The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-12-08

How dare you even 10 Hi'sk OF such
thiagi Ethel, my darling. calm yourself.
IL Is not enough that strangers should
presume upon our poverty. joined IN
Cleauihc, frowning upon me, though one
bound to ms by tho ties OF blood. though
/ il must h. confessed more alien than many
q stranger would be, must advance ideas
tha. shock and wound u.s. Imagine
turning to her brother Rolanl, who lay on
the only lounge in the room, eomplacently
regarding himself in the mirror on the op.
posite wall--that impertinent Mrs, Brad
shaw. coming here this morning with the
air OF doing a kindness, too, to offer me
position in her academy.
0Great hsayensl exclaimed Roland.
springing TO his feet-and the cause must
be mighty one that brings Roland to his
fee. One Of my sisters a tsacherl Great
heavens! and he weat stamping about the
room in the new suit OF clothes aunt had
Just paid for by parting with her hand
some pearl ring,
Whatever is done, zoe can do nothing,
sobbed Ethel.
OF course not, replied Roland, grandly:
the women of o,0' family never work.
| thought to myself, Nor the men either,
except poor old uncle, who is tagging at
desk from morning until night.
But our income must be increased. said
Alethea, looking up from her novel, and
Joining in the conversation for the first
time. Alethea was our eldest, and still
wore her hair in the fashion of her youth,
loose curl dangling over each cheek
bone, being fully persuaded that no other
fashion was half so graceful or becoming
Discharge the chamb mber- maid, proposed
Ethel, and let Dorothea Il am Dorotheal
do her work. II is about oil she is lit for.
She never had bit OF fine feeling or style
about her.
No, she never had; she always 'couid
bite her bread. sighed my aunt, and she
has seemed sadly out of place among my
children. She comes Of working race,
and her ideas and tastes smack of--trade
-trade-trade | discovered IN after
years that my aunt's grandmother ON the
maternal side made fortune out OF tobac-
co.
But discharging the chambermaid won
,,au,, ,,,,nh ooil A latlaa
II will not, agreed Roland. What is
saved thereby wall no more than lind me
in the little extras no society man can
do without.
Dearl dear aunt took up the burden
again, could have foreseen that your
father would have come down in this way,
never would have married him. really
don't know what is to be done, unless we
emigrate to some country place where we
are unknown, and where it don't matter
hew we live.
The counhy screamed her children in
chorus Better death at once.
| cant imagine where | got the courage
to do so after my late sharp rcbutis, but at
this moment | blurted out something that
had been on my mind for several weeks;
Why could not Alethea and Ethel room
together, and Alethea's room which is the
pleasantest in the house, be let to lodg-
er?-one who would
But here / aused abruptly. Alethea
had tainted in the arms Of my aunt, who,
glancing at me over the top of her eldest
daughters head, commanded me in her
deepest tone (aunt has rather bass voice.
to leave the room--instantly.
But in short time, during which things
had been getting worse and worse. and we
had heen reduced to rice puddings fol
desert on week days and apple tarts on
Sundays. was allowed to prepare an ad.
vertisements for the mornings paper, In
which was offered to an elderly gentle
man, who must have excellent references.
fine room in the house Of family OF re-
ferences a fine room in the house OF
family OF refinement, who had never be-
fore taken )odger, for the privilege OF oc-
cupying which he would be expected to
pay liberal equivalent.
dissapproved highly OF the wording OF
this call for help, but my amt and cousins
insisted upon its being couched IN these
sry terms, aud 10 | was compelled to
yield, inwardly convinced that it would
bring no reply.
But it did The very afternoon of the
morning it appeared, carriage with
trunk strapped on behind drove up to
our door. An old gentleman got out hob
bled up to our steps, and rang our door,
bell.
You must see him, Dorothea, said my
aunt, leaving the parlor, followed by a
train OF her children. II is your affair al
together. / will have nothing to do with
| ii.
We none OF as will have anything to do
with it, chimed in my cousins. We were
not born with the souls Of lodging house
keepers and away they sailed as opened
the door to the second-a little louder
than the frst--ring Of the caller.
He was short. slightly formed old
gentleman. with big bright black eyes,
bushy white eyebrows, and long white
mustache and beard.
You have room to let? he asked.
have, ! answered, ushering him into
the parlor where he glanced keenly around,
and then as keenly into my face, while he
announced in decisive tone:
have come to take it. Ny luggage il
at the door. BE so kind as to tell me
where to direct the man 10 it.
Butt began in hesitating way, utter.