New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-09
A SCOTCH HEIRESS.

salt water. Can you supply me with reason?
She looked at Tinpany, her butler. and waited
a reply.
"The shortcomings m lady haludes to- said
Timpany after a pause. might be Inscribed TO
Mrs Timpany's having had what vulgar persons
call upset.
The cellar stairs or the laundry LADDER" in
uured his mistress II told her she was too short
sighted for the and too heavy for the other
and that she was 10 send one of the undermaids
But If people pc. st In neglecng warnings given
for their good. they must take The consequences.
1.-THE upset, m lady" said Timpany. was moral
not physical. I meant. m lady. that Mrs TIM
pany was out OF temper 1t is less uncommon
occurrence m lady. than l could wish, or you
would suppose.
You confound me-" returned Lady Boyd Hop
jay Mrs Timpany has been in my service as
cook for eight years and I have always found
her Of a most equable disposition"
with m ladys pardon rejoined Tmpany.
''Mrs. Timpany has been in your ladyships SER
vice for eight years as cook. but only one year
in mine as Mrs. Timpany. Dooring the twelve
month she has manifested the possession of what
I should respectfully beg leave to be allowed to
call griding and grizzling proclivities.'
'Impossibler calculated Lady Boyd Hopjay
81 am her mistress. and ought to know"
"And l. m lady retorted Timpany, "am her
husband" Respect for his employer curtailed
the sentence. she cried into the soup and
nagged over the birds. She's always doing one
or the other
zone would have imagined" said his mistress
'.when an excellent cook and experienced
butler entered into matrmony. that such union
was appointed by Providence.
Your ladyship brought 1t about" said Tim
might convey an uncompmentary second mean
ing
and vet" said Lady Boyd Hopjay. awfully.
s.your domestic differences darkened my kitchen,
and cast a blight upon every dish that comes TO
table-upon an evening. too, when the Archbishop
Is dining here Send your wife up TO me in
twenty minutes"
Timpany bowed his high neckte and re-
tired but turned the door. Il feel sure m lady.
that your ladyshp has too much justice to be
preiudiced by any remarks made by Mrs Tim
pany whose temper is still on the SINNER
he began
IF any one prejudices me. that person will be
yourself" returned Lady Boyd Hopjay. equally.
Thank you m lady For if interfering to pre-
vent, as is but my duty under housemaid-
whose good looks should not be weighed in the
balance against her. she naturally not being
You can CO." said Lady Boyd Hopjay.
BY this time you have realized that Tmpany' 8
mistress shared to an extraordinary degree in
that weakness common to many estimable and
charming women who have not found in mar
Rage the alpha and omega of earthly bliss For
years ere the Indian liver Of General Sir Boyd
Hopjay X. c. s. l.. beckoned that gallant soldier
to an English vault she had ridden her hobby.
She rode ii still. and. to do her justice she was
past mistress of that kind of equitation. 1t was
her pride to point to a married couple and say.
THAT man and woman would never have
dreamed of taking one another for better or
worse had ii not been for me-" Whether the man
and woman were grateful or not made no differ
ence. Her chosen vocation in life was 70 marry
people. and she fulfilled it. Like David. she reck
Oned up her victims by tens of thousands. The
census had swollen at her bidding. and the
records Of the divorce court bore witness to the
fact that many of those whom she had disin-
terestedly aided to become one flesh had cheer
fully availed themselves of the surgical assist
ance afforded by the law in becoming two again.
But Lady Boyd Hopjay never lost faith.
Backslidngs grieved her. ingratitude gave her
pain, but she chung to her tenets. and went on
delivering her evangel. and receiving fresh con-
verts into the ranks OF the married year by year
and month by month
You look little worried dear" said Lady
Ali Bhye. rustling into tea. Lady ALL as all the
world knows, was the celebrated beauty Mis US
Afahadeva Govind Bhye. OF the High Court OF
Judicature. Bombay; immensely wealthy Hin
doc gentleman. who renowned Mahometanism
with all it's privileges when the English belle
dropped into his dusky arms. but. 1t Is whispered
returned later to the faith Of the Prophet
HAS anything been going wrong!
Lady Boyd Hopjay crumbled her eyebrows, al
ways exquisitey drawn. and sighed
'.Tfmpany and his wife have been quarrelling."
"Your cook and butler? Nuisance! By-the-Way,
you made that match
"They were excellenty suited in every re-
spect"-
she cries into the soup, and Timpanys plate
no longer does him credit"
why can't they take different situations?'
"My dear Clara, whom He hath joined"-
> "I,et no man OF course, But II generally
Is woman who does the putting asunder. By
the-way, don't expect me at Stokehole on the
first. BY that date l shall be on my way 10 the
East. per & o."
You going out to All?
90 mo. I have gathered from reliable sources
that he is coming home to me. Therefore take
the opportunity, denied to me at other times. OF
renewing my acquaintance with the land OF my
adoption We shall pass each other in the Red
Sea. Don't groan, you dear thing would MOI
Unknot the travelled past
n the chance were given me- When l married
didn't marry All. went to the altar with a
tonture Of ISL 900 a year, five rows or Oriental
pearls and parure Of emeralds big enough and
beautiful enough to make expresses die OF envy
have slept with the pearls round my neck ever
since and when things look blue take out the
emeralds and they are green-the color OF Hope
once more. By-the-way do go to the pontarle,
reception tonight. You like sensations. and
there will be one there. She IS Scotch red-haired
quite raw. young an heress and quite beautiful
Egg has christened her The northern hisht;
University comets which have appeared on the
literary horizon"
you should read his essays. He dissects Ire.
love religion. ethics art and society; minces
small and serves up in little plats Of page or
two with seasoning.
rs he a reforner?"
lol1 hot ohQOln pviP
Il as beautiful in its way absolute goodness,
5ust as the alto relieve possesses It's own charm,
distinct and separate from the basso
zone Of the Decadant' school, suppose. Un-
pleasant per son.