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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-08
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She met Lord Orville again, of course; she met also Sir Clement Willoushby, and was formally presented to both of them.
 She had so far got the peter of her rus ticity that she was able to talk intelligent ly with Orville and hold her own pretty we'll with the pushing and too gallant Sir Clement She made blunders, of course, and her lack of experience frequently placed her in situations most embarrass- ing.
 But our country rosebud was rapidly expanding into young society lady, who understood herself and she soon began to move in the very best society, as If she had always moved there.
 Lord Orville paid her marked attention he had learned that this poor, weak creature was a young woman of char acter and brains and that she could be anything but silent when she chose
 As for Lovel, he was impertinent to her until Orville sternly put an end to his an noyances, and as for Sir Clement Will loughby-of him Evelina did not quite know what to make. He was always try ing to make love to her and she was deX- terously putting him off, refusing to con- slider him seriously.
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Finding a Brother

And almost on that very day anorner event of great importance in Evelina's life took place. Sir John Belmont made his appearance at the Hotwells with a young lady, whom he introduced as his daughter!
 It should be stated that. upon learn Ing that Lord Orville and Evelina had become engaged, Sir Clement Will loughby, after a passionate appeal to Evelina, confessed that he had written and signed with Lord Orville's name the letter which had given the dear girl so much uneasiness.
 Mir Mccartney, who also arrived in Bristol Hotwells had an interview with Evelina. He said that he had come to seek his father there He had seen him and his name was Sir John Belmont
 "Ah," cried Evelina, then you are my brother" And she told him her story.
 Mccartney was, of course, surprised and delighted. But who then was the young lady with whom Mccartney was in love and whom Sir John had intro- duced to society as his daughter?
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In Mrs. Stanley's Rooms

fancY to yourself the great rooms of Mrs. stanley, rooms of the style and decoration which we. on this side the water, call colonial. but which is really Georgian--polished floors; the soft gleam of hundreds of wax candles a crowd of men and women dressed as people only dress now for costume party, the men with dress swords. knee brooches. powdered hair tied in queues. rivaling the women in the splendor of their silks and satins, gorgeous of waistcoats, ruffles of lace. knee buckles and shoe buckles of gold and silver. embroidery, flaring coat tails. shapely. sllk-covered calves. high heeled shoes. the women with hair done up high over cushion with feathers or caps on ton of that. short skirts. furbelows. silks, satins. hoops. powder, paint, patches
 Consult some old print of the time and imagine the scraping of the fiddles and the tropical odors sweeter than musk"
 or everybody used scents in those days, though little later Beau Brum- mel was to introduce the daily bath as . substitute for perfumes.
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Her First Appearance

WI HEN Evelina Anville went up Ax/ to London and made her first
 w appearance in society, under the wing of Mrs. Mirvin-Lady Howard's s daughter and married to that bluff old seadog, Capt. R. N.-she was about as pretty and certainly as unsophisticated a girl as ever saw Ranleagh or stepped a minuet at ridotto.
 She was just 16 and all the world she had seen hitherto had been bounded by Berry Hill and it's neighborhood, with an occasional visit to Lady Howard S seat of Howard Grove.
 Berry Hill was little village in Dor setshire where Evelina had been brought up by that venerable clergyman and pattern of all virtues. Rev. Arthur Villars.
 Howard Grove. where old Lady How ard lived, was almost as quiet and cluded a place as Berry Hill; besides, Evelina had only been taken there once year when she was mere child, the annual visits ceasing when she was F years old.
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The Stored Heat of the Sun

FTOUl lne 1<OnuOn Morning Post.
 However clearly the chemists and the statisticians put before mankind the fu- ture exhaustion of the worlds supply of fuel men remain unwilling and unable to curtail the eagerness and prodigality with which they make use of this concen- trated form of energy Professor Gia- como Ciamician has lately called coal form of fossil solar energy, and he asks whether this is the only form of solar energy which life and civilization, will make use of in the future? The most obvious supply of energy from the sun is its unused radiation, and whether It may ever prove possible to use it or not, it's amount expressed in terms of coal is rather surprising. The amount of coal and other fuel which is consumed each year amounts to about HOO mlllioe tons. But that produces only one-slxth IS much heat as falls on the Sahara every day from the sun. The enormous quantity of heat energy received from the sun is largely wasted. Much of it is, however stored in plants, and on the total surface of the various continents there is yearly production of 1000 mill lion tons of vegetable matter. Professor Clamician calculates that if this werG burnt 1t would give a quantity of heat equal to about seventeen times the total present production of coal and Ignite. He asks therefore whether it is possible, or at any rate conceivable, that this oro- auction of organic matter may be in- creased in general and intensified in particular places, so that the cultivation of plants may be regulated in a way to make them produce fuels, or sources of energy. It is not possible to replace coal by organic substances produced by plants, but it may be possible to convert this organic matter to more fruitful usey than at present. It might be possible to- convert plants organic matter into gase- ous fuel above all, it may be possible to make use of the plants to a far greater extent than at present as chemical agents In producing alcohol, rubber. starch. and the other substances of daily need.
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Undesirable Relatives

They saw much of Madame Duval after that, necessarily, and the captain ragged against both of them
 But Madame Duval gave him as good as he sent and as M. Dubois neither spoke English nor understood a word of it, the bluff sailors remarks passed hi:n by scathless.
 Sir Clement Willoughby, seeing the captains humor, abetted him in it with the idea of ingratiating himself with the head of the Mirvin family and getting an invitation to Howard Grove so that he might follow up his designs upon Eve lima.
 At her grandmothers Evelna met some relatives of hers of whose existence she had not hitherto been aware-the Brangtons, connections through Madame Duval and people of vulgarity and coarse ostentation.
 There was the father, silversmith, and his son and two daughters The Brangtons forced themselves upon Eve lina's company and through them she was placed in many compromising and annoying positions.
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Rear-Leader to Evelyn

Rev. Arthur Nillars had been tutor in his younger days, and as such had acted as bear leader to young man named Evelyn, accompanying him on his travels.
 But alas for the benefcent influence of Rev MT Villars, no sooner had he returned to England with his charge than the young man married par maid and at the urgent request or hls family and friends, went away with her to live in France.
 In France he died, leaving to his Tor mer tutor f10O0 pounds and the guard ianship of his only child daughter until she should be IS years old
 He left the infant daughter no money he said. because he was assured tha' her mother-to whom he had lett ms money-would provide for her.
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Her First Adventure

Such a sweet, pretty. fresh. young thing as Evelina Anville. wearing her natural color" was sure to create something of a sensation in that fash ionable and worldly assembly
 A young flop, after cycling Eveline for while. advanced on tiptoes and lowing almost to the ground and way ing his hand with "a great conceit," after short and silly pause said: "Madam-may l presume?" and offered to take her hand.
 Evelina could scarcely forbear laugh ing and told him that she did not be- lieve she would dance at all that even- ing.
 He told her that he would keep him self disengaged in case she relented and then. with some foolish speeches of sorrow and ppointment-though his face all the time wore fixed smile he retreated.
 It must be owned that our heroine
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Onite a Different Person

But the next man who asked the privilege of Evelinas hand in the dance was quite different person He was about 26 years old, gaily but not foppishly dressed, extremely handsome and with an air of dignity and well breeding, and manner of mixed polite ness and gallantry.
 He was, moreover, real, live noble- man, "a first class earl who kept his carriage" my Lord Orville-and he led forth blushing and confused Evelina to the dance.
 The poor girl was so overcome that she was afraid she would have the "vapors," and so confused that she could scarcely utter word, letting his lordship do all the talking.
 And while she is thus engaged we will inquire little into Evelinas his tory
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Disguised With Herself

But when Lovel told him of the man ner in which Evelina had refused his offer to dance with her his lordship was obliged to admit that she was either ignorant or mischevous." Sir Clement declared that he would not could not, believe it.
 The flop said he had inquired of every body who the strange country girl was, and nobody knew. Just then Maria was called to the dance and heard no more
 But what she had to tell her friend that night was quite enough for Evelna and, conscious that she had upon her first appearance in society, made anything but favorable impression, disgusted with herself and with the fashionable world. she heartily wished herself back amid the rural shades of Berry Hill.
 She wrote to her guardian that London was tiresome and she hoped to persuade Mrs. Mirvin to go home on Saturday.
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Suppressing a Gossip

"Why. my lord. what have you done with your lovely partner?' cried Sir Clement. coming up.
 Nothing replied Orville.
 By jove, she is the most beautiful creature l ever saw in my life," asserted the baronet
 "Oh pretty, modest girl"
 An angel
 "A silent one" laughed Orville
 Why, possible, but she looks all in- telligence and expression.''
 "A poor, weak girl" replied his lord ship, shaking his head.
 The flop now came up and joined in the conversation, accusing Evelna of be- ing extremely i'll bred.
 Sir Clement declared that with such a face she could not be i'll bred: in fact, he defended Evelina warmly, though he did not know her, and Lord Orville, in spite of his little regard for Evelina' s mental attainments, gravely suppressed the fops impertinence
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Too Late to Reflect

Before going to bed that night Evelina wrote to the reverend gentleman at Berry Hill:
 T cannot but be hurt at the poor opinion Lord Oryille has of me. It is true my own behavior incurred it-yet he is himself the most agreeable and seemingly, the most amiable of men.
 ''Therefore I am grieved to be thought i'll of by him. For of whose esteem ought we to be ambitious if not for that of those who most merit our own?
 But it is too late now to reflect upon it. Well, l cant help 1t! However, think have done with assemblies
 But the dear girl was not done with assemblies, by any means. She plunged right into the social vortex-plays, balls assemblies, operas, "ridottos and shop ingi
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She Rushed In, Grabbed the Pistols and Painted

in some enchanted castle or fairy pal ace; for all looked like magic to her
 The first person she saw was Lord Orville. She felt confused-but he did not see her.
 After tea, Mrs. Mirvin being tired. Ma ria and Evelna walked around the room alone. Then again she saw him standing by the orchestra. The two girls-inno- cent creatures-also stopped by the or chestra and heard a singer.
 Lord Orville saw them and bowed. Evelina made deep courtesy and blush ed. They then walked on, but in few minutes felt that they must pass by the orchestra again. But Lord Orville was gone.
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Finding Excuses


 The whole letter was in a tone not such as proper gentleman would write to a proper young lady, and even the theory advanced by Rev. MT. Villars that Lis lordship was drunk when he wrote it did not much lessen the pain which Evelina felt at it's reception.
 So mournings for her shattered idol, she wept and faded and failed at Berry Hill until, in the hopes that change of scene would restore her to health, MT. yillars sent her away to the Bristol hot wells-a mighty fashionable resort in those days. where are they now?- with Mrs. Selwyn, a gentlewoman of so- cial standing, sharp tongue and much hard common sense.
 And To, at the Bristol hot wells were gathered or gathering all the fashion- able world which Evelina had last met with in London.
 Thither. of course, came Lord Orville, and thither came MT. Lovel and Sir Clement Willoughby.
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COmpletely COnsoIed

This was a suden and sad downfall for the young lady who had been reared as the heir of the rich Sir John Belmont, but she was so deeply in love with Mccartney that when Sir John consented that she marry him and agreed to provide for them she was completely consoled.
 Sir John was most lovingly paternal to Evelina, but said he could not live In her presence continually-she re- minded him too much of her mother.
 He was~delighted that she was going to marry Lord Orville and settled upon her a great marriage portion and a fine country estate.
 The Mirvins came to the Hotwells for the marriage and Lord and Lady Or vile spent their honeymoon at Berry Hill
 Mme. Duval. when she found that Sir John Belmont had acknowledged his daughter. that Evelina had married a lord and that she was mo longer in need of money. altered her will and left her everything.
 As for Sir Clement Willoughby, he either repented or drank himself to death-his story does not say which; let us hope the former for he had deal to repent of.
 Next weeks one-page classic will be "Zanoni," by Bulwer-Lytton.
 Copyrighted, 1912. by Irving King)
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Fought With His Father

They drew their swords, and Macart- ney wounded the father of his beloved one and fled to Scotland. When he told his mother what he had done and the name of the man whom he then thought he had killed. she said: My son, then you have murdered your father.
 But upon learning that the titled Eng lishman had not been killed, that he was well again and was shortly to re- turn to England, Mccartney, armed with a letter from his mother came to London to seek him and assure him that of course he need fear nothing fur ther from the unfortunate choice of his daughter.
 But the titled Engiishman did not re- turn to London at the time expected; i; the mother died suddenly and Macart- ney was waiting for the arrival from France of his rich friend to get money enough to go back to Scotland, or, if the friend would use his influence, to get some position in England.
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.Another Runaway Match

So Miss Evelyn was brought up until she was IS in the quietude of Berry t1iu and then went to France to her mother, who had by this time married second time and became Mme' DuVal
 Mime. Duval wanted her daughter to marry a nephew of NJ. Duval, but Miss Evelyn preferred a runaway match with a young English spark, one Sir John Belmont Mme. Duval stormed and ragged, and refused to give her daughter a penny.
 Sir John. when he found himself with A penniless bride, deserted her and tore up the marriage certificate. Caroline Evelyn sought and found refuge with Rev Mir. Villars again, and there her child, EVelina, our heroine, was born.
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A Pale Young Man

The Brangtons lived over their shop and added to their income by letting lodgings. Eveina was necessarily much at their house while she continued with her grandmother and became interested in a pale young man. one of the lodgers, who seemed to be of most melancholy cast of mind.
 He sat all day and read in the shop or in his room and owed for his lodg- ihgs.
 One day, Evelina, in passing, saw this young MT. Mccartney with couple of pistols. apparently about to commit sui eide She rushed in, grabbed the pistols and tainted.
 When she had recovered Mccartney told her the story of his life. He had been educated for the Scottish Kirk, :" but failing to get a parish, had turned poet and begun starving. He was the illegitimate son of a dearly loved mother
 He had accompanied a rich friend to Paris, where he had fallen in love with the daughter of titled Englishman, The titled father discovered this and called the lover a "beggardly, cowardiy Scotchman'
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Pronosed and Accented

Lord Orville greeted Evelina as if nothing had happened-was as kindly and gravely so1icitous concerning her and as delicately courteous in his treatment as ever.
 She made up her mind that that un- fortunate letter must have been the effects of over stimulation on the part of his 1ordship-and forgave him with out mentioning the unpleasant incident of the epistle.
 She wrote to her reverend friend. who replied that he could well see that she was in love with Orville, but that she must avoid him. She was a penni- less girl with cloud over her birth and could not hope to mate with one so great as his lordshfp.
 She tried to avoid Lord Orvflie. But 1t did not work and she announced her intention of returning to Berry Hill whereupon Lord orville proposed-and was accepted.
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Mysteries Cleared at Last

Upon learning of the arrival of Sir John at the Hotwells MT. Villars for warded to Evelina a pathetic letter, written by her mother on her death bed and left to the clergyman with instruc- tions that Evelina should, when occa- sion arose, present it to her father.
 Mrs. Selwyn took Evelina, armed with this letter, to the house of Sir John Belmont
 When Sir John saw Evelina he turned white as death and cried out: Does the wronged Caroline then still live?" When he could compose himself suffi- ciently to read the letter of his dead wife he said: "Yes, you are, indeed, my daughter
 He said that, upon learning of the death of her and that when a woman who had been his wifes attendant ap- peared In Paris with a child, which she said was his and which she had brought from Berry Hill. he had taken the child and brought her up as his own.
 The woman was summoned and at length confessed that 1t was her own child which she had pa1med off on Sir John as the daughter of his dead and wronged Caroline.
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go, and Mir. yillars and the Mirvins did not want her to go, yet the all-im- portant fact that Mime. Duval was rich and might make her granddaughter her heir weighed heaviest in the balance with all of them-and she went.
 She agreed to stay two months. They were months of torture for her, for Sir Clemont found her out and Lord Or vile found her out and called upon her in a most decidely plebeian section of the town, where her grandmother lived, met the vulgar Brangtons and ran across the rural beauty at some rather questionable places to which her plebeian relatives dragged her.
 Lord Orville was kindness and under stood. Sir Clemont, whose reputation was that of a sad dog simply per secuted the girl. In spite of himself the rake had really fallen in love with Evelina. But" he said, q am not a marrying man."
 His attentions were watched by Lord Orvile with grave concefn and resent ed as impertinence by Evelin.
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At Ranleagh Gardens

we go to Ranleagh tonight" she wrote, and if any of those three gentle men who conversed so freely about me should be there-but l will not think about it.
 Well, she went to Ranleagh, those fash ionable gardens once situated on the Thames near Chelsea. the place of con- certs, fireworks, punch, tea. flrtations and suppers.
 It was a charming place. and the bril- iancy of the lights on her first entrance made Evelina almost think that she was
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Repulsed By Sir John

But fin the meantime she had con- ceived an idea of instituting legal pro- ceedings against Sir John Belmont to force hom to acknowledge Evelina as his daughter.
 Lady Howard. however. with much difficulty dissuaded the madame from doing this and wrote herself to the baronet asking him in the name of justice to acknowledge his daughter.
 Sir John, who was in France, returned a very cold letter. in which he said:
 'As to the young lady whom Mir. Villars so oblgingy proposes presenting to me, l wish her all the happiness in the world. and if she has third part of the merits which you attribute to her I have no doubt but that Mir. Villars will be more successful in every other ap- plcation he may make for her advan- tage than he can ever be in any which he may be pleased to favor me-
 Evelina seemed destined to still remain Evelina Anville.
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'She must have been married very early in life; what her age is I do not know, but she really looks to be less than D. She dresses very gaily, paints very high, and the traces of former beauty are still visible in her face"
 She presented Evelina and Mrs. Mirvln to a little French gentleman whom she introduced as M. Dubois, her escort, for, she said, "she didn't never go nowhere without gentleman escort.
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tcopywright. 1912, by Irving King All


 That charming maid of honor the witty Fanny Burney, wrote "Evelina' when she was IT years old and published 1t when she was q Like the sensible creature the witehing Fanny was. she tore up the History of Evelyn which she had writ ten at b. and to which "Evelina" is sup posed to be a sequel.
 She destroyed many other of her tuve- nile manuscripts: but. looking over "Ev- elina," declined to give 1t trial, and so published it anonymously. It became at once a ''best seler'-think of 1t, best seller that has had 134 years of life, as opposed to the few months of the present-day best sellers existence, and is still read by thousands upon thou sands all over the world.
 There is something so freshly youth full so native and genuine about .Ev- elina" that it is wholly charming in spite of it's clumsy old-fashioned method of telling the story by means of series of letters.
 And at the same time 1t shows so lit- tle crudeness that we suspect that if Fanny really did write the story at 1T, she "blue-p -pencllled' it literally when she was 21
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In the Ton Gallery

One night Madame Duval insisted that Evelina accompany herself and the Brangtons to the opera
 Mir. Brangton, though on pleasure bent had most frugal mind and. took the party to the highest and cheapest gall lery in the opera house where Evelina felt much out of place and her distress was not lessened by seeing in the fashion, able part of the house many of her so- ciety friends.
 She had been intending to go to the opera with the Mirvins, and from her airy perch saw them sitting in the pit.
 When the opera was over she left the Brangton party with the intention of finding the Mirvins and going home with them. but instead encountered Sir Glenn ent Willoughby, who, when she asked him to call a chair for her, insisted that she go home in his coach.
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was impolite enough to turn to her friend, Miss Mirvin and giggle
 The young man was MT. Lovel, one of the greatest beaux of the town; he never forgave Evelina for that giggle and made things as unpleasant as he could for her ever after.