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

maps "hehi' put, do nave Sdlu, lucy now
never got that chance. Julia, the elder,
had been but six years old when he had
last called at their highly-rented but di-
minutive habi tation in Mayfair, and now
she was eighteen. and had never seen him
since. Although she had of course grown
out Of the old mans recollection, she re-
membered his figure head, as she called :
his rigid features, uncommonly we'll and
indeed, nobody who had ever seen was it
likely to forget it. His countcnance
was not SO much human as ligenous; and
his profile Nephew Jack had actually seen
upon certain nobbly tree in the lime-walk !
of Clare Hall at Cambridge,-much more
like than any sillhoutte ever cut out of
black paper. They had laughed at the
old gentleman in early days, and snapped
their fingers at his churlishness, but it
had become no laughing matter now.
That remark of Uncle 1ngot's, IF ever
you or yours get five pounds out of me,
madam, before die, promise you, you
shall have five thousand; and l am
man of my word" had become very So
rious sentence, condemning all the family
to, if not Poverty. at least very urgent
Want.
What it meant of course was, that he
was resolutely determined to give them
nothing. In vain the young ladies work
ed for Uncle lngot slippers and book mar
kers for his birthday, and sent to him
their best wishes at Christmas in Rimmel's
highly. y.scented envelopes; in vain Jack sent
to him pound of the most excellent snuff
that Bacon's emporium could furnish, at
the beginning Of every term. He always
wrote back civil letter Of thanks, in a
clear and clerkly letter, but there was
never any enclosure. When Mrs. Isaac
asked him to dinner, he declined in caus-
tic manner,-avowing that he did not feel
himself comfortable at the aristocratic ia
bles of the West End sent. her
pineapple for the dessert, of his own
growing.
He had really no ill-feeling towards his
relatives, although he kept himself co es-
strange from them; but think tbs sort
of conduct tickled the old gentlemen s
grim sense of humor. If he could have
found some legitimate excuse for making
| up" with his sister.in-law, within the Grst
year or two of their falling out. perhaps
he would have been glad to do so but
! time had now so wideued the breach, that
it was not to be easily repaired. What
; he had satirically written when he declin-
ed her invitation had grown to be true ;
s he rarely went into society, and almost
s never into the company Of ladies, the ell
der'portion Of whom he considered frivolous
3 and vexatious, and the younger positively
dangerous.
He had few old bachelor friends, how
ever. with whom he kept up cordial in.
, tsrcourse, and spent with them various
f festivals Of the year as regularly as they
came round.
On the 3lst of December, for instance
he never omitted to 60 down to Reading,
G and "see the old year out and the new year
G in," in the company of Tom Whaffles,
o with whom he had worn the yellow stock
+ ings IN these school-days that had passed
Z. away more than half century ago. Tom
n and Isaac had been even greater cronies
as boys than Tom and Ingot. but the lat.
ter did not like Tom the less on that ac.
: count; secretly, think he esteemed him
= the more highly as link between him
q self and the luckless family whose very
e existence he yet chose to ignore. Mr.
p Whaffles had intimate relations with them
' still /; they came down to stay with him
:. whenever his sister paid him visit, and
could act as hostess; but this never hap
n pened in the last week of the year. Ton
was never to speak of them to his eld
. riend,---that was not only tacitly under
stood, but had even been laid down il
! writing. as the basis of their intimacy.
6 On the 3lst of December last, as usual
y at the paddington Station, looking for al
I empty compartment, for his own company
5 had got to be ve,y pleasing to him. Hav
o ing attained his object, and rolled himsel
: up in the corner of the carriage in severa
3 greatcoats, with his feet upon hot tin
/ and his hands clothed in thick mittens
and looking altogether like a polar bea
4 who liked to make himself comfortable, -
4 when everything was arranged, say, tt
h the old gentleman's complete satisfaction
- who should invade his privacy, just a
4 the train was about to start, and the whis
'. tie had sounded, but one of the most be
n witching young ladies you ever set eye
!. on
y MADAM, this carriage is engaged" b
h growled, pointing to the umbrella, carpet
h bag, and books, which he had distributes
s. upon all the seats, in order to give it tha
h appearance.
', .Only engaged to you, ! think. sir,
=. replied the charmer, fippantly "Happ
Is carriage ! ] wish | was. Is not tina
!; pretty ?"
IS Mr.. Beardmoro had never had anythin
8. half 90 shocking said to him in all hi
'. life and if the train had not been alread