The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-09-25
ma. AND mRs. RAsmER.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "MIss sLIMMENs.' .
CHAPTER XIV.


- tr. WELL, Rasher, it's just as expected! T.
g always said you'd fail, always! Hundreds
thousands Of times I've said 1t since you wei
as' into the pork business, low, vulgar. eontem
ible business, which never could abide. An
to fail now. Of all times. Waited till I'd g
to Newport. and splurged out; and then, whe
81 everybody knew who was and all about u
% up and Gail, and be sent for, and have to 6
home right in the midst Of the season. Yo
did it to provoke me, verify believe. VIII
Sd didn't you give up six weeks ago. and then W
could have gone to the country. or hid ou
heads somewhere? ! told every one you wa
very sick. They'll hear the truth soon enough
and hadn't the courage to face my own NOR
tiicat tion. II sets me half frantic to think how
much they'll enjoy il when they get the.nsw
all them hateful, envious, spiieful women
tickisd to death to get me out Of the way
You're to blame for IL ALL Rasher. You're al
old fool. and don't care il the girls do hear mi
., say so: their father'd 40 business to bring ZEN
into such trouble. Neither of'em married, ant
81 now they never will be. One OF 'em nigh
have been out Of the way. at least, the wife Of;
man that everybody likes to know, II it hsdn't
BEN Tor your interference. getting into the car,
se risge in the most shameful manner, and driving
us home instead otto the minister's, and now
~ suppose she'll live an old maid. Lucky escape?
Humph! that's your idea. / presume Mr..
Flummery would have been mad when you
q. failed, Of course, but she would have been his
h wife, and he couldn't help himself could he?
2 II does sSem to me as il you were the most
lacking in worldly prudence of anybody ever
saw. You never see only one side of ques
ton. You ought to have stayed single man,
n Rasher, and not have had an innocent vile and
iamily to suffer from your lack of common
vs sense. a
aoe, Take of my bonnet, and cool down little?
Thank you, you're cousideratc, my deari ex.
pect | shall be cool in this dreadful city, with
the Thermometer "a in the shade and me,
II Of all persons who ought to be by the seaside.
suffering as always do irem the heat. ex-
pect can take off my bonnet and make myseli
at homo, when I haveA't any home to make
myself Ifyou wasn't totally wanting in com.
mon delicacy, you wouldn't mention the word,
when YOU know this very house N be In the
sheriff's hands in less N q month. / can tell
by the very way PEERS throwing them trunks
down in the hall that he knows already he's
going to be discharged. dearl it's nothing
but trouble! and you want me 10 make myself
easy. II you'd a spark of eelrog in your
breast you'd know couldn't be easy.
? What's that, Felicia? You dom. think
ought to scold papa; he looks sick and tired
himself? Does he. indeed! | should think he
ought to, after all the suffering he's brought on
his family You'd better pity him, and TIL
your mother when it's proper for her to speak
Think I ought to spare you, when you're al
ready SO dreadfally cut mp that you feel like a
packed pig2 1t seems you don't ee bad but
that You can 60 on punning. when you know
how hate ii. hope you ordered the house
keeper to have some kind ofa dinner ready for
I'm perfectly exhausted by my journey and my
mental sufferings. o dear! D dear! all the ser.
wants dismissed bat two, and the furniture tied |
up in Holland, & standing around like so many
ghosts. ] expect evenAour dressing mirrors
have got tarletan over 'em, which we'll have to
take off before we can. see to brush our hair
All the silver sent off to BALI s. Blacks big safe
and nobody to wait on us at dinner but the
housekeeper; it's just as distressing and miser-
able as II can be. / can't endure IL; I've got
. horrible headache now. / shall be sick by |
Tomorrow. Come, girls. we may as we'll go up
stairs, ane take OFF our own things and wash
our own faces. for we've nobody to do it for u.s.
Tell the woman to have good. hearty dinner.
Rashef. for I've given out, and need it, Heigh
ho! lsiag % sTa fa9 @e''l@oa" 'aa' 1nt3
Stick your Sat Through them lace bangings,
sh yoa want to. husband; they'll bring inst as
much at auction You thrash around like
faiion o barn floor. Mosquitoes? There amt
one in the room; it's your mind that troubles
you, and not mosquitoes. It's the "stings and
narrowsof outrageous Fortune" Mr.. Rasher,
aud not mosquitoes. Therel What on earth
hare you hoped clear out OF bed for2 Is there
. aspider or snake in it? Surprised to hear me
quoting Shakespeare? 'Twasn't Shakespeare,
my love, so you're up stump there; twas tina
handsome actor we used to go TO hear at Bur-
tons. so you might as we'll get back again and
compose yourself You'd have been to sleep
long agoifI hadn't kept you awake with my
grosns and sighs?3 Now. my dear. you know
I havn't spoke nor stirred since we came to
bedsS Ren meant my size-- $40 poands--and
warm night in August; my g,owins' and size?
Rasher. Eve a good mind to pitch you out on
the floor! As il we hadn't real trouble enough
bat you must 60 and makeit worse with your
Jokes and Stiffness. Here we are, on the brink
ofstarvaticn, ss 4 were and you're testing as
II it were laughing matter. Can't starye as
long as we have so many Rashers in the house?
Well well. weill suppose, then. when yo.i
have brought US to the brink of ruin. we're all
10 turn csnnibaIs. and cat each other up. But
say. my dear, ! wanted 10 ask you seriousIy,be.
fore you went to sleep, whether matters are re
ally as bad rs you have represented them? A
great many folks fail, and live better than they
did before. Hope TO pay all your debts. fair and
square and still have enough to bay back our
old home, II you can get your creditors to give
youa iair chance, in the course Of year or
twce Do you think am going back into that
little mean, three story brick, Timothy Rasher?
Nov, listen 20 me, other people don't do t,an1