The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-10

his coat across his chest, in fond fear
of the mild air of the soft spring
night. my own dear Jane, so good,
so kinda thousand-foId above all the
Matty Fergussons llying!'
Then-and remember, he knew quite
we'll he admired Matty, and was on
the eve of a Irritation with her-Mohun
had the exceeding baseness to hold
poor James hand fondIy, and even
i press it to his lips, as he had not done
for very long time past, before he
left her.
don't think shewas quite reassured,
but she tried to say to herself that she
was happy, and that she had misin-
| terpreted all the looks that GiffOrd's
and Miss Fergusson's eyes had been
/ exchanging during the last three hours.
At all events, she went in again with
1 a strong determination to succumb no
more to any of the torments of idle
| jealousy, and was much more genial
in her tone to Matty now they were
alone than she had found it possible to
be while that young lady was appeal.
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sympathy and admiration.
Miss Ferguson, however, after say
/ ing Eyes" and "no" at the proper inter
walls, for about five minutes, was seized
with the most violent intermitten fits
Of yawning, and gave evidence Of ex-
| treme abstraction in her own replies.
How very different some young peo-
pie are when they have not the stimu-
lus Of a mans presence thought Miss
Grand. "In another five minutes the
girl would be asleep in her chair"
Still, she was not sorry herself of any
excuse for escaping from the society
Of her visitor; and as Miss Matty
eagerly jumped at the first mention of
going upstairs, 1t fell out that long
| before Mohun had reached his own
house the little society, so very much
awake when he left, had retired, quite
worn out with fatigue, and with each
other, to the silence of their own rooms,
| Jane to perform the accustomed pious
offices with which every day Of her life,
whether happy or disappointed, was
closed; Miss Ferguson to unpack her
dresses, think over the success of this
her first evenings campaign, and finally
write a letter to a sister of hers, Miss
Fanny FERGUSON, of Cheltenham.
| OF this letter, reader, you may, if
you will, have the benefit. 1t would
have been well for Clifford Mohun
could such a privilege have been ex-
! tended to him as well.
"Here am, Fan, in the heart of the
enemy's country not mile and half
from Mr.. Mohun Of Yatton's place,
and Mr.. Mohun of Yatton has been
spending the evening here and has
looked vastly fattered by my pretty
speeches to him, and he is a very
heavy looking man Of thirty, dressed
like a gamekeeper, and with no man
ners at all, and / should say fond of
eating and drinking, the latter pre-
eminently; and do think I've got an
excellent chance before me, and hope
you will be most careful in all your
letters, when you write, as / am stay
! ing with an old maid, and there is no
saying she might not be opening some
Of them by mistake. Tell dear mamma
her plan was an excellent one, ana l
carried out everything just as she said.
Miss Bristowe was very cool and very
much surprised to see me at first, and
pretended quite to have forgotten that
| she had ever been to school with
mamma; but when I brought in Lady
Churchill's name, and told her also that
tl....s. t-,,o4., NJ. 1foh,,r of VotfOn cha
got decently civil, and said might
stop on few days, though she couldn't
do anything in the way Of recommend
| ing me herself. l lost no time in send
| ing the note mamma wrote to Yatton.
! and next day-will you believe it'll
got letter, signed Jane Grand asking
| me to come for a week, and promising
to do something to help me. q hope
the something will be substantial, for,
| tell mamma, / bought hattie new
shape-as I passed through Bath, and
I've only eleven and eightpence left
out of the three pounds started with.
OF course, / accepted, and came here
last night. Miss Grand is an old maid,
rather snappish and suspicious, but /
should think, from the look Of the
house. with tidy little income. |
suppose she is a relation of the Mohun.
for she calls him Clifford q
4 namel-and he puts his heels upon the
sofa. Oh, Fan, what bears, what cubs,
what Goths these English country gen.
tlemen are compared to such men as
you and have known! Poor Alexis!--
to think, after caring for him, could
bring myself to look sweetIy on such a
being as the Yatton pumpkin!
"What d thing poverty is. and what
it brings one tol Be sure you keep in
| all you can with Lady Churchill, and If
any one asks for me say I'm staying
with relation of Mr.. Mohun's, of Vat
ton. She looked very suspicious at my
dress-I saw that before she opened
her lips: but, which character was to
do, the dowdy nursery goyerness fol
/ her. or Alatty Ferguson at her best for
Mohun? | decided liked Matty Fer
gusson the most and that he was the
most important to win, an premiel
coup. Discrepancies Of dress could BE-
explained away to the woman after
ward, but nothing could explain away
the want Of good looks to man. Sc
me VOLTA in that lovely silk Lady
Churchill gave me, and mammals
cloak $50 kind OF her to lend 1t mel
ana the Bath hat-tiny, and one atom
of scarlet in aforesaid You
should have seen them when l came in
Is.