The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-12

deposits, counted out the last penny she
had in the world.
To the choicest box in one of the
most fashionable theatcrs, an extrava-
gance of which she had rarely if ever
been guilty when fortune smiled, she
suffered the usher to lead her. Reclin-
ing in luxurious chair, she yielded,
with the nonchalance of an habitue, to
the seduction Of the environment. The
situation recalled Norilla-blue eyed
Norilla of the Latin quarter of this
Lycette's not uneventful girlhood.
When Norilla's exchequer was reduced
to 5-francs, it was her wont to hail a
cab, pick up one or two congenial
spirits, then, with an authoritative
wave of her hand, "Cocher, au Bois!"
She called it giving hard luck the laugh
and vigorously maintained that itnever
failed to quicken good fortunes return.
L suppose that madam told you"
said Miss Lycette, breaking in at length
upon an orchestral interlude.
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Chamberlain
sententiously, having drunk in with ap-
proving glances the changes ten years
had wrought in the woman at, his side.
II met her in Hyde park the day she
got Thorndyke's letter. "A delightful
family, he wrote, not a single outsider
but one, jolly and deucedly pretty
American girl
Three hours later the madame was
on the channel" Happily the bass viol
drowned Chamberlain laugh.
''You see, " he continued, "it was the
very situation she was solioitous to
avoid. Your Indifference to the beloved
heir won her heart at first, then nearly
broke it.
"AbsurdW cried the girl. 1.-THE Eng
lish-beg your pardon-have such an
extraordinary way of arranging mat
ters. At first it astounded, intimidated,
then amused me- The dear old lady
bored me to death about the youth
stupid fellow at best-his prospects of
succeeding to the title and the estates
of the lord-dear knows Who'll l listened
to her story of the town house, the coun-
try seat, and the number of pounds ster-
ling she intended to settle ON the wom-
an he married, as l listen to all unsolic-
tied condolences. Do you know, Mr..
Chamberlain, she said, with sudden
earnestness, call my life have been
surfeited with the love affairs Of an i'm
personal world, until it has come to
pass that | never know whether | am
the recipient or the object of senti-
mental woe?"
Really" said the young man, with
quickening interest, while his brown
eyes lifted incredulously.
It's embarrassing at times, / assure
you. 1t has got me into no end of trou-
BILE and spoiled many a delightful
friendship
"But you knew certainly you sus-
pected-Thorndyke would bring mat
tiers to a crisis that day at the cata-
combs? 1 was on hand-it was ar
ranged"-he laughed maliciously-"to
pass upon your fitness to be the wife of
the heir to "a hundred earls. And when
you failed to materialize-well, had
to have my inning, so fell to twitting
him numerically.
Miss Lyoette's brows knitted, than
cleared.
Come to think of it, l believe l did
promise to join Thorndyke that day at
the catacombs 1t threatened rain. I
was fearful of dampening a Virot.
Something fully as important changed
my mind at the eleventh hour. -
"And when you joined in our raillery
that night at Thorndyke's expense
ooh, yes" laughed the girl, 1.-THE
dinner What a droll affair!''
1.-THE madam, we all expected, would
witness the announcement of the ar
rangement.
81 can see her now" she continued,
ignoring the interpolation-"a neck
lace of yellow topaz playing hide and
seek with the rolls Of fat in her bovine
neck; the conQuering hero air of the
aigret i'll her towering yellow couture. "
81 bear that feather a grudge to this
day." said the young man. 1T persist
ed i'll cutting off my view of certain
noble Colour de rose.
"What a memory for detail!" cried
Miss Lycette unconsciously rejecting
the tint. "Methinks snuff now the re-
1IGslliIiS DlGtAG a GtIldln yOIbu UIOuSub
into that stuffy dining room. 1t didn't
require the heirs whispered hints to in
form me that he was born in the Bos-
porus, of an English father and
French mother, that his boyhood passed
at Elton and Oxford, and that it was
expected that he would carry off all
the honors at L'Ecole du Droit After
a winter of unadulterated Anglo-Saxon
the Whit of Gallioism was positively
Intoxicating "
But Thorndyke"-
''Of what consequence"
"He never forgave us. He went to
India and married the daughter of an
officer at Bengal. Madame wept when
she told me. If it had only been Made
line, she sighed. Truly fond of you
was the madame" said Chamberlain.
Il seemed to amuse her." laughed |
the girl. ''She was given to paroxysm,
you know. recall one in which she
solemnly vowed she would remember
me i'll her will.
"And she did," cried Chamberlain.
Testing aside, Miss Lycette. This