Atlanta Georgian., 1914-03-01
Jenny Pearls
"Rich Feller"
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Oh, you Oughtnt to nave hurried, SAID
Eustace.
"Well, don't cry about it now. Where
are we going?"
"Oh, wherever you like" breathed the
escort.
Whats the matter with you?" Jenny
asked "Have you caught asthma, holding
your breath while you were waiting?"
Poor Sop smiled wanly.
"Well, come on" said Jenny. "We'll go
to the Paragon because it's nice and close.
And you might give me half-a-crown to give
the attendant in the Ladies Cloak Room,
because last time | went there she was very
rude"
Conversation was certainly difficult in the
roselight of the supper table at the Paragon
Restaurant, and Jenny began to wonder
why she had ever been such fool as to come
out with this shy youth, even though he had
presented her with two dozen pairs of white
kid gloves. She tried to make him drink as
much champagne as possible in order to
liven hir up, but nothing seemed powerful
enough to make him talk and the evening
moved on as if fettered., At quarter-past
twelve, when the walters were eying like sad
and weary vultures the chairs which they
would at closing time pounce upon and carry
off into gaunt piles, Eustace Grant gulped
out proposal of marriage.
Jenny stared at him in amaZement.
well, when you do talk she gasped, II
must say, you don't waste much time.
Fancy asking anyone to marry them the
second time of meeting. | never heard of
such thing in all my life. Marry you?
Why, what would your mother say, if she
knew you proposed to ballet-girl?"
"Well, of course my mater would be
rather worried, breathed Eustace.
"Worried? | guess she'd start tearing her
. hai ont IF ha knaw Rut what Chaal1
you've got, when you come to think of it.
Sits opposite to me all supper time as quiet
as an empty house, and then asks me to
marry him. That's your quiet ones. Still
waters run deep, they say. What? guess
anyone could drown themselves in you'll"
But will you, Jenny? Oh, Jenny,
really do love you. I've never cared for any
other girl"
"Oh, no, Sop, it can't be DONE"
Don't you like me?"
"Not so as | could marry you."
"I've got good deal of money"
"Who cares? I'm not marked down for
sale, said Jenny
Don't you think you could grow to like
me?" Eustace persisted in such a hopeless
tone that Jenny thought he was going to cry.
"Well, don't start making me try to grow
by watering me, because it isn't any use.
Besides don't want to marry"
won't go on asking you, IT 1T annOys
you," said Sop But you don't mind if
tell my mother about you. Because think
your the sweetest woman on earth"
Il don't mind what you tell your mother,
if you don't mind her throwing fits on the
drawing room carpet. And less of it with
your sweetest woman! Anyone would
think | was quite old to hear you carry on"
Then the lights began to be lowered, and
Jenny was able to avoid any more of Sop's
protestations. He put her into taxi, and
after imploring her to come out with him
again, said goodnight with mournful rev.
erence She, however, for all his money de-
clined and insisted that her goodnight was a
last farewell
Eustace however, was in his box again
the following evening and every evening for
many nights to come. Archie used often to
be waiting at the stage-door in order to try
his eloquence upon the unyelding girl.
Notes would come round from Eustace with
presents of flowers, of chocolates, even of
jewelry. Jenny grew exasperated and was by
this time SO angry with the young man that
! perhaps it was as we'll for him that she still
declined to see him. The girls in the dress
ing-room took great interest in the affair
and, as girls do, were inclined to favor the
shy young mans absurd courtship. They
would become intensely sentimental over
him and plead with Jenny to show him occa-
sionally little kindness. lrene's point of