Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-11-20
CHAPTER XVIII.
A Duel Over the rea-cups.

riser and one who fouted the modern
idea that the world should be aired
before men went abroad. Faithful to
his habit, the following morning
found him riding in the park little
after seven o'clock; and not until the
sweet cold air Of the highlands had
recompensed him for a waking night
did he return to the Hall and the gen.
erous breakfast table there spread
for him. A professed disciple of the
simple life, Gavin confessed that the
Earl's lavish hospitalities were alto
gether too much for his philosophy;
and he ate and drank with the hearty
relish Of one to whom these unending
luxuries were both a revelation in the
art of living and satire upon the
habits of the rich.
What vast quantities Of food were
heaped upon that priceless sideboard
I'm dishes Of shining silver, each
warmed by the clear flame Of silver
lamp beneath. Lift lid Of one OF
those granaries and there you would
espy an omelet which none but a man
from Paris could cook. Peep into an
other and there are eggs prepared SO
cunningly that they would melt the
heart of Master Fastidity himself.
Fish and fowl and flesh, great red
joints upon the buffet, exquisite
peaches from the hot-houses, bunches
OF grapes that would have taken prizes
in any show-how ironical to remem-
Der the class of man who usually sat
to such table, his ennui, his distaste,
and the abstinence cure the physicians
compelled him 10 practice. Gavin was
just hearty Englishman, At and
strenuous and needing no waters" to
make life endurable. He took what
came to him and made no bones
about It. Had he been rich man
himself, he would have done the same,
he thought. Humbug was no part OF
his creed, and he never mistook nec-
essity for self-sacrifice.
The Earl had not come down when
he entered the famous breakfast-room.
and, not little to his satisfaction,
he found himself alone with Lady Eve
lyn for the first time since his arrival
at the Manor. A student OF faces al.
ways, he studied this face today with
curiosity which he set down to his
own delusions rather than to an abso-
lutte interest in the personality OF a
stranger. A beautiful woman he had
admitted her to be when first he saw
her by her fathers side upon the night
which carried him to the Hail. But
now his scrutiny went deeper. and. 80
far az opportunity served, he looked
| at her as one seeking woman's se-
cret, and seeking It with q mans de-
sire to help her.
And first he said that 1t was an
English face in repose, and yet not
an English face when the repose was
lost. The masses Of Jet black hair
would have excited no surprise upon
the Corso at Rome or shining in an
aureole cast out from Florentine
window. Here, in England, the
tresses spoke of the South and its
suns-and yet, in fiat contradition,
the perfect skin, smooth and silky as
the leaf of pink white rose, could
tell of English lanes and sunless days
and the kinder climate Of the North.
Character he read in the firm contour
of her chin-romance and passion in
| the deep blue of her eyes and the
modulations Of voice whose music
had not been lost in the roaring Satur.
| MALTA of the modern salon.
This, then, was the estimate which
one strong personality formed Of an
other; the man saying to himself, II
would read this woman's heart!" the
| woman asking herself II she must talk
architecture until the Earl came to
her assistance. Breaking the ice with
| common observation, she remarked
that she had seen him saioping across
the park and regretted the dilatory
habit which kept her in bed.
Getting up is q foreign art" she
said. 1T lives in Kitchens and places
lively forbid 1t nowadays. And, of
course, life 10 too short to disobey the
doctors"
| Gavin looked at her with the air
Of q man who has too much common
sense to deal In frivolities and rarely
troubled to say the thing which was
not.
"They talk nonsense he said quiet
ly; the profession is becoming far
too commercial. 1t lives and thrives
upon the credulity Of fools. Just con-
sherman is the only animal which
does not glory in the Creators gift
the dawning day and all Its wonders
BY getting up with the sun we see
something of ourselves sometimes
-Four work Is not then the whole oc
cupstion OF the day."
But yours, uIe!y. is not work you
despise, Mr.. Ord?"
$50 little that fear 1t on that &C
count. Just imagine how this house
is going to make captive OF me.
shall know every stone of 1t before 9
month has passed. l will tell YOU
then all its truths and all Its fables
The dead will become my intimats
friends. I shall reconstruct from the
beginning. must do It, for how shall
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