The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIEL,S DELICATE CASE.


1ine woman when she came to I'LL out.
But she never cid fill out; on the con-
trary, Time, tDat stole her years away,
robbed her Of plumpnesS, too and after
thirty anniversaries of that wedding-d day,
she was considerably more slender than
at starting. She wore curls, and a black
band round her forehead, aud mittens-
not knowing that these things bad long
ceased to make her attractive, and, on a
first introduction, would have struck you
generally as being somewhat OF guy /;
but a better wife you would scarcely find
in ali Eng gland, and that is infinitely more
important than c0mellness and tasteful at
tire, as you will own before you have been
married for quarter Of a century.
Excellent at al times, Mrs Fiel cul-
minated at meals. Call no man happy Till
you have seen him at breakfast {. natural
irriiability in Mr. Fieps disposition had
been almost entirely cured By little s0oth-
ing comforts and tit-bits He was a So
licitOr, with an office in London, and a
semi detached villa IN the suburbs, who
had TO leave the latter at 0 TO reach the
tOrmsr by 10 every morning. This neces-
STATED breakfast at s, but even at that
early hour Mrs. Fiel saw to every detail
herself
1t would have shaken very confirmed
bachelor to have seen her table one spring g
morning "a lew years agO-the linen was
SO white, and the tea so black, the water
crosses and radleheS so fresh, the MARINA
lade and apricot jam 50 daIntily set out,
the eggs so Lew l0okin.,, the loafso brown
and crusty, the dry toast SD crisp and
thin. And when she heari the tread OF
her husbands foot on the staircase, and
the flourish on mis- nose which invariably
heralded his approach, she rang the bell
for the appetizing little covered dish,
which matched and fitted the slop-basin
To be brought up. This contained friZzled
slices OF ham or bacon, delicate and curled,
a sausage, "a kidney, or the savOry thigh
of a chicken May such be your only do
mestic brOilsl
y hale, neat man, with sharp gray eyes,
anu very good opinion of himself, en-
tered ana looked at his letters, selecting
and opening one at once.
W ell, Martha said ne, "the Chip
chow has arrived at last"
e You don't say soi Then Mr.. Lobyear
will be here presently. VIII he come to
stay with us, DO you think %
: don't know. You had better have a
bed ready; though expect he has nOt
come To England with the idea of shut
ting himself up with an old man and wO-
man four miles from the Marble A rch.
Still, as everything will be strange to nini
at first, he may accept my invitation for a
night or two"
This Mr. Thomas Lobyear is itch, is
he nOt?"
"Will be, ] suppose. At present he
probably depends upon his father, who
has given me very liberal orders, absurd
ly liberal orders, about him. From living
SO long amongst stvages, the old man
must have lost all idea of the value of
money. However, there is plenty Of it
accumulating, and it does not matter to
me-"
"Don't you think" said Mrs Fiel," it
might be well to have Sarah home?"
Sarah, the only child OF the Fiels, was
at a finishing school at Clifton, but she
was seventeen, and a woman
"Ah, ah, :" laughed the lawyer "At
your match making, old lady: From
" hat am advised, he is proof against
Your attempts. Besides which, it would
be something like breach of trust; old
Lobyear has evidently got other views
for his son than marrying him at present
at any rate To IN English woman"
why, he would never go and match
him with heathen, with Il ring through
her nose, like pig"
. don't know that" replied Mr.. Fiel
laughing If be could discover a new
weed or fresh variety of black bee
tie by it, he certainly would"
II was of good augury for Mrs. Fiel
W hen her husband laughed, and a better
when ne replied TO her observations, in
he generally dld If she alluded to his
clients or their business; for it showed
that he was willing to be pumped, and
Mrs. Flels thirst for information was
great, though it was rarely slaked. In the
present Instance, however, the lawyer
thought he might require feminine aid in
the task which he had undertaken, and
ives therefore not unwilling TO admit his
wife into mis- confidence.
An" said he, "that was a curious idea
for rich man to Danish himself com
pletely, and give up civilized life, for the
sake of study ing botany and butterflies in
Japan. For poor man, indeed, it would
be explicable if he expected to make
something by it in the end"
But from what you say, Mr.. LObyeal
has more money than lac knows what t.
do with as it is"
Yes; he was well off originally, anC
got good property through his wife be
sides"
"Ah, poor man; dare say grief for he
death gave him a craze"
Fudge" exclaimed Mr.. Fiel, sOmewha
rudely. "He was glad enough to be fire.
to tgo hunting on his favorite hobby.
she had lived another year, it is m,
opinion that he would have bolted an,
left her"
"Ah, well, said Mrs Fiel, 1T is for
tunate thing for him, or at any rate TO
this son, that he fixed on so good man o
business as yourself to look after his in
terests"
"Well,' replied her husband, com
placently, considering that the bulk o
his property is in houses situated in
rapidly improving neighbOrhood, and tha
the tenants are up to all sorts of lodges t.
avoid having their rents raised, perhap
an agent who was not sharp might mis-
an advantage here and there. For in
stance, there was an application for re
newal of a lease the other day, and dis
covered that the tenant, who had bee
paying forty pounds year, had underle
for the last three years at hundred an
ten"
"Lor, how sharp you arev'
"Well, [ was not born in Yorkshire fo
nothing do not know of more than on
person who ever regularly took me in
that young rascal, Tom Scott, who robbie
me five years ago."
All, that was very shocking" said tn
good wife, soothingly;" but then, yO
know, he was brought up in your office
why, Martha Do you suppose
then, that he learned dishonesty there
never expected an epigram of that Sol
from your mouth. / would have yo
know that / could put at least coupl
of thousand year in my pocket from tn
Lobyear property alone, without chanc
of detection, if chose to be dishono
able.
II am sure I never meant to call yO
N inrana anY Qtner name " erie