Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-07

Dwell know how to serve an lnterloper
and make her feel hundred times day
how uuwelcome and despised q creature
she is
Didn't I hear some one arrive?
Quick, the chrysoprases, stupid! don t
wear emeralds with peach color. Is
that you. Eegar? Go down and talk to
Dalrymplc till come
Hagar, who wore black gauze, against
which her neck aid AIMS showed Ike
alabaster. and who carried great clus
ter Of orange colo-eG roses at her breast,
nodded and retired. both the women
looking after her with that slight in
drawing Of breath which betokens as
tcnishmert.
"And look ct that" said Lady Lir-
ripper. nodding at her own enameled,
cleverly painted face, land at her age I
made more hearts beat in week than
she will in a year."
Down stairs in the little chintZy
drawing room Dalrymple was saying
urgently:
For Gods sake, give me some sort
Of answer tonight! Do you mean to
pay WIFI Ille IOrCScf.
But when Lady Lirriper came in he
was saying hurriedly:
Heard such Il joke today. Had to
punish man for drunk, and what do
you think his excuse was? That he had
got drunk on port wine! How do you
do, Lady Lirriper? Tallant's awfully
sorry he can't come. Wired for to his
governor, who is mortal bad.
I've are an odd number, then," said
Lady Lirriper, for expect Trelawny
and the vicar--aot tho wears wife, of
course. He plays capital rubber.
Trelawny hates cards, SO I'll send round
q line to the curate to come i'll by and
by. The Cassilises can't come. They
have duty dinner at distance. Ugh!
They forgot the dinners when they de-
c1ded to honeymoon at home"
For, as if to make them more miser-
able still, the county was dining the
young pair with vengeance, and the
hardest part to both of them was the
long drive to and from the mcckery of
baked meats to which they were bid
der.
They ccnversed, of course, for Mamie
had developed an unexpected amount Of
courage i'll dealing with the situation,
but only of outside things, never by
word or look seeking to bridge over
that gulf which. in the height of their
happiness, had suddenly yawned be-
tween them.
Will firmly believed she loved
Trclawny and had entirely mistaken
her feelings toward himself. She was
equally certain that he adored Hagar
aid only bitterly regretted the haste
that had put her cat Of his reach, and
both We're TOO proud 10 thrash the mat
ter diligently out, and with the finality
of youth regarded life as done with, an
ticipating for each other the worst
calamity that could befall and not in
the least knowing how to avert it.
And II events seem to move swiftly
remember that ~ hours i'll the country
are equivalent TO aweek or more in
town, and that an uninterrupted stretch
of one persons society will advance both
in enormous strides, whether for good or
evil, because the continuity of your emo
ton Is not broken; it runs cousecutively,
with no thousand outside things to dis
| tract you from it, and "A whole idyl or
tragedy, half a dozen volumes even of
| feeling, may be run through in an
amazingly short period Of time. That
| night, for the first time, Nannie's cour-
age failed her; she could not face the
| long, miserable drive with Will, and
she pleaded headache. and he went off
alone, white Tipped, haggard young
| bridegroom, who assuredly reflected no
credit on the bride who owned him. He
was Young, strong, and he recoiled from
his tate. He loved every hair of her
head; the chance touch of her hand
thrilled him; the feast Of her sweet face
was ever new to his eyes. Yet he knew
that after 4 few brief weeks of marriage
1t had actually come to this-that they
had drifted apart, and that every day,
every hour, they We're drifting farther
Tho life of rich people is ordered so
tremendously there is so little occasion
for them to think. and everything pos
sible is SO deity done for them that the
little they have to say and do to pass
muster Is infinitesimal, and it is so easy
for people to keep at distance from
each other in great house.
If Angelina is obliged to ask Edwin
If he viii have pork chops for luncheon
or mutton outlets. and both are Obliged
to take birdseye view of their last
shilling, there may be more friction,
but the chances Of n rapprcche,nent are
greater than when only the common
courtesies of everyday life have to be ex-
changed, and it is here that life's COM
pensations, alike 10 king and peasant,
come IN. For instance. it is a mistake
to pity the lower orders more especially
the women, for they have one great lux
ury utterly denied 10 the poor gentle
women-they can falkland gossip to
them is food and sleep and drink. and
to freely talk out their husbands vices
(unlimi,ed) and their good qualities, if
any, keeps their souls fresh and healthy,
SO that nothing troubles them much. No
cankerworm feeds On their damask
cheeks, and having thoroughly abused
their man and turned him inside
out they are able TO meet him with
that tabled smile, of which we haze all
hsard, when he comes hcme To his tea.
And vat Will Gra-r a. -