The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-10-02
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UNCLE INGoT.

+ Esn NUN snail have UNe titNAHdMtls anu j
am nam q my word. So spoke Mr..
/ Ingot BeardmoTe, drysalter and COM
+ mon councilman q tho city Of London,
I IS Doroihea Elizabeth, his widowed
s.sior-in-law, who had applied g INN
for pecuniary succor, about three
months after the death Of his younger
/ brother Isaac, her husband There
we're harshness and stubborn detcrmi-
nation Ia his reply, but thcro was 40
ngpard cruelty Mrs Isaac wanted
money it Is true, bat only in the sense
I ii which We all want it. She was only
poor in comparison with the great
wealth Of this relative by marriage
1 Hcr income was largo enough fof any
ordinary AIR. Ingot said Legitimate
i--puposc, butnot sufficient for sending
hor boy 10 Eton, aud finishing of al tho
universities, as it WAS the maternal wish
TO do. MFR Ingot hated such gonteol
intentions; Christ's Hospital had been
fashionable enough school for him,
and he had finished of as q clerk at
forty pounds a year in that very respec-
4 table house OF which he was now the
senior partner. With the results OF
that education, as exempliiiod in him
self, he was perfectly satisfied, and il
his nephews only turned out half as
well, their mother, he thought, might
think herself uncommonly lucky. Her
family had given themselves airs upon
I tho occasion Of her marrying Isaac--
"allying herself with commerce" some
Of them called it. and Ingot had never
forgotten them. lie doried in his own
profession, although government had
Ineyor seen fit to ennobe any mcmbor
of it, aud perhaps all the more upon
| tlat account; for he was one of those
radicals who arc not "snobs' at heart,
but rather aristocrats. He honestly
| believed that noblenen and gentlemen
were the lower orders, and those who
toiled and stroye, the upper crust OF
| the human pie. When lie wastold that
the former classes often toiled and
stroYo in their own way as much as the
others, he made a gesture of contempt
aud blow like an exasperated whale
1t was vulgar sort of retort of course,
but SO cminently expressive that his op-
ponont rarely pursued the subject
He rather liked his sister r-in-law, in
spite Of her good birth, and would have,
doubtless, largely assisted her had she
consented TO bring up her children ac-
colping TO his views; but since she pre-
| ferred to take her own way, hc with
drew himself more and more from heI
society, until they saw nothing ut all OF
one another. He had no intention OF
leaving his money away from his broth
er's children; lie had much too strong
a sense Of duty for that; and as for
marriage, that was an idea that never
entered into his hard old head. He
had not made q fool of himself by fall
ing III love iii middle age, as Isaac had
done (in youth, he had not time for
such follies, and it was not likely that
At sixty-iiye he should commit any such
imprudence. So his nephews and ME
ces felt confident OF being provided for
in the future. In the present, however,
rs time went ON, and the education Of
both boys and girls grew more expen-
siye, Mrs. Isaac's income became great
! " straitened Her own family very
much applaudod the expensive way in
which She was bringing up her child
rem, and especially her independence OF
spirit with relation to her tradesman
brother-in- law, but thcy never assisted
her with penny. The young gentle
man at Cambridge was therefore kept
upon very short allowance; and the
young ladies, whose beauty was some
| thing remarkable, affected white mus
! lin, and wore no meretricious jewoiry.
Their pin-money was very limited poor
things, and they made their own clothes
at home by the help of a sewing-ma-
chine. II Uncle Ingot could have seen
them thus diligently employed, his
heart would perhaps have softened to-
wards them, but, as I said, they now
never got that chance. Julia, the elder,
had been but six years old when he had
called at their highly-rentod but dimi-
nutiyc habitation in Mayfeld, and now
she was eighteen, and had never seen
him since. Although she had Of course
grown ont OF the old man s recollection
she remembered his figure head, and
she wickedly called his rigid features,
uncommonly well; and, indeed, nobody
who had over seen it was likely to for
Igot it. His coantenanco Was not 50
much human rs hgneous; and bis pro-
lille, Nephew Jack had actually seen
upon certain nobbly tree in the lime
walk Of Glare Hall at Cambridge much
more like than any silloutte ever cut
out Of black paper She had laughed at
tho old gentleman in carly days, and
snapped her fingers at his churiishness.
but it had become no laughing matter
tnow
That remark Of Uncle Ingots, III
ever you or yours get five pounds out
I of Inc, madam, before / die, l promise
you, You shall have Eve thousand; and
| am a man Of my word, had become
a very serious sentence, condemning all
the family 10, II not poverty, at least
very urgent want What | meant Of
I course WAS, that he was rcsolutely de-
tormined TO give them nothing Ia vain
the young ladies worked for Uncle In
got slippers and book-markers for his
birthday, and sent to him their best
wishes at Christmas in Rimmel highly
scented envelopes; ia vain Jack sent
q s.E :