San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-29

OF the LeDOurReOlS manSlOn. Inc
girls aroused spirit and the mothers
angered surprise were pitteda against
each other. Which would masterp
Generally the mother, most indulgent
of parents, held sway by kindness.
Her rules of conduct had never been
rebelled against. Unconventional
freaks-petty beforehand been quickly
atoned for. There had never been in
all their history a collision such as this.
But the girl had now been cut to the
heart through the most sensitive part.
She, the cloistersd one, brous 1T up
under the strict rules of European and
English etiquette. had been humbled
before a strange young man, for undue
familiarity without chance of explain
ing her anomalous position. The young
man himself-a gentleman beyond a
doubt, or else all her womanly in
stincts had betrayed h~er-which she
could not admit even to
herself : had been insultinglv
thrust from the house, showing how
little her recognition of him had
counted for. Besides. was he not in all
probability her brothers friend, re.
duced by some fate to this strange way
of earning a living-but yet one to
whom all kindness was due on Franks
account? Would Frank ever forgive,
ought he aver to forgive, so cruel a
blunder, if blunder it proved to beP All
the blood of the Lebourgeoises-a blood
of liquid fire compared with the al.
most phlegmatic ice which tempered it
from her mQther's veins-was being
driven from heart to cheek in audible
throbs. So mother and daughter
faced each other.
"Oh, mother, how could you?" was
all that the girl could find at first 70
say. -~&lSssg~a&s
Louisa" said the mother-she al
most invariably called her daughter
Lou-"I could scarcely believe my eyes
when l saw you chatting with a per-
son'-how much that word person
can be made to mean in certain wo-
mems mouths-"with a fellow"
Mother, he was not a fellow He
is as much a gentleman AS"
Louisa, please preserve at least suf-
ficient outward respect for your mother
not to rudely interrupt her. After all
the careful training you have received
through me, your must indeed
have been contaminated by the famili-
a~rities, you have no doubt before, been
allowing yourself to permit strange
young men to"
Mother, what shall l say9 This is
too much. 1t is shame"
Louisa, will you or will you not
hear me out? or shall / send you to
your room, and tell the Count of your
liaison?"
'There are some things that not even
a mother can be permitted to say to
her own daughter. did not suppose
that my mother would find it possible
to even think them about her daughter.
/ will go to my room and l will myself
write to the Count, You shall see the
letter, and if you do not forward it to
him l will, or else take the first oppor-
tunity l have to inform him of what
has passed, exactly as It has passed.
Mark you, mother, the first opportu-
nifty, be there more or fewer present;
and what | say l mean. If Frank were
mere you had not dared insult me So"
And drawing herself up to her full
height, a good two inches above her
mothers stature, the girl swept by
her in proud scorn, up the stairs and
straight to her own room.
"Louisar" said the mother. And
then as the draperies rustled less dis
tinctly in the increasing distance, the
now cowed mother exclaimed, "Oh,
Loul Lou!"
If the girl heard she did not heed.
The door ofeher own chamber was not
banged, but sharply closed The bolt
was sprung with a snap. Moshs, and
observant eyes were shut out. Louisa
Lebourgeois did what all girls dc
when stung by injustice and alone with
their modification and resentment.
She threw herself upon her bed and
burst into tears, sobbing violently.
Mrs. Lebourgeois' first impulse was to
go directly to her daughters room and
ask that daughters forgiveness. She
knew that she had done that daughter
an injustice by her insinuations OF
former improprieties. Her cry of ooh,
Lou! Louy" had been the protest of her
heart against a quarrel, the expression
of a willingness to ask forgiveness and
to accord it,
But she had all the obstinacy and
small dignity of a conventional women
and mother, who has been deied in