The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-12

'NS2N-HNNNNN MISS hdllC w
dington, her pretty roguish face
flushed with indignation-Pm aston
ished that you venture to speak to me
you know | couldn't refuse, with
that horrid Lady Houghton introducing
YOU and looking over my shoulder at
my card.
He quilting his waistcoat little,
because his shirt front pointed too
much)-Is that why you waited for me
in the conservatory? No, please don't
go-let's sit it out.
Miss Katie sits down again and be-
gins pulling a rose to pieces. You've
treated me shamefully, haven't your"
Not bit"
"Indeed you have; and don't fdget
with your necktie."
Now, which of your pretty white
teeth have you against me?"
Cant you speak in plain English,
instead of using your French phrases?
COME, now, didn't we meet at Devon
shire park? Oh, it's just like you to
hint that we weren't properly intro
duced; but we were afterward."
''Never mind the fashion of the in
PRODUCTION" said he, hiding a smile be-
hind his glove.
"You know such introductions are
almost the fashion at the seaside"
You mean such almost introduce
tions are quite the fashion," he OBJ
served; ''but suppose we did, and sup
pose we took walks together, and
dances together, and went fishing to-
gether, and put on the and sup
pose | was in earnest?"
Never mind what you suppose" she
said, sharply. you know quite well
that at the seaside"
''By the sea a maiden's fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of-firtation.
81 shall leave you at once if you re
so fippant and rude" said Miss Katie,
and she got up and then sat on another
seat with the light at the back-a very
pretty white back-not the seats.
Didn't you pretend you were bar
rister?"
mo, certainly not"
How can you tell such "a"
SIT isn't "a. 1 didn't pretend l am
balrister."
"Well, even if you are, you needn't
bubble, and, besides, there are lots of
barristers who don't earn as much"
LAS much as a shoeblack. There's
your Cousin Jack-but he plays bill
lizards splendidly-you should see him
at Carr's during term time"
1 Bother Jack! And besides he is a
good sort, and 1 like him much better
than you! Obi how could you deceive
hat hA.rAl
girl who drove me home in her broug-
ham, know it's only hired-the mo-
ment we got in said: Really, dear,
that man you so affiched yourself with
at Eastbourne is quite decent for one
of Whiteley's young men! Ugh! hired
guest "
But l assure you, /"
"Now, isn't it true you came to Mrs.
Hooper's as a hired guest? Weren't
you sent for because at the last mo-
ment there was a man short, and she
was afraid of thirteen at dinner?
There, l knew you couldn't deny it.
Why anyone should ask so many peo-
pie to dinner goodness knows-it's bar
barous-it's not dinner; it's meal
And you called yourself Howard-is
that the name you're called? And got
guinea and instructions in the hall
not to talk politics, theology, or school
boards, or new woman"
"a guinea wasn't the price" said
Mr.. Banks, gloomily, biting one of his
gloves, land l wasn't paid; it was sent
direct to Whitley, and we aren't
trusted with the money, and I'm really
you're cruel. Even if it were all true,
you need not hit so hard"
Miss Katie sat silent for a moment
and listened to few bars of lie Reve
de Mon Occur" waltz, that sounded de-