San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-31

lowed ner III ike pnySlcal ana mental
habiliments.
There's no use cutting up so rough
about it, Envy" he said. I'm in no
end of scrape as it is.
You certainly have done your best to
get into trouble" she returned, land as
women's."
"But how am l to get out of it?' he
asked helplessly.
How like man that Isl" she said,
tanning herself vigorously.
"That's all right. But you are n
! woman, and a woman has resources"
"Motheryis woman. Why don't you
go to herr"
"Motherv he repeated. "She would
be so fustered she'd never think of any
thing but recriminations for me. Be-
sides, Ev, you are in something of my
fix yourself"
Il am in no trouble that am aware
of, except this that you have thrust upon
u.s." she said.
"You are in love-" retorted he.
"Thanks for the old synonym"
"But you will be good sister and try
to help me?"
"What sort of wedding present are
you going to give me?'
Anything you want, from sewing
machine to brownstone house.
"The usual promise of futurity. Sc
riously, Ralph" she said, ''do l know
all about this matter" r-~,'' "ot'age You
go abroad. Mamma gives you letter
to her old friend, the Marquis de Mer-
veilleau, whom you found in his old
chateau in one of the provinces"-
without an idea of the English Ian
guage, and wild to learn it."
"You offered to teach it to him."
81 gave him lesson every day for six
months"
And what were those lessons, oh,
shade of Addison?"
81 only did it for piece of fun"
sighed the young man. ct was his in
nocence-he knew me to be fresh from
college, and he took me for savant, an
authority on the gift of tongues. He did
not know that in college we do not con-
fine ourselves to the classics, so long as
athletics help us to our degree"
"You mean fellow, you taught him all
the slang phrases you knew, and he
thinks them the most elegant English"
81 tell you," peevishly cried Ralph, Il
did it all in fun"
"'One mans meat" said his sister.
"Well, you did not know there was
daughter in the case"
"Oh, yes did," quickly responded
Ralph. "But she was away from home,
and l had no idea of ever meeting her.
When my six months were up, and |
went into Germany, the marquis had
Marie come home, and for several months
more he taught her as / had taught
him."
"All the slang he had imbibed from
you. When you went again to see him
you met Marie, and at once fell in love
with her."
"She is divine!"
"Of course. | am divine to Tom,
hope. The upshot of it was that You
proposed and were accepted, and the
marquis at once insisted upon bringing
Marie to visit us, you having enthused
him with your description of our insti
buttons. Marie is certainly charming
and she has brought marvellous set of
gowns with her from the atelier of
Felix. She has been in her room this
hour past, preparing for Mrs. Montgom-
erys ball, which, en- PEASANT, is to be a
particularly smart function"
"Mother has not met them, them? said
Ralph. "Oh, l remember; she was
dressing when they came. What will
she say when she hears them TALK"
"They may use French" suggested
his sister, twirling her bracelets in
nervous fashion.
You forget" cried Ralph, show
elated the marquis is over his newly ac-
quired English-he refuses to use any
French since he set his foot on American
soil, and insists that Marie shall do as he
does. And he has a horror Of argot or
slang, deprecates its use in France. That
made it all the funnier for me, to teach
him our own, giving Emerson and other
polite writers as authority, while he
inveighed against the ruin of his own
language by the gamin talk of Partisan
streets"
"French siang-yes, remember some
of it. Did this child of the boulevards
tell you that the Partisan will tell you a
man has not caught cold in his eyes