A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Second

By this time Beaton was in possession of one of those other selves of which we each have several about us, and was again the laconic, staccato, rather worldlifi

ular uncertainty to the few objects, the dim pictures, the unexcited upholstery, of the rooms. One breathed free of bric-a-brac there, and the new-comer breathed softly as one does on going into church after service has begun. This might be a suggestion from the voiceless behavior of the man-servant who let you in, bu

a table put crosswise of a remote corner, and offered tea to people whom a niece of hers received provisionally or sped finally in the outer room. They did not usually take tea, and when they did they did

ee you," she said. "I wa

Did they re

are in town-yes. I

, with her cleverness, and poor Mrs. Leighton? I was afraid they

somewhere. Miss Leighton

m up. Do you kno

moment. I ca

New York as they've done! I really didn't think they would. I won

know," sa

uppose you did, too. But it's quite useless trying to make peo

that he had really discouraged the Leightons from coming to New York. Perha

en they won't understand, and rush on their doom,

ded interest of her remark, and then rose with renewed vigor in gre

remembered them when it suited his whim or his convenience; but he fiercely resented the inattentions of others toward himself. He had no scruple about breaking an engagement or failing to keep an appointment; he made promises without thinking of their fulfilment, and not because he was a faithless person, but because he was imaginative, and expected at the time to do what he said, but was fickle, and so did not. As most of hi

im. While we are still young we do not realize that our actions have this effect. It seems to us that people will judge us from what

ore and his wife at the restaurant where he dined, and he got it of the painter for himself. He did not ask him how Miss Leighton was getting on; but Wetmore launched out, with Alma for a tacit text, on th

on behalf of her sex

d better be home milking the cow

two in the morning at balls and going

t, even if she weren't drawing. You k

es

s that they're all woman. If they weren't, there wouldn't be much chance for the men, Beaton. But we've got Providence on our own side from the start. I'm able to watch all

o are married already?" his wife said. She

ught to get

o take their money if that

have a wife

n. "Do you mean that Miss Leight

the kind that bends; she

rs. Wetmore asked, "Won'

Beat

no. I have a

nt you," said Wetmore. "But you al

impulse of conscience, of curiosity, of inclination, in going to call at the Leightons'. He asked fo

feel authorized to stay it, till Mrs. Leighton, by studied avoidance of her daughter's name, obliged Beaton to ask for her. Then Miss Woodburn caught up her work, and said, "Ah'll go and tell her, Mrs. Leighton." At the top of the s

-who

iful eyes, and he wea's his hai' in a bang, and he talks En

reamy tone. She put her hand on the stai

to go raght down if you want to save the poo' fella