The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-08-16
A BIT OF LACE.
BY BESSIE
(Frcm Harper's Blzar.l

(Frcm Harper's Blzar.l
"It's perfectly exquisite piece OF
lace, papa"
Il dare say, Flor"
But | want you to look at il"
II shouldn't know anymore about
it if | did"
"Well then | want you to buy it
"Byu it, What for ?"
why, for me-"
PAY FIVE hundred dollars for a
handkerchief for you? 2"
Eyes, indeed All others girls
have them, although certainly this is
little, the least little, nicer than
theirs. | don't know why Lucy
should have a handsomer bandker-
chief than |, just because she's mar
ried. Anybody else would say II
was enough to be married. and sc
let me have the handkerchief Mar
ried women have everything-love,
lace. and diamonds Now, papa, just
take out your pocket-book-" 1t was
coaXing voice.
"Do you suppose carry $500
bills in my pocket-bOok :"
at makes no odds Your check
book, then. have set my heart on
| it, its such beauty. 1t YOU only
look at it-loek at that wreath o.
flowers, all so delicately shaded; here
the close work 10 the light, you see
there the open work in the shade, SC
perfect you can quite fancy the col
ors and all done in this Que thread
See, papa, there's dewdrO9, tha
round hole in the mesh"
Nonsense, Flor; can't see any
thing of the kind there"
That's because your eve isn't ed
acated sir. Mine is; fer | have
studied other peoples laces till
could almost work them. That's I
good man, | knew you would. Iol
always do. One, two, three." Ant
then there was a shower of kisse
and tiukliug laughter. And that wa
1.-THE conversation of q millionaire anC
his daughter that Lucian Malvil
heard over the transom of the mex
room TO his in the hotel where b
staid over night year or two ago
seeing neither people nor handker
chief, and aghast at the thought OF
handkerchief costing the awful pric
of $500. which was one-third of tn
mortgage on his little place that b
was trying to pay of, heart and sou
"a conversation that now recurre'
to him in a moment of real agony
as the housemaid stood before kif
, holding little limp rag in her ham
that she had just snatehed out of th
washtub, and that last night was
bit of dainty lace that Miss Ros
Mercier had called her handkerchie
and had given him to hold durin
the gallop. Good heavens, how wa
be ever going to restore it!
He was a Young lawyer, just er
. tering upon " bat in time would prol
ably be fine practice, but which wa
now rather empirical. He had star
ed in the race for wealth and homo
with good legal ability. good nam'
and good morals, and With no oths
impediments than little patrimon
in the shape of mod st dwelling
the suburbs, Which he had bee
obliged to mortgage for the means
get a part of his education and pr
fessi D, which mortgage be was stri'
ling TO paw of, that he might begi
, the future clear OF the world. II
was a handsome fellow, this Lucia
Malvin. an ambitious one, too,
), some degree, and very nearly a
proud as Lueifer. He used TO fe
many a pang 10 the association wit
those SO much weather than hin
self to which certain circumstance
bad subjected him. He had an ia
portant case accidentally thrown i
= to his hands, and had acquitted hir
te self so well that the wealthy ciiel
:, took him up and would not let hi
2 down; aud when Lucian reno
a stra;ed that il was out of his pow
to keep up such association, and WI
mortifying to his pride besides, Il
client had assured him ii was NJ
pride, but vanity, that was moriihe
Y and that the way to be "a wealth
A as those men was TO keep the
company and get thier cases; and
had thought, on the whole, that pc
i haps bis friend was right, aud ths
he he if he began to yield with an ignot
Re motive, be had nevertheless beeou
Ia very fond of the ways of people
whom wealth had given every oppe
tunity of culture and grace, and Vi
knew how to treat life like a work
art. Moreover, it was not little
was petted by various Of these go
people. Certainly motaerly ladi
made him at home with them, Al
, won his confidence and affection
); notably Mrs. Darnetta. Parents wi
good reut-rolls of their own, as NJ
Barnetta used to tell him, were 0
so inconsistent in the matter OF rel
rolls as of virtue and talent in thu
daughters husbands; and be was
'- vited here aud invited there. a
given to understand great deal me
than be choose TO understand. Pro
as Lucifer, as il was previously st
IN ed, be was going to marry no helr'
IL of them all and be the thrsli OF
money; be would net marry II
woman, be could not marry pc
one.
! When lie married be was going
III III give, not take. and at present ne D