The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-05-21
WESTERLY, r l., THURSDAY, MAY q, 1857.

, I'VE don't have anything like othc
p folks. Here we are skiycd up in tbi
little Martin box of house, no dinners
no parties, only one servant, and abou
one new dress year =
Dreadful, isn't it, my dear
You, who are away all the time about
your business, don't feel as [ do
/ Poor woman =
But Mrs. Spindle went on iu spite of
her huSJand's ridicule. to cnumerate Il
li,t of wants and deficiencies, which it
would pain Il reasonable person to read,
and which included "A hundred things
that her husbands salary placed beyond
her reach.
Her bright glowing STAR at present
was the social position of the BlountS /;
but it was far off, which made her de-
sire to reach it the more. A larger
house, finer furniture, newer dresses,
more opera, more fashionable dissipation
were just then her ideal perfect happi-
n,sS.
But Mrs. S. was discontcntcd and
she had been dscontcntcd all her life
From being shop girl she had become
the wife of il poor clerk, which seemed
to her at the time to be taking long
step. She was an habitual grumblcr,
aud after tsree years of married life, her
husband had made up his mind that mar
riagc was lottcay, and that he had
drawn blank.
Abort three months after the scenes
we have introduced, Mr. ) pindle rccciv-
ed visit from sea captain, who had
just returned from Valparaiso, where the
former had an uncle who was reported
to have made handsome fortune. This
uncle had a wife and child. so that
Spindle had never allowed the Nalpara-
,io fortune to form one Of his cXpccta
tiOnS.
But the sca-captan informed him that
his uncle was dead and his unclc's wife
and child. This was most astounding in
tclligcncc and Spindle had nearly turned
himself inside out in the excitement of
the moment.
The fortune had been left to him and
another nephew Of the deceased, and
Spindle wanted 20 turn Il double somcr
syt when ne was told that his share
tatbnr exceeded fifty thousand dollars.
ru: Spindle wa, IA queer fellow, and
after the first excitement had spent it
self he r,Iapsod into kind Of social in
difference, which, however, was appar
entity not in the least real. When he
went to dinner that day he did not even
m,ution the fact Of his sudden attain
mcnt of wealth but waited till, in the
evening, the Blounts were alluded to in
the usual manner
OF course Mrs. S. was overwhelmed
with astonishmcnt and delight and
while Spindle cooly read the morning
paper, as though nothing had happened,
She pictured out the establishment they
would have, and in particular wondered
what the Blouuts would say nO1c.
Six months after, and Spindle had the
fifty thousand dollars in bis possession,
minus ten or fifteen, which it required
to satisfy Mrs. Spindlc's modest desires
in the matter of house and furniture
They live in Wide street now, and the
Blouuts are completely distanccd. Mrs
Spindle had serious thoughts of cutting
them. on account of having received
calls from sundry persons whose sphere
was a peg higher than the Blounts but
the satisfaction of calling upon Mis-. b.
in a new silk dress every three months
cannot be lightly dispensed with, and the
patron izing friends OF humber days are
intaincd for sake Of "gloriiying over
them.
A year may be very short, or very
long time, depending entirely upon the
circumstances under which it passed
away TO Spindle it has been the long
est ne ever new-to Mrs. Spindle, the
shortest. The late clerk la tho brokers
Office finds that " elegant leisure y is not
only usproftablc but exceedingly tediou,
lie had been accustomed to life Of
activity aud riding, walking, and loll-.