Litchfield enquirer., 1876-07-20
nE1y back to place in my own

9S 6 W38 1amHl12rty called, at the St. James HAn. when my thoughts were put to flight hya tap On my shoulder. Looking round. Ifuzn6 myself face to face with a man in tAe sane br2Gch at the post office as my se1E. Of whom had but a slight knowl- edxe. and whose cOmpanionship had never h~Enxe seemed a desirable thing. But is9NnS moment I happened to be Mnsd &aha horror of solitariness, and so IrGP00ded more warmly to his address thsm II Eh1uld otherwise have done.
 -Wea net. Mr. Brooklyn" he had said !; mm1 snKred cound and exclaimed:
 ~-WA met, indeed, Mr. Delmaine! I wxx iaSx looking for some one to express uy zxwirasl0n of CzrlOtta Patti to-"
 ~Came and express 1t to my mother thz4 Ss If you'll aElOx me to introduce you s8 her, he said, quickly. They're i'll sEe xNen place of course" And with that ke walked sE, and followed him. Even ms foglowed him, in the first Hash of my R-xelEeafion at having met with some one G1s exchange Hor1s If not ideas with, was e@smSeSouS of a feeling of my present pro ee=alsnx being opposed to the experience ursuA fh<. habiT of she order l had left Pr0zFs>uuzsS aoQuaintances and Ipiscella- nzzsaS EnfuudnctIOnl What WOuld my re- xs<sd. hSzsa-lsOrn mother have thought of tkesas What would my proud old father have said Of his son ? Ah. welll that son sMouId have been better provided with wezp0n< and munitions for an onslaught saa bsFtlsr frFtreSs of society. As 1t N as, suA nnyself had no appeal. 'It is not ,EszsH for man to live alone" and my own sszss had tscltly cashIered me. Moreover. Ds4nazine was sufficiently gentlemanly nz<a- thozgh, Tn the language of my lost e=zzse. nobody knew him.
 Ts<@e conflicting thoughts passed kkE.saga my braan rapidly in the few mo- ne1rs We were engaged in walking from th@ SEDut where te paused before a couple ssf fkmales. amd introduced me tO them as .syTr. BrSoklyn, 4 colleague of mine. and tk~za so me as his mother and sister" rx-ss -eSiSrgv- The elder lady bowed and SnlEed bEandIy and suavely; and then in ua@ breath expressed her pleasure at --mnkiug my acquaintance, her admira- tsoa0f CaEs0ttA Patsi, and her fear that w~sAoufd al take cold from the extreme keak of the room. '.A commonplace, mid dB~-eIass wOman, said to myself, con- s=npka0usIy; and then I turned my atten- tsun Co the daughter, who had not yet snskea. Her mothers voice was vulgar ! I woaa hear what the daughters was Ike
 ~The organizers of these popular con- eersa eater we'll for their public, on the wkoae. Miss Dalmaine, said, interrog- aslvely.
 sDo they 2" she said carelessly looking up t0 me as she spoke; and her face was petty, and her tone was pure.
 So1ehOw it came about that I was ask ed home to supper with them. We walk e1. remember the night being fine, from tns PSccAdilly entrance to the hall street Ia PSmlic0, or Belgravia. as Mrs. Dal- wmine called it. And during that walk dSsnoEered that Mrs. Dalmaine and her sam stood in the relation of step-mother 4zd half-brDther only to the young lady whose face had won npon me so.
 Again I will skip a period of three usoafhs. Ny intimacy with the Dalmaines ka1 marched apace; and in August, when my former eOmpeers were on the Conti- nenk or on the moOrs, 1 married Ella, and wrote announcements of the fact to every member of my family. Only Lady E1noasko0e responded. The others re- sained mY letters without word.
 Bat Addy came to see us. surreptitious- Iv. | felt sure, though she did not say so. We had hired little house out at Bays wxker then, the rent and taxes of which. smaIl ma u vas, carried away exactly one kun1red a year We had bought second had farniture, and were doing with only oue servant; and we were very much Tn love. and very hopeful about better times.
 Nv wife was an angel then, as she is an mng9 now, but she was as unfortunate in her relations as I was in mine. Some well-bred people. cousins of her fathers sought us ont when they heard who Ella had narried Bat they were checked in their career of kindness by the obtrusive hearing of Mrs. Delmaine, who frequented car humble abode to a terrible extent, and by the free and easy manners of my wife's brother, who indulged himself freely in the use of scuFrilous language respecting the uppish conduct of my people in cut ting me.
 Months rolled on. and in spite of my p0ov EllAis utmost exertion, difficulties Incremsed- She was quiet-natured, true heaFted. home-and-husband-lo loving girl, so she felt it to be no privation that she nSxer coda indulge in the harmless cheer faI saySsies of her age But when her baby came she felt it to be privation thaE she could not deck it out daintily and couldn't give it the air it required. tescsuse she had no nurse-maid. And she fclk it hard. too, that its little cousins of RSssokIvn Place should be riding hand sa1e ponies in Rotten Row, under the charge of trustworthy groom, while her cAild could not even have a perambula- teE LLE-A
 At length her~step-mother mooted a plan tfat emanated from her plebeian nInd quIte naturally, but curdled the bBo01 m my veins with horror. We had nd enough to live on, that was evident, she said: why shouldn't we do as others hau1 to do before us-pocket our pride and take lOdgers? My wife backed this suggestion by saying, Something we HasG do, dear D0lph;" and so at length I eousented. and bedroom was furnished up and lOdger advertised for and event. HzIly foand-
 He was q medical student, not bad fellow Of his order; but then his order waz not mine He was the son of hsrd- woxking. respectable country surgeon of the name of Jones, and he had come up t0 town fall of faith in his own abilities zs had been only year or two ago. The er<s nirht he came he dined with ms. and Ella had exerted herself to make good impression On his mind through his pal ate, arranging capital dinner, which was kESae less vilIainously served than usual. He exp4tiated larRelyson the hOnors and gaoEses of his profession, and clted Sir Alfred Edmonstone as one of the exam pies of these.
 Afaeg time \ gathered that he was at tending lectures which my clever and dis tlnguishcd brotAer1n-law was giving to select few. He was a talented young fellow, and he worked hard, and soon he cane more especially under Sir Alfred s nosice as practical illustration of one of ths lecturers most astounding theories The young man made his mark by his daring. and ty the tact and skill which @ceompa1ied the daring. and so the end of ik was that by-and-by my lodger din- ed al my sister Lady Edmonstone's table as one 0f her husbands favorite guests.
 We learned this truth about the same time that we learned another. My broth er had acceded to his wife's entreaties and had taken house m town for the semzaA We gathered this fact from the s-.w<Sa eolnnan of a fashionable sslady',