The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-26

less, and brought about admitted separa-
ton. Oddly enough this woman, who was
an American also, q schoolmate of mine In
ST. Louis, where i used often to neglect my
lessons to admire her over the top of my
book-a beautiful. soulless creature.
Now, Sartoris is dead and the sharpness
of the pain he caused Nellie Grant will
turn to the sorrow without resentment that
the fnelity of death inspires. IL will bring
no other change TO her, for they were living
their lives quite apart. and, aside from
her disappointment IN him. hers is q hap
py. peaceful one.
She has a charming little house of her
own in London. No. &c Cadogan Place. in
the fashionable West End. 1t is Q bright
looking. three-story and basement brick
house with q little vine covered verSnda in
front. When one calls the most solemn
and respectful of model menservants con-
ducts one up the pretty oak staircase to the
drawing rooms on the second floor. They
are bright, CHEEKY, sunny rooms. with white
and gold wood ork and soft tlnts of terra
Gotta and dull blue In the furnishings.
with fine paintings on the walls. an open
piano in the back room and cOmf0rtc0n-
ferring open hre In the front room. 1t is q
dainty home. with an air OF quiet refine
ment and suggestive of artistic taste.
Here she lives quietly with her children
her son. AlgernOn Edward weli-grown,
manly lad. nearly sixteen years old and
taller than his mother, and her two little
girls, Vivian May and Rosemary.
She entertains a little and goes out a lit
tie. She doesn't mix much with that
smart set that keeps the ball dizzily
spinning instead of rolling. but she gath
ers around her dinner table and in
her drawingroom the best people in Lon
don, English and American; and when she
goes out she Is received more as the daugh-
ter of President of the United States
than as Mrs. Sartoris.
Her taste turns TO art; she rarely misses
private view;" her acquaintance with
artistic and literary people is wide, and
one of her oldest and best friends is the
famous president of the Royal Academy,
Sir Frederic Leighton. She possesses two
or the very few landscapes he has painted,
and he has made portrait of her aud
faithful sketch of the back OF her head.
Little Vivian May has posed for him.
Nellie Grant Is q vastly more attractive
woman now than she was when, eighteen
years ago. she went 10 England as O hope
full bride. She WINS oh,v nineteen then and
uniformed. notwithstanding the educational
and social advantages she had. She was O
pretty, blooming, raw girl, with q sweet
disposition then-not very different from
hundreds of other pretty American girls.
Notwithstanding she has a boy taller than
herself she doesn look over thirty now. She
Is below the medium height with pretty
figure, neither stout nor slender, and In q
roomfulo OF generously prOportionedE English
women looks petite When she goes ont in
the evening she usually wears white with
graceful lace draperIes. Her face Is of girl
ash smoothness and fullness. with u tinge
of color In the cheeks that deepens to q
ripe red In the lips. Her eyes are very
dark In the shadow of long lashes. and her
hair 10 almost black. She has an indolent
repose of manner that with her low sweet
voice Is wonderfully restfui, but above all
her attractions 10 her sweetness of manner
"a sort or sympathetic Rentleness that
makes her q most winsome woman.
Sbels devoted to her children. The boy
Is away at school. His two heroes are his
tllustrious grandfather and the first NapO-
leon, and any boy who would undertake to
convince him that they were not the great
poultices on his anatomy after the at
tempt. He has read General Grants
Memoirs" every thing that he can find in
RE-. s1 h HhG tires
Napoleonic knowledge Is as complete as
writer's can make lt.
The little girls. Vivian May and Rose
mary OF thirteen and eleven ears. respect
English custom, and In their simple
smocked frocks. with their flowing hair.
look more childish than little girls of the
same age on this side.
Vivian May. the elder. looks like Elaine
might have looked. She has o beautiful
face. with regular features. roee-leaf tinting
and big. clear blue eyes. framed IN soft. fair
hair. She nurses an ardent hope in her
youthful heart that she will some day be an
actress. and she has shown decided talent
In that direction, She comes by her in
clination and talent naturally. for Mr.. Sar-
toriss mother was a daughter OF Charles
Kemble and q sister OF FANNIE Kemble.
Mrs Sartoris takes pride in and fosters her
little daughters taste. and perhaps some
day it may come 20 pass that will 90 to
see General Grants granddaughter as j Juliet
or Rosalind.
Rosemary IS n brown. piquant. witty lit
tie girl, fond of books aud play. with a look
of practical good sense in her critical eyes
and around her firm little mouth.
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once. think. ana even that wns IA difficult
matter 10 arrange. their stay being limited
70 q certain. exact time. and the visit be-
ing made on parole, as it were. Sartoris
always had the privilege of visiting them.
During "a stay in London spent part or u
rainy afternoon last October with Nellie