The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-15

Is that OF FOND rather VINO sees his
himself shrewdlv that he Is far luck
fer than he deserves to be, appreciates
the fact that among his friends there
are much liner fellows that he is
ana loves him perhaps all the better
for having no illusions about him.
Nothing could exAmplify Thackery's
competing art better than the fact that
We feel that II Is an almost heinous
Injustice that the license Of the fiction
writer should not have been invoked
wholly fine. noble fellow. vet we would
not have Pendennis lose 1t. And that
Warrington should not win. however
osreet IS fsa wi Which ths prisss
go often to the beloved rather than to
the uncouth. though they be the tru"
heroes.
s'Peudennis" are the great three novels
OF Thackeray, though in The New
comes" he drew what probably 10 his
however, q simple character--massive-
iy proportioned like q heroic bronze.
Pendennis Is Youth--wicked, noble.
ggi0iaDs that eaS Seat Sow toward Heaven ana
feet that fiounder in unpaid bills
The plot might be taken out OF the
novel and still leave 1t almost un-
changed. The doom that gathers like
q black storm overhead is dissIpated
with bewtidering suddenness and dis.
appears In q mere storm of hail and
life is the real piot-and none could
wish a more fascinating one; but PEN
dennis is an exacting fellow He viii
prattle aniusingly for sleepy summer
hour. He demands ones whole ttmc
and great deal OF 1t. +
Mr.. John Pendennis was little,
quiet old gentleman, extremely mild
and gsnteel. who had amassed q very
modest competency by combining the
vocations of apothecary and surgeon
in an humble little shop graced by
the sign OF gilt pestie. When the
time came when he could retire he
gladly and completely forgot that he
had ever sold brown paper plasters,
and realized his life-dream OF becom-
4 ing q gentleman.
He bought a little estate in the vii
laHe Of Clavering. which he called
9 Fairoaks. 1t was separated by iit-
( tie river from what was left OF the
9, plantations and woods Of the great
II ClaverinE familys park.
e. Here Mr.. Pendennfs installed his
Sc young wife. who had been Miss Helen
slThistlewood. a verv distant and very
tk'poor relative and dependent Of the mo-
rolble house of Bareacres.
L.. The disappearance of Pendennis Of
grShe pestle from Bath ushered into Cla-
the Pendennis OF Fairoaks.
pleEvherA they come from Heaven, knows.
meNut presently whole range OF PEN
con ennis portraits hung round the dining
" oom--Roger Pendennis of Agincourt,
one rthur Pendennis OF Crecy. General
nat ,ndennis of Blendheim.
La BY the time little Arthur Pendennis
v + as years old all these and still
n sther Pendennises OF the past were
IoH real to the family a. the gilt pestle
Ioil rs unreal. Although John s income
$ es only about ave hundred pounds =
( wilr did not permit him to live with
pen great folk OF the county. he man
horo.,d to get good deal of the odor OF
lot cnteel life. II the Pendennises were
habit the roses, they lived near the roses.
wiz 1t were.
Try VI, link which bound Squire Pendap-
In as he now called himself. to the
at world of London and the fash
rs, was his brother. Major Penden-
T. He brought the last news of the
ibility and of the clubs of which he
is a chief ornament. The Major had
Id out after long service In India and
wv South Wales and gone on half pay.
te was desperately poor; but the mum
yer Of crested and coroneted invita-
ions to great houses that lay on his
able in the club every morning drove
the less fortunate lovers of high SCI
.,ciety to desperation. !.
The young fellows loved to walk
with him. for he touched. his hat to ev-
erybody and every other man he knew
was lord. II there was any question
Z about etiquette. pedigree OF precedenee
Pendennis was the man to whom every.
{ body appealed
His coat, his white gloves. his whis-
kers his very cane were perfect. See
ing him from distnce one would take
him to be thirty. II was only close
inspection that revealed the crows
feet around the somewhat dimminE
ewes Of his handsome notified face and
the entirely artificial character of his
fine head of brown hair.
q Major Pendants was much prouder
of his brother the Squire of Fairoaks
than he ever had been of his brother
the medical practitioner in Bath. and
he was delighted beyond measure to
behold his nephew growing up in such
complete forgetfulness Of the shop that
everybody in Clavering called him the
Prince of Fairoaks.
His little court encouraged him in
his royal temper. His mother was one
of those affectionate, selfless creatures
who are made to give their all to
Others. She spoke and thought of her
husband with an awful reverence. The
Majors to her. She worshipped the
Prince with an ardor that he accepted
coolly as Princes should.
Pendennis was sixteen when his
father died. In the moment OF his
grief and as he embraced his mother
and tenderly consoled her. he could not
help but feel that now he was chief
and lord. and that he wouldn't stand
the bullying at school any longer, but
sh ouId have it all holidays in the flu
ture. The Major was for his going
back. But Pen adroitly conveyed to
his mother a hint as TO what a wild.
dangerous place Greyfriars was and
the timid soul at once acceded to his
desire.
Pen got very good mare and rode
her excellently we'll across country.
He became very good Judge of clar-
ct. He did not neglect his studies
altogether. for Mr.. Smirke. the cur
ate. ambied over from Clavering daily
on a sober-minded pony and read the
poets to him.
Pen zealously avoided all books that
might by chance fall into school
course; but he devoured all others
and his mind became OF a gloomy BY
ronic cast. He broke out IN the Poets
Corner of the County Chronicle with
tremendous verses on Assize Meetings
Tears, Love and Politics. He wrote
tragedies In which everybody was kill
ed.
One day he rode into Chatteris to
aeliver a fiery poem for the next
weeks paper, and In the stableyard
n the inn beheld grand black tan