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14 —™sCA's HUSBAND
request to stand on
Addie without hesitation puts fort
the other moves forward with a brisk 0
incumbrance well behind, but also flounce of muddy lining hanging
“below her skirt; and, thus the descendants ot, the Sieur de Beaulieu
saunter down the High Street, with heads erect, callous, haughtily
indifferent ‘to ‘public opinion, looking as if the whole ‘county be.
longed to them. |... «. oe ae fae SME sg
“Took, mother—look
at those. poot Lefroys!”” cried Miss tha)
Challice, the banker’s daughter, as she drives past in’ her elegantly
appointed C-spring Jandau,’ perfectly, gloved, veiled, ‘and. shod;
‘“Aren’t they awful?, Not a’ pair of ‘gloves among ‘them!’ ‘And
tic sides—what my maid wouldn’t wear! < Patelied
} ever, say ‘they’ were ladies, would
their boots—elas des—what-
atthe toes, too! You would, ne
you?”’ PEELE SLRS. Los by & oo ey es
“ Poor children! They have no mother, you know,
abad,-bad father’?
~“* Oh, yes, 1 know! , But he was such a handsome, attractive man}
Don’t you remember, mother, at Ascot, three ‘years ‘a £0, “when ‘he
dus to lunch on his drag, and introduced me to L nd
darling; aud
_ asked us to lunch on his drag, and introduced | ord Squ
dertord, how fascinating we all thought him?”
“ Mrs. Challice shrugs her portly shoulders, = 3.5"
“«« Fascinating, but thoroughly unprincipled, my dear. ‘1 do ply.
his poor children. -’ What'will become of them, thrown destitute on
the world?’ Well, Ihave nothing tor which to blame myself. °]
tried to do..my best for. them; »ut—whether it was trom‘ want of |
manner or through senseless pride I can not _tell—Miss Lefroy ‘did
not respond to my attempted civility, and the’ last“ da
‘cross the wilderness like a |
riage stopped at the hall door.” ae
“Oh, it was all want of manners, of course; mother dear! “That
poor girl would not know how to receive a visitor or enter’a draw:
ing-room. ~.She has never been in any Socicty, you: know, | 4
room. She has never been in any soc All the
county people have left off calling. on ‘them too; ‘they treated then
just in the same way that they treated: you. - They’re perfect say-
‘ages!’ . a a ~ cee SHY ee a a 2 i oo ay eke wa Ay
~~ ''The second girl promises tq be rather good‘looking.’?!"" z
Do you think so? . She’s too gypsified ‘for’ ny taste—looks as it
‘
scarlet cap.” es Tocee Mae
“* She’s a remarkably. good-looking girl—that’s what'she is”
Percy Chalice puts in, with a knowing smile—‘ steps out like's
thoroughbred, she does, ’T'would’ be well for you, my dear sister:
if you had her action on the pavement. — 0) 20) ee
So I could have, it 1" wore boots: and ‘skirts like -hers;’? ‘retorts
_ she would be in keeping at. a ‘country fair, With'a tambourine anda
Miss Ethel sullenly,
milliner and bootmaker at once."
fey .
a troublesome bramble caught in her skirt,
h apatched unlovely boot, and —
brisk jerk, leaving not only the
a. -
i to. my attempted c and the ‘Jast day 1 called |
about a year ago—l saw the .whole family flying from the House
rowd of scared savages, when the car.
_ Then I'd strongly advise you, my deer, to get the address of Her
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