The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MARCH 6. 1895

ana back silk stockIqgsl It's impossible;
whereas, the bare feet Just showing pink
| lily through the grass-Oh, do, like a dear
kind angel. take them Off"
Lady Hilda flushed.
Oil don't know" she said. Don't
you think it might look rather-funny, if
| II any one who didn't understand were to
come this way?"
Angelo Whyte turned his blank stare On
her. "Lookr' he Repeated vaguely. What
does II matter how things look TO people
who don't understand L thought we
who are on the 'hiltops.' we in our own
little republic of art and poetry down here.
whose cult is the cult Of beauty, and VINO
! worship art for arts sake. and strive only
to develop 1t in ourselves and others, ought
to be above the social shiDboleth, What
will our neighbors think? Surely it isn't
| like you TO go back to
| No II doesn't sound like me. does it?''
said Lady Hilda, laughing a little, though
her color was still high. And certainly
no one has any more right to be shocked
| at bare feet in a meadow than bare feet
on beach. If they're necessary for the
picture of course you can have them;
only you might have said so in the begin
| ming. because then l could have done my
unshoeing in the dinghy, and you needn't
have wasted your time"
| She had seated herself among the roots
| VI the EN- tree as she spoke, and was re-
moving the Objectionable footgear-a per-
romance which. however deft lady may
be, is not so easy to achieve without (to
| say the leasD giving some hint of ankles
| 10 an oniooker; and it did occur to Lady
| Hilda that person more in slavery to
social shibboletbs" than Mr. Wbvte
would have directed his attention else
| where during the operation. She was in
| deed, quite capable of telling him 50 only
/ coy It.
Dashed gaze held something as disarming
as it was irritating to her; and the former
| feeling was increased by his calm remark
as she resumed her former position:
How dreadfuny out of drawing vour
left ankle is! I thought it was onlv a
shadow at first, but it's the ankle itself
l suppose high heels make them lonsided
We mustn't let it show. though -
He had gone to her while speaking. and
dropping on one knee took the little naked
! foot in his hand as if to alter the nose
| Then different look came into his nron-
! inent, moist brown eves-the Iool, Of
| gluttonous boy left alone in a sweetstuff
shop.
| Poo little badly-used anklesp' he muir
INJURED. land lovely, pinky soles turning
| like rose-hued seafiowers TO the heat
as Swinburne says All but what he
| ought to have gone on to say was.
Ny lauy s Ieet IKE seashells pink
| Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
| An anger ups 10 KISS, We think,
mat lady s teet-
| And tben hoeono .1,.,.,,
he had iotS bis 49, @'ae CouIa even stop him,
mecca 10 ,;rs - - "s'i" the 1901 and
| win a crv 81 t,si..r, 4,o.
"AIr wbvte, uoT,, -t SC ,',.aioI ana disgust
| a., -" udIe you! Are you
from him and snra,,' i ,',.,lSsa 1er 1901
rnC,,e,,,a,t -, Rtt pIis upiisnt, Dut the
| arr, oio.,,i,1,r " ~ ~ Up WIN her, ms
! fana ord "a ~ 49, nlS rat paIlId
-, tL.,,st,..l- 10 10 Nio9e 10 hers- The
e. e. III lneih PdcK' struck out at
nr,en ho,,d and -. gu uch twice. with
a'sip q I'D =, ringing cry;
| mo 90, ~, $50 rioW uare you! Let
say,,e ,,,o,,n,,t 80 $50 - For' IN the
- Ct1l,st IaHu had grasped
~, ~ ,lie co'l Collar Ihere was
t,,r;+ts,9l hlal sSiatlon Oh struggling,
| sa. ,s1i-9 ~ tue ar, an oath,
s' oleeiii :, aqueich' gurghng' splutter-
. ,iis @ 1iio .AIlselo W9yte impression
CIV, 60 49, e $50. heaaioreInost in
-, " o9li'hl lhuu' While Col
- ~ k.,- Paie ana srltn-looklng, stooo
~ ~ an a1e w Lauy Hllda Two lit
We hailus clgnGhed IKE wee on his arm,
anu az Lauy ialiua nerseif, not descending
| 70 ears even 'heh' as most girls would
e.
- 80 ~ " is leI oieath IN long sob
/ S Sln9 $500 -. ne Ue. Tue colonel was
.--l1 ..,- a"9i WIN Her III her nrst
~, nun ~ ply ana tender
| Hess
- G - u u nau peen tessy! ana want
| -. ~ - - 81 IuI nun to-uay! On, my
pooi l IT. essy = am slad II was only
"oulu JACK nave SAID!
|
,- Ie1 minutes l iater' as they were wend-
| Isss tHgli way meme through quiet lane,
! Hduy r1ida, re-shoa ana matted, and with
a Iace SCARF Nhotted round her neck (what
tIine' 'oo, miserable shapeless object,
| ooa'eo win pIdck SHINE from mead 10 foot,
| "a9 u ouciilnS III the ootton OF 'dlnghey
| nSns 70 scIdte OH some OF the foul mud
when when aunereu 10 hlfn) the Colonel said:
II wen II was only your 1907 he kiss
60, 'ilousn even 50 l should IKE to go
oacH ana hih MN. All me same Q'm not
scoloihg YOU mlnd1 you brought it on
yourseit. Lady Hllda' now could you be
SO hnpruoent!
Lazy Hllda hqhg her mead
now couu guess man ike that
Wouid uare-We only wanted little fun
anu Lreeoon aIter that weary round of
! SoNlcNy tOuliHe III the season, ana Mrs