The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1873-07-17

elStitcu uuiitiko leiucWt5c uto uc,
"as long as She'll stay with me,
eli, Mayo And whoever has any.
thing to say against that arrange.
ment will have TO 80 ont of my
house to say itv not that I'm
afraid of any snch result in this
case-and, on sthe whole Aunt
Anne, should like to try the ex7
pertinent sl,ssr on s4sdr.ggIi,
Mother smiled grimly, bpt Tom
was so evidently bent on his Sex
pertinent as he called it,itha,
she gave up the argument. =
"You can Dance If you're ready
to pay the, ,piper,p she said shortly.
Sand pray, how soon, doiyou in.
tend 70 he married ~ Eui 5na 9.i
Toms face tell a little at this
question s,n.s,s.7 s7a.r.4 al
SWELL" said he,b"I can't say
exactly, Isupposc We shall, have
TO be gagged first" "ibi'aJ si.i 10 d
"Wlat - said mother, opening
her eyes; "Why, you never mean
Ito say, Tom, you haven't spoken
to her yet 2" .sag sg9
"Not yet" answered Tom cheer.
fully. "Time enough for that,
you know, after l had spoken to
you" .ssr4r ,s
z Mother, as a minister's widow,
was tot much given to the idle
mirth that is rs the cracking OF
ltliorns under pot, but now she
LEANED back and laughed till the
tears stood in her eyes.
'sWeil," she said, ,"if it was
anybody elsc should say he was
cracked; but you never were like
tother-peoplc and You never will
be, Tom Dean. But, at least,
you have fixed OH the lad 2"
ooh, yes" answered Tom, "but,
pit you will excuse me, Aunt
Anne, | would rather not say
anything about her just yet for,
if If anything should happen, it
wouldn't be pleasant fer either
party, You know" With which
yelled allusion to his possible re-
lection, Tom took his hat, and lett
the room. ''
Our housel,oldJwas rather queer
ly put together. There was no
particular reason why l should
have been Of it at all for | was
not really related to Tom, nor
even to ''mother,' as | called her,
though | am sure we were as dear
to each other as any mother and
daughter could be. She was the
second wife of,ny father, who, like
most ministers had been richerJin
grace than in goods, and he lett
us at his death with worry little to
live on. Then it was that Ton,
Dean had come forward, and in
sisted on giving a home to his
aunt aud to me, whom he had
scarcely seen dozen times in his
life before. That was exactly
like "queer Tom Dean," as
his friends were fond of saying,
"who never did anything like
| anybody else.'' olAll l had to do
was to go whore mother went,and
while she gave lior energies to
the housekeeping, gave mine to
growing mp, which by this time l
had pretty well accomplished. l
knew that mother had spoken
honestly, believing that mother
bad spoken honestly, believing
that such a step would not be for
his happiuess; bat was not he the
best iucge OF tl,atG Il knew him,
| if reflection should bring him
round to her opinion, to be per-,
! fectly capable Of quietly eacrificing
his ownrwisbes for my sake, who
had not'tbe shadow Of a claim on
him So 1t must be my part to
prevent his own kindness being
turned against him now.s What
could I d,l Draw and sing and
play tolerabIy, bot not ina man
ncr to compete with the hosts that
would be in tile field against me.
Litcraturea / had read 90 many
etorics whose heroines, with a
turn ofthc pen dashed into wealtii
and fame. That would be very
NICE, only Il was not the least
little bit literary. The. fine arts,
then being ont of the question for
Fme, what remained There was
some clerksbip, or a,place in some
family, and--and there was Will
Broomlcyl Gee 81, co.,, ....,.
That may seem like going away
from the, point, bpt il was not. ]
was matter,of.fact, but l could see
well enough what was going on
right under my eyes, and had
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