Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-02

and as there was neither pride on job.
part, nor q vulgar assumption on his
wife's, they were everywhere we'll re-
ceived, and gave in return such pleas
ant parties, under the direction of Mr..
Frederick, the tutor, who was every
way fitted by birth and taste to do the
honors in an admirable manner, that
their numerous acquaintances eagerly
accepted their invitations, especially
after the first party, when many went
out of mere curiosity, hut returned
home with expressions of delight and
amazement at the display. Job had
discrimination enough To discover that
it was not his money alone that had
made these parties pass SO pleasantly,
but that it was the skillful manage
ment of his tutor.
On his first engagement he had paid
him two hundred pounds per annum !;
but hearing that he had widowed
mother and two sisters, whom he sup
ported, he generously added another
hundred, and gave hint to Mrs. Cole
to make them presents now and then,
out of superfiuities, which the kind soul
readily complied with. ..... ......
When Fanny, his eldest daughter,
had attained her eighteenth year, he
took her from school, by the advice OF
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plished woman to finish her education.
very pretty, and had already acquired a
tone and manner which surprised and
gratified her excellent parents.
About month after her return home,
Job, addressing his tutor, said, Mr..
Lawson, Mrs: Cole and me have been
thinking"
MRS. Cole and have been thinking,
ifyou please, sill" interrupted Mr.. Law
son.
"Well, never mind grammar and all
that just now,h continued job, "for |
am speaking natural. We've been
thinking it's rather awkward, since
Fanny has come home, to haye young
gentleman always futtering about her"
Mr.. Fredrick Lawson blushed and
trembled he evidently saw the issue
he bowed and was silent.
Now tell me, don't you think a
likely young fellow like you is danger
Gus Human nature, you know. You
and me have always been friends, and /
owe you u great deal, SO speak your
mind"
| ~ am sorry to confess, sir, that l
think you are perfectly right in your
views," replied Mr.. Lawson.
Cool said Job; "then you don't
fret much about leaving"
Indeed, sir, you wrong me-"
"And perhaps you don't think the
girl worth looking ut, and there's no
danger"
"Sir, think she Is very charming
young lady; but have never regarded
her i'm any other Liz Int than as the daugh-
ter of liberal and kind-hearted pat
ron"
"You think the old coalman's daugh-
ter not good en- ough, mnyhap, fora gen
tleman ~
81 am too poor and dependent to en-
tertain any thoughts upon the subject" !"
| "Nonsense a gentlcman's a gentle
man, if he hasn't scuddick. TO cut
the matter short, if you can make up
matters with Fan, | shall be glad to
have such n sOnin-law, that's all. And
Mrs. Coles my may of thinking-so
look to it."
A month after this singular tete-a-
tete, Mr.. Frederick Lawson led Frances
Cole, daughter OF job Cole, Esq. to the
hymeneal altar. And proud was the
honest old coaman of such an aili-
ancc; although many scheming nam.
mas, who had eligible SONS, were terri.
bly, put out, and wondered what the old
fool could have been thinking about
and he worth plum, too.