The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-06
F0r inc Nau0nH Eth
STORY OF DOMESTIC LIFE.
BY CATHARINE LEDYARD.
CHAP. VII.


Seymour made no attempt to induce his
father to bestow more largely of his abundance (;
he was too we'll acquainted with that gentle
mans frmness of character TO hope that any
good would result from such interference so
be very quietly pocketed his indignation and
bis allowance.
al don't care SO much for myself" he re-
marked "but it will be hard TO see you, Grace,
suffering for the want of your accustomed lux
hriesp
Grace assured him that she should not suf.
| fer; that she desired, above all things to be
economical and prudent that they might sooner
! DO ;-asper aa-s. ~r h:s s.thcr's ci5 The. the;
would be Independent, in time she did not
doubt she had unbounded faith in Seymour's
talents and good resolves.
She was determined never to appropriate a
penny Of the allowance to her own use. 81
have talent' she thought there is no vanity
IN saying to myself what 30 many have said
about me. Talent, then, ought to pay, and it
does pay, too Moore had three thousand
guineas for Lalla Rookh, and Byron received
large sums for his poems: then Southey, Words
worth, and many others, lived by their pens.
Not of course, that can write like them but
II they had so much, can surely get the little
necessary to my purpose. AS soon as We are
settled in our new home must see what can
be DONE"
The new home consisted of a plain but per-
lectly respectable suite of rooms. in small
boarding house in COrtandt street, Once es.
tabushed there, Grace had abundant leisure to
carry out her plans. The few acouaintances
whom she had made in the city rarely intruded
on ner solitude, the neighborhood in which she
dwelt not being particularly attractive, nor her
! own position commanding one. Her husband
was absent all day from morning till night
she could devote herself to literary pursuits
Ou' she was not quite in the mood she longed
more and more for letter from home; "when
DAt comes She said, 81 will certainly begin
could not write to any purpose now.D
IL came at last Grace almost feared to
O u, the seal-that blue seal, with its cipher
$50 familiar to her eyes. The letter was
Vmner mother, not her father, a. she had
.O0lishiy hoped it might be- Caroline had not
Written before, because she hoped to have good
Iews 70 communicate, if she waited awhile
'0S mat hope, it seemed, had failed her.
or, IA n mat sad morning" she wrote, "when
go, ,"'n9' 'oid me Of your marriage and de-
,Gon ~ ! %una courage to say what had
nh snouSnN mat we were much to blame for
oha might he wilful or violent in your
ona'acser' When you were little we could
I dDt oear 10 cross you and mauy n time in
uaseu you against our better iudgment: AZ
ioa grew older, the same thing was Continued
Always easier, always pleasanter 20 CRAFTY
wear enid than to deny it; we TOOK that
bm ' %s, ana neglected our duty for it. told
!, '"a' II you had done wrong, We had done
Sn ana should look with charity upon the
~. " winch We had caused He would mot
80 .'u 20 me ne said that our unlimited indul-
e'"Oe should have been at least claim uno,
Eautude-he grew more and more an orv
We talked of you. To think, he said d Sayt
dupIcitypU 10 s'"'y vi such vile
les there it is," said Grace in bitter com
n mar US not that have sinned, and done
i saa wrong to my own character
a ana .na' child Of his should do it,
,a ~" very lonely here, her mother went on
eve! our father is a changed being. He
IN DO p s OIL you now, and do not think |
m any good by urging your claims upon
al coalS your books and music, everything
bur ON" remind him OF you, is put away in
FERN. soIit. room; When will it end, this sad,
fay ,srr "'ary NE! hope it may be soon |
teeton Lnsy that you may be restored 10 his
NJ, V a. Dat ! see no evidence of relepting. I
him e'nh " would be of any service 70 write
Al h. s1er 80 submissively L Is not probable
tho - on would read the letter he did not look
Se one you sent me.D
ended, for the present. all Graee,s bones
os sneness she did not know. tin now how
tsrs .ISSe hopes had been. As she thought
ide and 40 70 ontcast from the heart whose |
he or, y'y she once had been--as she read |
(u sbs O,' 70 Danish from her home all trace |
,bst naa once existed-she was ready TO |
l. prss,a ner punishment, however deserved |
I'D bcr g. ,han she could bear Cor she had
s ap' iather, she still loved him though her |
la, as !, ai come between them, and parted |
aa,annnow time to carry out the plan of
Isi, ang herself by her talents vat sha hsd
Faeb;n mength or courage Coz the underts kjns.
at Ss must be done however she could
pnty "n IN quiet, and Get the bread of
} sd 90 she wrote, beastifully, eloouentlv
. Ls, ,s unnecessarily She found ~ III
"ough merit may claim adnirrG;on .
par only can command price, add Tor
ne she could not afford 70 wait Ths
'"'ment would have been serious one