The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-08
From the Sunday Magazine.
LAURA RICHMOND.
BY JEAN INGELow.
CHAPTER III.


give that upY
My dear we must give up. some-
thing, and there is no harm IN consld-
ering the cost of this visit" ~
So after some discussion and COM
parison of one year with another, it
was, found that this visit cost alto
gethers about fifty pounds annual
And" said Harriet, sit is cerainly
our greatest pleasure : =
Then there is Moxon," thought
Laura, but she said nothing. AAnd in
due time the son and his wife took
their leave, after a good many unwel
come remarks from the latter to the
girls touching general economy, the
absurdity of giving dinner parties, the
needlessnessaof wine for young people
in good health, and the prepriety of
looking afteraservants oneself.
Mrs. Richmond, though she had felt
annoyed by the remarks of her daugh-
ter-in law; "Grace has every right to
speak, for she manages Gilbert's
house, with their eight children. a
governess, and tour servants, for less
money, my dear, than we spend. ," r.
But they would not have a smaller
income than yours, mamma, if she did
not make Gilbert insure his life so
heavily" ~-a4f1s 90 ~1u-
Make him. Do not use such an
expression, my dear Ifhe were taken
from his family young, what would his
property be. when divided between
eight sons and daughters? Grace is
truly wise; and it is not long since she
told me that Gilbert was generally in
far better spirits and more light heart
ed since she had persuaded him to
give up, the phaeton, and add to his
policy" HISS ltl3J
you always take her part, moth
err" -, -.......,.,, sam zr,o
Il ought to dol Wban an excel
lent marriage twas thought for her
a poor vicar S daughter. Yet, when
he chose to give up his profession, and
settle down here to devote himself to
literature, how we'll she bore ii. She
knew what straitened circumstances
were by experience, yet she set herself
bravely to meet them; and though /
do not believe he makes twenty pounds
year yet by his writings, she always
fatters him that he will do in time
Indeed [ often feel that she is a far
more prudent housewife than [ am,
and she has all that is really needfuf
though she spendsles z JneyY oHq i
Dear mamma" said Josephine,
you had full right to spend it while
you had it. I only wish | knew what
| could do to economist. ~,
Harriet said nothing; she was awed
into something like thoughtfullnes by
the vague impression that pecuniary
straits were at hand.
There's nothing I hate" said Laura,
with energy, so much as that word
struggling. [ cannot bear to hear
people talk of struggling. Why should
any one struggled"
| why, my dear" said her mother,
again displeased by the tone of her re-
marks; surely it is better to struggle
than to succumb, you would not have
us despair, or run into debt, or let
| things take their course?"
mo, mamma, answered Laura land
added, I had a letter to-day from
Moxon. She proposes to come back
as she promised, for fortnight, but
says that after that time her father
must have her to mind the shop.
"Ah!'' said Harriet, II knew how
II would be; misfortunes never come
single. And what comfort she
would have been to us now
Yes" said Laura, but | know of
such a capital, capable, and thorough
ly desirable person to take her place"
| What do you mean?" exclaimed
Josephine. You know perfectly
what a very expensive servant Mox-
on is; you are quite provoking to-
night, Laura, | declare" But, in re-
atty, it was a secret sense of what
Lanra did mean that made her sister
SO uncomfortable.
Only" proceeded Laura, she is, |
should say. superior person to Mox-
on, aud If she is engaged the house
hold work will have to be arranged
rather differently. Motherp'
The mother turned on hearing her
self appealed to, and looked Laura
full in the face; she saw a cheerful,
pleasant face enough
Mother" repeated Laura, you
paid Moxon twenty two pounds year,
/ and l have heard you say that the ex-
ira things servants have, such as tea
| and sugar, &c. cost about seven
pounds year. ~o-,
+ Yes" said the mother
And what is a servants board con
sidered to cOst?" -, -.
From thirty to thirty Eve pounds
Then Moxon cost you certainly
sixty pounds year. u ~
More than that, my dear, for there
were her travelling expenses when
she went about with US.
Those, perhaps, were ten pounds a
year?" ssI-elIal ATG Sl0oD t11
They may have been, one year with
another'-