Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-05-13

+ II would walk notwithstanding"
NJ do not leve it. The fact is, Gardiner, a mar
never grows rfch without thinking himself of more
!, consequence than BEFORE"
'You think SO q
'1 know So"
81 don't believe word of II. am sure that if
were worth million of dollars, would not consid
er myself whit better than am now. would not
be, and why should be the fool to think differently
"You don't know yourself, Gardiner
81 believe | know myself we'll enough to deter.
mine beforehand how should act in such an un-
looked-for contingency"
sits not at all unlocked for by me Gardiner, said
Mr.. Lyon affecting serious air. ga man who
gets ahead like you do in the world must accumu.
late fortune, and when he has done that he must
live in style corresponding with his meansn
GAS you do but not as would"
'Why not p
because l don't believe in all this extravaganza
and show What would want with half dozen
servants running after me should feel eyery min
ute like kicking them out of my way. Since was
old enough to do it, l have helped myself and all
ask In this world Is the ability to do so until die
"Then you blame me, and others in my position,
for giving employment to large number of persons
who might otherwise find it difficult to get ANYTHING
to do There's my old coachman, for instance, who
thinks 1t quite privilege to be retained in nv SER
vice. 1t gives him more pleasure to drive me out
am sure that it does to ride out. And the same
might be said of every other domestic in my family.
We have as many twelve employed, from the
coachnan down to the cook"
| WIWeiye servants To 10 caro of arr, ,ax..a 4,
exclaimed Gardiner, with sheer and tone of con-
temptuous surprise. 81 pray Heaven may never
come to that"
! The manner of the tradesman offended his custom
er but the latter too we'll bred to betray his real
feeLngs On leaving the shop he said to himself
by way of soothing his chafed temper-s1f we play
with edged tools we must expect to be cut"
Mr.. Lyon did not again visit the shop of Gardiner.
Inc latter accounted for the fact of having lost
good customer on the ground that he had offended
him by speaking the truth, and did not hesitate to
talk about it freely and call Lyon purse-proud ma
bob. These remarks were made to persons who knew !
Mr. Lyon, and who laughed at him for having in
CURED the bridesmaids dspleasure.
From that time Gardiner took new pleasure in /
railing at what he called the follies of the RICH and
carried 1t to such an extent that his words and man.
ner drove other good customers from his shop
The consequence was that, from progressing health
lily, his business became stationary for WHILE and
then showed symptoms of decline. Whether this |
were the beginning of the end' with him cannot be
told, for most unooked-for event occurred which
induced him to give up his business and turn gentle
man !!
lie was at work one day when the postman came
In and handed him package with the London post
mark upon it. On breaking the seals he found, to
the utter establishment, information that distant /
relative, from whom he had expected nothing, had !
died without will and that he was the legal heir to
large estate. Accompanying the letter waa bill
ofexchange for twenty thousand dollars.
twas some time before he could fully compre-
bend the nature of his new position. He was bewll-
dered in mind for days, and went about with stupe-
fled air. At length he began to feel his feet under
him and to hold his head more erect. For time he !
was firm on the question of giving up his shop but,
although he tried sometimes, he could not work as
BEFORE and had lost all interests in his business At
tue end of a month he sold out and took moderate
sized dwellng-larger than the one he had lived in
which he furnished newly and handsomely.
The next steamer brought him further intelligence
on the subject in letters from the solicitor who
had the business of the estate in charge These let
tiers were couched in style of obsequiousness such
as an Inferior sometimes uses to superior, and had
the effect of raising the thermometer of GARDENERS
self-estimaton full ten degrees. There was no dis
guslng the fact even from hmself-he was man of
Importance and "Just as good as Mr.. Lyon or any
other nabob in the country"
third series of letters and documents announcing
the value of the estate to which he had succeeded
came by next arrival. Hew worth three hundred
thousand dollars
The house into which he had moved could no lon
ger hold him. One as large again was TAKEN and
extensive and rich additions made his furniture
To this new residence attached a carriage-house
this set him to thinking about carriage and how de-
lightful it would be to ride GU. occasionally with his
family. carriage and pair were bought, and with
these had to come coachman. He ceased from this
time to speak of Mr.. Lyon nabob, to talk about
nabobs at all. .
As he had not yet determined into what pursuit \
he would enter-he must do something, that he n
clearly saw-he had leisure to discover everything L
around him that did not accord precisely with his
position. He was enabled to do this more readily d
from the fact that as he was now known to be man
OF wealth, he received into circle far above the
one In which he had moved and saw more of the ell