Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-01-04
CHATTER Nv.

Three months went by; during
which the characters Of our story were
by no means idle, for each had been
,enacting their own share in the little
drama whose curtain was about to fall
ON the closing act. =
The day following Mr.. Hunncman's
party, the new clerk entered upon his
duties in the mercantile house Of his
employer and also became domestica
ted in his family-that is, so far as he
was allowed to be SO by the cold CT.
Witty of madame, and frigid Aauteur
Of Miss Theresa. Grace, however,
was always Kind and ladylike and
Mr.. Zimmerman was too absorbed in
his business cares, to observe anything
that was transpiring in his own house
bold SO long as the rules of hospitality
were not openly violated Meantime
absorbed in his daily duties and his
own affairs, George Cudworth paid
but little attention to the ill-breeding
of Mrs. Zimmerman or her eldest daugh.
ter; while little Grace he had come to
regard as an esteemed and valued
friend. 4"3 .a. ttw
Grace, herself, however, was in a
state of perplexity. Cudworth--al.
ways gentlemanly and kind-did not
seem to her, ever again, as he did that
first night in her mothers drawing
room !; and she often found herself
wondering that the acquaintance
which had then commenced SO auspi-
ciously had never ripened into that
fullness which it promised. She was
not the least ain love with the new
clerk still her natural amiability of
disposition, and desire to render hap,
py all under her fathers roof, prompt
cd her to treat Cudworth with that
Kindness and politeness which con-
stantly drew forth her sisters sneers
and ridicule. eee'" i atf"12
Rodney Lansing polished by trav-
Ell, and elegantly and fashionably clad
in the extreme Of lessodc-appeared at
Mrs. Hunneman's . few days follow
ing her fete /; and, it Is needless to say,
that he met with the most fattcring
reception from both that lady and her
eldest daughter; while our sweet
Grace gave him her warmest smile Of
welcome, for she remembered him as
q staunch patren, who had always
brought her bon boas, Christmas gifts,
and had kissed her as though she was
not a thirteen year old miss three
years before, at his departure for Eu-
rope, a.fE y.gf.a
How you have AL improved, to be
snre said lansing in the free, easy
manner which was his charm in the
eyes Of Mrs. Zimmerman, who foresaw,
in it. visions Of his being, one day, en-
itirely !" at home" in her family. "To
you, my dear madame. the lapse Of
time since ] saw you last has only
brought added dignity; while-but l
have no, words to express what the
graces have been doing for your daugh-
: ters lnpt74 sary-ss 40 ,...f
Lansing's bow was for Theresa, as
he uttered the closing part of his fat
tering sentence /; but . keen observer
would have seen that his eyes were
perceive that your residence
! abroad has made you somewhat Of a
courtier. Consin Rodney q" Mrs. Hun.
ne,nan was very fond Of saying Cous-
iss Rodney.') "and ] arm sorely in fear
lest our plain republican ladies will
suffer beside the foreign beauties you
must have seem"
my dear Mrs. Zimmerman, be as
sured that my heart, as well as my
politics, will always be true to my
own country |" was Lansing's reply,