Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-13

lions. he used one or Two today that
never heard except from people who
have lived among negroes. They had
the true cotton and tobacco ring. And
in the next sentence came Maine logging
terms. His language is cosmopolitan,
but the timbre of his voice is southern,
and his intonations sounded mighty ia
miliar in my ear"
Dear me!'' said the old lady, to whom
an unconventional westerner was q thing
of interest but an unconventional south
erner an abomination; perhaps l had
better not have him here until we find
out more about him. have asked the
Harveys and the Carringtons and Mary
Beverley to take tea with us on Thurs
day. I'm very fond of Mary, and l want
to show her some attention, now that so
much of the land is gone and their cir
cumstances so altered. l thought of
asking Mr.. Anthony also, because I
know Mary has no feeling about his
having bought the place, and as they
will be such near neighbors it seemed a
pleasant thing for them to meet at once
and be quite friendly. But if he's a
southern man, and common, perhaps
she wouldn't like to meet him. Indeed,
I don't know that shall myself"
The judge, who could not appreciate
the distinctions of locality in common
ness, and whose hospitality was pro-
verbal, laughed outright. ''There is
nothing the matter with the man, my
DEAR" he explained. you've flown off
at tangent. He's quite presentable,
and if his grain is a little coarse he won't
hurt us any Invite him by all means,
and let's be friendly with him. If we
turn our backs on settlers with good
money in their pockets how will the
country ever improve materially? Have
all the people; and let Anthony come,
too, by all means; we have no marriage
able daughters"
The same familiarity of tone and in
tonation which had struck the judge
commended itself to the attention of
Mrs. Hector Beverley when the new
conner was introduced to her on the
Thursday evening in question, for the
original programme was carried out in
spite of sundry misgivings on the part of
tho hostess. He was presentable man,
she was fain to acknowledge, well made
and well dressed, and if he lacked GER
tain fine bouquet of gentility she did
not, and having accepted him as her
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for him, introducing him to her other
guests with marked and gracious cour-
tesy and bringing him finally to Mrs.
Beverley, to whose special care she COM
mended him.
"Such near neighbors should know
each other and be friendly" she said
with smile. "You may make it pleas,
ant for each other"
Mrs. Beverley smiled also as she gave
Anthony her firm white hand and init
mated by slight gesture that he was al
liberty to take the seat beside her on the
sofa.
Il think that in coming to be my
neighbor at Repton, Mr.. Anthony, yor
arc in some sense coming home" she re
marked pleasantly. "Your voice is very
southern. Perhaps we can claim yoU
by birth as we'll as adoption"
Anthony regarded the clear cut, in
tcllectual, but scarcely pretty face
turned toward him a trifie resentfully
She was Mary Beverley, but not the onC
whose memory had lived a solitary viole
amid the barrenness of his ambitious
practical existence. He owed her ;
grudge for being here in the real Mary
place-for having deluded him, although
Hnconsciously, into the belief that thu
real Mary lived and had grown from
fair, loyal childhood into n womanhoo'
as noble. And she was not even prett,
according to his standard. Her fac
was colorlcss, except Il dash of crimson
in the lips, of which the under one wa
trifie full Her dark hair crowned he
head in coils that had shadows but n
lights; it waved slightly at the temples
where there were already lines of gray
and it was parted graciously over th
broad brow. Her eyes were handsome
dark, and straightforward in their ou
: look, with no tricks of lid or lash, n
droopings and upraisings, no pretty CT
quetries of glance. A woman past he
: first youth, woman who even in thu
l youth had never been beautiful, and yet
woman to be trusted, admired an
. loved.
1 This the man beside her vaguely fe
= and it increased his unreasonable resen
ment. She was such a woman as tt
4 child he had loved with unconsciol
: chivalry might have developed into, an
i she was Only-HectOrs widow.
Not being versed in social ameniti
y he let his resentment get uppermost al
I brusquely:
e I'm not Yankee, if that's what 20
d mean, and 1 wasn't born out west. T.
II lived out there for twenty years thong
a so suppose 1 can call myself as mut
l. of westerner as anything"
\ He was not ashamed of his birth, al
e being Virginian he took a self sat
h fed pride in his birthplace. Neither d
L he hold his fathers profession in CO
FL tempt nor his own position as ST
is made man. OF the latter, on the &C
he trary, he was, as we have limited, {
IS tremely proud, holding it proof of u
usual ability. 1t was not every m
that could show his record, from so pc
y, a start to so fine finish. He was pro
re of himself, of his money, of his shrew
N ness, of the knowledge he had acquir
ID by indomitable industry and in detiar
OF of adverse circumstances, and of his 81
!. eral success in life. 1t was neither fro