Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-30

a mechanic shall live in half house;
| can't go. out in a carriage. nor give par
ties. and think very likely fiat sliau
not unfrequently wash dishes, sweep
rooms and iron my husbands shirts
And through it all expect to be very
happy
Myra sighed and abandoned The use
less argument What was to DC done
with so very unreasonable damsel as
this!
A bright little hearths s.one-a kettle
singing on the hod the crimson carpet
not Brussels, nor velvet, but simple in
grain; and the plain, neat furniture, with
Grace smiling at the ready spread table
this was pleasant home for Walter
Genlis to come to after his days work
in the great machine shop was over.
Upon my word he said gaily. l
think We are happier here than Myras-in
her big house, with her parties and her
visiting list, and her swarm of servants.
Do You know, Oracle, l almost felt at
one time that ! was doing wrong in mar
rying you?'
Wrong, Walter?'
'Myra seemed to think you were such
victim
Do look. like victiml' demurely
asked Grace.
why. no, can't say think you do,
but wish could have brought you to
house al! your own, my pet. Never
mind, some day you shall reign in a pal
ace worthy of you
Nonsense, Walter; could l be hap
pier anywhere than with you!
"Are you happy, lovef
| She rose from her seat and came over
to her husbands sile, looking full into
his face with eyes so eloquent that all
the dictionaries in creation could not have
spoken more plainly.
Yes, he knew that she was happy,
Mrs. Linley, too, thought that she was
happy, and pitied poor, dear Oracle from
the very bottom of her heart. No ser
wants no silver napkin rings no
double damask taole clothes with en-
broidered monograms on them; no car
riage no Wilton carpets nor brocatel
curtains. What would life be worth
without these And then, too. she liv.
ed go outlandishly /; actually dining in
the middle of the day, and having good
fates !-pork and cabbage occassionly
and fried onions Mrs. Liuley was quite
sure that she could not have existed un-
der such fearful concatenation of circum
STANCES.
OF course we must continue to visit
them,' said Myra, inhaling the Lubin
perfume from her Valenciennes-edged
pocket handkerchief, but really l am
quite ashamed to have our carriage seen
in such a commonplace street.
She's your sister, said Mr.. Linley,
and Genlis is q good fellow, after all
Il know it-but common mechanic ,
And Myra took out her pearl tablets to
look over her visiting list.
Grace Genlis knew very well that Mrs.
Gustavus Linley despised her and her
low estate, but Grace cared not two pins
for that-why should she -? Was she not
happy as Queen Victoria herself in her
snug little house, with love to brighten
the ceilings and beautiiy the maple wood
/ furniture.
Grace is pearl of price, ihoaght the
young husband, as he watched her at her
thrifty housewifery, and some day she
shall shine in proper setting as well as
Gustavus Linley's conceited doll of a
wife. She shall, Or my name is not
Walter Genlis
/ Mrs. Linley did not find herself entirely
unconsolable when Walter Genls accept
/ ed an offer from California firm to come
out as head machinist, and heI sister
went away.
Its just az WE'LL thought Myra, for
| wanted to give a series Of Germans
this winter, and | couldn't have invited
them, and of course they would have
been mortally Offended. Now it's all
right
And the years passed by, and myra
Linley forgot to answer her sisters let
,ers so often that, at length, Grace left
off writing, and Mrs. Linley became a
bright star in the world of fashion, aud
enjoyed the false, artificial life as one en-
Joys fevered excitement of any kind
One evening Nr. Linley came in late,
but he often did that. Myra glanced
languidly up from the book she was
skimming over, not because she enjoyed
reading, but because it was fashionable
work and she wanted to say she had
read it-and noticed that bis face was
perturbed.
What is tie matter p she inquired, a
little startled by his loOk.
The NATTER returned Gustavus, seat
ing himself deliberately before her. is,
that we are ruineo.'
What do you mean T
sSimnly that we are penniless beg.