Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-07
and they are useful, and we must
abide nv them

and they are useful, and we must
abide by them. 1
WILL TAKE DOROTHY BACK,
If you please; and I am sure you
UNDERSTANDINGS voice faltereC-
how much I like, and have always
liked, here to be here. You are a
second father to her.
"sYou won't tell her"
40 no; there is no occasion. 1t
is simply true that l am in very
much want Of her help at home
"Then 1 reproached myself for
having been selfish in keeping her
so long; and she came in, radiant
and affectionate, and / felt that a
sort Of void was made in my life,
which I know not how to fill. 1
drove slowly back, after leaving
them at FurZeham, and stopped 10
give an order at the saddler's.
While / was there, these words
caught my ear: will she take the
old one or the young one, think We"
~ could not see the speaker 1
did not know the voice, but, at the
moment, the words seemed to have
an unpleasant significance, though
probably they had 10 reference to
me-"
Fittings do occur very Oddly"
interpolated Jack. "They might
have alluded to something quite
different. Circumstances eem
sometimes to be tinged by what Is
uppermost in the mind. The man
might have been talking OF horses
or cows that he had to sell. Had
o any notion that
YOUR SON ADMIRED MISS DALTON??'
"None whatever. He was at
that time very backward socially
devoted to hard reading, and if he
spoke Of women at all, it was to de-
preciate them Intellectually. 1
should have been hard on him for
1t, but that he could not remember
his mother ; and Anna, dear crea-
ture, Is not clever"
"She il none the worse for that,
in my opinion" interrupted Jack.
"As q rule, clever women do not
add to homo happiness, which is
the chief end for which they are
sent into this world"
1t was useless to answer this,
though it irritated me he had al
ways taken q low tone, or he could
not have married the insipid little
woman whose twaddle was quite up
to his mark.
"But COON James" he continued;
az want to get at the postage
stamps. 1 think, by the way, that
Mrs. Dalton was right to take her
daughter home. Unless people
hereabouts are simpler or more good
natured than they are elsewhere,
they would infallibly say that her
parents were trying to catch your
son for her."
I WINGED again, and said "YOu
may be right ; but as I have never
troubled about gossip-possibly be-
cause I had never been affected by
it
THOUGHT 1T VERY HARD
at the time. There was l, deprived
Of the harmless pleasant fitting of
a girl about my quiet house /; and
she was removed from surroundings
that suited her to a very meagre
home"
Where she must have been very
much wanted by her mother" ill.,
terrupted Jack. "The fact is, James,
that 1 suspect that you We're, I'M
consciously, in love with the young
lady,"
"No" replied I, stoutly; "Of
that I am quite certain /; but l admit
that after 1 had thought over the
matter some weeks, / asked myself
why l should not marry her, if her
parents would give her to me will
ingly, and II she thought she could
be happy with me. That, in a way,
she loved me, I was as sure as that
| loved her-nOt with a lovers love
that was as impossible for me as
second-sight, but with affectionate
appreciation, cordial admiration,
genuine pleasure in her society. /
could take her from poverty to affiu-
enee, and, whsn l died, leave her
Independent.
"What prospect has a poor par
sons daughter? He can leave her
nothing. II, by some painful pro-
cess, he contrives to educate her-as
it Is called-to make a governess of
her,
WHAT A LIFE Il BEFORE HER!
I declare / think a girl had better
marry any kind, good man who
loves her, than teach, teach, teach;
conflict with the old Adam in child
rem day after day, year after year;
having no freedom Of action, no
home the while, till she is too old
for it; and, after helping her family
has perhaps saved what gives her
twenty OF thirty pounds per annum,
on which to languish and die. Do
rOthy, moreover, could only be fit
for q very inferior situation she
had bright parts, but no systematic
training. What was to become Of
her, her mother, her sisters, when
Dalton died? She might, with her
attractions, she probably would,
come across more than one man
who would be fond of her, but could
not marry without money. Of what
use would that be? After discuss
ing the matter with myself a month,
/ wrote her q letter, Of which / re-
member every word-ay, even the
position Of the sentences. ] told
her thst, though not with q young
mans love, not with the sacred love
1 had given my wife,
CTO BE CONTINUED.
"