Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-25

said nothing l attributed it to the retieence Of
breeding.
The narrator paused little and sighed; then FRO
ceeded Il repeat he stated, that this
William Biddle proprietor of decent enough
cab in the city of London, England that he made
slightly upward of sovereign day, gross; that he
connected by marriage to a certain Mary Biddle
who in very diminutlve cottage called home, took
upon herself the responsibility of three smaller Bid
dies, of which the said William had had the ques-
tionable judgment of becoming the immediate pro-
genitor, thus tending to perpetuate the strain that
he had known nothing but to obey and be ordered
about all the days of his natural life up the pres
moment; and that he, his father and the rest of
the fathers preceding had left to their Lords what
to be done of fighting and gallantry To
conclude Count, he was lump, clod, with
clods motives.
V7ELL, as said I was on the box with him, and
W was drawing out his responses to my curiosity
when, turned into the Strand. Now the rest IS
rather cruelty short.
William was walking the cob. About blocks
length ahead, should measure it, another cab
suddenly drew up to the curb. man descended
then woman The cabby drove away. and the two
strolled ahead short distance. By this time we
She had a sweet refined face, Count, and it was
troubled. The said something; she replied
Her companion spoke again IN much louder tones
growing more vehement as he went The woman
stretched out her arms presume in entreaty. Then
it happened.
think said that the escort of this woman under dis
cussion / simply want to explain my
for the allegation, out of justice to both
and co rectify the erroneous impression may have
created by stating that l had only thought
You had been led this idea by the fact that
the animal a silk hat, frock coat, patent
Shoes and cane Being quite unsophisticated at
that time and little deficient in natural history,
had up to the moment assumed that these habl1-
ments invariably the investments of that vari-
ETY. of vertebrates But now sadly acknowledge the
error.
A BOUT the time that the woman extended her
4 hands, this pantalooned beast stepped pace
back and raised England is little different
from this country YOU know, Count, and it is not
always well to mix up in others affairs over there
But forgot all about that, you see-very careless
of me, l assure you,-and began to scramble down
my side OF the cab.
This is where the point comes in-the point
yes l wasn't needed, after all. Funniest thing
imaginable! You couldn't think it, but the said
William Biddle before referred to forgot his lowy
station-very imprudent1y, of course, and believe
me, Count, before could interpose, behaved in
most shocking manner!
1T was doubtless the impulse Of nervous system
only; for fear YOU know is the GROWING quality Of
Bidde, would never have dared to do as the impulse
did to William Bidde. But, believe me- this cring
ing sycophant of several unsatisfactory gatherings
made most undue haste across the pavement and
actually knocked down gentleman by blow in the
mouth Think of it, Herzog really had the temerity
to interfere with man gently reproving with cane
a woman supposed to be his wife! / admit that the
situation little overstrained; but the point l
make, Count, is this: that the most servile most
fearful, most obsequlOuS, most abaSed may so Tar
forget the dictates of heredity imagine that he
is really on par with his superior and in mo-
ment of madness attempt to subordinate that supe-
rior with all the qualities he is supposed not to
possess.
looked at the Captain His face was study.
Surely the Wanderer mad: that. or humorous.
And the Wanderer had never been humorous in all
the time we had known him.
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