Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-11

brother, who would have to deny him
self in many ways to arrange matters.
And it wss especially hard to do at
this time, for the opportunity had just
occurred of purchasing on advantageous
terms some fields on which he had long
looked with an eye of rational desire.
Old Livermore, his alter ego on the
farm, was very urgent that he should
buy them.
"There's the sixteen acre, and Three
'sand you must ha' EN-, master. They
just reownd off the propputty beautiful.
There han't never bin such chance,
sin Ay can meeind, and that's gettin on
for fifty year.
mo doubt, Livermore, no doubt" he
answered, as he cast a longing eye to-
ward the fields mentioned, lying Like
peninsula in the sea of his own estate.
" No doubt it is the most desirable we
should have them; but fear if Mr.. Ed
ward goes to the university I cannot af-
ford to make the purchase.
"Goos to the varsity !" said Liver
more in tone of contempt; "and what
should Master Edward goo to the war
sity for, Ay shu'd Jake to know. Old
master he never went, nor more did
VOW, and VOW both on VOW got on very
we'll wi'out it.
"That's very true" replied he: " but
then neither my father nor [ had much
taste for books, and parson tells me Mr..
Edward is genius and must be Guilt
waited. But I have not absolutely made
up my mind yet. L have promised to
give Argent my answer next week, and
l shall not decide till them
And so he strobe away, his mind pref
ty well made up to forego the opportu,
nifty for which both his father and he
had longed, and to send the bright
young scholar to distinguish himself on
the Cam.
Mrs. Pemberton had been looking for
ward with hungry desire to the closing
of the chapter of Teddy's school expe-
rience. He was still young and impress
sible, and she would have opportunities
daily and hourly of guiding his thoughts
in the only direction in which, according
to her views, they could be proftably
employed. Her nature, which hardened
more and more to all the rest of the
world, concentrated all it's tenderness
and affection on this boy; and her dear
est hope on this side of the grave was
that it might be through her instrument
atty that he should separate himself
from the world, even as she had done.
When, therefore, few days after his
conversation with Livermore, Charles
announced his intention of sending the
boy to Cambridge, it was to her cruel
and bitter blow.
For few moments she sat in silence
the gloom deepening on her face, and
her heart growing icier than ever within
her.
st will not be with my will nor with
my consent" she said at length, " that
he goes; but / know that my will and my
wish have no weight with you, and that
you delight to thwart them"
"Nay, mother" said he, mildly, CT
am thinking only of Teddy's good. It
would be far pleasanter for me 10 have
him home, but both Dr. Vardy and Mr..
L'Ote have assured me that Ted has re-
markable abilities, and that he ought to
go. The boy himself is eager to go; and
[ know he will distinguish himself, if
honest work can bring him distinction"
"And what good" she flashed out,
'lwill his distinction do him? 'Knowl-
edge pufeth up and it shall vanish
away. There is but one thing needful to
know, and of that he is likely to learn
little among gay and thoughtless youths
whose homes are all of this world You
are willing to crafty your own small
and worldly ambition by sacrificing the
boys only true interest"
Mother" he PLEADED; 81 wish you
would be little more reasonable"
Say, treason 7" she broke in. "Rea-
son is the will-o' -the-wisp that lends you
| astray, not only to your own undoing,
but that of others. You think yourself
wise; and you may be wise in the affairs
of this world, but God has said, Il will
destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will
bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent.
There was no pity for him in this an
ticipatioD of ultimate failure. She was
ready with quotations at every turn to
justify herself, and to condemn her son.
He would gladly have avoided giving her
pain, had he known how to do SO, but
having made up his mind as to what was
best for the lad, he did not shrink from
carrying it out; and as he walked the
fields alone month after month, he was
oppressed by dull sorrow which he was
compelled to bear in utter solitude, for
to no living soul could he complain of
his mother. His only consolation was
that in his college career Teddy fully
justified every expectation that had been
formed of him.
His last vacation had come, and he
was to spend it with his old school chum,
who had been his dearest friend also at
college, but had left the university in
the previous year. Turenne Jermyn was
young man whose friendship was worth
having, clear-headed, sound-hearted, of
exuberant vitality. He had often heard
from Teddy of "dear old Charlie" and
in arranging for this long vacation an
earnest invitation had been given that
he should join them. It offered tempt
ing break in dull monotonous life and
was accepted.
Sir Frederick Jermyn's seatlay on the
slope of lovely Berkshire hill, shut
round by woods, but overlooking wide
and charming landscape. AS Charles
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