Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-03-24

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.chcer," and carefully studied Miss
Flsrer through his eye-glass.
"Will you have b.-snd-s.'" said
tho lady who was Hospitality inclined.
Put Lord Fanfare declined refresh
ments.
"Tootle tells me, madam, said his
lordship, coming to the point at once,
that he has offered to marry YOU"
George is a dear boy said the
lady; IL think we shall bo very hap
py," she added, with sigh.
do you?" said his lordship dryly;
"let me tell you, madam, that my
son Tootle is weak-minded paupern
I'm find the brains and the beauty,
said the lady, airily.
! "Brains and beauty amt much to .
keep house on" remarked his lord |
ship, oracularly.
but your lordship can't 90 on
living forever, said the lady with one
of her sweetest professional smiles;
you're sixty-fve, you know, though
you have the complexion of a boy of
seventeen" she added, tartly.
There's nothing like plain speak
ing" said Lord Fanfare Il like you
for it," he said. Nov what on earth
do you want to marry my son for?"
Il want to be Lady Fanfare" said
Laura Flarer, simply, as she gave her
lips professional bite that made
them look ruddier than the cherry.
.And if you married my son, young
lady," said his lordship, ''you would,
81 supposo-er-quit the scenes of
your early triumphs?n
! ..Well, | couldn't go on Going
turns as Lady Tootle," replied Miss
Flarer, with a toss of the head.
And have you saved much money
out of your professional earnings,
5 Miss Flarer, may l ask?-enough to
| enable you to maintain my son in the
, position to which he has been accus-
. tomed"
And then the lady laughed dear,
: delightful, silvery, unartiiicial, mu
Y steal, music-hall sort of little laugh
There's bill of sale on tho furni-
G ture," she said; land / owe Psalm
Y anezar five hundred; but Tootle's a
5 lord, you know" added Miss Flarcr,
1 with a smile.
d "No, he amt replied his lord
ship; "he's only a courtesy lord; he s
o just electro-plate, my dear young
+ lady, that's all"
# I'm marry him all the same, said
the lady.
-" There's no other way out of it,
I thought Lord Fanfare. ''Tootle's q
o pig-headed fellow, and she a0iU marry
him, and then the faith be in the fire
q Madam" said the old noblcman, %
= have other views for my son George
# Would you mind naming iigure?"
, sit won't do. old gentleman" sale
10 Miss Flarcr; Il mean to be Lady Fan
>. fare some day or other, and it Wom
r. do. If you was to paper this room
D. with bank-notes, my lord, it 'ud be Mt
r. manner of use.'
"And that's your last word, mad
e. amp" asked his lordship.
~ That's my last word" replied tn
eldest and the plumpest of the thre
a plump Miss Flarers.
10 "Then here goes" said his lordshi
" to himself, as he pulled up his shir
collar, and then, to the lady's intens
Vi establishment, he suddenly droppe
as upon his knees, he placed his hand
gu upon his heart and modelling himsc
70 upon the lover of the mclodramas, Ii
as began as follows, in an impassionc
:" tone:
~ .sMiss Flarer, you SEQ at your fec
~ the chief of his house, tho fourtocnt
"a Lord Fanfare, who begs to place {
III your disposition his hand, his tit
'is and his heart. Do bligf
~ my young life by hasty refusa
&c You want to be Lady Fanfare. i
I ho alu "a fa n
gu mediately. Here is special license
he said, and he drew large envelol
from his pocket "There is aclerg
N II; man in my cab at the door; our nu
III tials can take place at once. | al
w, as you are aware. a wealthy ma
- Need say mOre."
,,ar "Oh, Lord Fanfare cried Mi
10 Flarer, Il feel as if was going
IN faint. You amt laughing at me?"
hh madam" replied Lord Fanfa
er- with a shudder, "it's no laughil
ar matter, can assure you"
INC Then if you really do mean
though it is so very sudden" said t
'oP lady, Il think we'd better have hi
up. But there'll have TO be witnesst
up YOU know, my lord, and it'll have
- be put in the papers, you know; a
W | hope the license is all right,
ar Laura Flarer is only my profession
w name, you know"
10 Its Mary Jane Briggs in t
license" said his lordship, simply.
up That's as right as ninepence," sa
Miss Flarer. "Oh,y you dear thought
I ,1 old gentleman" and then she rang
.,A bell. Mary" she said, as her sm'
UP parlor-maid entered the room, "a
the reverend gentleman in the cab
ou, step up, and call Parker, my mai'
""' Within half an hour May ia
no Briggs became Lady Fanfare.
' ,l Il wish your ladyship very &C
po morning" said Lord Fanfare. -
'hs pay off the bill of sale, and I'll I
Psalmanezar. and I'll allow your la'
'o. ecu ship pound week, and I'm w
VI much obleeged to your ladyship."
~ :" And that's how Lord Fanfare
an married, and the why and the whe
'o' vi, fore of it, and who shall say that
- ~ lordship was not a hero?-C. J. w
w., W. in the Argonaut.
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