San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-13


1T is an expensive summer for us
with these repairs"
Again, when they We're re-established
in New York, other causes of dispute
came up.
'.l.wish. my dear Jane" he said, that
You would he a little more civil with
my patriot friends from Boston"
Il don't like people who talk through
their noses"
Forgive the twang for the sake Of
the good sense"
Good sense! 1t seems to me tiresOme
grumbling. hate the word grievance.
/ despise the name patriot"
Remember, my dear child, that /
think with these gentlemen
Yes, and you are injuring your repu-
tation and your chances by it. A Broth
ertoft should be conservative and stand
by his order"
Il try to be conservative of right. l
stand by the Order of Worth, Courage
and Loyalty to Freedom"
"Oh, there you 90 again into your
foggy metaphysics"
Again he came one day and said with
much concern, My dear, was dis
tressed to know from Skaats that your
fathers estate owned third of the Red
Rover"
Why" she asked, with no concern.
II was sure you did not know, or you
would be as much shocked as | am. She
is in the slave trade"'
"Well. And have often heard my
father call her tidy bit of property
and say she had paid for herself dozen
times"
He could not make her comprehend
his hatred of this vile business, and his
contempt, as a gentleman, for all the
base subterfuges by which base people
tried to defend it.
The Red Rover fortunately did not re-
main a subject of discussion. On that
very trip the negroes arose and broiled
the captain and crew-and served them
right. Then, being used only to the
navigation of dugOuts, they omitted to
pump the vessel, whereupon she sunk
and the sharks had festival.
With such divergence of opinion the
first year of this propitious marriage
passed miserably enough. Yet there
was a time when it seemed to the disap-
pointed husband and the defiant wife
that their love might revive.
In seventeen hundred and fiftv-eight
Edwin Brothertoft, rich, aristocratic
and liberal, the pride of the colony as
its foremost young man, was selected as
the mouthpiece of a commission to pre-
sent at home a petition and remon-
STRANGE. Such papers were flying freely
across the water at that time. Reams
of paper must be fired before the time
comes for firing lead.
So to England went the envoy with
his gorgeous wife. They We're received
with much distinction. as worthy young
Americans from Benicia and elsewhere
still are.
''Huzzay!" was the rapturous acclaim.
"They do not talk through rebel noses
'Huzzay. 1t is English they speak,
not Wigwamee"
"Huzzay! The squaw is as beautiful
as our fairest, and painted red and white
by cunning nature, not daubed with
ochers. Huzzay! The young sycamore
Is an AdOnis. He beats Chesterfield at
bow and Selwyn at a mot"
Mrs. BrothertOft grew proud of her
husband and grateful to him that he
had chastened her Billop manners.
What brilliant visit that was!
All the liberal statesmen-Pitt. Henry
Fox, Conway, mellifuous Murrav-were
glad to do the young American honor.
Rugged DR.. Sam johnson belabored
him with sesquipedalian words, but in
friendly way and without bullying. He
could be good old boy, if he pleased,
with good young ones.
Young Mr.. Burke was gratifed that
his friend from sublime and beautiful
hemisphere appreciated the new treatise
on the sublime and beautiful.
Young Mr.. Joshua REYNOLDS was fat
tered that the distinguished stranger
consented to sit to him, and in return
tried to tiatter the portrait.
Young DR.. Oliver Goldsmith. a poor
Bohemian, shattered in music and medi
cine, came to inquire whether a clever
man, out of place, could find his niche
in America.
Mr.. Garrick, playing Ranger, quite
lost his self possession when Mrs.
Brothertoft first brought her flashing
black eyes and glowing cheeks into the
theater, and only recovered when the
audience perceived the emotion and
cheered it and the lady together
That great dilettante, Mr.. Horace
Walpole, made the pair charming de-
jeuner at Strawberry Hill, upon which
occasion he read aloud with much ca