The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-01-10

had for the kitchen, and the landlord
will give us permission TO put it in, l
know. 1t Will not cost more than a
hundred and fifty dollars, all com
plete.'
"Prices have very much increased,
Sarah"
ooh, yes, [ know; but the house
must be furnished, as you have always
said. We can do it elegantly for five
thousand dollars, and quite iespecta-
bly, for two"
"Well, well, I'll see -
And Sarah laughed her quiet laugh
as her beWildered husband took his
way to the store, not half so anxious
as he once had been to invest III NOV
ables. All the day long he worried in
expectation of the landlords collector.
He had quite drawn his proportion of
money from the firm for the quarter
and now, from an empty eychequer
were rent 10 pay, and large house to
furnish. OF course the collector did
not call; we, who are IN the secret
know why, but Mr.. Henry Prince had
not an idea. Certainly the dream of
married life had quite lost its hues Of
glory As to the rent, he thought he
could get that, sOmeholC, his famous
mode IN difficulties And, for the
I furniture, if his wife were only rea-
..,.s-.-Ll4 ,ss..-e.., .i.e.4 se,,i7 be had too,
on reasonable credit; but he knew she
would rather the house should remain
unfinished than incur any debt. So,
on the whole, he returned home in the
evening, feeling that he was very i'll
used man.
The wife had news for him. The
demand for houses had so increased
that she had learned, and through the
landlord, too, that he could receive
five hundred dollars bonus for his
lease. "Confound him - thought Har-
~ to himself, "hes alarmed for his
rent. He might have sent for it, lie
fore taking it for granted that he
should not get it III call round and
pay him tomorrow, if I have to pawn
my watch but he said nothing out,
and Sarah proceeded. Five hundred
dollars would be so convenient, you
know. 1t would pay our rent for the
rest Of the year; and longer, if we took
a smaller house
Henry WINGED. For he wondered
where the money was to come from for
the first quarter. Waving that part
OF the question, however, ho suggested
that finding a new house might be at
tended with some difficulty; and that
it might be quite as well to secure
another home, before turning them
selves out Of doors.
Henry was evidently not in q very
good humor; but ms wife was wicked
~ cheerful Suppose, she said, that
] should tell You that we can move to-
morrow into another house, and at
half the rent Of this p
I'm which narrow court, or what
blind alley =
In neither CO TT nor alley, bat over
the Schuylkill, where we can find, Just
il time, the advantages Of a summer
residence, aud return next fall, if You
insist upon it
do you ,ct5, it, SARAH
"Unquestionably.
And where viii YOU put the new
furniture There Viii be scarce room
in smaller house for that we have
But we need not give, word for
word, the residue Of the conversation /;
especially, as a good part of 1t was
done IN pantomllne-ye expressive
pantomime, though not various. The
posture which Columbine took was 10
lean her head on her l0ver-husband's
breast; and he never quite knew, until
this very hour, what n truly loving
wife he had, and sensible as she was
afectionate He learned the key to
Sarah's extravaganza; TO wit, that she
had obtained the amount Of the rent
from him by false pretences; but the
punishment he imposed on her for her
deceit was not grievous. And she pre-
( tended to learn from hun that he 3raS
really pressed for eyjust then, As
if she did not know all the time
And the decision was that they
should accept the bonus, and surren-
der the premises, and take possession
forthwith Of the nice little cottage
which Sarah had discovered The old
bachelor landlord came in, during the
evening, but playfully refused to talk
of business. He babe henry call in
business hours; or" he added, with
a good natured pretence ut malace,
send your wife She is the first wo-
man with whom l ever found it en-
tirely satisfactory to transact bust
ness.
OF course they removed; bat they
did even better than that. II the
new house, at their first breakfast,
feeling like prince and princess in fact
as they were by name, Sarah said:
" Suppose, Harry, we should buy
this place .
Why, Sarah. 1t strikes me that
you have taught me economy only to
convert me into extravaganza Where
is the money to come from p
Suppose, then, that should buy
it? The little have would be well in
vested in a home for our children. "
Henry did not know she had any
sum in reserve, large or small. But
that did not strike him so much, as
the purpose she avowed in the invest
ment
The furniture they had was more
than enough The five hundred dol
-, l,o,,,c ,.-oc mt into poipt ard ra-