The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-01-25
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st will be an excellent opportunity
for you TO become accustomed to the
ways of the family she said 'syou
may be obliged to live with them
awhile, for yen know that Harvey is
not able to begin housekeeping upon |
his own account, just yet, and al
though we will do as well as we can
by you, we could not tit you out with
an establishment of your own as pres |
ent, and you need feel no delicacy |
about going, for Harvey will not be az
home this week."
Il wish you had consulted nae be
fore you sent reply. said Virginia
pettishly. but nevertheless she went
How did you enjoy your visit Z
asked Mrs. Hampton, when her daugh-
ter returned.
"sWell enough" answered Virginia,
evasively, and Mrs. Hampton OBJ
served that she was becoming more ST.
lent and thoughtful than she had ever
been before.
81 don't like Mrs. Wade, she said,
a few days afterward.
"Why not e. asked her mother.
Because she is an overbearing and
disagreeable person" answered the
girl.
ssWhy, virginia. exclaimed her
mother, 'sthat will never do; you
must not speak in such manner Of
/ your future mother-in-law. What
would your intended husband think Of
such a remark concerning his
mother e.
II believe she thinks that Harvey
can have me for the asking"
well. she is correct enough in her
opinions, isn't she! You need not be
offended at that" Virginia stood
| looking out Of the window in con-
temptuous silence. and her mother
continued "You must learnato adapt
yourself to the peculiarities of the
family, and remember that your duty
to your intended husband requires you
to overlook any little unpleasantness
in his mothers disposition
Virginia left the room in angry ST.
ience. That night Harvey Wade came
in to spend the evening with Virginia
and her brothers, and she was visibly
annoyed when she saw him coming.
She did not receive him any too cor
daily, but whatever might have been
lacking in her reception, was fully
made up by the sociability Of the
mother.
"You treated your intended hus-
band most too coolly last evening, Vir-
ginia," SAID Mrs. Hampton on the fol-
lowing morning.
"You didn't" answered Virginia.
CURLY.
II hope not" answered Mrs. Hamp-
ton, smiling. II am sure that | don I
want my future son-in-law to have an
unfavorable impression OF me.
Il do wish You wouldn't be SO
. dreadfully sociable to him, mother,
!, Said Virginia, petulantiy. "He viii
think"
"That will make one of the best
. OF mothers-in-law, interrupted Mrs.
, Hampton.
/ Virginia threw down her sewing
with gesture of Impotence, and LETT
the room.
4 few evenings later some young
friends were spending the evening
with the Hamptons, and among them
young gentleman whom Virginia s
Oldest brother introduced rs % friend
of his, and she was in the midst of AZ
entertaining conversation with him,
) when Harvey Wade came in, and took
) a seat by Virginia's side with an all
Of ownership which annoy ed hel
greatly. She was beginning ito weary
Of his monotonous conversation, fol
| there was a vast difference between
| listening to him semi-occasionally aS
; she used to do. and having him con
: stantly near her until all the subject:
{ were worn threadbare.
Her mother did not fail to notice
3: the annoyed expression OF her counte
3 nance, and the next morning gave hel
: lecture upon the wickedness OF listen
ing to the conversation of another
: with more interest than she did tx
| that of her intended husband,
The weeks passed on. and Harve,
: Wade continued to be frequent Wis
Y itor. although it was.evident enough
TO the mother s vigilant eye that ViT
o glnia' s infatuation was rapidly wear
Il ing away. The young gentleman pre-
: vlously introduced was an ochasiona
!. visitor, and although Virginia re
ceived no marked attentions from him
- and showed him only that consider
:. ton with which politeness requires
y that she should treat her brother
friend, it was evident that Harve
= Wade was not at all pleased with hi
= visits.
= One evening Virginia attended
!. party with Mr.. Wade, and on the fol
lowing morning her mother observe
that she seemed to be very much on
y of numor. Mrs. Hampton paid no at
= tention to it, and, later in the day MI
l, Wade called. He came in with an al
of injured innocence, and Immediate
10 asked for Virginia. Mrs. Hampto
went TO that young iady's room an
| informed her that Mr.. Wade ha
,e called to see her.
" "From his appearance | am afrai
II that you have not treated him wit
a the Difference you ought, and no dout
n you owe him an apology said tn
,r mother.
re apology, indeed = returned vi
to ginia, HE is the most jealous an
IS unreasonable person that ever saw
He found fault with me for waltzin
a with Mr. Chairman last nvcr,;rr an