Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-01-21

calmly ana sNGetll IMAM 1-4S ~
met before; l envy you that When
sav anything low down and mean,
say it in anger, and my voice has n Ger
tain amount of acridity in ii. 1 can't
purr like q cat and scratch at the same
time-I wish could"
'Ts it an insult 10 offer you the money
you La-, osrued?"
"Yes, it,. IN knew ii was when
you spoke. You d.. .- rrstand me
little bit"
''Is it necessary that I should?'
'I don't suppose you think 1t is,
said Jennie, meditatively, resting her
elbow on her knee, and her chin on her
palm. THAT is where our point of view
differs. I like to know everything. 1t
interests me to know what people think
and talk about, and somehow it doesn't
seem TO matter to me what the people
are, for was even more interested in
your buffers political opinion than.
/ was in Lord Frederick Bingham's.
They are both conservatives, but Lord
Freddie seems shaky in his views, for
you can argue him down in five min
utes, but the butler IS as steadfast as
rock I do admire that butler. l hope
you will break the news of my depart
ure gently to him, for he proposed 10
me, and he has not yet had his answer.
There is still time,'' said Edith, smil-
ing in spite of herself. shall ring for
him?"
please do not. L want to avoid
painful scene, because he is so sure of
himself and never dreams of refusal.
II is such a pity, too, for the butler is
my ideal of what member of the aris-
tocracy should be. His dignity is some
thing awe inspiring, while Lord Fred
die is such a simple, good-natured,
everyday young fellow, that if / i'm
ported him to the states / am sure no
one would believe he was n real lord.
With the butler it would be so differ
ent," added Jennie, with deep sigh.
"It is too bad that you cannot ex-
change the declaration of the butler for
one from Lord Frederick"
"Too bad!" cried Jennie, looking
with wide-open eyes at the girl before
her why, bless you, had proposal
I ever saw the butler. L see you don't
believe a word I say. Wen, you ask
Lord Freddie. I'll introduce you and
YOU tell him YOU don't believe he asked
me to be Lady Freddie, il that's the
title He'll look sheepish, but he won't
DENY ii. You see, when l found L was
going to stay in England for time
wrote to the editor of the Argus to get
me q bunch OF letters of introduction
and send them over, as l wanted par
ticularly TO study the aristocracy. So
he sent them, and, assure you, found
it much more difficult to get into your
servants hall than did into the halls
of the nobility; besides, it cost less to
mix with the Upper Ten"
Edith sat in silence, looking with
amazed interest at the young woman,
who talked so rapidly that there was
sometimes u difficulty in following
what she said.
'No, Lord Freddie was not half so
condescending as the butler, neither
was his language so well chosen; but
then, suppose, the buffers had more
practice, Tor Freddie is very young.
am exceedingly disappointed with the
aristocracy. They are not nearly SO
naughty as 1 had imagined them to be-
But w hat astonished me in this country
is the way you women spoil the men,
You are much too good to them. You
pet them and fawn on them, and
naturally they get conceited. 1t Is
such pity, too, for they are nice fel'
lows, most of them. 1t is the same
everywhere I've been-servants hal
and all. Why, when you meet young
couple, of what you are pleased to cal
the lower classes, walking in the park
the man hangs down his head as hC
slouches along, but the girl looks de
family at you, as much as to say: I've
got him. Bless him! What have you
to say about it?' while the man seems
| to be ashamed of himself, and evidently
| feels that he's been ha6. Now, a man
| should be made to understand that
you're doing him great favor wher
| YOU give him q civil word. That's The
proper state of mind to keep a man in
| and then you can do what you like with
| him. / generally make him propose
so as to get it over before any rea
harms done, and to give an artistic
| finish to the episode. After that yol
! can be real good friends, and have ;
| Jolly time That's what / did will
| Lord Freddie. We all went up th'
river one day-two young men friends
of Freddie's and two nice girls, chap
| eron, and myself. Would you believe
that those two girls proposed to TOW
us up stream, and the young mel
actually allowed them to do so.
was steering, and it made me so angr,
| / couldn't speak. Lord Freddie seemed
! to feel that it was necessary to keep VI
a conversation, but when l didn't re
ply to him he calmly lit his pipe ant
began to smoke. The other two re
| clined with their hats over their eye
and, I think, went to sleep. Mean
while the two nice girls trudged alont
the bank together, pulling the rope.
would have sunk the boat if / could
but didn't know how. Well, when w
got to the place where we were to hay'
tea, the young men said IT was Joll.
nice of the girls to tow them so far
then they went and sprawled unde
some trees, leaving the complacen
girls to get tea ready. 1 couldn't stan'
it any longer. I went up to the thre'
sprawlcrs under the tree, and, biddin:
them good-by, started down the tow
| path. Lord Freddie sprang up and
| running after me, asked where wa
going. / told him was going to wall
| T., nd en-
l couldn't; it was so miles away. Blu
when he saw 1 was in earnest, he be
came anxious to know what the matte
was.
81 told him l thought l had come
out with three gentlemen, but, finding
| 1 was mistaken, was just going back
He got very red, and then / just gave
him my opinion of him and his friends
coming out with three girls and pay
ing no more attention to them THAI
| if they were three dolls. That settled
things Freddie apologized, and h
said he would go back and shake th'
brutes up bit, which, I suppose, HI
| did, for the bT-utes were as nice a!
| could be to us after that. When Fred
die and were towing the boat back
he proposed, and I laughed at him
After awhile he began 70 laugh, too
and so we had a splendid time. Wha
q lovely little river the Thames Is
isn't it? a nice, clean, little poke
river. 1 would like to buy it and pu
it in our back yard in America, jus
10 sit and look at it. Now, here am
chattering away as if L were paid 70