MRS.   FIZZLEBURY'S   NEW   GIRL.
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rTrltd love the girl once, and of courseitis
nothing to Te-but^I-well/l don't like to hear
Pott? face, when he said this, exhibited so much
/>f melancholy, and his conversation became so in-
 id as though his mind were preoccupiedin-
^eri'it appeared to me that he scarcely listened
tnanv thing that I saidthat I made my visita
mrt short one, and left him in a brown study.
Three days afterward Pott called at my rooms
and informed me that he was engaged to be mar-
ried to Miss Fizzlebury, and that the wedding
would take place in two months from that date.
Chapter XX.The Wedding Breakfast.
It was a very quiet affair. Parkin was Pott's
 best man," Miss Wobbleham was the only brides-
maid and the company was by no means numer-
ous. But old Mr, Potthausen was there, so was
Aunt Keduser, and so also was I.
Mr. Fizzlebury was most attentiveI might say
almost obsequiousto the elder Potthausen, who
had made several rich and elegant presents to the
wedded pair, and there was a very fine breakfast
when we returned from the church.
At this meal, Arabella was radiant. That " eye"
shone with the satisfaction of a mind that had car-
ried its point and was contented. Mamma said to
Mr. Potthausen a little more than was quite neces-
sary concerning " former years when we lived in
luxury and in a style very different from that in
which you see us now. But misfortunes will hap-
pen to people, and I suppose I ought not to com-
plain; but it is very hardvery hard on me espe-
cially," etc., etc.
The breakfast went off with great eclat. But
several times during the meal Mr. Fizzlebury said
to Parkin:
" It is very strange, Mr. Parkin; this is the first
time that I have had the pleasure of making your
acquaintance, and yet it appears to me that I have
met you, or somebody extremely like you, before."
And Parkin would stroke his mustache, which
had grown again, and answer:
" Very likely, Mr. Fizzlebury. 1 am sure I have
met you before. I would have known you any
where.",
After, however, we had drunk, in excellent
champagne, several toasts, we all became very
pleasant with each other, and so very hilarious that
I think some of us must have talked a little too
much. At any rate, I remember that I said to Mr.
Fizzlebury, after he had for the fifth time repeated
that he must have met Parkin somewhere:
"Mr. Fizzlebury, are you certain that you have
met our friend, Mr. Parkin, before? "
Mr. Fizzlebury said:
" I can not positively say that I have met Mr.
Parkin, but his features appear to me not entire-
ly unknown."
" Do you remember," I asked, " the New Girl
whom you received into your house and who stole
Mrs. Fizzlebury's brooch"
(Parkin was making all sorts ef grimaces to tel-
egraph me a petition not to proceed, but I contin-
ued.)
" The woman who, you informed me, had on
male attire under her own clothing, and stole that
brooch."
" The viper! " cried Mr. Fizzlebury. "You ask
me if I remember her. I rather think I do; though
I must, in justice, say that the brooch was not
stolen. Mrs. Fizzlebury found it on the carpet the
next morning. But the girl was a wretch, a viper."
Parkin, who had kept his eyes riveted on his
plate while Mr. Fizzlebury was speaking, now
raised them imploringly to me. But the champagne
had made me garrulous, and I went on:
" Well, Mr. Fizzlebury," said I," that viper now
sits at this tabie with us. She had not a mustache
when she entered your service, because I had
shaved her that afternoon."
" You had shaved our New Girl!" exclaimed
Mrs. Fizzlebury from the other end of the table.
" With these hands, dear madam," I answered,
" and there she sits. Parkin, why don't you go out
and take in the milk? "
Parkin darted a look of anger at me, and rose to
leave the table and the house. But Pott detained
him, and made him sit down again ahd take a lit-
tle more champagne, which restored his spirits so
completely, and especially as we were now all
laughing at the matter as a good joke, that Parkin
finally consented to tell the whole story and make
a clean breast of it.
At first, Mrs. Fizzlebury scowled, and both fath-
ers-in-law frowned ; but, as the story went on, the
angry countenances of the old people relaxed into
smiles, andthen into hearty laughter as Parkin re-
lated the miseries which he suffered on that mem-
orable day.
The bride and bridegroom left us at three
o'clock,and then Parkinjmade to Mrs.Fizzlebury the
singular request that she would allow him to show
us the spot in the attic on which he had slept on
that memorable night, and the kitchen where he
passed so many hours of misery. Mrs. Fizzlebury,
who had not frequently refused when the cham-
pagne was offered and who was, therefore, in ex-
cellent spirits, readily consented, aud Mr. and Mrs.
Fizzlebury and myself followed Parkin up and
down stairs and heard the story all over again.
The rest is soon told.
Mr. and Mrs. Potthausen live very happily togeth-
er, chiefly for the reason that Pott was unable to
follow my advice touching the management of
his wife. " Pott," said I, " be guided by me and
let your wife understand, from the beginning, that
you are to be the head of your family, and the
master in your own house. Let Mrs. Potthausen
obtain the mastery and you will be her slave for
ever; " which I earnestly believed to be just such
wise and good counsel as should be given to a
friend under the circumstances. And Pott an-
swered.bravely and like a hero, " Don't be alarmed
about me, dear boy. I mean to keep the upper
hand in my own household, you may depend on
it" And Pott was so sincere and truthful a fellow
that I feel certain that he believed what h was
saying.
It was not very long after the wedding, however,
before Pott had been brought by very slow degrees
to the condition of a very obedient and docile hus-
band, which is a true picture of him to-day. No
woman of ordinary intelligence is married quite a
week before she succeeds m discovering the weak
point of her " lord and master," and learning how
to make it the instrument of bringing him to sub-
mission. In Arabella's case her weapon was tears.
Pott could be very firm, and even obs.inate, until
Arabella began to weep. But as soon as Pott saw
the water gathering in " that eye," he was un-
manned and his wife had conquered. These con-
stant victories of the wife over the husband vexed
him at first; but he soon discovered that rebellion
on his part only made the house very uncomfort-
able, and he gradually and quite unconsciously
glided into the position of a " most amiable hus-
band." Such, at least, was the verdict of all his
lady acquaintances.
The only point on which Pott stood out to the
last was on the subject of a generous, affectionate,
and most disinterested proposal made by Mr. and
Mrs. Fizzlebury, whose poverty had become very
pinching, tothe effect that their "dear children
should come and live with them." " It would,"
they said, " be so much more economical for all
parties, and they could all be together, which
would be the nicest-thing in the world. But Pott
set his face so positively against this proposition,
that Arabella, although she was greatly in favor of
it, and always supported it, was obliged to aban-
don it in the end.
Mr. and Mrs. Fizzlebury have been compelled, by
the force of circumstances, to renounce the tin-
seled splendor in which they formerly indulged;
but they live comfortably on means derived from
sources which are a secret to all the world except-
ing only their generous son-in-law. They have also
discovered, in respect of their one servant, that
to be rather liberal than stingy with her, and to
treat her as fellow-creature who can appreciate a
kindness and can resent an injury or an insult, is a
wiser course than to incur the danger attendant
on constantly changing one servant for another.
Parkin long since resolved that it would be best
to stick to male attire, and to avoid being led, by
mistaken devotion for friendship's sake, into diffi-
cult and dangerous enterprises, whieh may prom-
ise to be of only half an hour's duration, but may
extend to an almost unlimited period. He feels very
sore when allusion is made, in the presence of
strangers, to his performances in Mr. Fizzlebury's
house. But at our little family dinners at Mrs.
Potthausen's (he and I dine there every Wednes-
day evening), we sometimes indulge in a slight
pleasantry with him, by requesting him to " get
up and ring the bell," or to " go down-stairs for a
scuttle of coal," in his ancient capacity as the
" New Girl."
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