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"Doctor Beaugarcon is my mother's fourth cousin." Juno now took most unwisely, as it proved a vindictive turn at me. "I knew that your friend, Mr. Mayrant, was intemperate," she began. I don't think that Mrs.
"I fancy, sir, that Doctor Beaugarcon knows what he is talking about." "Have they apologized yet?" inquired the male honeymooner from the up-country. "My nephew, sir, nobly consented to shake hands this afternoon. He did it entirely out of respect for Mr.
"That Mayrant chap will do," he declared; and we composed ourselves for a proper entrance into the sitting room, where the introductions had been made, and where Doctor Beaugarcon and Mrs. Braintree's husband had already fallen into war reminiscences, and were discovering with mutual amiability that they had fought against each other in a number of battles.
Mayrant's family, who coerced him into this tardy reparation, and who feel unable to recognize him since his treasonable attitude in the Custom House." "Must be fairly hard to coerce a chap you can't recognize," said the Briton. An et cetera now spoke to the honeymoon bride from the up-country: "I heard Doctor Beaugarcon say he was coming to visit you this evening." "Yais," assented the bride.
For there was Doctor Beaugarcon when we came into the sitting-room, who told us before any one could even say "How-do-you-do," that Miss Hortense Rieppe had broken her engagement with John Mayrant, and that he had it from Mrs. Cornerly, whom he was visiting professionally.
But I did not go to sleep smiling; listening to the "Ode for the Daughters of Dixie" had been an ordeal too truly painful, because it disclosed live feelings which I had thought were dead, or rather, it disclosed that those feelings smouldered in the young as well as in the old. Doctor Beaugarcon didn't have them he had fought them out, just as Mr. Braintree had fought them out; and Mrs.
But upon learning from the poetess that her ode was now to be read aloud, Doctor Beaugarcon paid his fourth cousin's daughter a brief, though affectionate, visit, lamenting that a very ill patient should compel him to take himself away so immediately, but promising her presently in his stead two visitors much more interesting. "Miss Josephine St.
We should have taken the hint which tactful Doctor Beaugarcon had meant, I began to believe, to give us in that whispered remark of his. But it had been given too lightly, and so we sat and heard the ode out.
He was at length made to see that circumstances forbade any breach between his family and that of the other young man. John held back who would not, after such an insult? but Miss Josephine was firm, and he has promised to call and shake hands. My cousin, Doctor Beaugarcon, assures me that the young man's injuries are trifling a week will see him restored and presentable again." "A week?
Mayrant had really concealed the discovery of his fortune," she continued, "I asked Miss Josephine in a perfectly nice way, of course. But old Mr. St. Michael Beaugarcon, who has always had the estate in charge, did that. It is only a life estate, unless Mr. Mayrant has lawful issue. Well, he will have that now, and all that money will be his to squander."
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