Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-09-18
"I am very glad to hear it. But, my dear
,uu do not seem very happy tonight. Arc

| yOu no nVL Seem Wei u"PPJ
YOU sick 2"
.Non
/" What ails you, then p
"Nothing."'a ~
81 am glad to hear it;' and Mr.. Spindle
though lie was perfectly satisfied that some
thins was the matter, was so provoking as II
drop the conversations, and turn his attention
to the paper again. =,
"Mrs. Blount had on an elegant new sill
DRESS" continued the lady, after while y!
suppose she came here on purpose to show IT.
avery likely have known ladies to b BE-
guilty of such weakness" replied Spindle
wickedly. :,
alt is an age since I had new silk dress
1 only wish you were in Blount's shoes"
"Bah!"
A yerv expressive interjection this, which
was peculiar favorite will Mr.. Spindle. Il
was, indeed, almost the only means he had o
satisfactorily expressing his disgust. :,
{" You would be contentcd if you only hac
one shirt to your back.''
aI should try to be, if 1 could not gel
another"
"If YOU were only in Blount's circurastan
ces, should be perfectly co1tented."
Perhaps you would !" replied Spindle in
credulously. ....,s
AZ know I should be-
az have made up my mind that person
who is not contented in one sphere will moi
be in another. Do You remember when
had salary of only four hundred dollars 7"
"What of it 2" .,,..
Then, if we could get an income Of one
thousand year, and this very house, yol
would be satisfied"
awe associate with people so muck better
off, that cannot but feel our inferiority."
"Bah!"
eve don't have any thing like other folks
Here we are skived up in this little martin
box of house, DO diners, 10 parties, only
one servant, and about one new dress year.
Dreadful, isn't it my dear"
"You, who are away all your time abou
your business, don't feel as do"
"Poor woman! u
But Mrs. Spindle went on, in spite of her
husbands ridiculc, TO enumerate list O.
wants and deficiencies, which it would pain
reasonable person to read, and which included
hundred things that her husbands salary
placed far beyond her reach.
Her Upright. glowing STAR" at present was
the social position Of the B!onnts; but it wa;
far, very far of, which made her desire tt
reach it all the more. A larger house, fine'
furuiture, newer dresses more opera, more
fashionable dissipation, were just then bel
ideal of perfect happiness.
But Mrs. S. was discontented-and sue hat
been discontentcd all her life. From being
shop-pir!, she had become the wife of POO;
clerk, which seemed to her, at the time, to bt
taking q long step. She was an habiua
prumbler, and alter three years of married
life, her husband had made up his mind that
marriage was lottery. and that he hac
drawn bank.
Abou. three months after the scene wt
have introduced, Mr.. Spindle received visit
from sea ca plain who had just returned from
Valparaiso, where the former had an uncle
who was reputcd to have had handsome
fortune This uncle had "a wife and one child
50 that Spindle had never allowed the FaIpa
r,.iso fortune to form one Of lis expectations
| But thu sea captain Informed him that his
unc.e was lca0; and not omiy his uncle, bn
lis unce's wife and child. This was mos
Astounding intelligence, and Spindle hal
| -
cite,aent of the moment.
The fortune had been let to him an'
anothcr nephew of deceased, and Spindle
wanted to turn double somerset whea nj
WIS told that lis share rather exceeded HI,
thousand dollars. :,
Bur Spindle was queer fellow, after tht
first excitement had spent iisaif, he relapset
into kid of sto!cai Indifference, which
however, was apparently net III the least real
When he went to dinner ;aai day he did no
even meuiion the fact OF his sudden attain
ment of wealth hut waited till in the eve
ming, when the Bioua;s were alluded 10 in tho
usual manner.
of course Mrs. Spindle w7s overwhelmed
with astonishment and delight; and, Will
\ Spindle coolly read tie morning paper e
though nothing bad happened she picturc'
out the establishment they would have, AM
in particular wondered what the Blounl
would say now.
Six months after, and Spindle has the fiil,