The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-01-09
LiTTLE nor MER.

II would rather die" said Lefty, pas
sionately.
"Just so, my dear; all young girls
would rather die than give up an I'M
subtantial fancy for a profitable reality.
In general, however, they do give it up,
and they do not die, answered her
mother, quietly.
"Mammu, how cruel You are :" cried
the girl, with kind of angry despair in
| her voice.
"Bccausc | am rational, How cruel
you are, You ought rather to say, Lefty,
to give me somuch trouble when | AN
acting only foryour own good; and when
you know you will have 10 yield at last,
II will not yicld--l will die first, re-
peated Lefty.
"You are very fond of that assertion,
my dear; but it does not move me. |
say that you will marry as | wish You
to do, and live into quite respectable
old age. You are healthy though you
do not come of long-liycd family ON
one side She sighed-it was con-
vcntiona sigh-and then she family
mwmured, "poor papa !!
"Oh, mamma, you are too dreadful
with your old sarcosms, II cried Lefty,
hinging up her hands.
"And you are too silly with your
mock hcrocs, my dear. If you had
not me to guide you into common sense,
what mess you would make Of your
life
"N-hat wreck You wish 10 make Of
it," cried Lefty.
"Silly little girl, said Mrs. Dormer
with compassionate contempt " You
are like a naughty child who will thrust
its handinto theiire, and thinks its Nurse
abominably cruel because she tries to
prevent it. The day will come my dear,
when you will thank me, instead OF
scolding me as you are doing now, that
[ put an end to this absurd affair with
Mr.. Ratclifi, and gave You such m adj
mirable settlement in Mr.. Mounsey.'
Admirable settlement, A man old
enough to be my farther--a man | hate,
and that no girl could likc--only with
money"
"And, having money, with all that
portionless girl can desire and more
than she has Il right to expect said
Mrs. Domer, taking up few dropped
stitches leislrcly.
"Oh, know you don't think it neces-
sary for wife to love her husband,
said Lefty, sarcastically
"To begin with by no means, my
dear" answered her mother, with per-
feet good breeding and good temper.
Glove comes by habit, by the fact of
pleasant home where there is no stint.
One man is very much the same as nn-
other man, when you know them; and,
with IL moderate amount OF amiabllity,
well principlcd girl is sure to be happy
il she is properly provided for.
"Your opinions are absolutely mon
strous, and I will have nothing to do
with them" said Lefty, angrily
"Only to fulfill them, little goose,
when yor have worked off the froth.
Mrs. Dormer returned her answer with
slight laugh; and the servant at that
moment flung open the door with an air,
and ushered i'll" Mr.. Mounsey.'
A short, thick-sat, irascible-looking
man with grizzled hair cropped close,
broad bushy eyebrows, and that kind OF
moustasche and whiskers run together
about clean shayen chin which gives
such wild beast expression to face, n
confident, aggressive, unsynpathetlc
looking man; man to push his own
way in the world without regard to those
he shouldered aside, and to hold his own
let who would want; man to be wary
of in business, and with whom it would
be necessary to be caustious how one
made him friend or Zoe; II man strong
in his own right, and standing four
square in his own esteem; but, as Lefty
said, man whom no girl could love
This was the Mr.. Mounsey, who hao
been pleased to east eyes of admiration