The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-30
Continued from last Sunday
CHAPTER V.
THE DAY AFTER FALLING IN
LOVE

1AS next Udy was a very memorable
day for Jack. The day after falling
In love is always red-Ietter day; but
the day after the falling in love-ah!
One looks back-far back-to the day
before, and those hours of the day be-
fore, when her sun had not yet dawn
ed, and struggles to recollect what ends
life could have represented then. And
one looks forward to the next day, the
next week, the next year-but, particu-
larly, TO the next meeting with sensa-
Eions as indescribable as they are de-
1ightful
Whichever way you tip it, the kalei-
doscope of the future arranges itself in
equally attractive shapes of rainbow
hue, and the prospect over land or sea
even if it is raining-looks brilliant
green, and brighter red, and brightest
yellow.
Upon that glorious next day of
Jacks the weather was quite a. thing
apart for February-partaking of the
warmth OF May. and owing that fact
to sun which early June need not
have scorned to own. Under the cir
cumstances, the house party overlooked
the house and ravaged the surrounding
country, and Jack and Mrs. Rosscott
began it all by having the highest cart
and the fastest cob in the stables and
making for the forest just as the clock
was tolling ten.
do you want a groom?" asked Bur-
nett (w1o was occasionally very cruel).
'sWen, I'm not going to wait for him
to get ready now" replied his sister
{who had sharp wits and did not dis
dain to give even her own family the
benefit of thern).
Then she gathered up the reins and
whip in most scientific manner, and
they We're Off
Jack folded his arms. Oh, but he was
nappy! He didn't care where they
went or what they did, so long as he
had her all alone to himself, and might
revel in the bliss thereof.
They bowled away upon firm, hard
road that skirted the park, and then
plunged deeply into the forest. Mrs.
Rosscott handled the reins and the
whip with the hands of an expert.
Il like to drive" said she.
-'You appear to- he answered.
ST like to do everything" she said. |
$.Im very athletic and energetic
I'm glad of that he told her, warm !
~. ct like athletic girls"
He really thought that he was speak /
ing the truth, although upon that first |
day if she had declared herself lazy and
ianguid he would have found her equal
Iy to his taste because 1t was the |
first day.
I'm very independent" she declar-
ed. further.
sI like that, too he assured her.
"Oh, I didn't do at all in England"
she confessed. ST never dared let them
know at home what a failure was as
an English woman. mortified my hus-
bands sisters all the time. Just think
after whole year often forgot to say
-Fawncy, nowl' and used to say Good
graciousi' instead; and I don't believe
I could get the hang of when to use
1awt' and 'gawt' the way that they do
If lived there for century"
Jack laughed.
my husbands sisters were very un-
happy about it, They did want to love
me, because had so much money; but
it was tough work for them. Did yoi
ever know any. nliddle-aged English
young ladies?" she asked him, sudden
~.
mo; I never did, he said.
Really they seem to be a thing
apart that can't grow anywhere but
in England. Every married man has
not less than two nor more than three,
and they always are little gray and
embroider very nicely. Some one told
me that as long as there's any hope
they are athletic, but as soon as it's
hopeless they take to embroidering.
ut must be rather blue day for
ebarn when they decide definitely to
make the change" said Jack.
81 never thought of that" said Mrs
Rosscott, soberIy. "Of course it musti
I was always very good to them, too.
gave them ever so many things that
I could have used longer myself, and
they used to set pieces of muslin in be-
hind the open-wcrk places and wear
Them
She sighed.
ITS quite as bad as being a Girton
GIRL. she said. DO you know what
a Girton girl is?'
mo; don't"
Its a girl from Girton College It's
the most awful freak you ever saw.
They're really quite beyond everything.
They're SO homely. and their hands ana
feet are so enormous, and their pms
never pin, and their belts never belt:
And no one has ever married one of
them yet"
She paused dramatically.
II won't, either, tnen.~ ne declared.
She laughed at that. AID touched up
the cob trif1e.
Did you live long in England? ne
asked.
aForeverI'' she answered. with en-
phasis; at least, it seemed ike Tor
ever. Mamma left me there when l
was nineteen (she married me on pc
fore she left me, of course) and stayed
there until last winter-until 1 was out
of my mourning, you know-and then
I was on the Continent for whlte'
and then I returned to papa.
How do we strike you after your
long absence?"
eOh. YOU suit me admirably" she
said. turning and smiling squarely into
his face: 'tonIy the terrible and OF the
majority does get on my nerves some
what
.@what and p
Haven't you noticed? Why. when