The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-07-14
Misrellantoms.
UNCLE INGoT.
how he was Taken In"

IL ever you or yours get i've pounds out
! OF me. madam. before | die | promise you.
I You shall have five thousand and am a
man Of my word :" so spoke Mr.. Ingot
Beardmore. drysalter and common. C ouncil.
man Of the city OF London. 20 Doroihea
/ Elizabeth. his widowed sisterin.law. who
had applied 10 him for pecuniary succor
about three months after the death of his
younger brother Isaac. he- husband There
was harshneSs and stubborn deteruiu.:.os =
1 enough in has reply, but there was no mig.
/ gard cruelty Mrs. Isaac wanted money,
/ i, is true. but only in the sense in which We
all want it, She was only poor in compar.
/ ison with the great wealth Of this relative
| by marriage. Her income was large enough
for any ordinary-Mr. lngot said legiti.
mate purpose. but il was not sufficient
for sending her boy 10 Eton. and finishing
him oil at the universities. Is II was the
maternal wish TO do. Mr.. lngot hated
such genieel intentions Christ's Hospital
had been fashionable enough school for
{ him, and he had finished of as clerk at
| forty pounds year in that very respectable
house Of which he was now the senior part.
ner. With the results Of that education.
as exemplified in himself he was perfectly
satisfied. aud ii his nephews only turned
might think herself uncommonly lucky
Her family had given themselves airs upon
the occasion Of her marrying lsaac-" ally
ing herself with commerce" some OF them
| called it-and Ingot had never forgiven
them. lie gloried in his own profession,
although Government had never seen tt 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. lie hon.
estly believed tha, noblemen and gentle.
men were the lower orders. and those who
toiled aud strove. the upper crust Of the
human pie. When he was told that the
former classes often toiled and strove in
their own way as much as the others. he
made o gesture Of contempt. and blew
like an exasperated whale. II was q vul.
gar sort of reiort Of course. but so eminent.
ly expressive that his opponent rarely pur.
sued the subject.
He rather liked his sister. in.law, in spite
Of her good birth. aud would doubtless
largely have assisted her had she consent.
ed 10 bring mp her children according TO
his views but since she preferred TO take
her own way. he withdrew himself more and
more from her society. until they saw moth.
ing at all OF one another. lie had no in.
tention OF leaving his money away from his
brothers children he had much too strong
q sense Of duty for that and rs for mar.
rage, that was an idea that never entered
into his hard old head. lie had not made
a fool Of himself BY falling in love in middle
age as Isaac had done. lin youth he had no
time for such follies.l and IL was not likely
that at sixty.five he should commit any such
imprudence. 30 his nephews aud nieces
felt confident Of being provided for in the
future. In the present, however. rs time
wore on, and the education OF both girls
and boys grew more expensive. Mrs. Isaac's
income became greatly Strengthened. Her
own family very much applauded the ex
pensive way in which she was bringing up
her children. and especially her indepcn.
dence Of spirit with relation TO her trades.
man brother.in.law but they never assisted
her with penny The young gentleman
at Cambridge was therefore kept upon short
allowance and the young ladies. whose
beauty was something remarkable. affected
white muslin, aud we're no meretricious Jew.
clry. Their pin money vas very limited.
poor things. and they made their own
clothes ut home by the help Of n sewing ma.
chine. II Uncle Ingot could have seen
them thus diligently employed. his heart
would perhaps have softened toward them !;
but. as have said. they now never got that
chance. Julia tho elder. had been but six
years old when he had last called at their
highly.rented but diminutive habitation in
Mayfair, and now she was eighteen, and
never seen him since. Although she had
OF course grown out Of the old mans recol.
lection, she remembered his figure head. as
she wickedly called bis riged features, un.
commonly well and, indeed, nobody who
bad ever seen Il was likely 10 forget it,
His countepance was not so much human
as IL was ligenous and bic profile Nephew
Jack actually seen upon certain noby
tree in the limewalk OF Glare Hall at Cam.
bridge-much more like than any silhouet.
70 ever cut out Of black paper. They had
laughed at the old gentleman in early days,
and had snapped their fingers at bic churl'
ishnsss, but ith had become no laughing mat.