Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-04-25

UNCLE INGOT,

"If ever you or yours get five pounds
out of me, madam, before die Ipromise
you, you shall have five thousand F.; and
| am a man of my word" So spoke Mr..
Ingot Bcardmore, drysalter and common
councilman of the city of London, to Do
rothca Elizabeth, his widowed sister in
law, who had applied to him for pecuniary
succor about three months after the death
of his younger brother Isaac, her husband.
There were harshness and stubborn deter
mination enough in his reply, but there
was no niggard cruelty. Mrs. Isaac want
ed money, it is true, but only in the sense
in which we all want it, She was only
poor in comparison with the great wealth
Of this relative by marriage. Her income
was large enough for any ordinary-Mr.
Ingot said "lcgitimate"-purpose, but not
sufficient for sending her boy to Eton, and
finishing him off at the universities, as it
was the maternal wish to do. MIR. Ingot
hated such genteel intentions; Christ's
Hospital had been fashionable enough
school for him, and he had finished off,
as clerk at forty pounds year in that
very respectable house of which he was
now the senior partner. With the results
of that education, as exemplifed in him
self, he was perfectly satisfied, and if his
nephews only turned out half as well,
their mother, he thought, might think her
self uncommonly lucky. Her family had
given themselves airs upon the occasion
of her marrying Isaac,-"allying herself
with commerce." some of them called it,
and Ingot had never forgiven them.
He gloried in his own profession, although
government had never seen fit to ennoble
any member Of it, and perhaps all the
more upon that account; for he was one
of those radicals who are not ."snobs" at
heart, but rather aristocrats He honest
ly believed that noblemen and gentlemen
we're the lower orders, and those who toll
cd and strovc, the upper crust of the hui
man pie. When he was told that the for
mcr classes often toiled and strove in their
own way as much as the others, he made
gesture Of contempt, and "blew' like
an exasperated whale. 1t was vulgar
sort of retort, of course, but so eminently
expressive, that his opponent rarely pur-
sued the subject.
He rather liked his sister in-law, in
spite of her good birth, and would have,
doubtless, largely assisted her had she
consented to bring up her children accord.
ed to his views; but since she preferred
to take her own way, he withdrew himself
more and more FROM her society, until they
saw nothing at all Of one another He had
no intention of leaving it to his brothers
children: he had much too strong sense
duty for that; and as for marriage that
was an idea that never entered into his
hard old head He had not made foo
of himself by falling in love in middle
age, as Isaac had done lin youth. he had
not time for such follies), and it was no
likely that at sixty.fve be should commit
any such imprudence. So his nephew
and pieces felt confident of being provided
for in the future. In the present, how
: ever as time went on, and the education
of both girls and boys grew moro expen
awe. Mrs. Isaac's income became great!
r straitened Her own family very mucl
applauded the expensive way in whicl
! she was bringing up her children, and es e.,
pecially her independence of spirit VIII
e relation to her tradesman brother'in-law
: but they neYer assisted her with a penny
The young gentleman at Cambridge wa
/: therefore kept upon very short allowance
Q and the young ladies, whose beauty wa
something remarkable, affected white mus
lin. and wore no meretricious jewelry
( Their pin.money was very limited, poo
; things, and they made their own el1the tn:
u ~ ho,,s nv the helm of a sewing machine