The Yale expositor., 1909-02-19
Barbarous ImDudence.

How do you account" said the Eng
lish girl. "for the way your American
girls marry our most desirable bache-
lors? l mean those cases where money
Is not the prime motive"
"Well. | think impudence has more
TO do with ii than anything else"
'Impudence, What do You meang"
perhaps | had better Illustrate.
will tell you n story of which the hero
Inc. if she can be called such. is well
known TO me. AS n girl she was no
more like the typical English girl than
gypsy Is like queen. She was nine
teen years old, not very pretty. with
thin. fairly tall figure and pair Of
eyes with which she could express any
emotion she felt or did not feel She
was doing England as thousands Of
Americans do Europe guidebo0k IN
hand-in company with a party from
her native state. Indiana.
''Well, one morning two or three of
them. the girl-Eliza Kimball. I'll call
her-included. went to visit an English
castle near the Scotch border There
were two other girls. an elderly man
and boy. They walked to the castle
and stood at the gate waiting TO know
IL strangers were admitted; but since
there appeared to be no gatekeeper
about, Eliza led the way in. They
hadn't gone n dozen steps before man
In overalls, his hands covered with
black grease, came out of basement
door and, seeing the party approach
ing, waited till they came up.
care strangers admitted to the cas-.
tie? asked Eliza.
"'Not today
"'Oh, dear, we've come all the way
from indianapolis to see it. How dis
appointing!
"'And where is Indianapolis asked
the man.
indianapolis! You don'tknow where
indianapolis isl I'm surprised. If you
had our public school system in Eng
land even a mechanic like you would
know where that is. It's the capital
OF Indiana, United States of America
"'Well, since you've come so far to
see the castle | suppose I'll have to
give you a chance. Come with me-
"He showed them everywhere. in,
side and outside. Eliza walked beside
him, plying him with questions She
soon noticed that any one they met
showed surprising Difference Co their
guide.
"'Who is the man I'm ovcralls?' SHE
asked Of lackey.
HtTIa'c ord XUaItar
grace's youngest son.
"'You don't mean II! What makes
him wear such togsT
"'He has fancy for machinery.
He's invented many valuable things
"'Oh. he has! Much obliged for the
information And she rejoined the
party. Sailing up beside Lord Walter
she said:
"'Come; we've had enough Of these
musty pictures. There's not real
bright one among them. Show us
something more inspiriting.'
"The young man smiled. There's
nothing here less than 800 years old
not even the furniture
"'Well. then. think 1t time you got
some new things. If a chair lasts
twenty years in America we think
it's doing well. We throw it away
after that and get new one. 1t keeps
things fresh
Everything is fresh in America.
believe
"'Even we girls. We haven't any
old fashioned notions. Now. in Amer
lea, if you. even in your overaIls, were
to show yourself worthy, you'd be
treated just as well as any one
"'Would l, indeed?
Certainly. You come to Indianapo-
lis when I'm there, and I'll show you
around and introduce you everywhere
You can wear your overalls too
"They went through the rest of the
old pile, and at everything that was
particularly ancient Eliza would say.
why don't you freshen II upT or
Can't the duke afford to buy q new
oneY or make some other equally dep
recating remark. And when their
guide led them to the gate she took
half crown from her portemonnaie and
handed 1t to him. He didn't want to
take 1t. but she said: Nonsense!
You've earned 1t. Never refuse what
you've earned honestly. That's the
way our men get rich and their daugh-
ters come over here to marry into
your nobility and keep these old cas-
ties patched up with their fathers for
tunes
Lord Walter took the coin and
went up to his apartments to change
his costume for evening dress.
How did fool that American
girlP he said to his valet
"T think not, your lordship,' said
the valet. Murphy told me she asked
him who you were and he told her.
'The young man paused In putting
on a white silk waistcoat with gold
buttons and stared.
"'By JoveY be exclaimed, ard that
was his only comment.
"He Joined party Of high bred Eng
lish girls at dinner, but he couldn't dis
miss from his mind that impudent
American girl who had dared to talk
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