Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-07-12

excuse to get away and dine with Mrs.
Hauksbee; so he was grateful and felt
small and mean at the same time,
which, was wholesome. Bremmil left
the house at for ride. About half
past in the evening a large leather
covered basket came in from PHELPS
for Mrs Bremmil She was a woman
who knew how to dress, and she had
not spent week on designing that
dress and having it gored and hemmed
and herringboned and tucked and
rucked Tor whatever the terms are) for
nothing. 1t was gorgeous dress. slight
mourning. can't describe 1t, but 1t
was what The Queen calls "a creation"
"a thing that hit you straight between
the eyes and made you gasp. She had
not much heart for what she was going
to do, but as she glanced at the long
mirror she had the satisfaction of know
ing that she had never looked so we'll
in her life. She was large blond, and
when she chose carried herself superbly.
After the dinner at the Longmores'
she went on to the dance-a little late
and encountered Bremmil with Mrs.
Hauksbee on his arm. That made her
flush, and as the men crowded round
her for dances she looked magnificent.
She filled up all her dances except three,
and those she left blank. Mrs. Hanks
bee caught her eye once, and she knew
it was war-real war-between them.
She started handicapped in the strug-
gle, for she had ordered Bremmil about
| just the least little bit in the world too
| much, and he was beginning to resent
| it. Moreover, he had never seen his
| wife look so lovely. He stared at her
from doorways and glared at her from
passages as she went about with her
| partners, and the more he stared the
more taken was he. He could scarcely
believe that this was the woman with
the red eyes and the black stuff gown
| who used to weep over the eggs at
breakfast.
| Mrs Hauksbee did her best to hold
him in play; but, after two dances, he
crossed over to his wife and asked for
a dance.
"I'm afraid you've come too late,
Mr.. Bremmil," she said, with hSr eyes
twinkling
Then he begged her to give him q
dance, and as great favor she allowed
him the fifth waltz. Luckily five stood
vacant on his programme. They danced
it together, and there was little fut,
ter round the room. Bremmil had a
sort of a notion that his wife could
dance, but he never knew she danced
SO divinely At the end of that waltz
he asked for another-as favor, not
as a right-and Mrs. Bremmil said
"Show me your programme, dearp'
He showed it as a naughty little school
master. There was fair sprinkling Of
"H' on it besides "H" at supper. Mrs
Bremmil said nothing, but she smiled
CONTEMPORARY, ran her pencil through
seven and nine-two "H sand re-
turned the card with her own name
written above, a, pet name that only
she and her husband used. Then she
shook her finger at him and said, laugh
ing, "Oh, you silly, silly boyp'
Mrs. Hauksbee heard that, and-sht
owned as much-felt she had the worst
of it. Bremmil accepted seven and nine
gratefully. They danced seven and sal
out nine in one of the little tents. What
Bremmil said and what Mrs. Bremmi
did is no concern of any one
When the band struck up "The Roast
Beef of Old England" the two went
out into the veranda, and Bremmil be-
gan looking for his wife's dandy (thi,
was before rickshaw days. while she
went into the cloakroom. Mrs. Hauks
bee came up and said, "You take m,
in to supper think. Mr.. BremmilW
Bremmil turned red and looked fool
ish. "Ah'm I'm going home with my
wife, Mrs. Hauksbee. think there ha
been little mistaken" Being a man
| he spoke as though Mrs. Hauksbee wer'
entirely responsible.
Mrs. Bremmil came out of the cloak
room in a swans down cloak with E
white "cloud" round her head. She
looked radiant, and she had right to-
The couple went off into the darkness
together, Bremmil riding very close tx
the dandy.
Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me-she
looked a trifie faded and jaded in the
lamplight-"Take my word for it, the
silliest woman can manage .. clever
man, but it needs very clever woman
to manage fool. "
Then we went in to supper.