The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-01-27
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steward seems little afraid"
"You overestimate my courage. lam
little afraid, too"
"Then you do think I deserve it?'
81 didn't say that, nor do l think 1T.
confess, however, that up to this mo-
ment felt just trife lonely"
Just trihe! Well, that is iattery.
How nicely you English do turn COM
pliment. Just trife!"
st believe, as race, we do not ven
ture much into complimentgiving at
all. We leave that for the polite for
eigner. He would say what tried to
say great deal better than l did, of
course; but he would not mean half SO
much"
"Oh, that's very nice, Mr.. Wentworth.
No foreigner could have put it nearly
so well. Now what about going on
deck?"
Anywhere, if you let Inc accompany
you"
ST shall be most delighted to have
you. l won't say merely trifle de-
lighted"
"Ah! Haven't you forgiven that re-
mark yet?"
"Theres nothing to forgive, and it
is quite too delicious to forget. l shall
never forget it,"
"I believe that you are very cruel at
heart, Miss Brewster"
The young woman gave him curious
side look, but did not answer. She
gathered the wraps she had taken from
the cabin, and, handing them to him
before he had thought of Offering to
take them, they went on deck. He
found there chairs side by side, and ad-
mired the intelligence Of the deck stew
ard, who seemed to understand what
chairs to place together. Miss Jennie
sank gracefully into her own, and al
lowed him to adjust the wraps around
her.
"There," she said, "that's very nicely
done; as well as the deck steward him
self could do it, and am sure it is i'm
possible to pay you a more graceful
compliment than that. 80 few men
know how to arrange one comfortably
in steamer chair
"You speak as though you had vast
experience in steamer life; and yet you
told me this was your first voyage"
1T is. But it doesn't take woman
more than day to see that the average
man attends to such little niceties very
clumsily. Now, just tuck in the corner
, out of sight. There! Thank you, ever
so much. And would you be kind
: enough to-yes, that's better. And
ut this other wrap so. Oh! that is perfect
What patient man you are, Mr.. Went
worth"
n "Yes, Miss Brewster, you are a for,
II eigner. l can see that now. Your pro
t. fessed compliment was hollow. You
G. said l did it perfectly, and then i'm
N mediatcly directed me how to do it."
W Nothing of the kind. You did well
ie and think you ought not to grudge me
u, Is the pleasure of adding my own little
:, improvements"
: "Oh, if you put it that way, 1 will not
IL Now, before / sit down, tell me what
book 1 can get that will interest you
The library contains very good as
ne sortment."
u 81 don't think I care about reading
e, Sit down and talk. suppose am tot
AZ indolent to-day. thought, when
Al came on board, that would do lot o
We reading, but believe the sea air makes
>e' one lazy. must confess feel entirely
Indifferent to mental improvement"
VI "You evidently do not think my con
NJ versation will be at all worth listen
~ ing to-"
Ut "How quick you are to pervert m,
meaning. Don't you see that thinl
LIE your conversation better worth listen
ing to than the most interesting or i'm
ni' proving book you can choose from tn
iel library? Really, in trying to avoic
ut giving you cause for making such re
'er mark, have apparently stumbled int
" worse error. l was just going to sa.
, I would like your conversation mucl
nc better than book, when thought yc,
ne would take that as reflection on you
reading If you take me up SO sharply
l will sit here and say nothing. Now
then, talk"
his "What shall say?"
ny "Oh, if told you what to say shoul
for be doing the talking. Tell me abou
gh yourself. What do you do in London?
he "I work hard am an accountant.
err "And what is an accountant? Wha
lie does he do? Keep accounts?"
lg- Some of them do do not. SCI
or rather, that accounts other people kee
to have been correctly kept"
en aren't they always correctly KEPT
ys. ] thought that was what bookkeepe
ite were hired for"
BOT "If books were always correctly kel
ed there would be little for us to do; bl
M it happens. unfortunately for some bl
ted fortunately for us, that people oCc
all sionally do not keep their accounts a
re- curately."
lis "And can you always find that out
he you examine the boolks"
nd always
,st. "Can't man make his accounts
for that no one can tell that there is an
as thing wrong?'
If "The belief that such thing can
the done has placed many poor wretch
prison. Il has been tried often enough