New-York tribune., 1903-01-27
What was th'

what the fortune OF Flora? Nobody seemed
TO know, and what more curious, nobody
seemed to like to ask. yet it was impossible for
of the adventure of matrimony. Laurie 1t is true
was at the golden age OF twenty-three and had
never allowed himself to be annoyed by care or
an unpaid debt in his jocund young life while to
ive and twenty though she looked land called her
selfl nineteen. Is to say that her outlook on the
world and it's problems was as cheerful as is con-
sistent with living IN the twentieth century. The
problem she had chiefly envisaged for the last five
or six years was that of allying herself. matri,
moonally, with an Englishma,n Of good family. and
person OF the Hon Laurence Eversley, second son
of Lord Worthing. met only a few weeks before
at Oxford had stopped short of its final and most
important stage, and it had been for painting his
full" shade of sealing wax red that he had been
mlanentiy from the banks Of the Isis. But if Lady
Worthing had been much incensed with Laurie
over TINS untoward affair. Lord Worthing had only
laughed, quoted the of Shelley and taken The
classic course of sending his light hearted son on
to hustle over there" ne remarked. ''or else he
most English people. Lord WoFthing invariably
used American locutions when speaking OF our
1T would be the usual vulgar way out of our
difficulties" her ladyship had said She had N never Yer
sympathies bel being with the eldest tttlehampton M IAN
pose we shall ever do with the boy? AS Liberals
we have no hope of anything from the government
pose Laurie had better marry an American heiress
After all, it has become quite respectable pro
Why, the mortgage is actually off the place at
So when Laurie had skipped into the drawing
room again some six months later. and announced
the world of fabulous wealth and the most de-
iciously unconventional manners" his parents ac-
NAV Nj Miss Fora W eaasnny
The wedding was hurried @ fqrwsrd rGne d.. MI Dodge m it
insisted on calling this side. so the ceremony
Wng W6o ad On aso had to- get rid Of
place in Sussex and the agricultural land appertan-
Iected house in the Cromwell Road, region which
Mr. Cyrus Dodge and his % daughter G III this
passably forlorn mansion; which Laurie had some ne
cason. the betrothal dinner was. at this moment
There they sat the two young people. side by
side. radiant with their new honors and delighted
eyes For Laurie was by no means the self-con-
scious young Englishman who cannot bear a fuss;
1 his Wedding I49 day With boredom and horror
contrary he delighted In the prospect. and took a
personal interest in all the details of the coming
clared the Bridegroom ''the slightest mistake win
ruin It One should have sense OF decenGy and
when Warminster married that peevish sale Van
dSor sct9ay Hs zan hx Fight he With
your might nearly died Of suppressed ggghng'
A He vent into the question of the music minutely;
NE to- be 3Sa over sixteen a and ey to have
hair which was to be worn floating round their
1T must be quite beautiful and quite gay de; e;
eaTed Laurie viii o9r s0T 9f White peWso sow
Should be semi-opaque and mounted on palsst pink ink
be b9q quite m deo sf we sha OF
he dded fb after es bT @ Pn young
LngTs NS Gur 6or st toS do fGT you
your ideas? I guess the girls in Milwaukee would
stare If they could @ hear ear YOU ounr pa,r
Laurie slim and Pae his u feTs 3a aaa
bn re esk in his tenacy and Strength both Of
which he was in the habit Of carefully hiding under
out out of theatre. cad had purposely hustled him
counting his pensive expression and 1 his 2aiIot @
neglected the noble art at oxford. and the fellow
lay 5 in tine mqd Ehs9 aHF young
girl was of more solid build, and had all the
GeR yps Of Of Rmerean g tall active and
Sne On her sde Of she Fair had %
and a complexion of pink and white; She was
ing the Whole of her beautiful shoulders; blue
was 6aT tsa 5ecaee hsP H her
throat It impossible TO look more elegant
Wealth The little blue frock had cost fifty ,guineas
she had given at least sovereign tor the punch OF
was dressed by artist The outside was indeed
but She had gone through Vassar with distinction
Only by her accent. together with her somewhat
tic air Of deference to all things British and espe
cially to all aristoeratcaly British things did the
Of her birth was Milwaukee Like most Arneri
clara cteristieaiIy Shocked to hear one or two Of
Laure's young friends-men in the Foot Guards. or
that they were broke: Every nation has its
the British absence of reticence about money en-
barrassments is little short Of indecent.
Laurie had seen to It that the dinner OF his be-
trothal should be as imposing as possible. Some
irnunrtant people had been asked Lady Worth11S
had on all the family damonds-jewels which quite
frightened up her somewhat rusty black lace frock
all the plate had been collected and with a for
n1ida bic array of wax candles and profusion of
flowers a stranger might have thought that Lord
WOrthing and his family enjoyed all the freedom
from anxiety which fat rent roll confers.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Cyrus =. Dodge was
ir1nressed He sat of course. by Lady Worthing.
and gazed with paterna pride at the handsome
young daughter who was so soon 10 nhaot the
ancestral halls of England.