Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-09-10
POVERTY AND WEALTH.

wish you would step into Hammond's, on
your way home tonight, and get Il set of cor
ais for Edith. Poor little thing it is too bad
her neck and arms are so bitten by the musqui-
toes. You send home II m1squito net to-day
will you Mother thinks it is very ridicu-
lous we should let her DO so bitten, when a
few dollars would prevent it, Scarcely wait
ing for a reply, and without noticing that her
husbands face was clouded by an anxious,
serious look, Mrs. Mendon went on When
Edith and / go to Newport, this season, hope
| you will be able to leave your business with
the clerks for a few weeks, ut least, and be
with us. It's so dreary, only to see yon once
or twice a week.
/ don't think can 60 to Newport at all,
this season, it's so expensive. And then my
business has been very peor, hardly paying for
itself OF late.'
Can't go at al2 Mother said yesterday she
| thought we had better go very soon, as hav-
emit been very well, and Edith looks so pale.
don't know what she ID think to hear you say
we can't 60 at ALL said Mrs Mendon.
! 81 can't help what She thinks. have all
can do to pay my bills, and keep my head
above water, now, aud can't go to any extra
expense TO please anybody. newly furnished
the parlors,Slnst spring, and hired another SER
want, to please you, because your mother
thought best; but can't go to Newport this
season, and that's all there is about it, said
J .hT. htHuOll III very ueClueu tONb-
9 could give it up, Charles, and not feel
very badly, only so many Of our friends are
| going. Then mother is always so sad, and says
| so much about it, when | am deprived of a
| comfort or pleasure, on account Of our limited
means,' said Mrs. Mendon,' in pc wish way.
Il am sorry to hear you say that again, Ell
len,' said MIR. Mendon. sDo you think more
of YOU mother, and of pleasing her, than you
do of me2'
OF course don't but can't bear 10 have
her complain of you. i wish VIC were rich
| should be happy. II you had been content
ed to stay in California little longer, perhaps
we might now have been as rich us Tom Ma
son.
'Good heavens, Ellen, you drive me mad.
Mason was base enough to gamble, and shrewd
enough to cheat everybody that came in his
way. That's how he got his money. Would
you like to have me that p
/ didn't know how he made his money
Mother said that Mason, who went 10 CalIior-
mia whom yOu did, had now returned home with
great wealth; bought and furnished q splendid
house, and was now living in great style.'
Having fine house, and living in great
style, is all you think about, believe, Ellen.
But these would never make us happy-no,
nor anything else, so long as your mother
meddles so much with our affairs, and you
think more of her opinion than of mine.'
Why, Charles, newer heard You talk so
beforei What does it mean p
Il know you never heard mo talk so. have
borne insult after insult, and have never said
anything; but have thought you may well
believe. How came l 10 come home and leave
Mason in California Every letter l received
while there, was filled with some dreadful tale
about you, or dear little Hattie, that's gone,
and what a dreadful thing for you to be left so.
Then your mother unknown to you sup
pose ) wrote mo a long letter herself, saying
She Thought you would live but short time,
! your Leallh was so poor waited not a mo-
ment but lett, just as had begun TO do some
thiMg (for then it took much longer to set un-
der way, than ii does now.) And how often
has it been thrown in my face that so much
I money was spent, and SO little earned, in those
a two years9' said Mr.. Mendon, his face coloringi
and his vuice assuming quite an angry tone.
Mrs. Mendon was by this time venting hei
own feelings by flood OF tears, for this was
the first time her husband had ever complained
: of her mother. And without trying tc
soothe her, or dry up her tears, NJ. Mendor
left his home and walked towards his store.