The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-30

to the cause of these EreCklewOrthISmS
nor are they put down at all as a final So
luton. but they were made not without
the result of distinct impressions upon
each Of the two university chums.
Il have told you all the time" remark
ed Montague. that the most significant
fact that stands out. stood out and Will
stand out in connection with lfreckle-
worth fact too which must be- thor
oughiy explained before any chamber OF
his heart can be unlocked, is his failure
during all our acguaintanccshiP To have
spoken Il sentence of French. though NE
tells you he has been living fourteen
years III Paris-that Neville. is the first
mystery to be explored before we can
come TO a.proper knowledge of Freckle-
worth
DO You know, Thing lthat was Ne
ville's nickname for NIUntaguel ! was
actually daring enough a few days after
! the Russian incident to ask Freckleworth
why he could not speak French-dared to
do that. | should as soon think of slap
ping his face as of asking HIM such ques-
ton as | know him now"
| Montague was astounded. and showed
| it, but" he continued, did YOU get re-
pIyT
| Neville laughed well, as he recalled it.
What do you suppose? He simply
shrugged his shoulders an asked: DO you
and your cOmrade not find it more conven-
lent to yourselves to use EnglishT The
subject dropped there; YOU may resume
where | left Off if you choose" concluded
| Neville with a smile which was a win
ming enough smile in itself, but which
| had ntah 10 hn
least bit Of prick in it.
| The two were silent for a moment,
when Montague after a thoughtful sip
of the cognac on the hot surface of his
black coffee put down the dainty cup
suddenly and half exclaimed: IN tell
you, Neville, he don't know French, be-
cause he can't learn it, and he can't learn,
because there is some rodent of the mem
DRY gnawing away each word as rapidly
as he acquires it: for that matter he has
none too tight grip Oh English beyond
the ordinary words.
AS the boys say in Hiding switch
we're burning, replied Neville zone day
i'll drugstore when | was bout thought
lessly to take up Il package that had
been some time preparing, Freckleworth :
| thin arm shot like an arrow under mine
with the wrist protruding weazcnly from
the cuff, and the leaders of the hand
seemed like wires and his fingers seemed
| clutchey and Spiteful sand cawey rs
he snatched it into IS quickly closed
hand.
Then it is either the drug or more like
| ly - just at this instant Montague
| felt shivery, tentative, talOn-touch
| as If of some kind of Il large bird alight-
| ing upon his shoulder. 1t was the hand
| of Freckleworth who had seen the Wis
avis from the Avenue. He may or may
not have heard the beginning of Monta-
CUES unended sentence-it does not much
matter. If he did, his manner did not
| betray it nor his tone Of his voice which
was as usual. There was the same use
of the grave and acute accent in his
speech, which use coupled with the eX-
actly proper measuredness and suavity
of tone does much in Paris, as elsewhere.
to determine in the minds Of those capa-
Bile of judging the grade of polish to
which the one speaking is entitled.
Il shall be very pleased to have You
both at the Opera with me this evening"
This remark followed the lifting of his
hand from Montagues shouder-where
it had been barely resting not Familiarity,
If not too fOrmaly-as FrecklewOrth
| Joined them al the table. Paris! Parish
exclaimed Neville suddenly. Paris is all
the world"' 1t was not an unnatural
exclamation for the young man, for the
boulevard never seemed more enchant-
ing. There will be no snapshot attempt
TO reproduce the sparkle of the ceaseless
panorama before them, the light yellow
| bursts through the dark green giving
dream effects to the moving peOple-it
seemed all phantasy of life fringed with
| laughter. As a border to the boulevard
as far as eye could reach the gay idling
kept lengthening and lengthening until
| the far away wide walkways met in per-
| spectlye. And Neville unused and said
| nothing; now and then his smile of a
| sweetness rarely seen about the eyes of
men-or of women either-WOuld CLEAN
silently toward the delicately curled lines
of the mouth-corners, and the lips would
| part discovering the beautiful strong even
teeth white, merry white-glistening white
-fragrantly perfecting the smile in its
sweetness. Parish he exclaimed again
taking his rimless glasses in his hand
with a sigh that seemed like sudden death
to something young and beautiful follow
ing so closely upon the illumined face Of
the moment before. Neville was Just
turned eighteen, six feet, agile, enduring
and sinewey. His hair was deep sandy
and thick, breaking into waves at every
chance. His eyes which were large and
full seemed changeable; under light they
seemed dark, certainly under flash of
fine wine they became of graver tone
yet UNANIMOUSLY grave; in the sunlight.
they were of a cool cOntemplative rather
than trenchant gray-an eye that seems to
| be taking the measure of the thoughts,
that inhabit it ,as it looks at one. Per-
haps, the tone of the eye, as in most in
stances, was traceable as much to shaded
depth under a ful-orbed brow-as to 9TH
err causes, a brow that from the straight
nose-bridge made the whole sweeping
| curve of the Beautiful, of form, space
sound, calculation, distance, color, facul-
ties that at all times and in all places in
all persons of brilliant perception have
full-dress seats on this frOnt-row dress
circle of the brOws of those vast spirits
which command the really great view of
the great spectaces and truths of crea-
ton and creatures. OF course,
the deeper and more luminous
creative faculties come behind these
somewhat objective faculties 1t
must be said in truth, that Neville was
not prodigious in this deeper quality Of
mind. He was n natural creature seeing
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