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Author, of "Vanity Bardwar*;* "Goldm
Girls" Ste.
BOOK FOUR.
LADT BEAUTY'S CHOICE.
CHAPTER IL
"HOKOR YOUR PARENT" AND "SEEVE T-O?K
- - SELF."
Mrs. Barbara Temple was in her glory.
For a less complicated or a more immediately
hopeful undertaking she -would scarcely have
cared. Sophia, she well knew, .-was not an
easy woman to turn, and still less was she
aasy to beguile. Percival Brent had really
taken the girl's fancy. He was more pre
poweesing, with his youth and his generous
ways, than this grave, serious stranger, verg?
ing on middle life. And the mother had
found >.by experience that affection with
Sophia was not mere whim or fancy, much
'less self-interest or passion. Its roots struck
deep. For Mrs. Temple's present purpose the
mere vulgar bribes of wealth and ease were
cot enough; all kinds of motives must be en?
gaged, auxiliaries from innumerable quarters
must be united; the campaign must be care?
fully planned, the advance made neither too
early nor too late, just at the moment of
fate; and then the kingdom of Sophia's heart
irvouldbe^won. But all tins only kindled
Mrs. Barbara Temple into excitement Mar?
rying Car and Sibyl had been child's play;
here was a game for a mistress. She felt the
same exultation which a chess player feels
who, long used to engage with adversaries to
whom he can give a castle and win easily,
ats at last facing an enemy who would win
if he got a pawn or a move.
"Everything must be done at the right
time," she said. "Everything must bo done
in the right way. "Whom can I trust for
mat? Whom? Nobody except myself !"
First of all she talked to Prendergast her?
self. Mingling a certain deference for his
opinion with unconcealed reliance on her own,
she told him that for the present he had bet?
ter not make any advances to Sophia.
"Rather the opposite," she said. "Seem to
retreat. Sophia has already noticed your
Heftig for her. Now, if you withdraw for a
while, you will puzzle her. She will say,
'Did ne admire me after all, or not? Has he,
30? coming to know me better, found me less
attractive?' You wi? excite her 'curiosity,
which, let me tell you, is a great thing for a
lover to do. Besides, although Sophia may
cot care for you, having once secured your
?dni-r?tion, she will not like to lose it No
woman wishes that a man who once admired
her should cease to admire her. She may
not care for hiT-she may even have an
aversion to him-but she likes bim to care
?orher. And, I say, if Sophia finds that you
%row cooler, she will wonder, question with
herself, feel a little piqued; and then, if
you turn round again and confess her power
-well-well-she w?l be rather more dis?
posed to give you some slight encouragement.
Am I letting you into too many of our
lecrets, Mr. Prendergast?"
"With your knowledge of the heart," he
answered, "I could have vanquished Cleo?
patra."
J {She bowed, but scarcely took time to taste
the Havor of the compliment No sooner was
luncheon over than, making some excuse for
dropping Sophia at a friend's house at one end
of the town, she drove out to see Sybil, the first
ally whose co-operation she meant to secure.
Sibyl was alone in her drawing room, and
certainly all around were abundant signs of
the magnitude of the price she had fetched
in the matrimonial exchange. She looked
very handsome, quite superb, Mrs. Temple
thought, as she rose to meet her mother. But
there was discontent in her face.
"Sibyl, dear," the mother said, "your taste
is nothing short of perfect. This drawing
room grows lovelier everyday. Where did
you pick up that little picture?"
"In Bond street," she answered, listlessly.
"You paid a price for it, I can guess?"
"I know nothing about prices," Sibyl an?
swered haughtily.
~And never need," replied her mother,
quickly. "Happy girl!"
Sibyl made no answer.
"I hVTQ come, dear," her mother now said,
"to &s? your assistance in a very delicate
matter. Prendergast wants to marry So?
phia."
"Sophia w?l not marry at present," Sibyl
remarked.
"Not unless we are very judicious. But
with management she wilL Prendergast is a
man after her own heart, just the sort of
man she would have fallen in love with if
this ridiculous affair with Mr. Brent's son did
not stop tho way. Now Sophia must not pass
this offer by. I am determined she shftfi
not Prendergast is very rich, and ho is will?
ing, to settle d<tfvn here."
"And what of that?" Sibyl asked.
"What of that? Why, her? you three
girls w?l be in th? one neighborhood, and
that a pleasant one. Each will have a hand?
some establishment; and think how you will
be able to put yourselves at the head of
?everything. You will soon be the leaders of
the county; with your- looks and ^our
cleverness and your taste you ought to be.
Yea can have your London houses, you and
Sophia^ Immediately, and Car when those old
people die. You can have your trips to the
continent, y^ur entertainments at home-O,
Sibyl, why had I never such a chance when I
was your age? How I should have enjoyed
tho world!"
"You did enjoy it, mamma."
"Now, Sibyl," the mother went on, not
noticing this remark, 'there is .one thing
which I wish you to impress upon Sophia;
that is the comfort of riches. You can speak
from experience; tell her how fine a thing
wealth is. Impress it upon her. You might
even say, for you know Sophy's turn of mind,
that you find yourself able to do much good
r-to help the poor-charitable Work
churches-anything can be done with money.
That is my special charge to you, Sibyl; the
next time you and Sophy meet tell her some?
thing of your experience of riches. Now
where is Archibald f*
"He went into the library after lunch,"
Sibyl said rather sulkily. "He wanted to
read The Times."
Two minutes later Mrs. Barbara Temple
was confronting her son-in-law Goldmore,
who, with his newspaper laid across his
knee, waited to hear what it was of which
her shrewd face was full
"Sophia has had an offer-at least it has
been made to me-from Mr. Prendergast"
Goldmore bowed bis head in a way which
signified approval of Mr. Prendergast Then
he said:
"It would have been a good connection
if-"
"If what?"
"If Sophia had not fallen in love with
Brent"
"Now, my dear Archibald," cried Mrs.
Temple, slapping her hands together slightly
in ber vexation, "surely you know better
than that Sophia has not given ber heart
away; it is a girlish whim, and we might
safely leave it to cure itself; only time
presses. Sophia must marry Prendergast
I should die of chagrin if I saw another wo?
man's daughter get him now. In this matter"
you can help me. You have weight and dig?
nity, and you speak in a commanding way.
Now, I want you to press this marriage upon
Sophia, from the point of obedience, duty
and prudence. You can tell her how much
my heart is fixed upon it; and you might say
something about tho Messing attached to
those who obey th? fifth commandment"
Here <~-ur little mother coughed slightly, bless?
ing being rather a foreign expression V > her
organs of speech. "Sophia is a serious girl,
and will think of that."
"But, Mrs. Temple," Goldmoro replied, "I
hardly like to use such an argument with So?
phia. From what I have seen of her, I
should not for a moment doubt that her con?
scientiousness is much greater than my own;
anO. it seems rather hypocritical, and even op?
pressive, to urge upon the girl art obligation
for which, as a matter of fact, she has a
greater regard than I should have bad my?
self. Besides, if she really loves this young
fellow-"
"A lad without a sixpence, and without a
prospect! O, Archibald, you axe not giving
your mad to the sabjectt Tell me now"-the
little woman faced him like some warrior of
argument-"ought not both men and women
to regulate their lives with an eye to prudence,
common sense and the main chance?77
Poor Gfoldmore! Prudence, common sense,
and an eye to the main chance had been ?ns
laws of life; prudence, common sense, and an
eye to the main chance had made him a two
hundred and fifty thousand pound man. His
own deities were before him, and he must do
them reverence.
"You are a wise woman," he said; "I will
do as you desire. I w?l talk over the matter
with Sophia.77
"Now," Mrs. Barbara Temple said, as her
trim little chestnuts whisked her along to the
residence of Egerton Doolittle, "I have se?
cured Sibyl and her husband."
She checked off two fingers.
"I want three more. I shall get them; and
then, Sophy, dear, I think your future will
be safe; and in years to come you will thank
your poor old worldly mother I"
CHAPTER HX
EGERTON DOOLITTLE GIVES HIS VOICE FOR
SEVERE MEASURES.
When Mrs. Barbara Temple was ushered
into Caroline's drawing room, she caught
sight of the young husband and wife sitting
side by side on a sofa. Her coming was evi?
dently unexpected, and Egerton, ejaculating
I "My gracious 1" dashed out into a conserva?
tory adjoining the drawing room, while
Caroline, composing herself, met her mother
with just the smallest signs of momentary con?
fusion. The tittie woman glanced at two
love birds perched side by side In a cage
which hung over the conservatory threshold,
and then she recalled Sibyl, sitting in her
lonely splendor.
"For some things," our little Pilpay re?
marked privately, "for some tilings a young
fool is better than an old sage. But these are
only the etceteras of life; Sibyl has secured
the grand thing, after all, and more of it
than Car. Life is pretty equal."
"Caroline, my dear girl," she said after a
few casual words, "I have come this morning
to consult you on a matter of the greatest im?
portance. I know your good sense, and the
energy with which you can act when you
have decided what is right to be done. If it
was not for yon, Caroline, and your tact and
judgment I should be in despair."
With this insinuating preface she told the
story of Prendergast s proposal; and after
expanding in the most g lowing style in praises
of bis person, character and estate, she turned
to the dismal topic of Sophia's infatuation for
that penniless Australian boy.
"For this whim, this caprice, this Idea,
whick is not worthy to be called an idea, she
will actually sacrifice a man who is not only
a man of family and fortune, but whose char?
acter is of the very pattern she most professes
to admire. I protest, Caroline, it w?l drive
me wild."
"It certainly is unfortunate,'7 Car said.
"And unless you co-operate with me, work
with me, and work hard and wisely, too,
Sophia will lose the best chance in life she
ever can have. I can do nothing without
your assistance, dear."
"I shall do all in my power, mamma," Car?
oline replied; "but you must teU me what
you wish."
"It was on my tongue, dear giri. You
must have a conversation with Sophia-let it
seem accidental-and say you have heatd
about Prendergast. Praise him a little; but
that is not your particular point Bet before
Sophy my delight at the idea of the mar?
riage; the happiness it w?l give me; how
miserable I shall be if it goes off. Sophia is
an affectionate giri, and I believe would do
a very great deal simply to show her love
to me. Now, you nmst put before her
strongly my feelings and hopes; for; indeed,
dear, ii Prendergast does net marry her I
shall die of vexation. Now go over and over
this matter with Sophia You know, Car,
she is not like you-clear-headed, of sound
judgment, seeing what is right at a glance,
and firm to carry out her ideas. She is soft,
yielding, tender-hearted, If I were you I
should coax her a little, kiss hejj be tender
with her; all that w?l tell with Sophia. Now
I know, my love, I have given you a difficult
task to perform, and nothing but my knowl?
edge of your tact would have encouraged mo
to ask you to undertake . it. But you w?l do
it, and do it well Sophia will marry Pren?
dergast, and the praise of the affair will be
yours."
The little mother had not said one syllable .
about Cars cleverness which was unmerited:
but however astute that young lady might
be, she was like an osier wand in the skilled
hands of her mother. With wonderful enthu?
siasm Car took up tho scheme, and not less
wonderful was the simple obedience wTth
which she resolvedix> follow out the directions
that were given her. Independent and In?
ventive as she was in herself, she yet learned
her mother s words by heart as faithfully as
if she had been getting up a scene in a play.
She did not Insert a word of .her own; and
the more she showed her readiness to fohow
her mother's instructions implicitly, the more
did that unrivaled student of human nature
laud her quickness, her.resource, her capacity
for maneuver and benevolent stratagem.
Presently Egerton looked in from the con?
servatory giggling and blushing.
"I have heard all you have been saying to
Carryhe said. *Twasn't listening, I hope.
Couldn't help it if it was, the other door
being locked. O, Mrs. Temple, do you know
I really think you must be a clever woman;
I really think you must be. You seem .to
know everything- and to mariage everybody
I quite agree with you about instilling things
into Sophia's mind. Impress upon her"
here Egerton teapotted himself and with out?
stretched hand began to spout fluently-"im?
press upon her the tremendous importance of
marriage Tell her that marriage is tho sort
of thing that must be done, you know.
You can assure- her from me that it LS tre?
mendously important Azi'l you can tell her
that my experience is that it isn't so much mat?
ter whom you marry as the thing itselt Do
that, and the rest "?ill follow. Of course ?
was not speaking ofmyself quite, you know,
not altogether: for Carry is such a tremen?
dously nice giri that I don't hardly know that
I could have "ound another wife who would
have made mo so napp}'-at least, not with?
out a great deal of trouble, you know. But
I mean you are to impress on Sophia that, in
a general way, lt does not much matter whom
you marry. And then, if she won't seo it
well, I scarcely know what to advise." Tho
stream now became intermittent, and Egerton
be^an to show symptoms of wandering in his
mind. "I was reading some book latelj'
about a girl that would not morry somebody:
and what ber parents did was, the}' shut her
up in some tower somewhere, and kept her
on bread and water. But you see you have
no tower at the Beeches. St?l, you might
try the bread and water. It is wonderful
what diet does."
OJT flew our elderly little Venus once more,
chariot?! hither and thither on the errands
and the mischief of love. Soc knitted her j
brows, she made her little glovo finger tips
meet, she set a reflective mouth, and thus
she conned over tho state of her plans.
"Sibyl is to place before her the comforts
and tho advantages of wealth; Sibyl will do
it well. Archibald Goldmore is to press duty
upon her, and take ber on the ground of tho
fifth commandment. I can see him now
slow, solemn, parsonic. O, if I had time to
laugh over it, I should And Caroline will
work on her feelings; that will como best
from Car, who has not much feeling of her
own, because Sophia will reason: 'Well, if
Car thinks so, there must be something in it.'
Interest, obedience, affertion. Yet-, it is not
bad. And there is mon: to come. Sophia,
Sophia, I shall marry you, without a tower,
< r bread and water, eitherl Simply by tact, j
dear-by tact."
CHAPTER TV.
THE RECTOR Ai;KEES W?TIT MRS. TEMPLE. j
Her flying wheels next censed their swift |
revolutions at tho door of the rectory, and j
the little woman alighted with the step of
five-and-twenty. She shook her bead as she
marked bow the OTK-C brilliant flower beds lay
neglected, and the stone steps, once white as
porcelain, were turning green with neglect j
Dead leaves strewed the path; the blind of ?
the dining room window hung awry; what- j
ever she saw told her that the enchanter Gold
had wandered off with ht?? wand to other db- 1
mains, and that his successor, Poverty, had
already marked all things for his own.
"I should just like Sophia to see this piaf e.* i
our moralist said. "It would be a lesson for j
her." She spoke as solemnly as if she had
been the pensive and didactic Mr. Hervey
walking among bis tombs. "A few months
ago everything waa trim and shining with
money; now-and this is poverty, pions pov?
erty!" she said, with inexpressible scorn in
her face. "I hate poverty."
The door opened, and instead of the man
servant of other days, well clad, well brushed
and obsequious, there stood before her an ill
dressed girl, whose skirts, tucked up on one
side and loose on the other, told of work
hastily left Mrs. Barbara Temple noted the
red bare arra and the dirty finger nails-, she
lost sight of nothing, and all she saw turned
into a moral lesson.
! "I like to live," she thought; "but better be
dead than poor."
As she was going into the library a whiff
from the kitchen tickled her nostrils, but not
gratefully.
"Soup, I suppose," she murmured again.
"Well, I have not to eat it, so I need say noth?
ing!"
The. part she had here assigned herself was
none of the easiest, and she felt she must be
discreet and guard her lips. Mr. Brent ad?
vanced to meet her, and tried to put on his
old cheery smile, but the conspicuous failure
made the attempt more dismal than a plain,
honest sigh. Mrs. Barbara conversed with
her usual spirit and gaye ty for a few minutes,
until the question came naturally:
"Have you any news of jour son!"
"None since the vessel was last heard of,"
he answered. "At that time he was tolerably
well."
"I liked that young man," she said. "I
never regretted anything in my life more sin?
cerely than having to abandon the hope of
calling him a relation."
"Has your daughter abandoned iti" Mr.
Brent asked, with a faint smile.
''How k?n? of you!" she thought; "you
have said Just the word I wanted."
'.That question," she answered, "is one
which I cannot reply to as readily as I sbocki
Wish. "We know what young people are;
there is always a great deal of sentimentality
about them It amounts to nothing. In time
it wears off. While i\ lasts, however, it makes
their management difficult. Of course, yon
ore cf my opinion, feat the keeping up cf
this engagement, even in the remotest way,
would be injurious both to your son and to
my daughter. Ko good can ever come of it,
and the sooner it is finally settled the better
for both of them. Don't you think so?"
"I do," the poor clergyman replied.
He hod no spirit left Never a man cf in?
dependent will, he was now reduced to a
mere animated machine, worked in matters
of this-sort from the outside.
"My daughter has a wild romantic attach?
ment to your son," Mrs. Temple continued.
"Now you can help me to put an end to trna
affair. You only can pet an enid to it, but
you can do so."
"I can, can I?" he replied.
"Yes; tell Sophia that you do not approve
of it, and that you consider it ?k?ly t? be in?
jurious to Percival, which it surely w3l be.
Say with'perfect truth also-yon can-thal
you are tolerably certain that even if she re?
mained constant to him he would not remain
constant to ber.. Just fancy, Mr. Brent) a
young man at the mest impulsive' period af
life, thousands of miles away, and with nc
hopo of seeing her for years! Constant, in?
deed: Why, in a fairy tale it would be too
absurd to bo true!"
He sat before her, passive and receptive,
agreeing to everything, promising every?
thing. But indeed, if the proud Sibyl,- and
the inflexible Goldmore, and the intellectual
Caroline had bent to her will, little wonder
if our poor rector bent, too, broken as his
nerves and will were by the one terrible
storm of fate. Whenever she asked him, "Do
you think so?" he answered^ "I think so."
Whenever abe said, "Will yon say so to
Sophia?" he replied, "I will say so." And
thus she faced him, energetic, full of plot and
will, talking fast, and with frequent action
driving her meaning home. An onlooker
might have thought the scene a private mes?
meric experiment, and Mrs. Barbara Temple
the strong and resistless operator, and poor
Mr. Anthony Brent the helpless subject
around whose volition and reason another
mind was coiling itself in swift and powerful
folds.
"So," said our little mother, when this task
was done, "you are to set bofore Sophia the
facts of the case, and its probabilities. You
are to tell Sophia that Percival ought not to
marry her if he could, and that, in time, he
would not marry her even if he ought In?
terest, duty, affection, probability^ Sophia,
I shall hem you in, and force you to yield!"
CHAPTER V.
MRS. TEMPLE PLATS THE PART OF MRS.
SOBER.
Prendergast remained to be molded, and
our strategist took care to have an interview
with him before the great event of his pro?
posal come off. For this dialogue she as?
sumed a specially grave, not to say pious, air,
as she now rally understood Prendergast^
habit of mind.
"It is a serious matter," she said, in the
voice and face of her new character of Mrs.
Sober. ''Yes, marriage is a serious matter."
To this sentiment, of which the force, like
that of many a popular sermon, lay rather in
the delivery than in the matter, Prendergast
assented, and business began.
"You are going to propose to Sophia!" she
said, in confidential tones; for, indeed, they
had chatted the affair over several times.
MI am, with your permission."
"Very well. Are you above taking a binti"
-ehe parsed here, for the most engaging smile
made up of self-confidence, self-depreciation,
and a coquettish consciousness that all the
charms of her sex had not yet forsaken her
"are you above taking a hint from a withered
old woman f
"You must be going to take me to consult
some elderly friend of yours?" he answered,
with successful raillery.
"Capital, capital!" she cried, forgetting
Mrs. Sober, and clapping her hands. "Oh,
Prendergast, I do wish you would be more
like that all the day round! It becomes you
vastly! 0,1 should make something of you,
too-in time!"
Grave Prendergast could stand this no
longer. He burst into a laugh, which our
little mother merrily echoed, until she again
remembered that seriousness was her part
to-day. Turning as solemn as a Quakeress,
she asked:
"But, seriously, will you take a hint?"
"Seriously, from you I will take as many
hints as I get"
"Well, then, remember this: Sophia is a
girl whose bead is full of the idea of useful?
ness and activity, and being elevated, and
elevating others, and-you can finish tho
sentence better than I, for you hear more of
that sort of talk. I am not saying anything
against all that In its way, and at proper
times, it is very well; but I maintain, and al?
ways have done, that it is not the thing, a
woman should live for. ?Tuet fancy, my dear
Prendergast, what a whole world full of
serious people would bo! Serions people, and
nobody else! Really, I tiplieve you serious
people would want a few of us sinners back to
tickle you a little I But this is not my business.
We must take Sophia as she is. She has not
grown up in the way I expected, but she is n
go*.<l girl, and amiable. When sfutll I get
back to my point? Sophia, then, being so
full of these notions of service and aspiration
?nd duty, and all the rest, in proposing to
her you must fiddle 6u that string-I mean,"
?-aid Mrs. Sober, withdrawing this rather
flippant form of speech, "you must let her
know that such is your view of lifo also. It
is. is it not?"
"lt is," Prendergast answered, divided!
ffriWf between sincerity and: amusement at tho
singular little idol that chattered away before
bim.
'Th. n be careful you let Sophy know hV
And, Prendergast, bc careful, tc-", that you
tell Sophy that you have a work in iife-I
suppose you har?-and that she is tho woman
that ran help you to perform it Present
yourself before Sophia in that form, as aman
who has a work to do-such a -w ork as she
would approve of; such a work as she would
do herself if she could. Tell her sho can give
you strength, guidance and all that sort of
thing. This Ls the way such a girl must be
carried. We none of us like ? to be thought
mere dolls, dressed for your drawing rooms,
?nd, least of all, do girls like Sophia like it
Tell her j'ou will go through the world lean?
ing on her, as they do in pictures, half sup?
porting, half reclining. Tell her that you
w?l draw inspiration from her eyes and from
her character, and thenSophi^ is yours. 0,
? wish I had been a man, just to teach the
rest how to propose to us!''
"Well, Mrs. Temple," Prendergast said, re?
pressing his smiles with no small difficulty,
"there is a great deal in what you say. And
I can assure you that whatever woman I pro?
posed to, or thought I should wish to propose
to, I should meditate something of the kind."
"If you really mean it," she said, "it will
come a great deal better. It always does."
"Surely you would not have me say what I
did not mean?*
"Fudge, Prendergast, to put it in that way I
In love making we are not understood to
mean what we say. Ko moro than a monarch
on the stage is understood to mean what he
says when he promises to bestow kingdoms on
people. (He has two rooms meanwhile, which
he means to keep to himself.) But in this
particular case, ii you do mean it, why, of
course, you will say it with more emphasis.
Ah, dear me," she added, resolved to efface
the impression of her flippancy, "I daresay
you are right, Prendergast, after all, and we
wrong. But the world ? so pleasant, ono
can't help loving lt."
She sighed this out so naturally that Pren?
dergast reflected that there must be good in
this merry old pagan after all,' and he pleased
himself with the thought that, before she de?
parted from human life she might rise to a
higher mood and confess her follies. So our
little mother showed admirable tact, for she
gave the finishing touch to her pupil, and
when bidding him good-by, she asked:
"Now, Prendergast, will you say exactly
what I have* told youi"
He answered:
"I will, exactly."
CHAPTER VT.
MES. TEMPLE REVIEWS HER CONDUCT.
The labors of the day were over. The
whole assault had been planned. In her bed?
room Mrs. Barbara Temple sat like a general
in his tent the sight before' the battle. She
was reviewing Her forces, measuring their
strength, settling the order in which they
should advance.
"It is important, however Sophia may af?
fect to despise it, that Prendergasfs wealth,
and what it will dt-for hei?,- should be put be?
fore her fairly. I can trust Sibyl for that;
no one would manage it better than ?roy!"
She paused as her first company passed
mentally before her to the battle The ar?
ray satisfied her. Then the fixed on Cie next.
"Duty-obedience. Sophia" has always
laid great stress on these, and not in affecta?
tion either. 0, no, she means what she says.
Well, I think when Goldmore talks to her
about a parents authority-I think it w?l
move her."
And so the second company marched past
under the general's approving eyes. Num?
ber three came in view.
"Her affection for me is genuine Dear
girl!" the little mother said, with a warming
of her heart, "she does love mel Well, what
then? I love her, and I ara doing the best for
her. When Caroline tells her that tins mar?
riage will ! satisfy me and make me happy, I
believe she w?l yield. And Car w?l do that
for me, and do it effectively. Ob, yes; I trust
Car.".
And so company three went by, and was
approved. Which was number four? Yes,
she remembered.
"I wonder w?l Mr. Brent bear in mind
what I told him? I think I shall drop him a
line to refresh his memory and to bind him to
secrecy. If he manages well he might ac?
complish more than any ; but he may blunder
-nay, he is the sort cf marr who w?l blunder
if he can."
And so, warned by a little frown from the
commander, company four went by. Com?
pany five-Oh, well she knew it; with this
she was to conquer.
"Prendergast-Prendergast; ho is nry main?
stay after olL 0,- yes; he w?l touch Sophia
at the very heart And he w?l say all I wish
There is one thing about these serious people:
they are half deceiving themselves and half
deceiving others, and so they assume a most
valuable appearance of earnestness. Now, I
could not, to save my life, pretend to be in?
terested in being useful; but I suppose I
should be more telling in serious society if I
could. Prendergast will sermonize about op?
portunity and duty, and Sophia will listen,
just as she listens at church-I can see her
now-and the woman who listens to a suitor
liko Prendergast ia-married J"
And so the whole army was reviewed; the
forces were irresistible; stroke after stroke,
Sophia would be conquered at last
"And now let me see," the littler mother
continued, throwing herself back in her chair
ms she pondered her own responsibility in the
transaction, "I am a worldly woman ; I am
making a match for my daughter winch is
worldly wise-nothing more and ?othfeig
less; I am doing all ? fairly can to urge her
to this marriage, pressing her on by every
means in my power. Well, am I wrong?
Why, even on the showing of good people or
romantic people I am marrying her to a man
vrhp is in every way likely to make her happy,
although she may cot yet acknowledge it.
He is good, upright and kind. And fhen cV
my showing I am giving her a position in so?
ciety, snatching her from a mistaken engage?
ment, from years of waiting which aro sura
to end in solitary disappointment dr in wodi
dod poverty. Give ino for my daughters a
life well carpeted, well cushioned, well fur?
nished, well dressed, and my head for it if in
ten years1 time they are not the first to say to
the old mother: 'You were right, after aU.'
Yes, the gocd people talk about doing right
and not pleasing yourself; I do right-and
please myself, too. Sophy, Sophy, to-morrow
night you w?l be engaged to Prendergast.. 1
shall have done it; I have done it already.
And if you drop a few romantic tears-why;
tears are soon wiped off; but wealth, fortune,
position-these remain frote day to day, and
from year to year, and these make Hie,- let
saints and poets say what they please."
So having settled matters with her con?
science in this frank and fearless way, our
little mother laid her down to sleep; and she
slept that light, semi-conscious slumber com?
mon with those who know that upon the com?
ing day a great triumph shall be theirs.
CHAPTER VU
THE STAGE ttAXAGER FINISHES EX? DAY'S
WORK.
By what complicated mechanism Mrs. Bar?
bara Temple arranged aU that happened on
this day I must not tell The description of
her successive artifices would fill a volume.
Enough to spy that she had settled the
speeches, the times, the persons, the places ic
every particular; the day was, indeed, occu?
pied with thc production of the drama of the
spider and the fly, and the powerful effects,
tho incidents, tho plots, the traps in thtJ
stage, thc rising and falling of the curtain,
all wore done at the instance of that re?
nowned dramatic authoress and stage man?
ager, Mrs. Barbara Temple. Having said
this, I shall without another syllable of ex?
planation tell you what happened. All that
need l>e said, and this only for explanation,
is that she contrived without any suspicious
coincidences to bring each of her subordin?
ates into contact with Sophia between
morning and evening of one day, and that
tho day when-still by her arrangement
Prendergast was to make his proposal. If I
were to follow oil the windings of this day,
tho shirtings of some from p?rico tb place, it
would be very tedious ; and after nil, what is
my object? First, to declare tho foresight
and contrivance of our little mother; and
secondly, to show how poor Sophia was en?
vironed with motives all impelling her to
break faith with Percival Brent. These ends
can be fufty attained by thy simple record of
certain fragments of dialogue which bore"
upon the great event of that memorable day.
I. SIBYL AND SOPHIA-MONEY VS. LOVE."
"Beliove mc. Sophy, marriage fe a lottery;
I don't think after a mouth is orer love makes
much difference."
Sibjd said this after the mention of young
Brents name. She was reclining on a sofa,
looking very beautiful, but cold, proud and
with plain tokens of disappomtment amidst
aU her disdain.
"I cant believe that," Sophia replied. "You
did not always think so yourself.''
"I wo? hot married then," Sibyl answered;
"I am new."
It was on the tip of Sophia's tongue to say:
"If a girl of twenty-two marries a man of
fifty-three, is her view of marriage to- be
taken ns the true one?"
Sophia did not mean, you may be sure, to
ask this home-thrusting question in any taunt?
ing way, but quietly and reasonably. She'
felt, however, that such a question must be'
hurtful to her sisters feelings, and said noth?
ing at aft. This led Sibyl to believe that her
argument was taking effect
"Sophia," she said, in a stern way alto?
gether her own, "marry Prendergast He is
wealthy, good looking, and his tastes are like
yours. Now ask yourself, are you not mora
likely to be happy with such a m^rj, more
likely to have your own way and please your?
self, than with young Percival? Percival
may forget you. If he remembers you, he
may be unable to marry you. If he marries
you, he may disappoint you as a husband.
Jost consider the number of chances which
have all to come right before you have any
certainty with him! And here is a m***? ol
whom every one of your friends approves,
and whom you admit you respect yourself,
making you an offer which I call a Bp'endid
one. Oh, Sophy, you can't refuse bimi If
you did," Sibyl said, growing more, and more
convinced even by her own argument, "you
would be silly beyond expression. You won't
disappoint us ali, Sophy; you can't-I knoH
you can'tl"
a ARCHIBALD ??OXDMORE A?n> SOPHIA,
PRUDEI?C? Vt LO VS
"My dear Sophia," Goldmore said, tairai
her hand and speaking to ber In a grave,
fatherly way, and with intentions that were
unmistakably kind, "I wish to say a few
words to you about my friend Prendergast"
Poor Sophia turned red and pale almost ia
the same instant A lecture from Sibyl was
a trifle compared to this.
/
ARCHIBALD OOLD5?CTO1
"I have known bim more or less intimately
for years," the* elephantine magnat** contin?
ued. He talked as If he was dictating a testi?
monial. "Amore upright, honorable man does
not breathe. He is charitable and humane to
a fault Believe me, Sophia, I would not
open my Hps to you on the subject if I did
not in ray soul believe that Prendergast will
make you truly a happy woman, and that he
is worthy ot you. I con say nothing more in
his praise."
Sophia began to cry, not knowing whfcre to
turn, and Goldmore, taking upon himself al?
most unconsciously the paternal relation,
gentry p?tted her on the shoulder. Indeed, it
seemed ag if affairs hod only to be pushed a
little further for him to bestow upon her a
paternal kiss.
"MaAy Prendergast, Sophia." G-o?dmore
continued, repeating miawares his wife's con?
cise counsel. "Yon are of course free from
all engagement to young Percival Brent
Remember, I have not a word to say of that
young fellow but praise. Under the aus?
picious circumstances of your original en?
gagement I considered it a ?appy event
And even when he left England, I thought
perhaps things might turn out well for you
both. Snfca then I have"-hero he reflected
on the interview with Mrs. Temple and her
charges to him-"since then I have thought
things over, Sophia, and I feel you ought to
be-prudent"
"Prudent!" "prudent!" It was the word
that bad been rung in the poor girl's ears
until she was ready to scream at the sound of
it
"And besides, Sophia," Goldmore con?
tinued, "your mother wishes it I am far
from saying that any girl is bound; to con?
sider even he? parents in a matter so nearly
concerning -her personal happiness; but
Sophia, when the mac is so very desirable,
and when a parent's will is so very strongly
expressed, I think a dutiful character like
yours w?l^-wi? weigh tba matter; Sophia!"
Sophia was really broken down now and
sobbing piteously; and Goldmore, who would
not have wounded her without cause on any
consideration, judged that these tears were
shed over the final wrench from Percival
Brent.
"You are naturally agitated, dear girl," h*
went on, in his three-syllable stylo of speech.
"You are a sympathetic nature, and you
regret your ?ato engagement You are one
of those women who are always delicate in
your dealings with our sex-more delicate
perhaps than most of us deserve. But, now
that the thing is done, every hour your sor?
row will tffrrifhish and your future will grow
brighter. Don't cry any more. Sophia; you
are acting prudently, and yon have obeyed
your parent"
1H. CAROLINE ?i??D SOPHIi4>=T,0>F TR ?OV?
"Mind, Sophy," Car said, "if Prendergast
was an elderly man, like Goldmore,-1 >ould
not have bad yon marry him, not if he could
have heeled your boots with diamonds. Dont
you see how dull Sibyl is? It is nothing in
the world but that she is tired of that old fel?
low. Kow you may not think Egerton very
clever or witty, but I assure y?if h? is a capi?
tal husband, and I have grown fonder of hun
than I could have believed. I would not see
you so moped as Sibyl, not if mamma were
to go on ter knees to us. But really, Sophia,
Prendergast is more than parable; he is very
agreeable*."
"Well, but being agreeable does not malte
you love a man," Sophia ventured t? say.
"No." Car answered readily; "but when a
mans character is such as you approve, and
when his position and prospoets aro good, and
when he is agreeable ia addition, yen are
safer in marrying htm-safer, do you hear,
Sophy?-than "you would bo in marrying af?
ter the most romantic of courtships."
Sophia was silent before Cars reasonable
assertion. ,
"Besides, Sophy"-now she came to her
special appeal-"mamma is quite in terror
lest you should refuse Prendergast. Sha has
taken such a f aucy to him. With his serious
ways one would hardly have erpected that;
but so it is. Prendergast will bo making
mamma a saint one of these days if he enters
the family-he has such an influence over her.
It was not altogether fair to Car to hold
out such a motive to her sister. She well
knew how Sophia bewailed her mother's in?
fatuated worldliness; and how, fe her gentle,
daughterlike way, she was always trying to
make her mother less of a pagan and a
mocker. This one sentence of , Car's told
more with Sophia than all that had boen
said to her before. She was in that melan?
choly mood wheu women, and men, too, often
make lifo-long sacrifices at tho bidding of
religion What if Prendergast did really
make her mother in her lart day* ? botter
and a wiser woman! She sighed, and looked
up at Car receptively.
"-To doubt of it,*' Car said, in a- kind of re?
ply to her sister's glane*?. -'Mamma will be
the happiest woman in Krv?r."w?d if you marry
bim. And she has been a kind mother to us>
and we ought to please her ff we can. And,
besides, as I said, he may really bo useful to
mamma, she thinks so much of him."
Divided was Soph ia's heart, and her loyaf
will was shaken whsn sho left her sister. WhO
could stand such a succession of argument
and appeal? or, if we choosy to bring in a new
metaphor, what citadel cof?ld resist such a
number of battering rams, mai>aged by that
eminent pagan military engineer, Mrs. Bar?
bara Temple? Yes; ?Sophia was feeding tho
weakness of ber sex: UJfaint,77 yield.'1
IV. EGERTON AND SOPHIA-IDiOC-Y VS. LOVE.
As ^itb sad st^ps she was walking down
the avenue, she was startled by the appari?
tion of Egerton, who suddenly appeared,
peeping over tho top of a bolly bush: Ho
glanced apprehensively round, Hke a paid
assassin in a tragedy, and then, coming round}
the hoHy bash with long secret Tarquin
strides, he advanced to Sophia's side.
"Como here," he said, in an ewful whisper.
And he returned behind the holly btfch as
ho came forth. Sophia did? not know what to
thiitk;btit, waiving his manner in ber esti?
mate of the position, she came'to the concliK
sion that ho had got a hedgehog, or some'
other natural curiosity which he wished her
to inspect; so she followed him. No sooner
waa she at his side than, with thro or fou*
more? furtive gisnoe?, he stooped to bet lr,
and, in a whisper of the profoundest caution,
mid:
"Sophi**" take my advice, and go and gel
married It's an awfully nice thing. Toa
may take tt from me that it is not so mach?
matter wham you marry a? the thing it?
Mit Do that, -and-' iB fha re*: wffl follow.
Dont let out to aay ono that I told you."
And thea, with an air of secrecy which
was frightfully suggestive, a sd the same
long and ghostly strides, he made for the
> house, leaving her to resume her path aa best
she might
V. TH* BIT. ACTEKMfY 3tSt?ttf AKD SOPHIA
-DESFOSTDENCY VS. LOVE.
"Miss Temple," the clergyman' said, .with a
melancholy air, not the least feigned, a>
though, by casting a gloom over his conver?
sation, it greatly furthered Hrs. Barbara
?*empW? *adir "times have changed, .changed
indeed. I had a letter from my ?on two days
aga"
Few that good little heart leaped to hear
Jti Percival ! he seemed near her once again,
and she would be strengthened now,
"How ia Percivair she asked gently;
.Pretty well," th? rector replied; "tolerably
weil, I may say. But be writes in bad spirits.
Little wonder; his prospects are very uncer?
tain. I dont think he will ever return to
England."
"He meant to come 'back wlen he left,"
poor Sophia said, turning eiak at heart after
her ?ttle gush of pleasure
"That I know,." the rector answered, in the
same downcast tone. "But bis intention wfij
charge, if it has not changed already. Per?
cival has to mee a life of struggle. I was
very glad to find that you and he had quite
broken off from each other."
"We wanted to act prudently," the poor
girl ? ?ld. 0, how delighted she would have
been had the rector, in the remotest way, rec?
ognised that aa understanding existed be?
tween them!
"It was prudent,? he continued, "To you
such a thing could only have meant bondage
and disappointment; and to him--well,
Sophia, greatly as I like you, I dont really
think Percival would have been so likely to
prosper had he been still engaged to you,"
"I could not bear the thought of injuring
lum," the poor thing said. Sile was on the
edge of a flt of crying, but Mr. Brent, never
a man of observation, and now quite occu?
pied with bis own cares, did not notice her
agitation. . .
"I toa sure of that," he replied "Of course
that is why you so wholly detached yourself
from him. It is better for both of you. Per?
ci val, as you know, has returned to the man
with whom he resided when his health was
delicate This man-Warren-is getting ad?
vanced in life, and wanta a helper m bis buri'
ness. Percival, I have no doubt, wfll get
that iappointment, for they are very fond of
him-that is, I mean Warren and his daugh?
ter are very fond of hun,"
"Mr. Warren he? a daughter, then V Sophia
| asked.
"Yes, he ls a widower, and she is his oar/
child. I think-indeed, ? know-that she was
rather soft on Percy when he lived there. In
fact, one or two rather unnecessary letters j
followed him to England. I laughed then; j
; now 1 cairne* but think that if Percival man?
ages the business well, and gets into the old
mans good books, and-and marries little
Bessie, as he used to call her-"
"He called her little Bessie, did her Sophia
inquired
"Little Bessie-that was her name," the rec?
tor answered. "He always called her that
j It meant nothing, of coursa Yon see, they
were a great deal together, and Percival says
that in the colonies people are not so stiff as
we are in England. ' He used to say he liked
colonial manners. Well, to return-if he
marries Bessie it might be a nit? thing for
him. Indeed, lt will be his solitary chance ia
life." .
It was a sore, an aching heart that lay in
Sophitis gentle breast as she and her mother
drove home, The poor girl had not the
smallest suspicion that her mother had ar?
ranged all these nice little thunderclaps; but
even had she known it, the knowledge could
not hare brunted the dreadful edge of the
rector's communication. However power?
ful her own friends hod argued, they could
not have affected ber as Mr. Brent had done;
It seemed as if the father spoke for his son.
It sounded like a message from the lover him?
self, saying "Let us part" And in the mists
of her fears and doubts the figure of Bessie
Warren rose before her, at Percys side, see
\ lng him day by day, at the head of the house?
hold of which he was to be a member,
wealthy, and fond of Percy-known to him
by a pet familiar name; What chance had
she agednst thin fatal Bessie Warren?
Little Mia Barbara Temple was no tyrant,
and would not have inflicted any useless pain
on her daughter. She saw Sophia ont of the
side of her eyes as they drove home, and
marked her misery, and felt really sorry for
her,- but it was sorrow such as a humane sur?
geon feste for the shrinking patient on whom
he is about to operate; it was all for Soph ."? s
good. These tears would flow and then be
gone, aid after the dread and the operation,
and the shrinking and the crying, there would
be the world-the bright, prosperous world,
wealth, fashion, ease, respect-all that station
can secure and money can buy. O, no doubt
of it I she was acting the part of a wise moth?
er; and JO, quenching her last misgiving, Mrs.
Barham Temple made ready, for the final,
the winning stroke in her grand matrimonial
gama
{TO 2E CONTINUED.]
sr- .'.-i,:_;_j
What ?ur Editors Say*
Wilmington Star.
The Chadstone Ministry was defeated
by thirty majority oh tbs second read?
ing of tie Home K??e billi It bad been
clearly foreshadowed that this would be
the result. The illustrious Prime Min?
ister was slaughtered in the bouse of his
supposed friends. We would be glad
to see him resign and thus throw all of
the difficulties of governing upon the
Tories and traitorous Liberals. He
may however prefer to have Parliament
dissolved and appeal to th? country in
a new election. We are glad to cee
him standing and falling by his grand
measure of justice and right. He rode
to hie death, but he went tige a fought
of old with steady lance and undaunted j
heart. ~=
Spartar&?rg Herald, '
The great Free Trade Club of South
Carolina held.a meeting in Columbia on
June 2nd. It is this organization, al?
leged to be seventy strong, which pro?
posed to enlighten the State and whip
congressmen into submission to their
views. At their summer meeting there
were nine members present. The
Greenville News suggests tb*fc as the
club, as a Free Trade Club, does not
seem to be an effective body, and as it
has the proper number, it had best re?
organize for base ball purposes. The
ridiculous insignificance of this move?
ment proves that absolute Free Trade is
an exploded theory of the past, even in
South Carolina. If Tariff Reform had
been their slogan cry they would have
rallied nure support and eseited fess
ridicule. We don't want Free Trade,
it would ?nrfag us absolute bankruptcy.
We stand squarely on thc Democratic
platform. We want a Tariff for reve?
nue sufficient to support a government
economically acm 'mistered, and so ad?
justed aa to promote industries which
need encouragement. Absolute pro?
tection is robbery ; absolute Free Trade
insanity. -
We Take it all Back?
Edprfield Advertiser.
The Columbia Register thinks we did
it injustice ra classing it with free
trader?, and says that it stands exactly
whefc Senator Butler does on the ques?
tion. We certainly were of the ?im?
pression that both the Register and the
Ntrcs and Courter were advocating free :
trade, bat we are glad fbat we were mis
tukeo, and that we still retain oar good ?
friends of the Register in the sheepfold;
of Democracy- sad common sense. We .
are all for a tariff for revenue only j:
bat as a tariff for revenue only always
protects something, we call it tariff for:'
revenue only, with incidental protection..
'Absolute free trade,* as is so tersely ex?
pressed by another, is 'absolute insanity.'"
The Approaching Campaign,
Pee Dee Index.
It is to be regretted that the time -is*
near at band' for another political carn*
paign. That the frequency of popular'
elections is a national evil, can no
longer be questioned. No right thinks
ing citizen contemplates- &e approach
of the. compaigo without unpleasant an?
ticipations. The animosities, enmities,
prejudices and slanders which are co
gendered or get a S?st in the heat of po?
litical feeliDg are drstrscting to basrcesa*
confidence^aod demoralizing to society.
Much of tb? might and should bo
avoided.
It is humilfet-iag to observe hoir com-,
pletely political bias estranges persona!'
friends, and very frequently transforms
them into bitter enemies* The philos?
ophy of this is that they allow their
passions to get the better cf their judge?
ment Honest differences should never
cause men to fall out, and ordinarily
they do not, except in porkies. By
taking thought along this line now, st'
the very threshold of the campaign, may
not passions, be bridled and much un
pleasantness avoided? Let issues be
discussed calmly and dispassionately,
and let men be nominated and elected
whose arguments appeal to and convince
our judgment. He who tries to cursy.'
favor by pandering popular prejudices
to the sacrifice of principles, is a dem?
agogue, and is unSt to represent an in?
telligent people.
The Theological Seminary. .
Columbia Record.
Columbians naturally feel an interest"
in the question whether the Theological
Seminary here will actually be closed in?
consequence of of the action taken by
the Presbyterian General Assembly.
That the discussion of the scientific
qu.stion of evolution should have this
result would be a matter of general re?
gret, on account of the interest wbioh
all the people of this city feel in that in?
stitution, to say nothing of the unplea?
sant appearance of an intention to "rule'
or ruin" on the part of. those who pro?
pose such action.
The origin of Adam's body is a sub-*
j?ct in which all human beings ba ve?
an equal interest-an interest which-,
they plainly manifest whenever
the subject is mentioned. There?
fore, and because it was taken ap?
ia connection with that other equally in- J
teresting and more important subjectT
revealed religion, the publie have taken
a constant interest in the discussion over
the Woodrow theory of evolution, and
have looked anxiously for the result.
It was pleasant to many to know tha*
Dr. Woodrow had suggested-a way of
reconciling what seemed to be a con?
tradiction between science and Scripture,,
and that way was simply to acknow?
ledge that we may have been mistaken
in our interpretation of the latter. \
Of coarse every one would not for
willing at ence to make this acknow?
ledgment, especially among the dottors
and professors of theology, and there--^~
fore some controversy was to be expect?
ed. But we confess to some surprise at
the course taken by the General Assem?
bly in condemning and seetereefng Dr.
Woodrow pending his trial, and in lend?
ing the weight of its influence io favor
of closing the. Columbi? Seminar/
where be is professor.
Effects of No Licen?tf.
Picken* Sentinel.
A most thoughtful and earefal obger-*
ver, a citizen of ?conee Ccnsty says
that Pickens Conn ty certa?sly is th er
best example in the United States of
the good effects of no Usense systemv
He koew so many men ic this county'
that had quit the use of whiskey entire?
ly, since its sale had been forbidden by
law, and however great may have been
the trial to them as individuals they no*
doubt rejoiced in the changer;
We urd not eo well prepared to speak'
in regard to the other towns in this
county, but under the license law, the?
streets of this town used to echo with
profanity from the lips of men who call'
themselves gentlemen ; but now if
there is one such, it is said to his credit,
that he is heartily ashamed every timer,
he make? thc mistake.
Those in the country who are stiff
obliged, from habit, to use a little
whiskey, gracefully submit to the incon?
venience and trouble necessary to pro?
cure it, for the sake .of having snares'
and pitfalls removed from the youthrur
and the unwary. Viewed in a social,
morai, political or religfows light, how
infinitely preferable is this, to what We'
were wont to endure.
Greenville News.
The Free Trade Club had a very
small meeting in Columbia on Wednes?
day bot there was dissension. An in?
fluential element wanted to change the
name of thc organization to the 4'Tariff
Reform" association, and Presideat J.
J. Dargan opposed it vigorously.
Col. Dargan rs right. Men an?
Clubs should show their colors and teli
what and who they are z?? what they
are trying to do. If free trade is their
purpose they should say so, whether
.they intend to achieve that purpose im?
mediately OT by gradsai approaches i
Tariff reformers who fa Vor stopping
tariff reform anywhere short of Free
Trade have no business in a Free
Trade Club. They ought to come out
of it and join the Democratic party, the
spirit of which is for the tariff for
revenue doctrine of Thomas Jefferson.
As the Free Trade Club is sp??s, ?S .
ought to divide. We have already indi?
cated the proper course for the fariff re?
form part of it. The Free Trade sec?
tion can continue to amuse itself by
clinging to the tail of the Democratic
elephant and persevering in the^attempfc
to dr*w him through a rat. hole.
- There h no back down in Dargan
He believes he is right, and while ho*
so believes he will hold bis ground andi
fight if he has to do it alone. Bight or
Wrong he is a man, every inch of nita~
straightout and straightforward-game
to the backbone and true as steel. Her v
fights and loves with his whole heart* -iW?g.