The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-08-16

affections but must say you have no
right to promulgate report that, in my
opinion, is injurious to my daughters pros
poets"
II have paid your daughter no more at
tention than ordinary courtesy to a relative
would dictate. AS to an engagement,
have not thought it necessary to make
reference to you on the subject, Mrs. Mu-
clller, not having had the slightest notion of
such a thing, until heard the report YOU
allude to, which certainly did not originate
from me-"
" 1t is most singular how such report
could have obtained currency had YOU CIV
en- no occasion for it, said Mrs. Mueller.
"There [ agree with you; and signifi-
cant also,' said Mr.. Frank
And significant also. Had your atten-
tions to Julia been restricted to home cour
tesies, it might have been less so. But
when you seek, on strength of such re-
port, previously disseminated by you, to
use your rumored engagement as the secu-
rlty on which to borrow money, it becomes
still more than significant it becomes con-
elusive of something that is detestably dis
graceful
Mrs. Mueller paused, wishing for an an
swer to shot that combined truth and
falsehood so deftly that she knew it would
tell but there was only one answer Mr..
Frank could have given at the moment. If
IL mad been a man who had stung him like
this, Mr. Frank would have knocked him
down; but as it was a lady, he was silent.
"ln entering my household" she pro-
ceeded, "you led me tacitly to understand
that you were at least in as prosperous
position as had reason to believe you were
some years ago. 1t is useless to say you did
not actually state this in SO many words :;
you led me to believe it, and took no pains
to dissipate such belief. Such conduct 7
can only characterize as the basest duplicity.
7 ou then sought, by the cunning artifice of
hinted engagement with my daughter, to
mortgage her expectations as well as to in
Jure her prospects. Such proceedings can
only stigmatize as contemplate and syste-
matte villiany. Your future course whilst
you remain in my house."
But Frank just walked into the hall, took
his hat, and scribbling pencilled address
on an envelope, gave it to the servant for
Miss Cray, and walked out, leaving his lug
gage and personal effects to be sent after
him.
The note contained only an acknowledge
ment of the sum of twenty pounds borrow
ed from Norah
People did talk and the bitterness of it
to Mrs. Mueller was that it was all her own
dong. However, she was equal to the oc-
casion. She had made one attempt to bring
Julia out at eighteen with Indifferent sue
cess. AS a ashop-keeper, whose goods have
been exposed in his window for a few
weeks, and become trifie soiled, will re-
move them to the back of his shop, that
they may come out fresh again by and by.
so Mrs. Mueller, whose daughter had be.
come trifle tly-blown by the exposure, re-
solved to send Julia to France to finish her
education for the second time, to come out
fresh at eighteen in another twelvemonth.
1t took few weeks to complete the neces,
sary arrangements for Julia's departure,
during which time Mrs. Muciller's attention
was distracted from Noddy's affairs. The
only sentiment of emotion at the contre-teDap,
exhibited by Julia consisted in a renewed
expression, in song, of something like re.
gret that the "two leaves were parted in
the stream y but as to any feeling of emo.
tion, she probably had about as much as
the "other leaf" that "floated forward al
alone"
Towards the close of September. very
few days after Miss Julia had become oen
siOn9aGtae of Partisan establishment, Mrs
Mueller pounced upon an advertisement il
the local paper.
AT last y she exclaimed to Noddy
"here is the very thing for you. 1t seem.
like providence. Here have we been try
ing the London papers for weeks, and tn,