Omaha daily bee., 1904-12-25

H" and, perhaps because he had the and HI
VAyA foot swathed bandages. he scowle
more ferocousy at the logs burning on tn
ICyN1&ZRN hearth than he would otherwise have dom
~ Also. the ackey who mostly sat out in III
passage all day long. except at the numerou
tmes-about fifty in day-when his lordshp upo
the silver by his side to call him inwas enduring
lures from lords temper and wishing that for
for onche could summon up his courage to return his mas
ters abuse and curses-with interest the poor
knew that This meant loss Of place and fine feeding belo
stairs and good drinking too-whch would be doubled
trebed and quadrupled next week to say nothing
and presents when Christmas cameand he reflected that
these Including love with the maids in onl
this house but also others in the better thing
than poverty and hunger-also Christmas! Likewise
recalled that his old bedridden mother had musty
to the effect that like chickens
to roos" and another that hard words bones
and sti another that words bntered parsnips
OF which pthy and ndsputabe well many
the old dame in the habit Of mutteng in her bed
by day when the spirit moved her Wherefore the felloy
mumbled to himself Curse you will"
lord roaring and grunting within, while being phios
opher though he did not know II and Il NAV be had neve
heard Of such thing philosophy he told himself that
fine words did not indeed butter parsnps neithe
did rough words do anybody harm, and thereupo
lifted bottle which he under the chair lips
and drank-we-salvation to his master within
But now fresh from out the library and th
the varlets body other portions frame
that, slipping the bottle a
meath the seat of the chair the entered thu
library with attitude extreme alacrity.
Fellow" the noble lord exclaimed. what yol
uohs "thoutF sleeping or guzzhng or whatY Don't dar
to answer or fags, I'll have ye whipped Where is m,
Lady Miicent?"
my lord, do not know
mot know What in the of the hend yor
kept here for? Look out in the and If she
coming Look say"
my lord" said fawningiy in truth her lady
ship coming Your lordship The coach
rounds the street her ladyshp is wrapped in he
great fur cloak and she descends."
But he did that her ladyshp had al.
ready descended from the nine off which
spot Joined by bravely appareled handsome
thought, had looked much though he would like
her face BUTT was broad dayightths he had not done
do hear the Vhee The old
after two or three minutes pause.
my lord will remember the ground is heavy with
" BAIL Has she come into the house?"
She is coming, lord" the replied having
her adyshp tear her hand of that of the
walk swiftly towards her fathers house.
looking round that hand admiring
cavalier. This also he did not mention to his
Wrapped still in her long fur houppeande, three
nered nat upon her head and her long fur
gloves her hands Millcent entered now
her fathers while bringing with
TO the servant not to the master an air of freshness and
youth that altogether delightful For my lady
two and twenty and she fair her cheeks
SOFT and had bloom upon them such as peach on south
wall possesses when at it's best in summers prme her
cool and her haa lock of which had escaped
from beneath her wig-was blonde CONNIE lie BILE
The grunts and gurgles emitted now by the gouty old
man cannot be represented combination
of the letters of the alphabet therefore imagined
with. since in his heart my WELL
an accompanying belief that they intended
Cd welcome and endearment Then after
further choking and grunting. the earl said:
Well what is ADDING in the town? And the thieves;
aught heard of them? And you whom have YOU
and what Hey2 CThis being ad-
dressed to the footman who promptly went, since
waited for his lordship to speak twice.
There tidings of the thieves yet" daughter
answered sitting down by him after the gone.
The news letters the robbery committed the
house by vagabonds who knew what they
Others say"
others?'
at Rivers the Mall and-and Berthe War
grave ten minutes ago IN the square And he"
BERTHE wargrave! wastre, a youth; disso-
lutte as his debauched old cavalier of father And
Jobs cat"
Maybe" Lady Mllicent said. this melan-
Shoy statement Then looking her father in the
added 81 love him, nevertheless"
81 Love away" said Lord Severne with wheezy laugh
the first he had given that day surprising
daughter by doing since she had expected something that
was not-wel! laugh. Love and be happy only
be fool think of marrying him. His father
when he young; too. for the
did 1. But only them knew where to
marry. My life and soull In the days of merry King
"w We in his days now. prased" Lady
MAicent replied And the of today.
spot modesty within now. Faugh! your
merry King Charles ways. ways
the of his daysl l hate their very
women of his DAYS and their muttudnous lovers NV Lord
This day and Lord That another and broken
cavalier the next and till footman scriveners
clerk or a shopman served at last BAH for King
Charles"
We lived lives loved 'em too" lordship
said stl wheezng and chucklng and this cursed
gout hath departed. I'll enjoy mine again. Only would
had not been robbed of 10000 guineas would
daughter who did not wish to beggarly officer
Peerborough's Horse"
You deceived" Lady Mllicent her father
she being the only creature who dared with and
oety ana what was worse generally to- vanquish him
BERTHE waIgrave no beggar He has 200 guneas
from"
"Two hundred devis!'
Enough to keep a wife at least If ne leaves
campaigning He is beggar and he wants nothing from
He would not have taken your 10000 gnineas
worth OF vauables which the thieves have
a gift. And. to conclude. love him. always
These the days-the Christmas day that
ing blusteringly them-that to
us. full of perfumed
." The teacup times of hood and hoop.
Or while the patch
Also they brave, bold In days of
great and strife by and land when
not long defeated only enemy
at La Hogue and when Marlborough had Just
thing at Blenhem The days when
and wigs and red heeed shoes and that
times worth fortune their breasts and their wrists
carried ivory and gold hted swords and fought
and fought againand then loved other
Oft drank deep. though when they sober they
could imbedded in a
ulavs that of movement and had No