Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
PLAYING THE GHOST.

Il tell you what it is, Luciudy, lont want
notllin' to do with them Carriers, an al to gvin
my consent to your marryin one o. 'em, that il
completely out Of the question. They allus was
shiflcss, good -for-nothin -set. I'm willin' To
admit Robert Inns got more snap in him than all
| the rest but won't listen to your marryin' him,
| and that settles it."
Mrs. Barker's decision generally settled what
ever came up for her to pass Judgment on in the
| affairs OF the Barker family.
She expected that her daughter would acqni-
esce in this matter al she had become accns-
toned to IN others
But Lucinda was girl with a will of her own.
She wasn't always to be dictated to without in
quiring whother there was Justice in the dictate
given.
In this instance she fet that she had right
to n hearing, and that sho had right also to
form an opinion ON the subject under discussion
| since she was the person most closely interest
ed.
81 think you are wrong III using Robert as you
10, she answered, turning the cheese slowly
about on the shelves OF the dairy. 'You ac-
knowledge that he is respectable steady and
liard-working, but for all that, won't let him
come here II you can help it, and you persist in
| troating him RS il he had done some awful
| thing, just because he belongs to u family that
has some worthless people in it."
"Of course you'll stick mp for him, said Mrs.
Barker, with an injured air. " You know that l
don't approve of him, an you're bound to be
contrary; you won't try to sec that I'm lookin'
ont for your own good, Lucndy; you don't want
to-"
" But he isn't to blame for what other people
have dome began. Lucinda, with flashing
eyes.
"Oh, no." put in her mother, " don't blame
him for that, but know the family, an it's IN
the blood o all the Carriers to he mean and
shif'less. don't spose you'd like to set me
down and see you rushin right over precipice
'thout 30 much as liftin my little finger to
save you, do you Well it's just the same in
this case. If l was to let you marry Robert
Carter, you'd repent 1t"
" You don't know that" answered Lucinda
Everybody but you says hos as likely Young
man as there il in the neighborhood, and I'm
sure those who work with him and most of
him ought to know. | never heard any one say
that tue Carriers were bad and dishonest"
" Well, they allns was shifless, an that
amounts to the same thing" said Mrs. Barker.
Now you could do tho best of any girl if you
want 30 much like your father. Ho alus was
30 set in his way. know Green's sou Joel would
be awful pleased il ho thought he could get
you"
"There it H." cried Lucinda, with angry
cheeks. "Tbats why Robert Carter isn't good
enough for me. Joel Green's got money, and
Robert Carter hasu't. But Robert has got some
thing that Joel Green hasn't and that all his
money cant buy, and that's brains Before I'd
''Jest SEQ here, Lucindy," said hor mother,
turning around deliberately" il you see Robert
Carter twixt this an Sunday tell hin, il he comes
inede this house ag'in, II ret the dog on him
an will, rec il don't"
Mrs. Barker turned round feeling that she had
got the start Of her rebelious daughter III one
way.
And Lucinda with eyes full of anger, went
ont to cool her flushed face and u Y to get rid of
some very hard thoughts.
A day or two after that, Mrs. Barker was re-
joicod TO hear that Robert Carter had gone off
TO work in neighboring town; he wa going to
work there all the summer, her informant said.