National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-04-26

But papa would not allow Hcf 10 Illtl
the sentence. A deep, mahogany y-colored
flush mounted TO his forehead, and | saw
his brows meet darkly.
"lf Octava wishes,n he said, 81 can
very easily draw check upon the bank
for her expenses
Mamma breathed quick and short ,
Jeanette opened wide her honest blue
oyes
at would be delightful I" said Miss
Cornela Bydexter. to whom one or two
hundred dollars was no more than they
would e TO the lilies of the field which
"toil not, neither do they spin" And
poor mamma, who knew very well that
the hundred and fifty dollars at the bank
were imperatiyey needed for the already
over duo rent, skillfully engineered the
conversation away from the rocks and
shoals which portended the shipwreck OF
our domestic peace.
" Yes, indeed, +" said Miss Bydexter, I'M
consciously following mammals lead, and
plunging into the great service channel.
" l'ye been very badly treated; but SER
wants are thanklesS race. Louise has
left me, tho ungrateful thing. Forty dol
lars a month | was paying her, too
"That is great sum to pay" said
mamma; and | knew the pang with
which she was thinking that that was ex-
actly the sum in which we were indebted
to Dr. Mortimore. Not a large amount
| in itself. to be sure, but enough to make
us shrink from eueountering him. Had |
not eon. good quarter of mile out OF
my way, only yesterday, to avoid the
necessity of passing his door Alas do
the rich ever dream of the thousand
barbed arrows of modification which
daily and hourly pierce the souls Of the
poorl think not,
"Well, said Miss Bydexter, playing
with the handle OF her diamond-studded
eye glasses, "she wasn't exactly ser
want, you know, Mrs Hadleigh more of
a companion. She read to me, and did
my hair sweetly, and kept all my laces in
such charming order shall never, never
be able to replace Louise. ! offered h-r
fifty dollars to stay on with me, for |
didn't know how on earth was going to .
manage without-iust rs was going to
New York, too. But she had got o pack .
Of silly nonsense into her head about
some young Frenchman or other that she .
wanted to marry. Marry, indeed. Such .
people haven't any business 10 marry,
and am sure Louise viii live to repent
it,"
Thus Miss Corneiia BydeXtcr ratified
on. quite certain that the triyialities Of
her daily life must possess deep interest
for her auditors, for no one had ever ven
tured to tell the mllionaire's daughter
that she was a fool. heard her without
hearing. although was listening all the
time-the plan which had flashed into
my head seemed so rdiculously vi lonary
and vet 30 simple. Aud when she rose
to take her leave l rose too, Trembling
slightly ana claspiuc M hands neryously
"Par - ! began, "i-I have been
thinking about it, and if YOU aud mamma
DO not object"
Wen !' Papa looked a little surprised,
perhaps because it was so seldom that /
y-ntured in his presence TO express an
opinion Of my own
"-l should so much like 10 60 TO New |
York with Coneha'
"You dear little thinsn said Miss By
dexter, smiling, and pattlng my hand win .
ler Isother-otpearl handed IAN: you y
VIII De exactly ilAe a iai'y princes
Nhefe the similarity eAlS'S hoooay
AneW, nor dld MISS byoeNter take the
rouble to eXplaih. Stt was accustomed C
o have people take her meaning ior '
granted. a
Mamma looked at me IN be|lIdered
way, soft reproach shining out OF her Ell
yes. | could read her face as II II were !,
IN open cook. Before papa she dared not -
a : III -
ur rent! Oh, how can Octayia be so :
trangely forgettul of all our household r.
leeds : q
"Nery Well asscntcd papa, IN his grand
ord Chesterfield style. ''Jeanneste,
ring me my desk. And I'LL that musty
Id standish with fresh ink. Do you hear,
hid ~ r,
And while Jeanette, who knew that G.,
ak in our house was among the things
hat were, ttuttered into the corner bakery =
0 borrow little out Of the stone bottle y,
hat always stood on Mrs. BaiIey's cash -,
csk, papa went on, talking lofuly o! the
ropaoIe pleasures ohal l s1ould ENJOY III sb
he great metropolis oi tne es'eEh "oI'u' so
:" am told that the coming season 81
romises to be particularly brilliant in ar
'ew York, " said papa, graciou>lv ''and
nly. wish, ladies with stately bow
oward Miss Bydexter which would have err
one no discrcdlt to Department Turvey- ut
7op"-" that | was young enough to be
our escort. Jeannette you have been I,
nS time bringing that INK; but nobody tn
llrles themselves to periom my behcsts It's
owadays." re,
Papa pleaded poor Jeanette turning ca
ID and white, =" went as quick as | Oc