Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-19
CHAPTER VII.
"GnEEN- EYED JEALousy. .

Ii was not till early spring that Mr..
and Mrs. Sinclair returned to England.
They had spent the winter in home,
where Gilbert had found some con-
genial friends, and whore their time
had been occupied in one perpetual
round of gayety and dissiI alton. Con-
stance had shown u great taste for
pleasure since her marriage. She
seen ed to know no wearine of visit
ing and being visit I'd. and people who
remembered her in her girlish days
were surprised to find what a thorough
woman of the world she had become.
Nor was Gilbert displeased that it was
so. He liked to see his wife occupy
prominent position in society and hav-
ing no taste him eff for the pleasures
of the domestic hearth, he was neither
surprised nor vexed by Constances
Indifference to her home. OF course it
would be a different at Davenant
Park there would be plenty of home
life there-a little too much, perhaps,
Gilbert thought, with a yawn.
They had been married nearly four
months, and there had not been the
shadow of disagreement between
them. CCnstance's manner to her hus-
band was amiability itself. She treat
ed him little de haut en- bas it is true,
made her own plans for the most past
without reference to him, and gra-
ciously informed him of her arrange
ments after they were completed. But
then, on the other hand, she never OBJ
jected to his disposal of his time, was
never eXacting, or Jealous, or capri
| ninNo n (1nt,o Mo 81 ,frh had boon
She was always agreeable to his
friends, and was eminently popular
with all Of them; so Gilbert Sinclair
was, upon the whole, perfectly satisfied
with the result of his marriage, and
had no fear of evil days in the future.
What James Wyatt had said of him
was perfectly true. He was not gifted
with very fine feelings, and that sense
of something wanting in such union,
which would have disturbed the mind
of nobler man, did not trouble him.
They returned to England early in
February, and went at once to Daven
ant, which had been furnished in tn
modern medieval style by West End
upholsterer. The staff of servants had
been provided by Lady Clanyarde, who
had bestowed much pains and labor
upon the task of selection, bitterly be.
, wailing the degeneracy of the race she
had to deal with during the perform.
ance of this difficult service. All was
ready when Mr., and Mrs. Sinclair ar.
, rived. A pompous housekeeper sim.
, pered and CONTESTED in the hall; an
: accomplished cook lowered tenderly
| over the roasts and the stew-pans in
} the great kitchen; house-maids in
: smart caps fitted about the passages
, and poked the fires in bedrooms and
dressing-rooms, bathrooms and morn.
: ing-room, eager to get an early look at
their new lady; a butler of the usual
4 clerical appearance ushered the way
: to the lamp-lit drawing-room, while
/. two ponderous footmen conveyed the
: rugs and newspapers and morocco bag:
from the carriage, leaving all the
n heavier luggage to the care of un
e known underlings attached to the
l stable department. Mr.. and Mrs, Sin
clair dined alone upon this first even
ing OF their return, under the inspec
u tion OF the clerical butler and the two