The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-19
Thursday, July 10, 1906.


to the hall and the generous breakfast
table there spread for him. A professed
fessed that the earl g lavish hospitali
ties were altogether too much for his
philosophy; and he ate and drank with
the hearty relish Of one to whom these
unending Injuries were both revela-
ton in the art Of living, and satire
upon the habits Of the rich.
What vast quantities of food were
in dishes Of shining silver, each warmed
by the clear fame of q silver lamp be-
meath. Lift the lid of one Of those
granaries and there you espy an omelet
which none but a man from Paris could
cook. Peep into another and there are
eggs prepared 80 cunningly that they
would melt the heart of Master Fas-
great red joints upon the buffet, ex-
quisite. peaches from the lighthouses,
punches of grapes that would have tax
en- prizes in any shoW-how ironical to
remember the class of man who usually
sat to such table, his ennui, his dis
taste, and the abstinence cure the physi-
clans compelled him to practice. Gavin
strenuous and needing no waters to
make life endurable. He took what
came to him and made no bones about
it. Had he been rich man himself, he
would have done the same he thought.
4Humbug was no part of his creed. and
he never mistook necessity for self-sac-,
rifice. %s. 5.-.s-s.s
The earl had not come down when he
entered the famous breakfast room and,
not little to his satisfaction, he found
himself alone with Lady Evelyn for the
first time since his arrival at the manor:
A student of faces always, he studied
this face today with curiosity which
he set down to his own delusion rather
than to an absolute interest in the per.
sonality of a stranger. beautiful
woman he had admitted her to be when
first he saw her by her father Is side
upon the night which carried him to the
Hall. But now his scrutiny went
served, he looked at her as one. seek
ing a woman's secret, and seeking it
with man IS desire to help her.
And first he said that it was an Eng
lish face in repose, and yet not an Eng
lish face when the repose was lost.
excited no surprise upon the Corso at
Rome or shining in an aureole east out
y from F1orentine window. Here, in
England, the tresses spoke Of the south
and its suns-and yet, in fat contra
diction, the perfect skin, smooth and
= SILKY as tne 1eaI OF p1Hk-WH1Ie IOSe,
could tell of English lanes and sunless
days and the kinder climate Of the
north. Character he read in the firm
contour of her chin-romance and pas
sion in the deep blue of her eyes and
2 the modulations of a voice whose music
{ had not been lost in the roaring satur-
( MALTA of the modern salon. That he
notice was fact which neither
wounded his vanity nor abated his in
terest. It had been the first maxim
IT, of his life to hasten slowly, and to no
pursuit was this maxim more neces-
sary than to that Of friendship.
one strong personality formed Of an
other; the man saying to himself, II
would read this woman 8 hearth" tho
woman asking herself if she must talk
architecture until the earl came to her
assistance: Breaking the ice, with a
she had seen him galloping across the
park and regretted the dilatory habit
which kept her in, bed.
:.%t'Getting up is foreign art,v she
said. cit lives in kitchens and places
where they scrub. The doctors posi-
lively forbid it nowadays. And, of
doctors.'' -
Gavin looked at her with the air Of
man who has too much common sense
to deal in. frivolities and rarely trou-
bled to say the thing which was not. :.
= ''They talk nonsense he said
quietly; "the profession is becoming
far too commercial It lives and
thrives upon the creduity of fools. Just
consider-man is the only animal which
!: does not glory in the Creator IS gift. the
dawning day and all it's wonders. For
what do we change its For the cleo
trio light and the champagne which dis
81 L.
, night and then grumble because we
have nothing to offer the day. If
men could get up at S Q CLOCK and 60
to bed at 10, they would begin to un-
derstand the realities of living
q Evelyn, much amused at his earnest
ness, and quite understanding that some
pleasant IT, originality of Of character dc
little mischievously from beneath her
long lashes while she said: