Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-07
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rent roll. Old and young alike thought
that an introduction, even it it went no
further. could 90 no harm. Lady Ray
mond somewhat sourly warned her
mother of the necessity of being care
full
people are so outrageous, she de-
clared. 'Really one is ashamed OF
ones fellows nowadays. Directly
girl with money appears upon the
scene, the men swarm after her like
hive Of bees. And fine, unencum-
bered estate like Inchmarew is not in
the market every day. Pray be par
tjcular as to whose acquaintance you
permit
1t did just occur to Mrs. Campbell
that her daughter might have been
some attraction for the bees save in
! the fine, unencum bered estate, and
that she spoke with some acerbity when
she described Geraldine as "a girl
! with money" It made her bride up,
! and cut Charlotte somewhat short in
her next remark, so that Lady Ray
| mond feared afterwards that she had
! not on the whole done quite so we'll as
| she had expected. She had meant to
suggest that application as to the
| character and tenets held by the bees
| in question should be made by her
mother to her son, and that Cecil alone
should furnish the password to grannys
good graces; but she was obliged to be
satisfied with vaguely limiting at what
she had intended putting into good
round terms.
AS for Cecil himself, he was perfectly
satisfied with the situation as it stood.
In the double character of his grand
mothers aide-de camp, and Geraldine's
| instructor aud companion, he went
about with the ladies everywhere; and
on the occasion of the ball in question,
had the honor of presenting his cousin
with her bouquet, of facing her in the
| carriage and of following her up the
broad, red-carpeted steps into the fes
! tive halls.
The scene that here met her eyes
was as new as all the rest had been to
self, she now walked demurely through
| tween the long lines of silvery lamps,
looking neither to right no to left lest
Cecil should see aught amiss in her &C.
pertinent. They were rather late, and
dancing had begun.
Truth compels us to state that Ger
aldine was not a good dancer Ali the
running and elm bling in the world will
not teach the swing of the waltz with
out some pains being taken in it's ac-
complishment: and, accordingly, al
! though partners were rife, as we have
said, they speedily discovered that the
pretty heiress did not care to be long
upon the floor. and that they might
:. joyfully exchange the fatiguing exer-
cfsefo a quiet stroll through the gal
leries, or, better STILL a lounge under
the awning Of the balcony.
The latter was the most affected by
the lady.
She had never done anything OF the
kind, and never seen anything OF the
kind before.
To be sitting or standing outside q
London ball room, amidst crowd OF
ball-goers, in her brilliant ball-bress,
on warm, sweet-scented summer
night, while the music went tinkling
on within the vast saloons, and the
dancers went circling round. and soft
voices and laug ter and light patter-
ing feet filled the air on every side-it
was like fairyland She wondered if all
the girls there were having us good a
time as she.
Some OF them looked at her rather
/ hard. she thong ht: and so, for that
matter, did the men. What was it
they saw?
With all her shrewdness and her in
born share Of native self-im pOrtance, 1T
did not occur to her that they were
saying. That is Miss Campbell. That
! is the great S otch heiress,' and that,
thereupon, some fell amusing, and
some to picking her to pieces.
MY dear, you must positively site k
a little closer to your granocsother or
to me her Aunt Charlotte admonished
her somewhat sharply at last. "Do as
your cousins do. Ethel and Alicia are
always coming backwards and forwards
to US, they show they are under our
charge by staying with us when they
] are not dancing"
but have been engaged for every
Dance"
where then have you been? You
'.Outside. On the balcony" began
| Geraldine, but could proceed no fur
Their.
THAT does not do, my dear; it does
not do - frowned her aunt, with q
terrific whisper. 81 though you would
have known better. Ethel and Alicia
never go out on the balconies
ought to have told you. Cecil ought
to have told you -
"Why, [ have just been there with
Cecil" said Jerry, opening her eyes. :.
':Oho" ard Lady Raymond wished
she had held her tongue. "Oh?-Oh?
OH" she said, not knowing what
else to say. "Well, of course, my dear,
IF course, that-ahem!- makes a differ
ence, to be sure" in an entirely al
tered tone, Ito be sure that -ahem.-
completely alters the case. It is only
my anxiety that you should be the
same as one of my own daughters, you
know, Geraldine; and, no doubt, Cecil
Cecil. no Doubt laundering on, 81
dare say he took care as to whom you
were with" concluded, tamely.
"He Introduced nearly all of them. .
The next moment, however, brought
a new introduction. Geraldine, my
love y said her grandmother's voice,
General Dacre wishes to know you.
He was a friend OF your poor fathers, "
added she, lower, ''he asked of him
/ self to be presented" and there stood
a fine, soldierlylooking man. with
crisp, gray halr, a thick, gray nous
tache, an aquiline nose and a magnlfi-
cont star ,f diamonds on his breast.