The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

those that were jealous OF luriii- --i-iA .-i'-' FOL-
II IS true. were many
Those who liked them d-I so because
they were young and well-on ana sinsu-
larly unconventional; at least, that was
uhat those who DID like them callet
81. Those who Cd not IKE them SAID thar
they were ridiculousiy eccentric-espee-
tally her. And perhaps 3irs. Grevlie was
a little eccentric at all events. certain
is it that she did things mo- other woman
in London would dare 20 have done. and
was the more admired hr her friends.
and the more reyled by her enemies.
that she dared 20 DO them.
Men said that there was something very
mysterious about George Grev,lle. and
that no young man ever went INTO business
in this world. without interest. without
capital, and made a fortune. as rapidly
as he had done. by fair means. But this
belief did not stop them from slapping him
on the back whenever they Glanced to
meet. as If he We're the best and dearest
friend they had I'm the world. No. no!
not a bit Of it, 1t did not prevent them
from going TO the smart little house in
E0uAN htAtHAAH tVlA as % tAi tAa ttAN Nt''A ff'
Grevilles had a little festivity afoot. Oh
dear, no; not a bit of it. u ala not pre-
vent half the men he knew from calling
him George" or from making his wife's
newest friends feel that if they were not
on terms sufficiently intimate to call her
''Mrs. George" they had better 20 away
and just put their head in "A bag or any
fa -
ally hide il.
The women-even those that really dld
like Mrs. George-said she was a dear
thing, but fearfully fond of dress. and
that she spent fortunes, simply for
tunes, my dear" on her clothes. or course
they added, If George Greville's income
can stand il. all well and good: It's good
for trade, and a pretty woman should
always be well-dressed. Still. the great
question was. would George Grevllle's
Income be able to stand it?" An yes in
deed, that was the question. ana only time
would show.
And, meantime, all their friends ioclIed
10 the smart little house. ate the we'll
cooked little dinners-for the George Gre
Villes were much too smart to give big
ones-went for drives in Mrs. Georges
neat victoria, or was given liftS-I use
the singular advisedly only one at a
time did that-in Mrs. Georges dear little
Botwood brougham, thereby making
George himself occupy the little uncon-
sidered third seat, more often than many
men would have relished. but which good
natured George" bore with the most
imperturbable good humor.
Il like to give poor Flossie Beaumont
a lift when / can" Mrs. George said.
one night. by way of apology to her hus-
band, when she had taken young lady
home from a party in blissful uncon-
sciousness that this very girl had just
been explaining that she could not tell
how the Greville establishment was done.
she has rather a hard time of It, l
fancy. And it's very trying for singer
TO be dragging about in omnibuses at
this time of night"
MY dear child" said George Grevllle.
kindly, you needn't apologize to me for
giving the girl lift home If it pleases
you it pleases me-"
''You are always good and kind,
GeorgieI" answered she, slipping her
hand into his. II don't know what /
should do without YOU
And. so far as | know" he laughed,
there is no immediate prospect of your
having to do without me-
oh dear, l hope not" she cried, earn
estly.
Well. a few years went by. and still
the little house in South kensington was
kept merrily going. and the so anXiously
owners as quickly and as ruthlessly as
some people feared, and others wished.
The Greville children, two of them, had
their governesses, English and German
and their children's parties, and their
French bonnie, and spent the hot months
by the sea- and lived exactly as the
children of parents with four or hNe
thousand year do live.
And all of their friends, to say nothing
of their enemies, waited for the end!
They say that a watched kettle never
boils, and that is often equally true of
a long-expected ruin, be il one of either
mind body. or estate. 1T was a positive
eggravtion to some picus people that the
George Greville's fourished on their way
without appearing to feel any OF those
uualms which others so kindly felt Tor
them And it must be owned that Mrs
George dressed and enjoyed herself more
thoroughly than ever.
1t happened toward the close of the
season one year that Mrs. George was
not feeling very we'll; the season had been
a very gay one, and the weather un-
usually hot and most people We're be-
ginning to gasp for air, and to have long
long thoughts of the sea-coast, or or
Swiss mountains, of Scottish moors, or
of the delights of dancing over the salt
blue waves in trim little yachts, ana
making believe to be sailors for time
But Mrs. George never once dreamed or
leaving town before her husband, and
of course, a man in business has to make
all his plans a little beforehand, and to
stick to whatever arrangements he has
made. The Grevilles had arranged to
send the children with their goNerness
and bonnie to Eastbourne, and themselves
TO go to Schlanenbad, which the doctors
had recommended as being peculiarly
suitable TO Mrs. Georges constitution.
Meantime, although she felt far from
we'll. Mrs. George did not think of leav-
ing town even a single day in advance
of her husband. Indeed, she went about
as usual and if she was little pale, she
only looked all the prettier for it.
She happened one afternoon to be at a
great crush, where the heat was so un-
bearable that she found herself on the
point of fainting. Had she only herself
10 consider, she would have gone home
at once. but George, who was very fond
of the hostess, had promised TO look III
on his way from the Office and TO take
her home; and she knew that # she dld
not wait for him he would rush nome
after her in q perfect fever, and would
be unset and anxious for the rest OF the
afternoon. in consequence SO, as she
had no fancy for making scene By
fainting right off, she quietly made her