Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-23
A DISAPPOINTMENT

It really was most provoking of Doris.
Her mother said so, and she Of all people
ought to know.
"To think of all the trouble I have tax
on about that girl" as she lamented con-
f1dentially to half a dozen Of her most in.
innate friends. "Of all the thought and
care l have lavished upon her! l have
dressed her well. I have spared nc OK
pense. Small as my means are I have
secured every advantage for her. And
yet now, when she might make a really
good marriage-Mr. Lawrence proposed te
her only a week ago l know, and he is
quite fabulously rich-now, I say, when
she might have shown her gratitude by
gratifying her poor old mother, what does
she do? Accepts that good for nothing
young Arbuthnot, whom nobody knows,
and who hasn't a penny beyond his pay
1t is too bad Of hertz
"Too bad indeedv'
"Most disappointment
"What do you expect? It's just like the
girls nowadays. They have neither prin-
ciple or prudence. Bikes and banjos have
quite revolutionized the world, and all the
old fashioned virtues are out of date. ]
only wonder your daughter and Captain
Arbuthnot have not made a runaway
match Of it-on a sociable-or is it a safe
ty? What is it they call the double thing?''
old Miss Western asked severely.
Old Miss Western had never approved
the system of Doris education, and her
mother knew it. Therefore she turned on
her in much bitterness of spirit.
II don't want Doris to be a hundred
years behind the age in her ideas any
more than l want her to wear long ring.
let's and her waist just under her arms
You may think that fashion pretty
don't remember it myself-but it would
make the poor child look a fright now,
adays, just as too much sentiment would
make her ridiculous. So l did my best te
make her modern. 1t isn't modern to
sacrifice everything to sentiment, Miss
Western"
"You're right there" And the old lady
laughed. "'All for love and the world
well lost isn't fashionable, l grant you.
You'd have her marry for lucre, then, not
for lover"
"Why should she not marry for love and
lucre9"
"My dear woman, you mustn't expect
to have everything. Doris doesn't, and
very p%rudently she accepts what she consid.
ers the more indispensable of the two"
"Prudently! You think her conduct
p%rudentP"
"From her point of view, yes"
"But you utterly disapprove Of her; you
have always ~disapproved Of herr
eyes, from my point of view. But
since she has not turned out as you expect.
cd she may be more to my taste now"
II wish you'd the responsibility of her,
then"
ooh, Captain Arbuthnot will soon re.
lieve you of that and the old lady rose
to go. you say nobody knows him, but
I'm an exception. I've known him a long
time, and / say that Doris is an unoom'
monty fortunate girl"
"But he hasn't a penny"
Hasn't hep Well, If he had. would she
ever have thought twice about hims You
have always urged her to marry money
with the natural result that she has re-
fused all the Mr.. Lawrences who gave bel
the chance. She isn't mercenary, and
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unreasonable 70 expect 10.
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uney coula noI see .nae sne coulo 40 any.
tning unuer vne cilculi'soanoes. 90 shs
got llttie comIort ana no nelp from tnem.
MISS western was having 9
rev words Win Doris, wnom she happened
TO JUST as sne reached ner owl
gate. :.
Inc very person ! wanted 10 see, 7 sac
the old lazy nrisKiy. now my dear
you're coming In 10 nave a cup OF Tea ant
tell me all about 1t.
"Au about what, Miss WESTERN
las II you didn't know. Ihls terrible
Engagement OF yours, OF course, which \
such q disappointment to your poor moth
or m such a wrong thing altogether"
wrong n the girl raised her prout
little head. Then she met the old lady
winkiinR eyes and smiled. But 70,
oonft mean lt-you don't think II wrong
sns said impuisiveiy. ,,
But then. then, I'm me-. old l.f fashioned I1I you know y.