The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-03-29
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CHAPTER Nv
Mabel Was two years younger than
s-hre. twenty-five al The time OF her
>S1t5riaec aud Just past her thirticgh
Birthday when tho separate rooms
acre first occupied Tier habit OF
sudden laughter. rather loud. which
sabre FIRST notlocd IN connection with
lcir differing Niews ON the mean
ftrrcta Wait. waS rather ehAractefis-
BIC Of hcr. Tier laugh came sudden.
y, and very heartily. at anything
I slsat amused her and without her
/ trst smiling or suggesting By any
eIher sign that she Was amused. Aud
4 canc thus abruptly Out OF faro
whose EXPRESSION MAS Normally rath.
sr severe.
Probably OF the same mentality
~ks her habit Of what sabre called
flying up.~ shs flew up without
aer speech first warming W. but %
her flying up. unlike her sudden
burst OF laughter, Sabre cama TO
know certain promonitory symptoms
In her face. Tier face what no called
frightened" In particular he used
10 notice a curious little construction
% the sides OF her nose. rather as
tho invisible twcc3crs were pressing
It.
She had rather a long nose and
this pleased her. for she once read
somewhere that long noses were aris-
tocrafic. She stroked her nose as
shs read.
- Tier compilation was pale tho this
was perhaps exaggerated by her col
oring. which WAS dark Her features
were notierably regular and notice
ably refined. tho her eyes were tho
least little bit inclined 10 be promi.
nent: when sabre married the Dean
Of Tldhorough's only daughter. IL
was said that he had married "a
sccd locking girl'': also that he had
married "a very nice Eirir. those
were the expressions used. She liked
the company % men and she was
much liked By men phe opinion %
the rarruIous Hapgood may be re
called In this connactionl She very
much liked the society Of women 81
her own age or older than herself.
and she was very popular with such.
she did not Ike girls. married or
unmarried
Mah>i beionrcd to that consider.
abe class OF persons who. In con-
vcr-ation. begin half their sentences
with And just irnagine--~; or And
only fancy. or And do you
know These ordinations. deiiv-
erwd win much excitement arc In
trodrcsory 20 matters considered ex.
traortlnary. Their users might there
fore be imagined somewhat easily
asfonished But they have a com.
persatory sseadtners % mind IN re
gard 20 much that rnystisiss other
Eleopse
To Mabel there was nothing rnys
erious Ia birth. or In living. or IN
t~ath. One was born. one lived. one
died. What was there odd about IT.
Nor did she see anything mysterious
IN the intense preoccupatlon u an
insect. or the astounding pIaeidity of
u primrose growing at the foot Of a
ftrse. An insect--ypu liked Il. a
fIower-you plucked Il. What's the
Mystery
Her ufo was living among people
Of her own class. Her measure uf
man or ~ a woman was. Were
they Of her claas7 II they were. she
gladly accepted them and appeared
70 find considerable pleasure in their
society. Whether they had attrac-
tive qualities or uuattractive quail.
ties or no qualities at all did not at.
feet her. The only quality thai mat
tered was the quality Of being we'll
bred
She called the classes beneath her
own STANDARD Of breeding "the lower
ciasses." and 20 long as they left her
alone she was perfectly content to
leave them alone. In certain aspects
sie liked them She liked "a civil
tradesman" immensely: she liked a
GRILL eharwouan immensely; and she
I,Sed a civil workman Immensely. II
I've Der Rs much pleasure. real pleas
ure that she felt In all her emotions.
10 receive civiIity from the classes
that minlstered to her classs--serv-
ants. tradespeople. gardeners. car.
pentsrs. plumbers. postmen. police.
n1en--as to meet any one IN her own
class.
The only fact she knew about the
lower classes Was that they were dis
guatingiy extravagant and spent
every penny they earned. The WON.
an across the Green who did her
washing Rad six children and hus-
band who was an agricultural la
borer and earned eighteen and six.
pence week These eight lived IN
three rooms and IF you please" they
actually bought a gramophone' Ma.
bel insisnced It for years after she
first heard Il. The idea Of that class
Of person spending money on any
thing TO make their three rooms live