The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-11-05

dennis (retired on half pay)
came to breakfast at his accustomed
conner ia his Pail Mail Club. His
were the best blacked boots in Lon
don. His bun waistc0at, checked era
vat spotless linen, white gloves. his
whiskers, his very cane were perfect of
their kind.
He seemed thirty years old, until
you saw the Fictitious nature of his
rch brown hair and the crows feet
around the eyes of his handsome face
with its Wellington nose. His long
white cuffs showed the good sleeve
buttons given him by his royal high
Ress, the duke of York.
Through his gold double eye glasses.
he reads his letters, n an invitation
from the marquis of Steyne. n from
the bishop Of Ealing and Mrs. Trail,
another from an earl and SO On, and
last of ali, two others. one from his
widowed sister-in-iaw. and the other
from her only child, Arthur Penden-
MS, Jr. The first begs him TO come
Immediately TO Fair Oaks, Clavering.
st. Mary's, ITO entreat. nay command"
the "wretched boy TO give up his EN-
gagement to marry Miss Cnstigan, an
actress twelve years the senior of this
had Of eighteen. The second from this
same lao heSeeching his uncle to re-
move his mothers objections to his
proposed union with his dear Emily
q descendant of the old Irish royalty,
the most beautiful in the
WOrlG. "a love Ike mine, SIR writes
young Pen, 81 feel is contracted once
and f0rever-I shall die without eve
knowing another passion"
The major, inwardly in a rage. rue
fully sends refusals to the marquis,
the earl, the bishop and other enter
tainers and takes a sleeplesS and tir-
Ing trip in the tight, smelly night mail
coach for Clavering.
On arrival Major Peudennis is most
affable t o Pen and his mother. He
does not "entreat" or command" his
nephew but wins the boys confidence
and talks Familiarity Of his own noble |
friends and the brilliant career he has
had In mind for Pen. The major then
faces the enemy" Captain Costigan,
the half dpsy imaginative old Irish
soldier, the father and protector Of
EMILY" To him and his beautiful,
honest but dull daughter, the major is
equally suave. Beautiful she is. with
broad brow, large melting eyes, black
wavy hair, white complexion, rosy
cheeks and the arms of a Venus"
Pen had come to see and know her
Through Foker. a school friend. a Lad
homely and kindly, dull at his books
bat bright in everyday matters, whose
father, the great brewer, furnished
hin money and Lady Agnes. his moth
social position. Verses Pen had
been writing to the Greek goddess he
now dedicates to his new divinity.
Major Pendennis, as his next move.
lets slip, in the presence OF the Cos
tigans. the fact that Pen has no means
what his mother allows him
cut Of her slender income. O~ostigan
ls then indignant that Pen should
have had the face to otter himself to
his dear beguiled daughter" Pen can
not believe his adored Emily has
calmly thrown him over, until the Co.'S
tigans openly "cut" him In the street.
He almost dies, or believes he is dying
Of despised love, with all the symp-
tOms OF sieepless nights and feverish
and is scarcely cOnsOled by his
and little cousin Laura.
Laura is five years younger than
Pen, his second cousin on the side Of
ais mother, who adopted her on the
leath of her parents, perhaps because
If a Omanc of early unmarried days
Laura'S father.
Miss C0stigan secures an engage
nent at q London theater through
Major Pendennis' influence. The mag
leic attraction being thds removed.
.en goes to ~Oxbridge.. Then through
F1ker and with the majors encourage
nent Pen mnhes rich and aristocrat1c |