Cleveland County herald., 1919-09-18
CHAPTER III.

Until he reached the age of twelve
 Georgie's education was a domestic l process; tutors came to the house, and those citizens who yearned for his taking down often said: "Just wait till he has to go to public school; then he'll get it ]" But at twelve Georgie was sent to private school in the town, and there came from this small and independent institution no report, or even rumor, of Georgies getting anything that he was thought to de- serve therefore the yearning still per
 sisted, though growing gaunt with
 feeding upon itself
 The yearners were still yearning l when Georgie at sixteen was sent away to great "prep school" Now" they said brightly, "he1l get 1 it! He'll find himself among boys just
 as important in their home town as he
 is, and they'll knock the stuffing out
 of him when he puts on his airs with l them! Oh, but that would be worth something to see p They were mis- taken it appeared, for when Georgie returned few months later he still seemed to have the same Stuffing. He had been deported by the authorities, the offense being stated as "insolence and profanity" in fact, he had given the principal of the school instruc- tionS almost identical with those for merly objected to by the Rev. MaIloch Smith.
 But he had not got his come-1pance, and those who counted upon it were embttered by his appearance upon the downtown streets driving a dog cart at criminal speed, making pe- destrians retreat from the crossings, and behaving himself as if he "owned the earth"
 When Mr. George Anderson Nina fer came home for the holidays at ChristmaStfde in his sophomore year, probably no great change had taken place inside him but his his exterior was was visibly altered Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had re- ceived his come-upance; on the con- trary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itch ingly: the gilded youths manner had become polite, but his politeness was of a kind which democratic people l found hard to bear.
 Cards were out for ball in his | honor, and this pageant of the ten antry was held in the ballroom of the Anderson mansion the night after his 1 arrival. It was, as Mrs, Henry Frank lin Foster said of Isabel's wedding, "a big Amberson-style thing" All "old citizens recognized as gentry received cards, and of course so did their danc- ing descendants
 The orchestra and the caterer were brought from away, in the Anderson manner though this was really q ges- ture-perhaps one more of habit than of ostentation-for servitors of gayety as proficient as these importations were nowadays to be found in the town. It was the last of the great. lOng-remembered dances that "every- body talked about"-there were get ting to be so many people in town that no later than the next year there were too many for everybody" to hear of even such ball as the Ambersons'.
 George, white gloved, with a garde- mia in his buttonhole, stood with his mother and the Major, embowered in the big red-and-gold drawing room downstairs, to receive the guests; and, standing thus together, the trio offered a picturesque example of good looks persistent through three gene rations. The Major, his daughter and his grandson were of a type all Am person: tall, straight and regular, with dark eyes. short noses, good chins; and the grandfather's expression, no less than the grandsons, was one of faintly amused condescension. There was difference, however. The grand sons unlined young face had nothing to offer except this condescension the grandfather's had other things to say. It was handsome. worldly old