Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-10
CHAPTER Cd.

And leave the poor the blanks;
But Chance, aping Justice, sometimes
spurns,
AL filthy lucre.
Austen.
my dear Stella, circumstances al
ter easesi"
The speaker was Mrs. Newton; the
person addressed was her daughter
Stella, unon whose beauty Lord Mar
mion had passed SO decided an en-
comium, and the scene was the smai
drawing room of Mrs. Newton's villa
at Hyde Park Corner.
AS a slight pause followed the
lady's enunciation of well-knoWn ak
ION, we will fill it by remarking that
Mrs. Newton was a thin. pompous
lady, good at heart, but of lofty am
bition, whose sole aim and object in
life was to see her daughter Stella
well married.
Mrs. Newton came Of a trading
stock; her husband, whom Lord Mar
mion had spoken of as old Daniel.
was of trade also; he had made
",
oring to impress upon her daughter
the necessity of solemn watehful-
ness to the main matrimonial chance.
Stella Newton justified Lord Mar
MONS laudation.
She was-stay! call to your mind.
reader, that superb portrait of the
Spanish orange girl which Murillo has
left US; add to it, as the cookery book
says, a dash of Sir Peter Lelys pic
ture of a countess, and you have a
fair idea of Stella Newton's outward
appearance.
Her inner portrait she shall herself
in her own words and actions reveal.
At the moment of her Introduction
she is seated in an attitude of easy,
negligent grace upon blue satin fau-
teuil; in her hand was half-closed
book; in her lap was curled a Mora
Wan pug.
She smiled thoughtfully, almost
daringly, and glanced at her image as
it was reflected in one of the numer-
Gus mirrors with which the room was
studded.
Mamma, l have heard that before
so often that l begin to doubt it. Say
that feelings alter cases, and l will
respond readily enough. Tell me
plainly, mamma, why | should think
of marrying Lord Marmion before he
has himself ever said a word on the
subject?"
Mrs. Newton shook her tatting and
her head at the same moment
stella, you are really incorrigible!
Lord Marmion is too well bred a noble
man to speak out like common-er
err g..
= Sweep" suggested Stella, with
arch sweetness.
Gentlemen continued Mrs. New
ton. You must judge from the ac-
tions, from such apparent tribes as
his manner when he meets you, or
says good-by, or hands you fan, OF
in facts, does any one of the usual
politenesses for you. Does he blush
when he shakes hands with your
Never" emphaticaly replied the
beautiful girl, with merry twinkle
of the deep, lustrous eyes.
well, then, that is sign that ne
thinks more deeply than most men,
ratorted the worldly minded woman
with quick promptness. Does he low
err his voice when he talks?
mo. mamma" said the girl, stuns
into irony. HE neither whisper:
nor shouts in particular, but talks a.
a sensible young gentleman should
He does not put his hat in the UNI
brella stand and the umbrella on nj
head, or stumble over the door ma
when he comes in. He doesn't fiusl
or turn green when ask him nov
the countess is, and in fact ne snow
as plainly as a man can do that Ste
la Newton is no more to him than tn
daughter of the man in the moon
She threw the unfortunate pug wit
a rudeness highly detrimental to nj
health on the wolf-skin hearth rus
and arose to her full height.
Very beautiful she looked as sn
stood, half fronting her matchmaker
mamma, a faint flush ON her clea
olive cQS0h, d SpdlhIS VI uSAAsAAAN~ 49,
satire in her full eyes.
Then, my dear, it behooves you
be extremely careful. If Lord Marmlo
is not already in love with you, 1t
time he was"
"Why?'' asked the girl, turning I
confront the mother with distende
nostrils and a ring in the voice thu
denoted the possession of pride an
courage as we'll as beauty. why?
am not in love with him.
my dear Stella!" exclaimed Mr.
Newton, much shocked. How e.
tremely abrupt and rude that sounds
Not in love with Lord Marmion? M
dear girl, you should not speak
loud. Lord Marmion has thirty thou
and a year, and his peerage date
back with the Leonhardts."
"Is that any reason why / shoul
love him or become the future Coun
ess of Marmion?" asked the girl
straight and resolute as dart MAR
ma, you trouble me more than / CO
say by the constant reference to Il