The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-17
The Fourth Miss GyurkoVicS.

their rockets and came down TO Pesth TO
combine a visit TO their brother, the dep
uty with q little amusement.
Along the Corso in the mornings on
the ice In the afternoons. they were al
WAYS en- evidence. while every evening at
theatres balls or concerts, they were To
be seen enjoying themselves TO the scrape
OF fiddles and the popping OF champagne
corks until the small hours. while,
wherever they appeared a perfect stream
of tips followed for ooachmen, walters,
gypsy musicians and all sorts of hangers
on
Then, too they moved about in such an
immense family party as reininded one OF
patriarchal times; all their young men
were officers or government officials. or
rising young lawyers, and had the repu-
tatiun of being ready to flirt with any
body at any moment though IL was un'
derstood they were not marrying men;
Whereas, on the other hand, IL was wen
known that no eligible party who came
within flirting distance of one OF their
sisters could possibly escape.
Every year the Gyurkovicses parents
brought fresh daughter To Pesth and
provided her with husband. Nobody
knew how many girls still remained at
home, but 1t is certain that as soon as
ohe was settled another appeared imme-
diately 10 take her place. They were all
charmingly pretty and coquettish; could
dance seven Csardas running without feel
night at the supper table till the dawn
began TO creep in without showing any
deterioration of their dazzling complex
ions.
To SEQ one of them roll and light
cigarette-after glance at her brother
the deputy for permission-simply turned
your head No wonder II, after lo)d
lot CT champagne and the near proximity
of round white shoulder. an eligible
partner began To murmur all sorts of
.tnh mt lxy
clinched by the young lady's practical
answer, "Please speak direct To mamma y
It was thus that three of the Misses
Gyurkovics had already found excellent
husbands, and had settled down, renort
said. iEto the best of wives When the
shopkeepers in the Waitzner- gasse were
set 10 work upon lace pettcoats. and en-
hroidered table linen, people nudged each
other and wondered what dowry the girls
had The initiated smiled, for they
guessed how Mamma Gyurkovics contrived
those flounced petticoats and other smart
nesses of the trousseau out OF her own
special industry, of peach-liqueur, of
which, nevertheless she continued to send
each Of her married daughters dozen
bottles every autumn.
Two years ago the coed lady brought
her fourth daughter to Pesth. Ella was
this ones name. and she was quite half n
head taller and good bit more coquettish
than any of her sisters before her. The
young men who were introduced to her
swore that she was out and away the
prettiest of all the Gyurkovios girls, and
TINT meant that she was the prettiesJ of
all the girls who came to Pesth, be the
Others who they might With astonishing
ease Ella Gyurkovics took to the asphalt
and parquet OF town life, having all the
experience of her three preceding sisters
to help her. From the very first evening,
in five tours sitting at supper at the
Bristol, she made conquest OF the gypsy
orchestra, and SO enchanted the first vio-
lin that ut all the concerts and restaurants
nothing but her favorite airs were to be
heard. As usual the Gyurkovics fever
seized all the young men In the town, and
TO all appearance IL lay completely in
Elias power to decide which OF them
+. should be conducted toward the inevitable
crisis, TO which all laid themselves open.
Nevertheless everything went awry.
1t was certain Andreas Gabor whom
Ella encouraged most markedly, and, as
her brother had occasion 20 point out
later, her unexpected mismanagement
of the affair ended in the Gyurkovics
family having to return to their country
home. after their fortnight was over,
without having received the proposal
which was evidently their due-a thing
which had never happened to them before
Andreas Gabor with whom the fourth
Miss Gyurkovics had really fallen in love,
was an exceedingly eligible and we'll
behaved young lawyer. perhaps almost
too correct in his behavior TO fail in with
the usual plans OF the country family.
A young man who set himself TO check
the waters bill while the supper Csardas
was being danced, and who appeared 60
grow more and more circumspect tho
moro champagne he took, might wei.
arouse the suspicious of Mamma Gyur-
kovics.
II believe that young Gabor is after
money!" she observed TO her daughter.
I'm x,alI xntt
him his congo. so that he does not manage
TO spoil your other chances.
But Ella was really in love, and was not
at all inclined to let Andreas slip. Some
how she contrived that he seldom danced
with any other girl. aud was generally
beside her walking or on the Ice. When
she touched his champagne glass with her
own before drinking and he saw her brown
eyes look straight into his Tin spite of her
mothers warning frown), the young
mans head, cool as it was, began TO buzz
with strange fancies.
''How can one think of marrying into
such a family unless one is regular
RothschildS / don't know what they
would expect; but"
Gabor left his thought unfinished and
picked up ELIAS fan, which lay beside
her.
get one like IL for my sister Are they
Very expepsives"
"Oh, not at all IL you like could
order one for you-only eighty iiorins -
The young man bit his lips
Eighty florinsl' he thought To him
self; ''just the third part of my months
salary %
One of the young Gyurkovics was an
Crily finding fault with the waiter; ne
had ordered Monopol, ana they had
brought him Promontore Monopol.
do you take mo for cab driver that
txf Hnpoorfrn oh
pnRDef" nc demanded in a rage
mo. no i cannot marry into such an
extravagant family as this, Andreas
Gabor sighed To himself.
The fortnight was almost over tho
Gyurkoyics' ma oney was almost finished.
md IL began Ia be time for them 60 pack
and return home. Ella. who was as love-
sick as any schoolgirl, did not know how
20 face tho approaching parting. she
pinned all her hopes on tho farewell sup
per party, at which the Gyurkoyics were
10 be entertained by GabOr and his set;
rhaf. ha f.pf LAT