The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-04

ing than to baya -othihg more
her hands, unless il l. give Won ~
w., od 49, are expected to kiss Se alg "a
:, ou uidn know was bsr. Her hans
she said. Il made Franz H na did ys.s
tell you And then, dronpp promise &c;
httie, she added, u hs rp,,s her 10
my mind whether I am oei made :
MIN, but We are supposed sung to na,S
engaged, and everybody i - ee resuks
me-" Is just Lore
l was told off to take ha,
l do not mind confessino - ~ dnner ~
eeeangiy uncomfortable. | knsI vas ..
cry one in the house must , Iae% that .
mad, and Scarlet more ,na d''.lk she y.
marrying her. / felt SURE ~. 'aas y
mad heard her described &c la every a.
Oh mine. TO say that in an rig trssl
try house Yysonde Potwin ugh r-usi'sA co,
~ impossible is putting /, sosolC.
she chattered like a magnio -! MID,
dinner, and it seemed 70 aA thrOOss
made a deliberate effort % mat 81.
as possible. l saw poor old LA. a. 'Ia'
iett crop her eyes two or three ~. Ss'
FRANK looked as proud and nl.a nilss h
he were displaying some ma r,.',Sea d {
cious stone he had found in tbs s. IVY. NJ
his travels, and l knew that 80 ,'Vl'Se Z
TO marry Mrs. Potwin. and ~. san &
able young woman should Co. lyns't
ry him, no one could gainsar y, 70 IA
Enshshmen IN his position ara = -
iu'eiy uheir own masters as he Nc.
mother was the mildest cream, : y
weird, and he had no sisters :. L
man sisters, as a rule, whn a.
ready to tell him that ha is ~. ~
fCo' Of himself. There were ~ {
leAtenuating circumstances in -, u'a
case. Mrs. Potwin was wonasrforEl css
ty-much prettier even ,har r.
thought her in Japan. Against n.
oak walls of the dining-room and -. -
the sombre tone of English tahle.,ss =
stccd out like a brilliant orchid N : =
est. She was aggressive, as. I IN, " =.
nest all American women are us- :
meets them in England. She tartsS Y
california so much that she seer,d -
telling us all that she was no, g.
of being outland!sh. And | knsV -
dinner was over that Ysonde POtv ~ .
England was failure, and wous \ i
, more of a failure if she became ys..
+ Scarlet.
? l don't know what secret II is th,. a
+ American young ladies have who sp..
, in England, who not only marry PDyss
: men able to give them a position n !
! world, but manage afterwards IA !.
q their own in their new enyironnen, :,
do it; l am not a man who goes A.
! much, but l know at least half A,
: of them who have done it. Thee ar. !,
6 err quite like English women. hu, a
! two or three years they seem 10 loz
that English people find most dis,sst.
: in Americans. They are ALWAYS .ou;
!, lers, but only in the sense that Tn,
: lglrl of good family who marries an :
q IT, impress the beholder with the \
that their fathers were shopkeepers
that they themselves received their al
ton at a board-school. They always
. more manner than English women b
;, They are never altogether in symv
u with the life about them, and no on
&c them has ever shaken my belief that
II Englishman who is fortunate encugA
1, have the privilege of taking an En-!
u gontleman's daughter for his wife
u i'll advised If he marries an alien 81
the case of Mrs. Potwin there was
u than this. l know that the ANA
ie women who have made a footing Ia
demand / don't for moment meaI
III say that it isn't a firm footEg-E
IL say, if they were asked. that Mrs, p0
u was not as they were. She was, AO
u. er, quite pleased with herself.
!" thought, as she told me after dinner
y over, that such a marriage was jus
H. surprising sort of thing that would
H. likely to happen to her.
he II am so glad" she said, TO have
ic to talk to. You see. all these peope
e think / am regularly engaged 10 y
e. He didn't want any one to know U
.e was only a kind of an understanding
te it is, just the same. / have come
az here to see how l like living in Eng
u just the same as l went TO japan
H. how / liked living there. ] think
10 is the kindest, most good-natured .
L ever saw, and if 1 didn't tank about
IN thing but what was easy 10 do and
u ant to do, I'd make up my mind 70
or ry him and have it over with. b
III Temehichi is going to be a shosu
&c think / ought to marry him, Whel
want to or not. It's like having
to live in fairy story. When u
10 read about the little girl who mafTl'
~ prince made out of nougat, used
We I'd never marry an ordinary nahs
ing. And it seems like Throwing
l my only chance if l don't marry
AZ hichi. Most people never get -
ne do anything so improbable.
nd rs he making any headway VII
a revolution? / asked.
,,n "Oh, / suppose he is working a,
20 the time,'' she said. Il haven't
letter from him for ever so long d
81 last time he wrote to me ne was =
,es ly furious. He called me bad
be and Gold Beak, and called FRANK
ar just the way he used to go on aaol
o, Charley Hart. You see. he haG ~. ~
40 about my going to Nikko al u,
60 time Frank was going there anu
m that, he was in an awful rage wv
~ didn't go up to YeZo TO see SONG
nc relations. l thought If he was ~ :
a fury, I'd just let him walk up a".
ON till he cooled off, and so | CANE ). :
he England. He said in his letter :
we was going to Japan. but l uvn
it, and If he does he won eO rsr
-, Anyhow, don't want TO tax 1Oy 4,
!! any more now. While / was ID :,
-ha was all the while thinking aoTe.
ier csc things, and now I'm IN . h-s
want to think about English 'u .ss
'u' thing / can't make out IS
al don't dance in the evening aiY. ",
ms In America, when there are q y.
: pie together in the evening 81 -.
II dance. There are four or :. i,
u here, anyway, and I think y .,s
vas ridiculous thing 1 ever saw Va. 4.
'ie splendid wax floor not TO niaa' ga
of it. But Frank says lhH. "a,
ON who lives over on the other !,
Sho river is going to give pan l,n % 70
peg three days, and then / am so~' 70
ars until 1 can't stand. And nov ,r ,
10 better go and talk to soneoS' m
want to get better acquaih'e-. rsr
ng, eirl with the white eyelashes ~, .,t
1 corner there, so l can tell hel = ~
en- thing on them. She makes ~ Io,t
10 vous, the way she is now
what to do" ~ ne