Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-04

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visitors cards. !" aeM + .aatia1v. ,ssaahow
OThe tanilShtt ii uaftk1S ;tan tbfR Of
Annaloel's husband of course Aklck.
He.is peeea yab bAlee tas4aa: al:.s,se'A,e to
conjecture her buslnese W44 poor in
significant me. I Yas not lonR hoHieevver ,iev
left in doubt. A tall, bony stiff.backed
woman Of about sixty years Off age
presently.sailed ipte t4e room.
"':The same" replied 1, politely.
"Will not your ladyship take q seat q"
snappishly. II merely came to see
the sort Of person BY whose nefariou
assistance my unfortunate nephew has
been eptrapped into naHtzimony.s This
is tho house is w" said a'she, Ioofing
round my little drawing room IN q
deprecatoTy way, where this. con-
spiracy was hatcheda In this vile hole
you baited your trap, did you, for that
innocent boye"
~ am quite at = loss, madam, to
know Whist you mean, raid I (th0ngh
I began TO guess) Except that you in.
tend to be offensive"
''You are right there, woman," she
rejoined, acidly, "if you should never
be right again in your life. It is the
only consolation left to me, after the
ruin Of our house, to tell you to your
face what I think of you. You are o
treacherous, designing creature you
entered into fraudulent conspiracy
Yes, know it's actionable, if there's o
witness; but if you dare come near the
bell, I'll knock you down. say, you
conspired to seduce the affections of
my nephew, tho Honorable Arthur
Trevelyan, heir presumptive to the
Earl of Manilands. 1 don't
say you did it yourself; I
wish You had, because then the
probability is that the disgrace would
only have lasted your lifetime; you
employed youthful accomplice, who
passed % your maid servant, it seems,
and whose fatal charms overcame poor
Arthur's scruples. It is my belief that
you both ought to be hanged. Don't
answer me don't venture to speak to
me, lest the sound Of your hated voice
should provoke me beyond all bounds!
You were . witness to this atrocious
marriage. I have read your foolish
name in the register, You false, preiu-
diced, crafty, abominable woman! II
I was not a lady born and bred, I don't
know what I shouldn't call you!"
What she would have called me had
she not been = lady OF hereditary title,
it il impossible to conjecture; che had
an immense vocabulary of abuse even
as it was, and she exhausted it.
II shall come again, and lot you
know what my opiniouoof you really
is were her last Words which were
perhaps the most terrible of all. She
had nearly frightened me out Of my
wits ss it was and the threat of that
scene being repeated, lay heavy on my
soul for many day, untllmy lease was
out, and I took another house. Thank
Heaven, I never saw her ladyAhip again.
Once, however, / saw Lady Manilands
herself (for her husbands uncle died in
. few years. going to court in the very
qaietest dress in which any lady: ever
did 60 there ;. she gave me q bow and q
smile out the carriage window, and
that was all. She never called on ;het
old mistress It is my impfessloni, that
in her heart she is not worthy of
her husband. How they got on TO-
! gether, I have never heard, but what I
have narrated 10, l think, q lesson to
mistresses against encouraging ser-
vant-maids to we'd above their position.
I have heard it said BY prudent per
sons, Never give. anything away -
but above oil I would impress upon all
spinster ladies, $ Neyersgive . psrlor-
maid away in marriage To the ;hear.pre
sunptive OF in earldom, especially il III
has an aunt that is stoucAy shout the
honor Of the family" =: ); r. -. '7s i, :, =: