The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03
CHAPTER VII.

youth In Its blood. and the Old hawk OF trouble
has not yet darkened tho sunshine with tho
W-bOdinR shadow of It's wings.
CHAPTER VII.
THE HOPE OF ENGLAND.
MY uncle drove for some time in silence, but
l was conscious that his eve was always com
ing round to me, and l had an uneasy convic.
tion that ne was already beginning TO ask him
self whether he could make anything of me, or
whether he had been betrayed into an indis-
suade him TO show her sou something Of the
grand world In which no lived.
You sing, don't you. nephew" he asked
::Yes. sir, a nttle.",,
"A baritone, l should fancy1"
And your mother tells me that you play
the fiddle. These things will DO Of service
family. Your education has been what you
could get Mt n village school. Well. you are
not examined in Greek roots in polite society,
which is lucky for some of us. II II just as
well to have a tag or two of Horace, Sub -
or 'hgbet pgnam in cornu,'' which gives q
garlic in a salad. 1t is not bon ton to be learned.
but It 1, a graceful thing TO indicate that you
have forgotten a good deal Can you write
~ fear not. SIR
"A small book Of rhymes may be had for
ladies' on your Side It does not matter mai "", Whom N
a door, to enter q room. to present a snuf, box;
raising the lid with the foreinger of the hand
i1 ws f6P a yG %ah hold xi Il , X0n neq %a,s sc9 tonsh ta as
DIGNITY. and that for a lady, which cannot be
too humble. and should still contain the least
manner with women which shall be deprccat-
Ing and yet audaciOu'' Have you any Fcoen'
II made me laugh. the easy way in which he
asked the question. as If 1t were a most natural
You have a pleasant, catching laugh. ut all
bon ton at present, and II you feel any leaning
NAMED a mere peer all bis ne had il not come
the year, and that he had caught cold through
a mistake of his valet, who sent him out on n
instead R,stes w OF a th dss t %rto g 's she'll 1eV[ That Sn brSu SPt
member. him, Even some small characters
&c. such as having an apricot tart on YOUR
candle out a. q, n night tAf BY stuaiine t RI under your your
neirhbor. IN my own case IT IS my. precise
Judgment upon matters of dress and dccorum
which has placed me where / am; I do not
r. naakesn vest: Whs! do you think viii be
very great discontinue, but / did not say so.
to London. 1t will be IN Brookes' and Whites
70 morrow morning; Within a week 81. James's
street and the mall will be full e IankCcn
pened to me once, Ny cravat came undone in
The street, and | actually walked from Carlton
shook my %positionr The same evening there
streets of London with their cravats loose. II
/ had not rearrangcd mine there would moi, be
Srsn, ti st IN Wo .hs T Taya , tinF pIsmo 1Sw and pd.. a
You have not vet begun to practise it," '
] confessed that | had not.
you should begin now in your youth. I
will myself teach you the coup %d'archet. BY
using q few hours in each day. which would
c~ellent cravats in middle life. The whole
R SnS ,ko lie, In pointing y yGpr oh Sh, T. to the :, ssk Ky
When my uncle spoke ltk this there was al
ways that dancing ,mischievous light in his large
blue eyes which showed me that this humor OF
as l believe, gpon = natural fasiidiousHess 81
for the very reason which made him recon.
%y own: When thought Of the Wy II which
Avon. upon the evening before, and Of the emo
tion which he showed as he told the horrible
please him TO conceal It:
And. as II happened. I was very soon to have
another peep at II. for a most unexpected event
befell US as we drew up IN front of the Crown
r r1issi out to t@a as. and 4 m Hs' Uncle "t t6rS SraG@s down %Sn
the reins. gathered Fidelio on his cushion from
Ambrose" he cried. you may take FL
but there came no answer; The seat be-
We could hardly believe our eyes when we
alighted and found that It was really so. He
F F2G %0e Oak s'r aad iro fak there S' on ' %s h safF com Ss
without a break as fast as the mares could
tEsy,l Where, then could he have van
"He's fallen off in a nt!' cried nv uncle.
.'I'd drive back. but the Prince Is expecting US:
your best man back to Friar's Oak as fast as
his horse can go, to find, news OF my valet,
nephew. we shall lunch and then 20 up 10 tho
My uncle WAS much disturbed by the strange
loss of his valet, the more 50 ms IT was his Gus.
tom to go through a whole series Of wash
ings and .changings after even the shortest
mothers advice. ! carefully brushed the dust
from my clothes and made myself IA neat as
RSss' that I hay SSd f the Imm msi tenn pRos IN p Of meets "Ss,s
Ing so great and terrible n person as the Prince
time. ana had hallocd and waved my hat with
the others a; II, passed. hut never In my wild;
should ever he called upon To look him in the
face aud answer his questions, My mother
had taught me to regard him with reverence,
as one OF those whom God had placed 10 rule
over ns, but my uncle laughed when | told him
You are old enough % sec things as they
Of them Is the ha,lgn that YOU nrc in that
Is no one who knows the Prince better than l
do, and there T. no ono who trusts him less.
A stranger COntradlcticn OF qualities was never
gathered under one hat. He is n man who is
always In u hurry, and yet has never ANYTHING
to do. lie fusses about things with which 10
has no concern, md he ~ncglccts every obvious
duty. He Is generous 10 those who have no
claim upon him, hut he has ruined his trades.
men by refusing To pay his Just debts, lie Is
nj iectiOnRt' to casuai Rcqualnt0nCrs nut he
dislikes his father, ~loatles his pother, and Is
not on speaking terms with hia wife. lie
claims u he the first gentleman Of England.
but the gentlemen of England have responded
hlaCkballlng his friends NJ their clubs and
by warning, him or from Newmarket under
suspicion Of having tempered with n horse. /
He spends his dGis In u%ttcrinG noble senti,
ments and ~ruutrldiCting tlcm hY ignoblc
actions. lie tells stories Of his own dOings
SO grotcsguc that they can only, he explained
the madness which runs In his blood.
''And yet. with AL this, he ran NE courteous /
and dignihcd and kindly upon occasion, and |
have seen an imuulslye Rnud- hcartcdnCss IN
The man whi'h has made me overlook faults
which come mainly from his being placed In a
position which no man upon this earth was
ever less ftt"l To MI. hut this Is between our
selves. nephew, and now you viii come with !
me and you will form ar opinion tor Yourself"
II was hut a short walk, and yet II took vs.
$50, finn FOR 1n, Tnp1a Efu1En1 u1.fttF NyfF1, .