you'll not hear her find fault with Il. my
lady"
THAT'S a true word. She takes to any kind
OF romantic rubbish like she was born to It.
She never got II from me. that's sure And
sending her to that silly college hasn't helped
tho matter nny-just the other way"
Now hear her. Hawkinsl Rowena-1van-
hoe College Is the selcctest and most aristo.
cratic seat Of learning for young ladies' In our
country. Under no circumstances can q girl
get In there unless she Is either very rich and
fashionable or can provo four generations OF
what may be called American nobility. Castel-
lated college buildings-towers and turrets
and an imitation moat-and everything about
the place named out OF Sir Waiter Scots
books. and rcdolent OF royalty and state and
style: and all the richest girls keen phactons.
and coachmen in livery. and riding horses.
with English eroous in plug hats and tight
huttoned coats. and top boots. and whip
handle without any whip to 1t. to ride sixty
three feet behind them"
And they don't learn blessed thing. WASH
ington Hawkins. not q single blessed thing but
snowy rubbish and un-American pretnntious-
ness But send for the Lady Gwendolen To-
for I reckon tho peerage regulations require
TINT she must come home aud let on to 20 into
seclusion and mourn for those Arkansas blath-
ersktes she's lost"
MY darling! Blatherslites? Remember
noblesse oblige."
"There. there talk to me in your own tongue.
Ross-you don't know any other. and you only
botch it when YOU try. Oh. don't stare-it was
a slip. and no crime; customs OF a lifetime can't
be dropped in second. Rossmore-there
now. be appeascd. and so along with you and
attend to Gwendolen. Arc You going to write.
Washington ?--or telegraph"
"Ho will telegraph. dear"
II thought rs much" my lady muttered. as
she left the room. Wants it SO the address
will have to appear on tho envelope. 1t will
lust make u fool OF that child. She'll got it. Of
course. for IL there are any other Sellerses
there they'll not he able to claim II. And just
leave her alone to show it around and mako
the most OF It. Well. maybe she's forgivable
for that. She's SO poor and they're 30 rich.
OF course she's had her share Of snubs from
the livery turnkey sort. and reckon it's only
human to want to get even"
Uncle Danl was sent with the telegram: for.
although a conspicuous object in corner OF
the drawing room WAS telephone hanging
on transmitter. Washington found all at
tempts to raise the central office vain. The
Colonel srumbled something about its being
always out OF order when You've particular
and especial use for it." but he didn't explain
that one OF the reasons for this was that the
thing was only dummy and hadn't any wires
attached to It: and yet the Colonel often used
it when visitors were present-and seemed to
get messages through 1t. Mourning paper
and a seal were ordered. then the friends took
rest.
Next afternoon. while Hawkins. by request.
draped Andrew Jackson's portrait with crepe.
the rightful earl wrote OF the family bereavc-
ment to the usurper in EnGland-a letter which
we have already read. He also by letter to the
village authorities at Duffy's Corners. Ark.
gave orders that tho remains OF the late twins
be embalmed by some st. Louis expert and
shipped Mt once to the usurper. with bill Then
he drafted out the Rossmore arms and motto
on n great sheet OF brown paper. and he and
Hawkins took it to Hawkins's Yankee furniture
mender. and at the end OF an hour came back
with couple OF stunning Indictments. which
they nailed up on the front Of the house-at.
fractions calculated to draw. and they did: for
it was mainly an Idle and shiftless negro
neighborhood with plenty OF ragged children
and indolent dogs to spare for point OF inter
est like that. and keep on sparing them for II
days and days together.
The new earl found-without surprse-this
society item in the evening puper. and cut II
out and scrapbookedi 1t:
by . recent bereavement our esteemed fellow either
a. lord TO sSe srea
esrido Of Ros.nore third by order OF precedence y
msasures By snit in the House q Iord. wre.t III
and n;r,s. rs as ns sas s
Thursday evening receptions at kossmore Towers viii
be discontinued,
Lady ltossmores commcnt-to herself:
"Rcceptions! People who don't rightly
know him may think he is commonplace. but
to my mind he is one OF the most unusual mcr
! ever saw. A Tor suddenness and cal ucity IN
imagining things, his beat don't exist, reck,
on. AS like Ms not 1t won dn't have occurred
to anybody else to name this poor old rnt traI
kossmoree Tnwcrs; but It lust comes nntnrh
have IN Imagination that can always max,
YOU foel satisfied. no matter how yon are fixed
Uncle Dave Hopkins used to always say
Turn me into John Calvin ana | want t.
know which place lin going to: turn mo int
Mulberry Sellers. md don't caro-:
Tho rightful eatr's comment tn himself:
ITS u beautiful name-brautiluL Pity
didn't think OF II before ] wrote the usurper
But I'll be- ready for him when no answers"
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