News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-03-25
"The things are real enough; it is
Tho I;f, +ho 4, ,,,nooIjj

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the life that is unreal"
Don't be tragic, John, she pout-
ed. Have some fun tonight. You
dot't look as if you had been having
much lately. Tell me, is it true that
you and Luella have quarreled? Tell
! NE all aboutit She is coming tonight
viii it be mbarrasing to your" And
then before he could answer she rattl-
ell on cBrelessly:
"And Miss Andrews-the papers
say she is a remarkable person. Tell
me, is she handsome, like Luella =?
Are you impress d? But how do you
live in those horrors? | should think
the sights and smells would be simp
ll-Oh, Miss CraDston, YOU have met
MY brother JohD?"
Miss Cranston had met Mr.. Gordon
hlle he was student in the univer-
sity. John stood chatting vii b her
awhile, and was still talking with her
when dinner Wasanpounced. He took
her out, IL obedience to nod from
Mrs. PenrOse, and when once at table
be looked, quietly enough OutWardly,
but with inward tumult at the guests,
and noted Luela seated by young
PenrOse at the further end, bat facing
Gordon, while Penrose was almost
wholly Obs"ured by Gordon's right
hand neighbOr.
The dinner proceeded as usual with
~uch dinners, only the CITED art Of
being all things to all guests that
Mrs. PenrOse possessed in such q
large degree saving the occasion from
the IusL fferablo dullne4s Of many sim
liar gatherings. A SEVEN course din
ner in rich wOman's house may and
often does afford as much real mis-
cry to the assembled company as can
well be packed into bad hour and a
h8lf.
With Mrs. Peuros - hostess affairs
went on with nor, '..iaacg It is one
thing to talk yours,... and another TO
get other people L. talk. The latter
gift, allied tG q species Of socjl genius,
Mrs. Panrosa pes e.soL ana tal Elm
n2r was prugry$...- ,.I. ~, .., ned
with just that rat degree Of c3oycrga
tional interest wl.lH ~ tine. H"luloG
every one al til ti..y AL T.. =. t.-o...
up into littl2 arcIla c. til. .Jwoc.
TWO OF lodI
John Gor.oa tl..l. 5..l . ...u.
ton on var e.. 81 '-.....' -. p
lhtouuce an. t-.-..t o! 49, e.
work. Mrs. ..4 r. -'..o s.t 10 a.
tlgAt once .fr,a -'.e~ { l.. e,or
Gon's residence ~ =. T.. s.-,, BIT b.
answered t...- '-s =. 1."% i2+@Il2a
10 solAeri.i7 49,. I.'u. L'-% H. "a
Hot Hte-d 70 lie "t.:r-L H-,o any as
rlssiol Or &a>c II @. his work.
MIS-. PeAi-'o w." go &4.2Wu as well
l8 too cau--eo,S 70 INSIST IL ASKING
(uestiohs s-e pi&.-.'E 81" were not
"Greedblo.
ef! We'll sac SAD 5coa hatufeCly.
AS the no. 81 lAe ucc|a4o4, II you VIII
NOT roar III t!le presence or TINS au-
dlenc2 WI Won f;'HF me some tlme
Win WHAT am q. -i-% 10 Know! 1t IS
not llle cdf-o|.t. she audeu IN
lower tone i really am interested IN
your pms. w. - A1lp
GofGcA lo,Itd up al her quickly
Inc tnou II u "h"t tn-S woman Wlth
her WeaAtL ana $ cal influence might
do II she would TO bring Ire ana hight
into the dead, C"fA places OF the city
klndled his !ma2iA@Lon. 1t was an
other ray CT nope to pace alongside
Mrs. i-1IiA~ Gam' 5 iv',erS.
Ihank you. TX S&.u GrateIully.
VIII come ana tdIA II over With you.
AS he hnlSleQ ana turned ms race
again toward MISS Crahston he en-
countered LueLa's glance. She IN
stantly looked down. once again, To-
ward the clcse OF the dlnher' GORDON
intercepted her look as II swept past
all the guests ana stayed just mo-
ment with MN.
Just how II all happened Johh COR
don never knew. Inc last course had
been served. There was the inevitable