The Democratic advocate., 1882-06-24

" hoe w JON HsAN ~ NA- 49, ~-NSSN
me? he growled.
sOh, nothing about you. only should
have liked to understand some of the books
you seem to be studying.
Women don't understand things-they
are silly, ignorant creatures, and know
nothing
"0h but they needn't be silly and ig
norant at all; they can learn If you
would teach me, could learn quite well
have quite as many brains as you have
probably.
''What?"
sWell, so | have. | don't know SC
much about chemistry, perhaps, but l know
great many other things much better
than you do. If you will teach me them
l viii teach you if you like.
Now this was altogether such new
view of things to Dunstan Reade that he
was quite nonplussed, and did not know
how to answer. He fell back after a
minute upon his old line of roughness and
incivility.
Il can't stop wasting my time talking to
you. ] suppose You have come to beg for
somebody? never give money away
haven't any to give-so you can GO!
-0h, dear, no l don't want anything
at all never thought whether you had
4 money or no.
"Well. | haven't-not a farthingl |
am as poor as pauper. These books are
all have in the world r
Il don't care at all whether you are rich
J or poor. came to ask you TO dinner.
'sWhat?" screamed the old man; he
could hardly believe his ears. DO you
want to insult me q
i ',0h. dear. no Why should ?"
'.Don't you think can afford to pay for
my own dinner?'
Il really never thought about that. |
want YOU to come TO dinner, so that you
may talk to papa and me. Papa Is a doe
tor You know, and he is very fond of chem
istry, 80 am sure you win get on
/ together
''0h you are Harfeld daughter, theny
Yes. am Lottie Har6ed and are you
coming TO dinner with us to-hight--please
say yes-seven O'Clock. sharp; quite a
plain dinner. and talk about chemistry.
I And Lsottie rusc to her feet and picked up
/ her hat from the ground preparatory to
taking her departure.
Danssan Reade looked down at his hands
then a, his boets. then something that Was
like smile passed over the wintry eoun-
( tenanee.
Il can't dine witk you. he murmured I;
4 il Is ~ long-so many years sinee--l don I
/ know how TO behave myself in company.
THAT Is enc Of the things am going
to teach you. said Lottie, laughing and
shaking out her skirt
He put out his finger gently, cautiously,
and touched the laces Of her dress tenta-
lively. a. man might touch a flower or a
butterfly.
Pretty frek, sat h9. ssid Lottie,
earcIe-sly. Il put !, on on purpose to
come and see YOU.
1T must have eoSt 3 great deal, said
Dunstan Reade, trying % book stern again.
Issstie shrugged her shoulders.
Il don't know papa has the bill. |
never think Of that like 10 have pretty
shing~ about me, don't you
DaBssan loSked ap into her bright young
face. aud sors of glow spread over his own.
Il think 81. he said. @hut don't know
much about IL
sNog Wen. that i another thing !
shall teach. Mr. Readc hook at that but
teriy that has come ia through the open
window-there Is someshing for You to look
al, yOa know And yoa are coming 20
dinner, are you not
''Yes, il yeu really wish It, said Mr..
( Reade, quite meekly.
Timothy, | am going to dinner To-
night" said the miser 10 his servant.
Mercy on Us p calculated Timothy,
fairly staggering back against the wall.
$50 and lock up in the lunberroom, in
+ the third black box beneath the skeleton
case. continued Mr.. Rsade. siernly frown-
ing. and you viii find Mulberry velvet
evening suii Of clothes, and knee-brseched
stockings, and buekle-shoes-go and find
them You stupid and don't stand gaping
Z there
An angry stamp &c the foot sent TimO-
thy Aging up TO the attic after the mulber-
" sait.
'.Papa, Mr.. Reade Is coming to dinner =
said Lottie TO her father that afternoon.
sNo1 exclaimed Dir Harfeld why,
what a witch yoa are, Lottie Good gra-
eious. child, what am | 10 talk to the
mummy about ? asked the worthy doctor
in depair
Chemistry, papa, have found out that
il Is his hobby; and give him the best
elaret in the cellar.
aHow on earth did you do it, child
cried her father.
Il really can't tell, papa, laughed Lot
tie Il only talked 10 him as \ rational
being. He Is only poor, cross, lonely
old man, who wants little kindHess TO bring
him out Of his narrow. selfish life.
The evening came. Mr.. Reade, very
shy and very sabdued. appeared duly in
the mulberry suit. He had shayen and
brushed himself with care that had been
unknown to him for many years; and his
timid look at Lottie as he came in nearly
made her father laugh.
THAT child, said the doctor to himself
could tame bear if she tried.
Lottie nodded and smiled at her guest,
and when dinner was announced, came up to
him and led hinl into the next room herself
Mr. Harfeld, although hard-working,
medical man, had also large independent
means of his own he pursued his profess
sion as an occupation rather than necessi-
/ ty. Everything in his house and at his
table was of the best; and, thanks to Lot
| tie, everything was Of the most refined.
The flowers, the silver dishes, the glitter
Of the glass and china, so bewildered our
friend Dunstan Reade that he was quite
meek and amicable, and as to talk about
| chemistry-not bit Of it all he did was
to gaze at Lottie adoringly, much to her
fathers amusement. The sight of her in
her fresh young beauty carried him back
years of his life, and bridged over vast
yawning space of hideous misery of self
absorption. She reminded him of some
one in the vistas of his lise-some one who
had been gentle and tender to him before
his face was wrinkled or his heart grown
hard-some one who had smiled at him
and had been kind, and yet who had
turned away from his love and all his
wealth to marry his penniless cousin, and
that was what turned old Dunstan into
such man as he was now. And Lottie,