Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-22

So spoke Mr.. lngOt beArdm0F9, dry
salter and common councilman of the cisg
of London, to DOrothea Elizabeth. hia
widowed sister-in-lsW, who had applied
to him for peeUniary sueeor abeut three
months after the death Of his youagae
brother Isaac, her husband. There WeHa
I harshness and stubbern deteFmlnatioa
enough in his reply, but there was niss
gard cruelty. Mrs. Isaac wanted mOBaF,
It Is true, but only il the sense in Whien
we all want it. She was only poor 81
comparison with she great wealth Of her
relative By marriage. Her income WGs
large enough for any ordinary sAn-
got said Legitimate purpose. but not
sufficient for sending her boy to Etoa,
and finishing him off at the universities
as it was the maternal wish to do. Mr.
IngOt hated such genkeel intentions
ChFist's Hospital had been fashions b
enough school for him. and he had us
ished off, as a clerk at forty pounds
year in that very respectable house Of
which he was now the senior paEt16E.
With the results Of the education as hE-
emplifed In himself, he was perEesllg
satisfied, and If his neDheWs only TUNED
out half as we'll, their mother, he theUghs
might think herself UncemmOnly lucky.
Her family had given themselves airs no
on the occasion Of her marrying Isa1e--
'ailying herself with commerce, some Of
them called it-and IngOt had never fors
given them. He glorifedin his own pros
fession, although government had never
seen fit to ennOble any member Of it, and
perhaps all the more upon that accouat
for he was one of those radicals who are
not "snubs" at heart, but rather aElsta-
Gratis. He honestly believed that nobla-
men and gentlemen were the lower BFd-
ers, and those who tOlled and stTOFe, the
upper crust of the human pie. Wheu he
was told that the former Glasses often
toiled and strOve in their own way as
much as the others, he made q gesture Of
contempt, and blew" like an ezasPeFated
whale 1t was vulgar sort Of retoEt of
course, but SO eminently, expressive
that his opponent rarely pursued the sub
ject. .ar.s ~ .o
He rather liked his sister<in-laW IN
spite Of her good birth, and would have,
doubtlessly, largely assisted her had she
consented to bring up her children ae-
cording to his views but since shs pre-
ferred to take her own way, he WithdFeH
himself more and more from her society,
until they saw nothing at all Of one an
other. He had no intention of leaving
his money away from his brother child
ren he had much too strong sense Of
duty for that and as for marriage that
was an idea that never entered his head
He had not madea fool Of himself byl
falling in love in middle age as asaaB had
done Gin youth he had no time for such
fOllies,) aad 1t vas not likely that atsiL-|
ty-fiVe he should commit any such lnpgu-
dence. So his nepheWs and nieces felt
confident of being provided for In the fa-
ture In the present, vhoWeFeF, as time
went on, and the education Of both girls
and boys grew more expensives hlrs. l.
saae's income greatly enlightened. Her
own family very m9eh applaHded the e1-
DensiYe way in which she was bringing
up her children, and especially her Inae=
pendenee Of spirit With relation TO her
tradesman- -brOther-in-laW, but they never
assisted her with q penny. The young
gentleman at Cambridge was, therefore,
kept on very short allowance and the
young ladies, whose beauty was something
remarkable, affected white muslin and
wore no meretrieiOus jeWelry. Their pin
money was limited, poor things, and they
made their own clothes at home By the
help of sewing machine. If Uncle In
got could have seen them thus diligently
employed, his heart would perhaps have
sOftened toward them, but as 1 have said,
they now never got that chance. y ulla.
the elder, had been butsix years old when
he had last called at their higbly-rented
but diminutive habitation in Mayfair, aud
now she was eighteen, and had never seen
him since. Although she had of course
grown out of the old mans recollection,
she remembered his figure head, as she
Wiekidly called his rigid features, unCOm-
monty well and indeed, nobody who
had ever seen it was likely to forget it.
His cOunienanoe was not 50 much human
as hgneOus and his profile Nephew
Jack had actually seen upon a certain
nobby tree in the lime walk of Glare Hall
at Cambridge-much more like than any
silhouette ever cut out of black paper.
They had laughed at the old gentleman
In early days; and snapped their fingers
at his churlishness, but il had become no
laughing matter now.
The remark of Uncle Ingot's, IF ever
you or yours get five pounds out of me,
madam, before die, promise you, you
shall have five thousand and / am man
of my word, had become a very serious
| 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.
worked for Uncle Ingot slippers and
book markers for his birthday, aud sent
/ to him their best wishes at Christmas, IN
/ Rimmel's highly-seented envelopes in
vain Jack sent him a pound of the most
excellent snuff that BacOn's emporium
could furnish at the beginning Of every
term. He always wrote back a civil let
| ter of thanks, In a clear and elerkly hsud,
/ but there was never any enclosure.
/ When Mrs. Isaac asked him to dinner,
| he declined In a caustic manner-aVOW-
4 ing that he did not feel himself comfort
able at the arIstoeratic tables Of the West
End-and sent her pine apple for the
dessert, of his own growing. He had re-
ally no ill-feeling toward his relatives,
although he kept himself so estranged
from them but think this sort of con-
duct tickled the old gentlaman's grim
sense of humOr. If he could have found
some legitimate excuse for making up
with his sister-in- law, within the past
year or two of their falling out, perhaps
he would have been glad to do so but
time had so Widened the breach, that it
was not to be easily repaired. What he
had satirically written when he declined
her invitation had grown to be true : he
rarely went into society, and almostnever
into the company of ladies, the elder pOE-
ton of whom he considered frivolous and
vexatious, and the younger positively
dangerous He had n few old bachelor
friends, however, with whom he kept up
a cordial intercourse. and spent with them
various festivals of the year as regularly
as they came round.
i On the 3lst Of December, for instance.
he never omitted to go down TO Reading,
and ''see the old year out aud the new one
in, y in the company of Tom w hafies, with
whom he had worn the colored stockings
! in those school days that had passed away
more than half a century ago. Tom and
Isaac had been even greater crOnies as
boys than Tom and Ingot, but the latter
Il did not like Tom the less on that account:
secretly, I think he esteemed him the more