The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-28
TIE REWARD OF KINDNESS.

MrS. bOTHhu pun uoWu letler BIC
had been reading, and looking around
the table at her blooming daughters
and two tall, handsome sons, che said,
in a dole!ul tone
"Your Aunt Sabina is coming to
London, and hos invited herself here
without CEREMONY
"When ?" asked Arabella, with an
intonation of intense disgust.
"Sho will reoch here this afternoon.
Wilber, you will have to meet her."
Sorry, ma, but | have promised to
drive Miss Caldwell to the park. Fred
can 90"
Certainly will 90" Fred said grave
ly, though there was hot flush on his
forehead. 81 am very fond of aunt. 1"
"Nonsense p said lis mother, you
have not seen her for fourteen years. l
never went near the detestable old farm
after your fatber died"
Nevertheless. 7 have vivid recol.
lection Of Aunt Sabipa's Kindness when
we were there"
"Dear me. Fred" dravled Lncilla,
"don't be sentimental, I wish the old
thing would stsy at home. l can't
imagine what she is coming here for /"
"She il our fathers sister" said
Fred, "and 7 cannot find ANYTHING sur.
prisine in her looking for welcome
amongst her Brothers. children"
Mrs' Gorbam shrugged her shoulders.
TT sbe had snoken her thoughts Il
wou,d have been" Fred is 90 odd.
inst liko his father" But she only
said-"I NAV depend upon YOU. then.
TO meet your amt. Fred. / will see
about her room"
It was source of great satisfaction
TO Mrs. Gorham that her children were
all like herself "true Greers, every
one of them, except Fred" she would
say. CONTEMPLATING herself that the
plebeian Gorham blood was not trans
mitted to her elder son, WILDER, or any
of three the girls.
That Greer pride meant intense self
ishness, that Greer beauty was of cold,
hard type, that Greer disposition was
tyrannical and narrow-minded, did not
trouble Mrs. Gorham. That the son
who was all Gorham was proud to the
core with the true pride that knows no
falls, shame, that he was noble in dispo.
sition, handsome in frank, manly
type, generous and self. sacrificing, she
could not appreciate. His hands and
feet were not so small as darling Will
ber's, he had no fashionable affections,
and no Greer look. So his mother
thought him rough and coarse, and his
sisters declared that he had no style at
all. But outside of home, where great
shows Of wealth were made by many
private economies, Fred was moro ap.
preciated.
When he became man and knew
that his fathers estate, though sufli-
cient to give them every comfort, was
not large enough for the extravagance
his mother indulged in, no htted HIM
self for business and LOOK position IN
contingencies, thus becoming sell,
supporting, though his mother declared
that no Greer had ever 6een IN trade.
Ihat the money sne llveu on was nia!,e
in soap boiling tho fashionable lady
sgnored entirely. Daring WilDer had
tudied law, but his iirst client had not
yet appeared ana MRS. uornam sup
ported him, trusting his iascinatlons
would touEn 'nG Ti1o,i Heat. u some .l .
moneyed belle. Miss Caldwell was tne
present nope; que was nel omh .s m,s
tress, an orphan heiress, ana very nahu-
some: Ihat she was pfouo ana laIneI
cold IN manner was only ah auuitiohai
charm to Mrs. Gorham, hucilia, ara
bella and Corinne, VINO were eh,hnsias' us
tic in their admiration OF Corceiia
Caldwells queenly manner; IT,.
Nobody suspected that FREQ, pluht
and StraiQht- forward Fred, hid one