Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-21

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joyful congratulatiOn. Heads OF houses
outstripped the freshest Of the fresh
men IN their eager excitement and anX-
iety anent the positions Of their various
boats, while sober matrons were as wise
and as learned on the all-important
topic Of the hour as were the most
useful OF their rosy-cheeked daughters.
. During the "Eights' Week" no one at
Oxford thinks Of anything but the
D'Eights." Naturally, therefore, this
merry season is the period for hospi-
tally as we'll as for festivity.
1--WE must ask SO-and-so Tor the
Fights, has been the password IN
every house which entertaius at all Tor
some time past: and every man or Wo-
man who has a bed TO offer or a make
shift TO snggest has echoed the sum
mons. Epistles forthwith have been
indited on this wise: 1--WE have so little
TO tempt you at any other time, but we
ROpe that perhaps you may De Induced
10 spend a few May days here during
the Fights Week The recipient OF
the above is tolerably sure to be "in-
duced"-nay, he or she, more particu-
larly II a LOnioner, finds the idea OF a
few May days" among the historic
dust Of ages inexpreSSibly allurtng.
"And / am afraid IL will seem a little
strange, dear, Your running away just
when everyone else is coming here, ~
limited gentle, little Mrs. West TO her
daughter, as she watched, with some
what wistful eyes, Henrietta darting
hither and thither in all the bdstle or
a Joyous packing I'D. ut does seem
rather a pity" Then the speaker
paused and hesitated. II suppose IT'S
too late now-still, Of course, you could
not know before"
"'KnOW what, mamma?" But there
was a slight increase Of color on the FAIR
ACheek, which betrayed that Henrietta
was not quite so ignorant as her tone
implied.
"Well, that we-that we had-had
guests coming" rejoined her mother,
nervously twisting between her fingers
8 piece Of paper and looking away from
her companion. He could hardly eX-
pect you 10 give up your London visit on
his account, could hep
'Tf you mean Mr.. Alwyn, certainly
not" said Henrietta, promptly. ave
an not ask him-he asked himself.
When a man asks himself TO q place, be
must take the place as ne finds it. You
know, mamma, l particularly told you
not TO fix anyone this year for the
Fights Week, because l expected my
Aunt Julia would invite me 10 London,
and she has done IL exactly when l
thought she would. IL Is most good
natured OF her; she has heaps Of people
to invite TO GrOsvenOr street, and she
would think il very odd il l should re-
fuse TO 90, just because these Oxford
boys with supreme cOntempt) "are
rowing their twopenny-half-penny
races"
my dear Kenny" Mrs. West looked
than reprOachful-hurt.
s'Well, mamma, you know am sick
OF Oxford and Oxford people. They talk
OF nothing but smith or BalliOl, ana
Jones OF Pembroke and 'COmmem' and
the Long and Exams and all their
own little, little world. Ii is all very
WellNfor them-it is their business, /
suppose; and papa being 'WestO Of Mag
dalen3 be has got to seem TO like 1t
. WhetherNhe does or not"
my dear child, he does like It,"
"Say he does, then. That need not
, make me. am not a professor OF the
University Of Oxford don't deliver
lectures aud wear a gown and dine In
hall; I have nothing TO do with the
place beyond living In it, which / wish
didn't"
Dear Henry. pray do not speak So"
Henny's mother was injured 70 out
bursts OF rebellion similar 70 the above,
and although 10 might have been seen
that she was perplexed and panied, OBJ
yiously surprise bad nothing to do with
her present discontinue. You are a lit
tie out OF sorts to-day, my love-" she
murmured, as though seeking TO explain
Awayh her ~vexatiOn: lit IS unfortunate
that Mr.. Alwyn should have named the
very day to come that had beer liked
SrpOn you to 60
'It is nothing Of the kind" said
Kenny sharply.
She was not going to own either TO
her parents or TO any q else that she
had wished Freddy Alwyn had offered
himself at any other time; certainly she
was not going to give up her own visit
IN order to amuse his and make IL pass
more %agreeably. She told herself that
Freddy Alwyn could wait, and that she
had something else on hand which could
(nOt wait.
Mr.. Alwyn was we'll enough. On the
Awbole she liked Mr.. Alwyn. They had
Become rather friendly when he was last
at Oxford-he had only been Freddy
ALVIN then-and Freddy Alwyn had
filed a considerable space OF the fore
ground in Miss Henrietta Vests
thoughts for the time being. Suisse
ouently Alwyn had obtained a living
q good living 10 a charming part OF the
country. and with some private fortune,
fair abilities and a certain amount Of
family influence be had become enough
OF q parsonage TO graduate from
FREDDY" into ''Mr." Alwyn.
Meeting with her former boytsh ad-
mirer at a friends house q few months
before this little story opens, pretty
Henrietta had experienced a sense OF
~hyness which the sun0urnt undergrad
Tate had failed 70 inspire; and the
holder he became, the more timid did
she. Alwyn, however, was not de-
ee.ved. Ii had ended, as we know, In
his suggesting 20 run the scene OF his
early honors, and an invasion or his old
tutors domain; aud he had felt that
there was excuse for such a proposal in
the forthcoming Fights Week" IL he
could not be accommodated within the
old rambling house inhabited by the
Vests. he could easily dispose OF him
self elsewhere; but be had a great de-
kre TO let the Vests know he was COM
hR, and TO see what would be the result
in the case OF one member Of the family.
Accordingly be had offered, and had
been accepted. Moreover, as no men
tinn had haan mazda of the only daugh-