Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-09-08
Borrowing and Lending
OR
ONE ANGRY MOMENT.

NO. said Mr. Bray, looking mp from the
newspaper he was reading and speaking
with unusual sharpness of tone. H..
A young man, one of his clerks stood be-
fore him. -.1 -s -l
DO you understand me No---I said
no Send Mr.. Carleton word that nei
ther borrow nor leud
The clerk had hestated about sending
back the rough refusal Of Mr.. Bray, to ac
commodate n neigbbor with the loan of O
couple Of hundred dollars, within an hour
of closing, even on an explanation that he
was short on note. But at this emphatic
confirmation of the first refusal, he turned
from his employer, and went forward to
where the messenger Of Mr.. Carleton await.
ed an answer.
Pm tired Of this eternal borrowing said
Mr.. Bray to himself, in Justification of hi:
angry refusal to accommodate q neighbor
why don't he make timely provisions for
his notes as do, aud not go money y-hunting
at the eleventh hour I'm not going tC
reduce my bank balance to meet his care
less deficiencies. There is too much of this
idle dependence of traders to suit my no
| llun OF things.
But these words of justification did not
bring the mind of Mr.. Bray into a state OF
calm dissatisfaction. Reason did not ap.
prove his hastily uttered denial, and self
respect was hurt by this sndden ebullitiou
of anger
Send Mr.. Carleton word that / neither
borrow nor lend' '''
L needn't just have said that ? Mr. Bray
was already in repentant mood. 4 could
have refused on any decent pretext. There
was no cause for an insulting denial.'
All me How binding is sudden anger
For while Mr.. Bray sat commuuiug with
himself, and then taking mp pen drew a
check for two hundred dollars. Calling to
his clerk he said !:
Here Thomas, run with this to Mr..
Carleton --...
The young man took the check and went
out hurTedly. He came back in few
minutes with the check in his hand.
why didn't he take it, asked Mr.. Bray,
his face deepening in color as be put the
question.
lie said he was mnch obliged to you,
but Mr. Agnew had accommodated him.
Mr., Bray in a very quiet manner tore np
the check into small fragments. He felt
badly. Mr.. Agnew had the reputation Of
being the toughest, most unaccommodatiug
man in the neighborhood while he took
pride in the thought of being held 10
very different estimation. Even Mr.. Ag-
new had exceeded him in nmiable compli.
auce and prompt business courtesy. He
felt rebuked and BUNDLED.
0, dear ? wish had a little decent
set-control = be said sharply to himself.
This quick feeling, and hosty action there.
from, are always getting me into some kind
of trouble'
AS Mr.. Bray walked homeward, after
leaving the store that afternoon, he saw
Mr.. Carleton approaching at the distance
of half block ahead of him. He was
conveniently near the corner of a street,
and so taking the fag-stones he crossed
over, aud thus avoided meeting his neigh.
bOr.
i don't like this he said in some humiIia.
tion to himself, as he breathed little more
freely. Skulking like criminal don't
suit me at all Why should fear to look
Il man in the face Il.a r.1 .I asl gl....
Mr.. Bray was usually cheerful man at
home, though he sometimes darkened the
home light for season, through fits of sud
den passion that soon subsided. But even
the briefly ruling tempest leaves, usually
some mighty traces of its course that re
quires many days of sunshine. gentle rains
aud refreshing deEs to Obliterate. 1t wa.
so with the tempest of Mr.. .'Bray's too easily
awakened anger. 1t never darkened tht
sky nor swept tiercely along the earth with
out leaving ils ugly marks behind. 57s.
But usually he was cheerful in his family
bringing home with him the bright warn
sunshine. 1t was not SO, however, on th,
present occasion. The little act of dis
courtesy TO Mr. Carleton, had not onIy
shadoWed his feelings, but left his minc
disturbed, He was just in a state to b,
annoyed by the merest trides. .4
Two little boys.were playing in the pas
sgs as he came 10 from the street. A
the very moment of his entrance one
them burt the other by accident Tlr
latter screamed oat, and, under the passion
fate impulse Of the moment, charged bi
brother with striking bin. 10 q dlfferen