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[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] THE SCOTTISH POMPADOUR,
NEIL MUNRO: (Author of "John Splendid," "The Daft Days, sto.).
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 7x1, 1910. the Capital-Prevost and Chateau, Chelmonski | You have not told me yut if I may hope," the Napoleonis painter, Paul Deloarade the poet; said the Fompadour to her in a tender under- half a dozen women of the most impeccable tone, "and we lisporso in less than twenty repute, and among them Mathilde de Laugan { minutes" with her ponderous mother, who was overjoyed to think that after yours of fruitless strategy, she was likely to find an eminently eligible son in-law in Lord Balgowie,
"Hush," the interrupted, with an impetu as jewelled hand upon his knes Your friend has his eye on us! That man makes me afraid he looks so cold, so supercilions! I hate to have a man regard me so, who is convulsed with inside laughter as you say; he looks more like a consolence than a human
The girl was altogether lovely, exquisitely moulded, in the delicions gush of health and youthfulness, a miracle of grace with an aspect that recalled the pictures of Italian madonncretary!
brow benign and calm, a little touder month designed rather for prayer than for kissing, eyes purple black, profound as wells and prone to an alluring ponsiveness,
Le Pompadour cat a glance across the room to the chair from which his secretary was at the moment, sammened by a whispered message from the manager af the restaurant.
Several years ago there was no figare more conspicuous on the boulevards of Paris at the fashionable hour than that of the dandy called Le Pompadour Ecossais by the journals. He had what will command attention any where, but most of all in Paris-the mould of an Apollo, & tailor of genina, the money of
They reached St. Germain; stabled the horses, Monte Cristo, and above all, Mystory. In the speech
of this tall, dark, and sobor visaged ex-lunched upon the terrace that looks widely overIt is his humour to put the follise of fashion quisite there was no hint of a foreign nationality. the plain of Faris obsequions, silent sorvants His French was perfect his items were cor rootly abosen; only his tile, Lord Balgowie, and hang about the tables food and banter, wine ingly analytical as a lens."
and laughter, fruit and flowers ongazed the a foible for the use of the chequered stuff his company as it sat between the parterres, under countrymem call tartan, in his waistcoats, pre-wnings, and apart a little looking on with oyes claimed that he was a Soot. That he should elect to spend his time in Paris seemed but natural to that gleamed at times with furtive and malicious the boulevardiere, it is the only place for young gentlemen of spirit and the essential-cash but why should ha food himself like an anchorite while he surfeited his friends P why, with such a gay exterior should be allied a mid so sober, private character so blameless and austere These problems exercised the speculations of the cafe tables all the summer.
entertainment, eat the secretary
"That is a singular man of yours, Milord," remarked Mathilde, who sat beside the Pompad one. I have never seen him smile bat in derision."
"Heissma
with a peculiar sense of humour," said the Pompadour, regarding her with gravely tender eyes, I should not be surprised if the whole interior of that apparently saturnias boly is at this moment rambling with laughter.”
"Vraiment What should he be laughing at?" asked the lady whose judicions mother with discreet consideration sought a wicker
In the Rue Adolphe Yven, one of the most exolusive and expensive streets in Paris, near anough to the Bois de Boulogne to be con venient for morning exercise, but far enough removed to be without the surge and roar of the tides of life that buat there in the after-chair, screened herself with a quite un
Decesary sun-shade, and prepared to nap. noons, the Pompadour Ecossais had a zan!
"At what he must think the folly of of my sion like a palace, where he entertained the guest for pleasure. He is, you know, my fashionable world with the aid of a cook whe countryman, and the happy-starred among us seomed possessed of magis powers to startle find content and joy in the very cheapest, and delight, a a wine-collar incredibly.com simplest entertainment. The cost of of those prehensive, and a retinue of servante such a towers alone, perhaps he calculates at this The Freadient of the Republic Limself could moment, would anffice to keep his mother a he dined with all the grandiose formality of Localius; if he paironised a restaurant le must have his pricate cabinet and a menu unbelier
speaking ho ingly extravagant. But strictly nover dined alone, either in the tue
not.command. If he died at his house alofortigit has he got a mother?" said the
lady airily. To look at that ragged form and the square hard countenance, I would have thought he had been chipped from granite. But I hope the dear mother is not really hungry. Do Yvon, Voisin's or Paillard's, ho was invariably you know her" accompanied by s follow-countryman, who was
"I am privileged to read her letters once a his accretary or companion, a fellow saturnine wack," said the Pompadour. and cynical, who ate natural the autophost" That must be must rising while master was content with simplest "It is at least instructive; she has her own viands and a glass of water.
They had some in Spring to the Ville Ln-ious of the life of fashion, and the character of
Le Pompadour.**
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Docs she laugh, too, internally
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I fancy rot," said the Pompadour, refeo- tively; I think it is more likely that she prays." "How droll," said the saintly lips. "But I supposo it is the beat that one osa do when one is If I were so rich as you, and derived so much edification from her epistles, I should give her money."
poor
More than she has from her son, who
that
said
"He is a student of life and men," said he, underneath the mioroscope of a mind as search,
I'm glad all Sents are not like the Indy fervently. Now you have the rest French temperamt, and the means to entertain it your secretary, were he as rich as you, I'm sure would be a akinfiint."
"Theru,
I can sweat, you misjudge him,” mid the Pompadour, a man born unhappy, and spoiled for any useful purpose, I am sorry for
him."
"Get rid of him. Get rid of him" said the lady with a cleverly simulated shadder.
What," said the Pompadour, regarding her with surprise, seeing for the first time ornelty in the mild Madonna ere Upon the secretary's stipend there depends, you know, the comforts of a poor old Scottish Intly-**
"There are so many openings for a peram- balating conscience! Those canaille: "I am saro his frigid countenance spoils your appetite; it would spoil mine-and you eat like a Trappist mook. Is that Scots ton
"Gluttony is the one aristocratio vice to which I could never become accustomed," he replied, "I was-I was once, as many here te-night would think, quite poor
She started alihtly, looked incredulone. "How provoking it must have been," she said.
"No," he reflected sobotly. "Happiness-to spik platituds has wonderfully little to do with a bank account. You look so good and wise I thought you had discovered that."
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She answered with deliberate acidity. "I quite disagree; L at all events, could never contemplate poverty with equaniralty.
"Not "Not poverty," he protested eagerly. poverty. The young, the earnest, and the hope fal know no poverty; they are not poor where
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mière and stepped, as it were, from the wagon-lit of the P.L.M. train from the South into the very vertex of frivolity. You saw the Pompadour Ecossais in the morning riding in the Beis on a snowy Irish hunter, wearing garments of a tone and eat that promptly set the fashion to the gommeaux, with a beaten- niére of orchids; driving his coach through the avenues of Versailles in the afternoon with coat of gendarme blue with golden buttons at the clabs, the galleries, the opers, the cafes, the coulisses of the theatre-always the very latest in fashion, ever splendid, and inscrutable! Withal he never had so much as a son in his pocket to buy a newspaper his secretary paid for all and paid with nothing less than gold Balgonie, arbiter of alegance, envied by young man for his stylo, was adored by the minst fasti dions and discerning women for his sensibility. which was
curiously out of keeping with his life of waste.
Quite as deeply interested in the Pompadour of the butterflies who fluttered round the Bus Ras Adolphe Tron, was him in for every Saturday she had a letter from bec son, Balgowie's secretary. She read of child ish escapades, inordinate and nawholesome pleasures, reckls prodigality.
"What a miserable life," she would exclaim,
Bho started, bit her lip at a certain gauohorie at the news of some fresh imbecility, as it in the question, but did not withdraw her hand. seemed to her."A hundred ponads for a cautot say," she stammered, "isn't that breakfast. Five hundred pounds for a picture a point for the little mother?" and she glanced to a lady. Oh, Jomis, Jamie, what a master."
She grieved, indeed, exceedingly, about the at the sunshade hiding the ponderous sleeper.
I know! I know! I know!" said the sinful course of life in which har son was it Pompadour in a fury of impatience. "But plicated, and more than once, for his soul'a this is our Scottish fashion; first I must know sake, asked him to come back to Sentiand, but from you, and then I shall consult your mother always he temporised With Lord Balgowie Meanwhile, do you love me p he enjoyed a comfortable salary; he had no profession at his hands, although ho had hed the best of aduestions, thanks to his parents' self-denial, and he saw himself doomed for a term of years to follow the progress of his rakat patron.VERAN
Madame de Langan slept assuredly; the her hat hobbed most grotesquely; egrets on now and then she gurgled. The company had scattered, some to see the old home of the exiled James of England, some t to walk on the forest.
Mathilda,"
To the left of his hair the door of the reception salon opened at the moment, and a voice beyond it plucked him from the depths of his despon deney. He rose, incredulous, and rushed into the room, where a little old woman, simple and abaslied at her surrondings, stood beside the secretary.
Mother," he exclaimed, with his arme around her, almost doubtful of her actual presence, "I thought it was your wraith,"
I fear I come at an awkward time," she said pathetically, but all alone in this strange city,.
poor old widow, quite unknown, in Scotland, fringes, the Pompadour in a whisper what was I to do? M
Her only comfort was in the shrewd and sober naturs of his comments on his master'à
taking her hand in his and bending towards her with a look of burning concentration. If I if I were poor, could you love me?
"I have had no experience," said the lady much embarrassed, "You have not told me yet if you love me, which is, I understand, the customary ritani"
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"I'm in a flame of passion and worship of you," nad he crushed unconsciously her fingers In his two strong hands,
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Yokohama l'anglais, and my litth joke his terminated d the most dramatic fashion. I have long had rogo in all ways, mother, he wrote "and it exclaimed, pulling away her hand. Yon
a dozen years I was under the absurd im- Shimonoseki seems to me deplorable. Once I had the no-hurt me horribly, Then she smiled up in his pression was life of pleasure; and, at tion to be wealthy for the sake of the inde face, provocatively coquettish whispering the cost of paying the bills myself and lend- pendence and the power for good that money tomorrow" for the other guests came trooping my worthy young compatriot my name oan command; now I can see it has a canker-
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for a few months, I have had the most delicions Seoul ing influence on the soul. I have gone with the following evening, when the dark and instructive entertainment. In mary respects Chaunipo toy led to every part of Europe looking for
he filled the part of Lord Balgowie botter than Küssan was falling upon Paris, and the lamps began to content, and-in his own state-simple honesty, bloom along the boulevards like flowers of fire, ever I could do, but two things rather spoiled for friends to trust, and a creditable occupation little woman, simple, elderly and timis, droge. lis admirable presentation homely tasto for the mind. Nothing in all the capitals among to the door of the mansion in the Adolphe the rich but idleness, sud riot and display, can-Tron, and asked to see his fordship's secretary ning intrigue, self-seeking, and calculation, He is from home, madam said the English Thank God you're
Poor!
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figure, thirty shillings every week, a benefaction that enabled her to share among the really poor who ware her neighbours. For years that sam had come to her with his letters every Saturday,
"From home," she exclaimed, beset with festa, and relising now more poignantly than Ter, all the hazards of her sohome. "I must see him to-night; I am his mother."AG
often from towns whose names in their foreignorant of Voisin" said the domestic kindly.
spelling were unknown to her; a sense of opulence that caused her soms unsweiness bad more than once compelled her to protest, am sure you deprive yourself," she wrote, and half that money would do me finely. You should be saving, laddle; some day you will want to
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Thank you, thank you!" she exclaimed, “bat if it were possible I should like to see him now."
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Voisins, in the Rus Cambon, is a quiet and *Marry, he wrote har hack, incontinent, I unpretentious restaurant, dear to aristocratic am here in a world of mannequins, and have yet to see the woman I could be happy to sit Paris, since it looks so cheap and really is «x- pensive. So quiet, so discreet, so restained with in anld age by a Scottish fire.
But he was not always to be of that mind externally, men from the rural parts have been One day her weekly letter held the fabulous known to go boldly in, misapprehending, and bofore they had recovered from the blinding sam of twenty pounds, and a hint of his infatis, radiance of its vestibulo, ask for a
brioche and tion for a luly he had met in Paris. His mother
smug of hoor read his rhapsodias about the lase; they were, To-night it had, more speciously than usual, sho notiosil, more about her wit and beauty then the aspoot of a simple village in a husb about her heart. And in his letter was an D
prevailed; it waiters moved shout on list, and familar nodertone of apprehension, rey spoke in whispers Le Pompadour Boosasia avesion, which her mother senso discerned
dined on prince upstairs with a merry company, in a chamter upon which the whole attention of Tas Pompadour Ecossais rose one morning the house was concentrated, from M. le Gérant from his bed, which once belonged to Louis down to the meanest kitchen sunilion, for the Castorza in the Bus Adolphe Yvon; broke evening's entertainment was upon a scale of his fast on a bowl of coffee and a roll, and reckless cost. Nothing would satisfy this having dressed himself, as he always did, with- wonderful man to-night but curious foods far- out valet, with as much fastidiousness as if he horns from foreign lands, strange rare bevarages, were the Duke de Morny, rode for an hour in goiden vessels that had only once or twico been the wood, and later drove his English coach, wood in the Tuileries in the last days of the with his English horses, English grooms, and Empire. If diamonds could be masked and English post-horn, out to the garden of St. turned by some miracles of alchemy into a Goranin. He was unusually resplendent, from palatable bouillon, he, or property, his seo- his hat of silk, broad brummed, widely banded rotary, would have cheerfully paid the cost. with bombazine, to highheeled military shoes In an alcove screened by palme, a string Bocined mealded to his feet, and had never quartatte played the most med deliber. which known an unguent, but ware polished daily to seson
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