Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . THLY MAGAZINE. 670 tively safe in case the fortress is bom-barded. The liotel and the fortress at this en-chanting season, to say nothing of otherattractions, with laughing eyes and slen-der figures, might well have detainedMr. Stanhope King, but he had determinedupon a sort of roving summer among theresorts of fashion,and pleasure. After along sojourn abroad, it seemed becomingthat he should know something of thefloating life of his own country. His de-termination may have been strengthened by the confession of Mrs. Benson th
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . THLY MAGAZINE. 670 tively safe in case the fortress is bom-barded. The liotel and the fortress at this en-chanting season, to say nothing of otherattractions, with laughing eyes and slen-der figures, might well have detainedMr. Stanhope King, but he had determinedupon a sort of roving summer among theresorts of fashion,and pleasure. After along sojourn abroad, it seemed becomingthat he should know something of thefloating life of his own country. His de-termination may have been strengthened by the confession of Mrs. Benson thather family were intending an extensivesummer tour. It gives a zest to pleasureto have even an indefinite object, andthough the prospect of meeting Ireneagain was not definite, it was neverthe-less alluring. There was something abouther, he could not tell what, different fromthe women he had met in France. In-deed, he went so far as to make a generalformula as to the impression the Amer-ican women made on him at FortressMonroe—they all appeared to be THE GOVERNMENT WIIAIIF, FORTRESS MONROE. CHAPTER II. Of course you will not go to CapeMay till the season opens. You mightas well go to a race-track the day there isno race. It was Mrs. Cortlandt who was speak-ing, and the remonstrance was addressedto Mr. Stanhope King and a young gen-tleman, Mr. Graham Forbes, who had justbeen presented to her as an artist, in therailway station at Philadelphia, that com-fortable home of the tired and bewilderedtraveller. Mr. Forbes, with his fresh com-plexion, closely cropped hair, and Londonclothes, did not look at all like the tradi-tional artist, although the sharp eyes ofMrs. Cortlandt detected a small sketch-book peeping out of his side pocket. On the contrary, that is why we go,said Mr. King. Ive a fancy that Ishould like to open a season once my-self. Besides, added Mr. Forbes, we wantto see nature unadorned. You know,, how people sometimes spoil aplace. Im not s
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