Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-01-24
CHAPTER X,

GERALDINE BEGINS TO PAY BACK
Tn London how easy we visit. and meet,
Gay pleasures the theme, and sweet smiles are
our treat;
Our mornings a round of good-humored de-
light,
And We rattle in comfort, to pleasure at
night
The presentation day had been a
Thursday.
Cecil RAYMOND declined to lunch in
Mount street on the following Sunday
as he had done on the two previous
ones, alleging an engagement; and it
presently TRANSFERRED that the engage
ment was to breakfast with Sir Fred
erick at his club, after which he pro-
posed bringing Bellenden to call on
his grandmother and cousin.
From the speakers manner it was
evident that a few civil words from a
man with whom it was creditable to be
on good forms, had unuone all the past;
Il the way in which ! G referred to
.cllenden and quoted BelLenden dur
ing the next five minutes recalled the
old time when no one had stood on a
higher pinnacle in his good graces.
The very air with which he made his
further proposition showed that he felt
secure of it's being accepted.
Now, poor old granny did not alto
gether like this; and for two reasons
would fain that nothing of the kind
had been suggested. She wished to
have nothing further to do with the
guest who she could but feel had been
ungrateful and neglectful, and she
had old-fashioned views on the sub.
ject of Sunday afternoon calls.
Cecil was himself ofcourse welcome;
but she would have preferred his not
beginning to bring friends with him.
AS for Geraldine, the word "bring-
ing" was enough for her. A man that
required to be "brought!" a man,
who, even after knowing that his
former friends and hostesses were
within few streets of him, could not
were, but required to be "brought."
An indignant sense of this was on
the verge of escaping, when she, how
ever, recOllected herself: and recol-
lected as Cecil's face told her, only Just
in time.
Yes, her cousin was certainly on the
actually looking out to see
whether any traces of the old flame
remained. Foolish, absurd boy Did
he not know her better than that?
Did he imagine that because he could
be won over by the first soft sentence
she was to be equally poor-spirited?
She burned with shame for him.
How easily he had pardoned every
thing: how pleased he now looked TO
sit and chatter there abouS his friend,
and his friends club, and his Sunday
breakfast. Granny was gently demur-
ring to the Sunday breakfast we'll
knowing w hat it meant; and Cecil, ever
ready to conciliate, was explaining
and excusing, and, moreover, assuring
the old lady shat it was not his habit
to accept such invitations, that he did
SO, in TACT, very seldom indeed, but
that he had not liked to refuse on the
present OCCASION, In case it might have
looked as if she would understands
If some resentment we're still harbored
which should be alike beneath o. Ray
nond and Campbell.
eve must take the world as we find
it," the young man was philOsophically
arguing 1--WE should simply make our
selves ridiculous if we appeared to
have thought so mach of q triie. Bel
lenden is careless fellow, and after
he had left US he had so much to do
ana to think OF tha5 we passed out Of
his memory. But he meant no harm,
and he was as friendly as possible to
me to-day. You would not have me
appear uncharitable as well as uaSo-
phisticated?" he woMnd up.
TO BE CONTINUED.