Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-06

COR v ALL1S, J
afraid I've got you into row, withou
meaning aught of the sort. The gov
ernor's always at me TOTO make love
to Louise; he wants me to marry her.
(Mr. Birley shifted uneasily in his
| seat.) "That was what he called me
out about now; he jawed me, and told
him didn't want to marry Louise; he
got very angry, and then / said, what
was the use of my making love to CIR
that was in love with somebody else
I shouldn't have said that, / know, but
was very riled; / am very sorry"
The hot suspicion now dayned on me
that was the fortunate somebody
else" of his legend. I felt I grew
burning red; I scarcely heard what he
said afterward, but it was to the effect
that this father angrily dismissed. him
with the order to send me to the dining
room. Birley sat unusually silent and
disturbed. I also was silent moment.
I turned to him.
'Do you think I ought to go2" ]
asked him.
"Yea, lad; CO." said he, laying his
hand on my shoulder, "and III go wi
tha." t
We entered the dining room together.
Steinhardt stood on the hearth rug.
He irowned and pulled his great NOUS
tach on seeing Birley with me. ',st-..
81 wished to speak to MIR. Unwin
Tip, coiI no
sFWeIl," said Birley, "I've come to
be sort of interpreter, Manuel, lest
you, being foreigner like, ieastways
not altogether English yet, mightn't
understand some things an Englishman
like my friend here would very likely
say. You see, Manuel. for one thing
you don't seem to understand that an
English clergyman is not the funkey
you may get pastor of the fatherland
to be. You mustn't say Come here!'
and DO this!' or Don't do that!' with.
out any rhyme or reason but your own
high and mighty will. That may be
Bismarckian, Manuel, but it's not
English. An Englishman would say,
you be id, sir! Who are you
talking to? A dog at your heel''-as,
I daresay, my friend here would say if
he didn't happen to be parson."
"When you've quite done, Jim, ="
said the brother-in-law.
'Eh?" said Birley, as if he caught
family distant interrupting sound.
s'Perhaps, Mr.. Birley," said I, 81
had better hear what Mr.. Steinhardt
wishes to say to me-"
eyes, of course,' said he, and inn
posed an unwelcome silence upon him.
self.
"I only wish to tell you, Mr..
Unwin," said Steinhardt, looking hard
at me, "since you have seen a good
deal of my ward, Miss Lacroix" (Bir-
ley evidently chafed at that), especial
ly lately, understand, and since it
may have entered your head that some
time she might make you beautiful
wife, wish to tell you that you must
give up thinking anything of the sort,
because she is going to marry my son
Frank"
ooh, that id for tale, MAN
uel" exclaimed Birley, before could
say word. ..-
"Will you be quiet, Jim?" said
Steinhardt, with restrained voice, but
glaring eyes, and that apoplectic, pur-
plish flush suffusing his head and face.
"Nay, lad," said Birley; 'that's a
point on which nun ha' my say. Be-
fore you tell anybody Louise is going to
marry Frank, you must get the consent
of at least three people-the girl her.
self, your son, and her other guardian,
that's me-" Steinhardt looked at him
in unfeigned surprise, but he went on !:
"Your son, that's your affair, OF course ;
but the girl, that's partly mine; and I
shall not see Paul's Louise engaged to
marry anybody against her own wish
and liking" :.
"Liking!' scoffed Steinhardt.
"What has liking to do with it? Lik-
ing should come after marriage with q
proper, modest girl, not before" IT,.
"That may be your foreign way,
'Manue, but it's not our English way,
nor our Lancashire way, nowther."
"Confound your Lancashire!" cried
Steinhardt.
eff it had not been for Lancashire,
my lad" said Birley, thoroughly
reused, "you wouldn't be the big man
you are!"
care you mad?'' exclaimed Stein
hardt, striding up and down the hearth
rug, and glaring from Birley to me.
"You shall repent this! Mr.. .Unwin,
had better have talk with you an
other time" -