Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-09-23

Her childrens voices, too, drew her attention from
time to time at the side table where they sat- and her
ear caught the sound of the little girl mploring the
servant for "one of Aunt Warnings tumbIers," and
the seconds boy asking in loud tone for champagne
quick admoitory look reproved the youngsters into
silence, and she turned from them her husband
formed her, with reproachfu glance, sthat the ham
was not haIfboiled."
With nairete that almost caused her stylish wal
ter to faint, she replied with equally earnest
swering look, that it had been on since ten in
the morning."
Then, too, there was Mr.. Grayille's plate to be
looked after, for Mrs. Johnson not up to the
dern fashion of letting her guests take of them
selves, and to her horror she found him eating soup
with adessert-spoon. She would in the first impulse
have snatched it from his lips but at the moment she
made the fatal discovery he has fortunately re-
lleved of plate and all by the well-traned servants
who was fairly ashamed of the whole corncern.
! And how she press ed the poor over-ed man, who
had been dining and suppng since he left home
till he onged to be starved, take some of the pate
with an earnestness that showed that the pate was
the dish! The children, too, sent the boy (they did
not dare to speak to the hghbred black for oysters
with perseverance that showed what treat they
were considered. And then Mr.. Johnson would call
without pause for plates till they smoking
to his hand. But still Mr.. GRANVILLE talked on good
naturedy, deaf and blind to all that was going on
and would have made himself agreeable fhis host and
hostess would have let him. Others of the guests
joined in the conversation, and in the animation of
the moment Mrs JobnSon frnctad fhav did not coo
that no champagne came at her husbands order, who
this time comprehended las it touched on his own
department. the look that told him that the cham
payne was out.
To the great relief of host and hostess and guests
too, the first course was finally through. The dread
full pause which succeeds the removal Of meats ere
the dessert makes its appearance, was longer than
usual by half hour, thereby telling the anxious
Mrs. Johnson that there was some hitch in the ma
chinery down stairs. 1t came at last, however, as
soon as the china and glass ready to receive It,
and little sooner, perhaps, for the ice seemed
to be melting in the hot dish in which it had hastily
been thrust.
The dinner was at last fairly over and Mrs. John
son withdrew from the table, and she entered the
drawing-room with her daughter Fanny she drew a
long breath, and for the first time that day down
to rest.
Exhausted and mortified she remained half an hour
in profound silence, and was just planning CONVEX
sation with Mr.. GRANVILLE when the coffee should draw
the gentlemen to the drawing room, which was to (
make amends for what she felt yet had been fail
ure, when the door opened and in came the great
hlmself-but, alas! with hat in hand-to take his
leave, with many expressions of regret, shut he had
inadvertently promised to show himself at the thea
tire, and was already an hour behind his time"
"Would not he wait for coffee!" Mrs. Johnson ur-
ged and pressed; but no-"to his vexaton and regret
he found the manager had announced his name to
the public expected guest and he must depart"
and with gracious and iattering speech as to the
"pleasure it had given him to his old friend again
and see him SO happily sourrounded" glancing kind
ly at the children, and with still more graceful
compliment to HERSELF he was of, while Mrs. John
son in the very act of ringing for the coffee she
seemed determined he should drink.
"Yes, he was gone, and ''there was an end of it?'
The end of it! No, indeed; the grocer's bill was
twice its usual sum that week; the butcher's-Mrs.
Johnson turned pale when she eyed the total
And what the wine cost Mr.. Johnson would never
TELL but he whenever she asked him that
she knew the amount must be frighful.
And Sans commission had not even been asked
for! Poor Mrs. Johnson could have cried over her
hopes and long bills.
Although the actual dinner had been no pleasure,
yet Mrs. johnson recovered her spirits sufficient
ly to draw pride from it, and 'swhen Mr.. Ora
vile dined with us" and 'Mr. GRANVILLE said so and
so, were phrases that fell frequently from her lips,
and the satisfaction with which she uttered them al
most compensated for the pain the event caused her
at the time of its taking place.
LOVE OF MorHER.-The three sons o. an eastern
lady were invited to furnish her with an expression
of their love, before she went long journey. One
brought marble tablet with the inscription of her
name; another presented her with rich garland OF
fragrant flowers; the third entered her presence, anG
thus accosted her:-"Mother, | have neither marble
tablet nor fragrant nosegay, but nave heart here
your nameis engraved, here your memory is precious
ever you travel, and remain with you wherever you
epose." i
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