Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-04-26

your mind to stay in town tonight
Miss Trefusis," her solicitor, Mr..
Williams, said at the close of their
short conference in his office. "Stay
with us for the night. Do, now! A
spare room, you know, Miss Trefusis,
and bit of hot supper. Mrs. Williams
will be delighted. Do, now! Really,
on such q dark wet night as this, Miss
Trefusis-"
ooh, thank you, no am going
straight home," said Miss Julia de-
cisively. She was nearly saying, Hold
your tongue! got a pain of fine old
| fashioned pattens, and know my way
| blindfold, and I don't care for sleeping
out of my own house, Mr.. Williams"
"And I don't intend to lay myself
under obligations to your wife for her
spare room or her hot supper either"
she muttered to herself, 81 had enough
of that Mrs. Williams and her three
daughters coming out to take tea with
me, and expecting heavy cake and
and jam, and all kinds of extrava-
gance y
From which sohloquy it may he I'M
derstood that Miss Julla's ideas of hos
pitality were not of the most liberal
order. In a word, money making was
to Julia Trefusis the pivot on which her
world revolved; money-saving the
absorbing principle of her existence.
A few faint flowers of earthly
affections did indeed struggle for their
natural places in that existence, but,
pale and scentless, they had never
hourished: and the rarest flower of all
the white lily Of an early love, which
had doomed twenty years before, was
withered and dead down to the very
roots.
But those roots were not dead In
spite of all, and even Miss Julia's hard
medicines and hard-heartedness were
sometimes wofully disconnected by
faint STRINGS somewhere in the depths
of her spirit, reminding her that the
fibers of that long-faded white flower
had vital tenacity still.
For instance, in times like this after
noon, when amidst sordid self-gratula-
lions over her bankers account and her
rent-roll, some thought would intrude of
that sweet long ago, and her fond early
hope Of possessing home whose hap
piness would not be build on founda-
tons of golden metal, but on the
brighter, more precious substance of
the tender, loyal love of two human
hearts for each other. Times when
poor-rich-Julia Trefusis remember
ed her penniless young lover with a
pang of lonely sorrow, and dismayed
sense of her prudence, her thrift, and
her wealthy, friendless, husbandless,
chlldless desolation being fatal, hope
| less mistake.
" | really don't think you ought to go
home by yourself, Julia, my DEAR"
Miss Lewarrenne the elder remarked,
putting up her spectacles on her fore
head In order to see her visitor more
clearly.
"Do'ee stay here now with us, Julia !!
It's regular wisht night with the rain
and wind blowing-do'ee hear it, my
dear? Why the states are riff1ing off
| the roofs, the states are riff1ed off John
| Godge's house in the next street-our
Susan can tell zee SO. 'Ee really didn't
ought for to come for your shopping
such a nevvening, my dear! The maid
could have come. 'Lizabeth could
have come, and got her brother to see
| her home. Men are so strong, zee
know, and they don't mind wet as we
do"
ooh, no, Grace, thank you, that's not
my way" said Miss Julia, determinedly
she prided herself on being deter
mined woman. "TI just put on my
pattens and pin my cloak, and walk
home whilst another would be thinking
of it. Elizabeths good mind, but she
doesn't quite buy things to please me.
1t thing was as good in one shop at
sixpence ha'penny, Elizabeth would as
soon buy the sixpence ha'penny one as
not. That's not my way, Grace. I'm
careful woman, and [ look to my
pence, and then my pounds always look
to themselves Goodnight, Grace,
goodnight, Jane, you will come over to
see me some evening next week, won't
you now?" zoe
Eyes dear, oh yes p The Misses
Lewarenne echoed, Goodnight Julia,
and mind 'eerself in Ca'sawsau' Lane.
It's ugly place, my dear, and they old
mine Shafts SO near. Oh dear, [
wouldn't go that road of yours, Julia,
by myself Of a night like this-not if
zee give me five pounds, I don't thinkp
would then!" said Miss julia
laughing at the pleasant idea of getting
five pounds SO easily.
She'll never stop until she gets into
one of they old workings, or falls into
they horrid dykes at each side of the
| lane," Miss Grace remarked as sheshut
! the hall door, and the sisters returned
to their cosy, warm sitting-rooEl.
CTS miserable sort of place to live
in, that there Ca'sawsau'," said Miss
Jane disparingly, "'tis a shame for
Julia Trefusis, with her houses, and
handsome villas, and plenty of money !
She's getting an awful miser; that old
black silk she's got for best is the same
she had when her mother, the old Mrs
Trefusis, died six years ago" 81
! "And that's the bonnet she had winter
before last at Truscott's- and it only
cost eleven shillings then-with bit
of new ribbon for strings to it," Grace
remarked
II dc hate to see people mean I"
Miss Jane said angrily, smoothing down
her lace-trimmed apron; it isn't be-
1 cal1Se a nerson does not oet m rrie d