Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-09-04

enough / don't believe in that kind
Of thing. / think the worlds like this
there's a few people that their birth
and position, and so on, puts them at
the top, and they ought to treat each
other entirely as equals" His voice
betrayed a little emotion as he added,
II wouldn't speak like this to every
body"
"You mean you're confiding your
deepest creed-or code, what ever it
is-to met"
"Go on; make fun Of it, thenI'
George said bitterly. you do think
you're terribly cleverl 1t makes me
tired!"
well, as you don't like my seeming
quietly SUPERIOR after this I'll be nois-
lily superior" she returned cheerfully.
"We aim to pleased"
II had a notion before I came for
you today that we were going to quar-
rel" he said.
"No, we won't; it takes twoP She
laughed and waved her mhf toward a
new house. not quite completed, stand
ing in a field upon their right. They
had passed beyond Anderson addition
and were leaving the northern fringes
of the town for the open country.
isn't that a beautiful housed" she ex-
claimed. "Papa and I call it our Beau
tiful House."
George was not pleased. 'Does it
belong to you?"
"Of cours not! Papa brought me
out here the other day; driving in his
machine, and we both loved4it. It's so
spacious and dignifed and plain"
"Yes, it's plain enough" George
grunted.
"Yet it's lovely; the gray-green roof
and shutters give just enough color,
with the trees, for the long white
walls. It seems to be the finest house
I've seen in this part of the country"
George was outraged by an enthu-
siasm so ignorant-not ten minutes
ago they had passed the Anderson
mansion. SIS that a sample Of your
taste in architecture" he asked.
"Yes. Why?"
Because it strikes me you better go
somewhere and study the subject a
little !"
Lucy looked puzzled. "What makes
you have so much feeling about it?
Have I offended your
"'Offended' nothingw George re.
turned brusquely. "Girls usually
think they know it all as soon as
they've learned to dance and dress and
f1irt a little. They never know any
thing about things like architecture,
for instance. That house was about
as bum a house as any house I ever
sawI" 1860,
He spoke Of it in the past tense, be-
cause they had now left 1t far behind
them-a human habit Of curious sig
~nifcance. 1T was like a house meant
for a street in the city. What kind
Of a house was that for people of
any taste to build out here in the coun-
tryY
"But papa says it's built that way
on purpose. There are a lot of other
houses being built in this direction,
and papa says the city's coming out
this way; and in a year OF two that
house will be right in town."
sit was a bum house, anyhow" said
George GROSSLY. II don't even know
the people that are building it. They
say a lot of riffraff come to town every
year nowadays and there's other riff
raft that have always lived here, and
have made a little money, and act as
if they owned the place. Uncle Sgd
ney was talking about it yesterday
he says he and some Of his friends are
organizing a country club, and already
some of these riffraff are worming into
it-people he never heard of at all
Anyhow I guess it's pretty clear you
don't know a great deal about archi.
| lecture"
She demonstrated the completeness
of her amiability by laughing. "Tll
know something about the north pole
before long," she said, eff we keep
going much farther in this direction II
At this he was remorseful. "All
right; we'll turn and drive south
awhile till you get warmed up again
I expect we have been going against
the wind about long enough. Indeed,
I'm sorry"
he said, Indeed, Pm sorry" in a
nice way, and looked very strikIngly
handsome when he said 1t, she
thought. No doubt 1t is true that
there is more rejoicing in heaven ovei
one sinner repented than over all the
saints who consistently remain holy
and the rare, sudden ~gentlenesses OF
arrogant people have infinitely more
effect than the continual gentleness Of
gentle people. Arrogance turned
gentle melts the heart; and Lucy gave
her companion a little sidelong, sunny
nod Of acknowledgment. George was
dazzled by the quick glow of her eyes
and found himself at a loss for some
thing to say.
Having turned about he kept his
horse to a walk, and at this gait Tho
sleighbells tinkled but internationally
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