The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-04-17
know as you knew enough. Let me see IT, won,

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: |. ''Ain't it sweet, Mrs. Rashsr? MY father use
: to think great deal Of that motto; and that
: the way came to be rich. It means ltsrall
> I've got t in Latin there), that Discretion is IL
! better part Of vaIor."
Hyou can't do anything but cast ridicuIe o.
yourself and your wife from morning till nighi
I we might as well stay in our obscurity. Yol
aren't casting ridicule on me; the wild boa
iorms part ofthe coat Of arms of some OF the no
blest families OF Scotland and England2 Oh, ,lha
/ alters the case! Ifyou really think, Rasher, |
would be arstocratic and just the right thing
and fyou think our friends will see it in TIL
same light you do, why, like it we'll enough
When will you get it engraved? ] wish you't
step to Ball &c Blacks, and order q set Of sole
silver TO be made, to be done in time for the par
ty, and our arms on it.
Come, let's look at the wine cellar; you mus
learn to talk about your wine cellar, Rasher, i
you want 10 make an impression on the men
Everything down here is mighty nice and conye
nient-but, la! that's the servants business. -
I'm going to pretend, when get q new set, tina
| don't know coal bin from wash-tub. Thatl
be pretty way TO have myself imposed upon
Well! you're able to stand q little imposition
and you don't suppose I'm going to let 'em see
ever stepped in kitchen. My hands show iti
No, they don't; and I'm going to keep 'em done
up nights IN old gloves, and oil 'em every oighi
with-lard oil?-stuff! with rose cream.
Let's gol tell me first whether you've conclu-
ded to take the house. You s'pose must have
my own way ,bout il? That's dear, good
Rasher. as you are. And to pay you for conSen-
ting, withou, fuss, I'll trouble you as little as
possible about the change, moving, and all that.
I riu he nlotar ahor. fhsf f,r.
niure, and get a bookstore man to fill the libra
ry; and when everythingis is ready for US to step
in and take Cur dinner, we'll ride over and take
possession. Ill get an auctoneer to sell off our
old stuff every article of it, for what'll bring.
| expect, perhaps, it will come to enough to pay
for the new set Of silver, centre piece and all for
the piano, you know, is 'most new, and the car
pets are only SIX months old.
You hope I'll reserve your old secretary and
arm. chair, and that sofa? o dear! suppose /
can have them ser in the fourth story, where
you can go to look at them once and while
! don't see why you need to set such store by
that soa, because you and | used to set on it
together, in DUR little pailor, the first winter
we we're married. It's stiff and old fashioned
now, and has been covered twice. allowed it
to set in my room up stairs, seeing you thought
so much of it; but IL might rs we'll go 10 the
auction room as up into the fourth story, where
it will have to stay, II it's kept in the new
house.
What are you thinking Of to walk right over
that eurbstone without seeing it? You was
thinking of old times? No doubt you'd like to
go back to the days when did my own work,
and set and sewed for the children, but 4
wouldn't. It's great burden off my mind to
have the girls to Madame Flummery's school;
she's very genteel, and will give 'em air, which
| know I couldn't, though Pm naturally more
genteel than their father. What's that? we're
setting them up above u.s. SO as to make them
ashamed Of US? Well, Arrabella soas little
snitfy the last time she came home, but when
we move on TO the Avenue in the new house,
she II have more respect for us. Ah, here we
are at the corner! Come home early to night,
Rasher; want to talk over the plans.
Amt it splendid? and hav'n't had bit of
trouble, only to give my orders. | think Mr..
Brilliant, the upbolsterer, is a very tasty man.
told him about what we could afford to expend
on The rooms, and he fixed them up himself
His bill only exceeded the sum | set about two
thousand dollars. lie asked my idea Of colors
for the first floor, and told him liked Grim
son and gold. think | never seen han lsomer
cornices. The mirrors. and the chandeliers, and
the cornices and the picture frames. give an air
OF goi geousness don't you think so? bought
the pictures myself. all to one store, a. the man
gave me bargain, I'D take the lot; and got
Mr.. Brilliant to put new frames to them to cor
respond with the mirrors. The paintings them
selves didn't come to quite so much as the
frames. I'd an idea them sort of things was
more expensive, as Mrs. DE Witt told me she'd
given four hundred dollars for little dull thing
not much bigger than my hand She must have
been awfuily imposed on, for got one four feet
long for forty dollars, and far more brilliant CO.
ora, at that!
Come IN here, Rasher, and look at the library.
You see he he's put this in darker colors; but
that's the fashion, believe. Them amt wood.
en- books, like some OF Mrs. Smyth's; they're
the genuine article. paid Mr.. Octave twelve
hundred dollars for filling the shelves. But |
had more trouble with him than with all the rest
put together. Ididnt like the bindings OF the
books he put in first, and bad him take 'eln all
back, and put in these. These have got such
pretty red colors and gilt letters. Besides got
mad at him about another hing. Right along
il the very first row there was three or four
books with no titles at ALL but Just "Bacon,"
printed on the back. Ny! but wasn't mad !
suppose they were recipes for curing bacon, per
haps-I didn't look to see but made him take
'em right out. Up little higher, what did
see but "Ilogg's Tales" printed on the back OF
another book? asked him what he meant by
it; it he meant co insult Us because we'd made
our money in tn, pork business? and he didn't
know what to say; but he took 'em away, and
finally Told him guess he'd better change the |
whole lot. and put in them with red bin1ings |
I'd seen at his store He was very good natured |
about it. suppose he didn't want to lose our |
custom. That's one advantage in be ng as rich |
as we are-people don't like to offend US. |
didn't suppose any one will ever read the books, |
but it Is necessary 10 have them. for the same |
reason that we have almost everything else; be-
cause other people do. Pictures and books are
considered stylish; I've heard Mrs. Fitz Sim.
mons talking about an authors style. What's
that? In what respect do you resemble an au-
thor? am sure / can't guess my dear. I've |
nsver detected any resemblance, though. as for
that matter, know very little about authors. /
Because you both make living by the pen? and
both ofyou sell your tender. iiaess Now, Rasher.
for mercy's sake. we're in the new house, and |
do, do, for my sake, quit that miserable habit of
punning! or, II you must make puns or di,,choose
some other subject than the one you're al
ways harping ON.
Here's my boudoir; / told him to put that oil |,
in yellow, with blue iacngs and trimmings. |
cautioned him about the sofa and chairs; not to
get sem too small; for You know I'm pretty sol
ID, end shall want to recline on 'sm when I
think I'm likely to bo surprised BY company;
SO he's made them as large as the room will al- |
low. The painting up there by the door. with
that little iapjs lapaR table under it, is copied I
from the original Of Rachel's Madonna in the
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