Comments of a countess Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI textit{On The Season With the advent of the "merry month of May " our minds naturally turn " season " wards. We study our visiting lists, send a f... more »ootman round with pasteboards, and prepare generally to keep the ball of festivity rolling. The decayed peeress who takes a girl out for the season for a sum down, nervously explains that she is the daughter of her greatest friend : " her mother lives in the country and implored me to take her out this year. Such a change from Slowshire, where a girl with textit{her prospects ought not to be cooped up." The stress on the personal pronoun stimulates interest, andthe chaperon feels she is putting the best face on the matter, while she comforts herself with the thought of the substantial bonus she will obtain if a suitable marriage is arranged. London looks much the same as it has looked these ten years?the same thoroughfares are " up," the same roar and din is going on, the same people are back from their travels, a few familiar faces have passed from our circle, some of our cheeriest partners have ended the struggle for existence under the South African sky, some have gone bankrupt, some have been married, some divorced. The embarrassing thing is trying to recollect what has befallen one's numerous acquaintances since one last saw them. Such awkward things occur occasionally. I remember meeting Major Danby one day; I hadn 't seen him for quite three years, and I asked how his wife was. " Which one?" he asked, "the black and tan or the chestnut?" I hurriedly explained that when I last saw him he had only one, and she hadred hair. " Oh, yes," he murmured, " that's the last, she's all right, down in the country with the kids. The other one bolted with old ' Crabby' of the ' Blues.' You knew Crabby, surely, decent chap, but ...« less