Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-01-20

long since In the Outtery and which she
had taken up to town in her reticule
and must have dropped when she had
paid her i'll starred visit to Kennas.
toms chambers in Lark lane.
"Frowse, the charwoman's daughter,
vowed she'd found it a-lying in the
entry under the water tub. There's an
end of your dispute, sirs, trust"
glancing from one to the other. Come,
come, Sir Percy, and you, Sir Robin,
whom indeed the letter you brought
me from Lady Peggy the other night
doth most highly commend to my good
offices, must be friends" taking a
hand of each. Nor let Dame Rumor
split ye asunder with her lies about my
little twins being up in town. Cad
cooks, sirs, the child's not notion of
a difference betwixt Mayfair and
Drury lane! beg of you, Mr.. Brum-
MEL" US this one now comes mincing
in together with Lord Escombe, Sir
Wyatt, Mr.. Jack Chalmers and others
for their game, ''for you've the graces
l lack In such matters-these two gal
lants have had difference, and tits
you, Mr.. Brummel, can set 'em straight
again."
"Cards, cards! Spades, clubs, dia-
monds, hearts" exclaims the Beau,
touching the queen Of hearts with the
toe of his high heeled shoe as it lies on
the floor where it was shot from Sir
Percy's hand.
"Split me, but tits them that are at
the bottom of every quarrel, sirs!
Whisk me, but If spade or q club or
heart, provided it be lady's, or a
diamond, amt the only causes for dis
agreement in this worldr'
Correct as your own toilet, sirl" cries
Wyatt.
Now, twas hearts of course, and
the queen of 'em, that's reused both
your tempers, but, POUNDS, gentlemen y
taking now the hand of each, which
had slipped clear of Kennaston's fin
gers, "bethink you, II the lady, whose
name l can't even guess, whom you
both adore, stood here, what would
her pleasure be? Robin, my lad, an
swer me, for of brawling there can be
none here and fighting no more. Speak,
sir!'
Faith" answered Lady Peggy, with
splendid valor and rise In her color
and her heels, ITO my certain knowl.
edge the lady d have her name put out
of the matter wholly, and she'd sooner
die, sir, than have any fighting over
her preferences by either Sir Percy de
Bohun OF Sir Robin Mozart"
The which being taken to be, by all
present, most prodigious and amazing
gentlemanlike and polite speech, Sir
Percy was feign accept, mock-smile
and bow, while all the rest blew their
lungs hollow applauding and praising
his still hated and still suspected rival.
Pence restored outwardly, whateve,
else ragged in the breasts of the two OPP
ponents, the gallants sat to their tables,
Kennaston managing to whisper to Sir
Percy across the deal:
GAS was telling you when 1 entered,
Percy. Lady Di permits me to let you
know she consents to my dedicating
the ode to her, and Lille, at the corner
Of Beauford Buildings in the Strand
hath engaged to publish it at once"
But this Lady Peggy, at distant ia.
Bile, engaged in picquet with his grace
of Escombe, hears not. There rings in
her ears naught save the words Ken
naston uttered when he came into the
card room-"Lady Diana hath given
me leave to tell you she consents.'
Consents" To what else but his
suit, which, egged ON by his noble
uncle, has been pushing any time these
ten years, since, b1 I'D girl Sir Per
cy and Lady DI had played, ridden.
romped, quarreled as brother and Sis
ter together?
"Consents!'
1t echoes and resounds in her lady
ships head over and over again the
night through, and tits quite Of piece
with her mood that she seeks out Lady
Diana when tea and cakes are passing
and with sly looks congratulates her
ladyship on the happiness she has this
night conferred on very gallant gen
tleman not SO many miles away.
And quite in Lady Diana's line of rea-
soning, having heard from Kennaston
that Sir Robin has come up to town
highly commended to him by his sister,
and that, although he had been sorely
jealous and distraught at the said Sir
Robins good fortune in the matter Of
the rescue of her ladyship, he still be-
lieved him to be head over heels in
love with his twin, etc., and SO, her
ladyship argued, Kennaston had doubt
less confided to the said Sir Robin such
tokens Of her favor Us the said Lady
Diana had that evening seen fit to man
ifest, never for moment misdoubt.
ing that any other swain was in the
supposed Robins mind any more than
he was in her own.
"Consents!"
Twas reverberating in Pegs eur and
! a-knocking at her heart for the hun.
dredth time when, returned to the
card room, she learned that Mr.. Brum.
mel was inviting the company for the
Thursday to his seat Ivy Dene. Twas
to be gentlemen's party only, out on
horseback, the twenty miles, leaving
the White Horse at 10 in the morning
with luncheon en- route at the Merry
Rabbit at Market Ossory, look over
the stables and paddocks on arriving
at Ivy Dene, quiet game, maybe, and
such dinner as only, the Beau swore
his country cook could get up, with
the ride back to town by the light OF
! tho nanr full ,nonp
Lady Peggy was soon made aware
that this festivity was solely in her
honor and succumbed to it as cheer
fully as she might.
God keep her! All the while staring
at the ribbon of her twins wig, along
ing to cast her arms about his neck
and pray him cover her up in his wrap
rascal and fetch her home, vowine
she'd run away from 'em all the nexi
minute. But where? How? Which
! way could it be done so that capture
discovery and humiliation would moi
follow Peggy could contrive no meth
cd, and the girl was literally terrified
| both at the prospect before her and by