Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-06-08
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Miss PecerIJE'S Pride.


ing down the letter she held, and half
crying in her vexation. How dare
he write such things to me? What
business has he to love me? He
would never have dared write like
this Tiff papa were alive and we
had not lost our money"
you may thank yourself for this,
said Granma Peverill, looking over
her spectacles with an air of concern.
You have amused yourself consider
ably with Harold Helper, to my cer-
tain knowledge. When one dances,
one must pay the piper"
Il don't understand you, grandma.
I certainly never gave him shadow
OF Encouragement. / have guessed
for some time that he-that he didn't
dislike me you know: but l never
dreamed that he would dare say as
much. Papa's clerk! Why, / have
seen him sweeping out the Office, and
his fingers as inky as Caddy's Jelly
by's."
Men are audacious creatures" OBJ
served grandma; shut IL you knew
that he didn't exactly late you, you
oughtn' to have excepted him as an
escort when you were learning to
ride. When your papa brought him
home to dine, you needn't have made
yourself so attractive, need you?
You might have had a headache in
your own room, or an invitation out
You needn't have talked pretty non-
sense with him by the hour, while
your father and L took our after
dinner maps, need you?"
~One can't help flirting little
grandma"
what, with ones fathers clerk
And no doubt one can't help working
him slippers and braiding watch
chains either"
"Why, of course. one gives birth
day and Christmas gifts to all ones
acquaintances. even TO old Biddy, the
pauper. One doesn't expect them to
presume on that, however.
~And so you think that Mr.. Helper
is presuming when he offers you his
hearts love and all his worldly pros
poets? Why SOP"
Il think he is presuming, because
the Peverills are not OF his order
grandmamma. They. came over in
the Mayhower: they ere descended
from Lord Peverill; they have grad
uated at colleges, have enjoyed ele.
giant accomplishments ever since the
flood, and have never soiled theil
hands with the CRIME of labor; while
Mr.. Helpers ancestors were illiteratt
mechanics, who murdered the kings
English. Why, his own father was &
stone-cutter I've heard papa say
So"
"And supposing that yours had
been a mechanic, what objection
would you have urged?"
why, it's not a supposable case
grandmamma-a Peverill "a stone.
cutterl"
"But supposing you were not {
Peverill?"
my imagination is not bold enough
for such flight. You see, have al
the prejudices OF my class, woulc
choose unhappiness sooner than mar
ry beneath me-"
"Then am to understand that yor
consider yourself superior to Harold
Helper. 1t is some years since ht
figured as your fathers inky- fingered
clerk, remember. Since then he ha.
written a book, he has invented /;
machine, he has lectured to scien
fists. Wherein does your superiorit,
consist? What have you been doing
in the meantime?"
Il have ben rubbing papa's gouty
toe, and accepting the attentions o
Miles,"
| You don't mean"
Il mean that shall probably mar
ry Miles Bond some fine day, IL moth
ing happens"
Marry Miles Bondl" repeated
grandmamma- as If she had said tha
she was going to marry the Khan o
Tartary.
you seem to be astonished grand
mamma"
"Yes-a little. He's born aristo
crat."
Exactly there's pair of us.
shall be entitled to consideration il
the beau monde as his wife, don't yo'
see?" For it must be confessed tha
since Mr.. Peverilrs death and insol
vency the beau monde had locke,
coldly upon his pretty daughter, il
spite of the Peverilps coat OF arm
and the luxuriance of the family.
@Then you do not care fig for MI
Helper?" asked grandma.