The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-29

anu Olu(SD6 was ABOUT TWO anu LWcHly VI
great bjStre circles made her dark eyes look
unnaturally large and melancholy; her poor
fragile hands had the inexpressible neryeless
look of utter bodily prostration. When |
had shut the door and lighted a candle that
was placed ready for her at the bottom Of
the stairs, | remarked that hoped her fire
was alight On such night az this, a. cup
Of hot tea or coffee was the best thing to
take on coming in out of the cold; aud !
was just going to offer to make her one at
my own room fire, when she interrupted me,
with a tone of infinite gentleness, and yet
that instantly told me she did not require
my help. u, r-
Susan is very thoughtful, and always puts
everything ready,if like to make fre,but
tonight L am really not cold, only tired"
r Tired God knows she was thatl and
wanting sleep. Good night, sir, and thank
you very much for coming to let me in
And then she took the candle from my hand
and with a pretty little gesture,very friend
ly, but not without a certainipathetic digni-
ty,poor child! babe me good night, and pass
ed on to her ROOM as etA 19E
By eight next morning she was giving a
lesson to pupil, the only house-pupil she
had, who came to her three times week at
that hour, because Miss Philips, our landa
dydid not like anything professional going
on under her roof.
II would have mentioned to you, sir that
we had professional lady in the house, y
said Miss Lucinda Philips, lingering after
depositing my weekly bill upon the break
fast table and evidently wishing to explain
away the occurrence Of the night, Il should
have mentioned our having professional
Iperson in the house, when you took the
apartments, only we know Miss Weston's
! habits are SO quiet that she isn't likely to
disturb any one. AS to her troubling you
last night,it was the merest accident,I can
assure you, sir She was playing at a
young peoples party at Mrs. Bethers in Ca
vendish Square and as the night was dry,
and the distance SO short thought she
might as well save her cab fare by walking
home. | told her how imprhdeDt it was,
this morning, and she regrets as much as
my sister and do that you should have
had the annoyance of opening the door for
her "
he Misses Philips were sisters of middle
ga "n,i staunch propriety, and their estab-
! iis!nNI.t was a private house-that is to
/ sayy..a'd printed apartments" was al
! Ways X il the stationer's window round
I lie corner, not their own, when the rooms
" ere Yacaut How did the Misses Philips,
rcsidlng Ill their own private house i'll Har-
ley street-a portion of which they happen
| ed to find too large for their own use, they
said-come to take professional" person
under their exclusive roof? [ haZarded the
SmmiSe, delicately,to Miss Trrinda, and af-
ter some hesitation, ana, necessary to
add, not a little superfluoUs verbage got the
romance, such as it was ofmy fellow dodgers
! life. '
In the first place she " as a married wo-
man only her husband being a gentleman
of family, according to Miss Lucinda, and so,
of course, aversc to anything professional, it
was considered best for the present that ;she
should retain her maiden name In the
next she had child, whom she maintained
with some poor relations of her own in the
country And lastly it was evident
though, true to the instincts of her sex, Miss
Lucinda wss quite upon the captains side
that most of the results of those patient
hours work, those early lessons, those mid
might vigils, went to support an idle, dissipa-
ted husband, who neglected, and affected to
be ashamed, of the faithful hands that work
ed for him
'1t's been an unfortunate story altogeth-
er,sir," said Miss Lucinda; land though l
don't deny that the captains gay, and goes
about to races and such things, and spends
every tarthing he can get out of her on
himself and his own pleasures still ev-
cry one must allow it is a hard thing for
gentleman of family to be brought to see
his wife work. He says he'd never have had
to leave the army, if he had not married, and
perhaps he wouldn't but as it took all her
little fortune to pay his debts, and as he was
obliged to sell his commission to save him
self from going to Jail, [ can't myself say
that | think it was. altogether his wife who
ruined him. However that may be ruined
he was. His friends and he's got the very
highest conections-refused to help him any
more: and Amelia with babe six weeks
! old, and very weak in her own health, was
thrown, yon may say upon the world, for
| the captain, poor gentleman, he was so cut
up about it all that he went off abroad with
what little money they had-to Baden
think it was-for the summer. 1t was then
Mrs. Fitzgerald took to music as a profession
! Her own friends were too poor to help h0r
much as to money but from one to another
they recommended her on as teacher; and
when the captain came home at the end of a
| twelvemonth he found her maintaining her
self and the baby too.
''Well, sir" proceeded Miss Lucinda, pa
thetically, 'of course, it was great come
down--a very great come down for gen
tleman like him to find his wife going from
house to house as a music-mistress but, bit
by bit, she brought him round to consent
provided-poor fellow that she would take
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of disgracing him or his connections and
this she has done from that time, about two
years ago till now. The way she came to
live with US was this: as she got on i'll her
teaching, it was found disadvantage for
J her to live III poor part OF the town, and
through the recommendation of a relation
i of the Captain he quite keeps up with
a number Of the society still-my sister and
! / were induced to let her have our smallest
I down stair set The lady who recommend
ed hadn't an idea that the young person she
was befriending was the captains own wife
nor had we either, of course, But the first
A night she came poor thing, she called my
sister and me into the room, and told us
the whole story. She had been advised not
to do So she said, but she would not live
in our house day and deceive US; Capt.
! Fitzgerald was her husband. He was above
her in birth; and now that she was obliged
to earn her bread, they thought it wiser for
a time that she should take her maiden
name again, especially as the captains
I London friends believed her to be dead,
! I" But l am not dead" she said, trying to
smile, and then ending by bursting into
tears. : ''Im his wife; and some day, when
l am richer, we shall live together again,
and have our own house" And then she
told US about her child, sir, and how it
would be brought to see her, if we would
allow it sometimes, and gave US references
five wanted to ascertain the truth Of her
story, which we've never done, or wished to
do added Miss Lucinda warmly. The
next time the captain called, my sister told
him that we were aware how matters stood,