The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-05-24
MADE OR MARRIED.
BY JESSIE FOTHERGILL,
Author Of zone Of Three" probation" "Ths
Weufclds,' Etc,
CHAPTER XXIu.-CoNTINUEp.

CHAPTER XXIIT.-CoNTINUEp
These last expeditions were very
pleasant. Philip drove, and Grace and
Mabelle took it in turns to sit beside
him. while DIR. johnson shared the back
seat with whichever of the young ladies
occupied it. They were happy hours
which were passed in this manner,
while Philip, when hard pressed, would
relate some of his experience of the
Uncomfortable hardships" which, he
said, he feared were going to become
historical in his family; and his sister
listened, and did the questioning with
that glance from her dark eyes which
spoke of love like that which Clara
Van Artevelde felt for her Philip when
she said:
i've loved him much, and quarreled with
him oft,
And all our loves and quarrels past are
To bind us closer"
And Mabelle listened, too, the more,
perhaps, in that she said the less.
Grace leased Philip on his newly dis
covered capacity for laziness, and he
said that man was celebrated for adapt
ing himself to all circumstances.
''Even adverse ones suggested
Grace.
Given adverse ones, my dear, such
as the present. he answered.
Sometimes Mabelle speculated upon
Philips rough analysis of his own
character, which he had given her that
day on the cliff. Nothing, he had said,
could make him otherwise than rough
and hard. Rough he was; perhaps, oc-
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, that is, in express
sion. rough in the sense that in very
refined circle his manners would have
been found wanting in polish, his bow
in elegance, and his compliments
wanting altogether as rule. But hard
-Mabelle could discover no hardness
for long time. She thought she had
never seen any man whose manner and
whole conduct toward mother and sister
was so good and so satisfactory as that
of Philip Massey.
If he had certain old-fashioned ideas
as to the sphere of woman's useful
ness, and the desrability of cultivating
her culinary and household capacities,
it was assuredly not because he mag
ined she could not worthily take hel
share in other things that was evident
from topics which he discussed with
he gave to their opinion.
Once, when a lady with very adj
vanced views on the subject of woman's
sphere had had an argument with
Philip, and discovered what she con
sidered his great and lamentable dark
ness upon some important points, she
suggested to Grace that mans wish fol
women to be accomplished cooks anC
housemaids-so she expressed it-cov
cred an abyss of seltishness not to bt
measured by ordinary standards.
''Indeedn' retorted the indignant
Grace. You think Philip is fond o.
eating, and would rather | could cooh
well for him than any thing else / cal
tell you that he would rather eat dry
bread than see his mother or me boi
him potato, if we were tired, or if i
were announcement and have seen hin
do it, and seen him make tea and toas
for me with his own hands, when l wa
i'll at lrkford because didn't like wha
the servant of the house had made
that is an abyss of seltishnesS, l lik,
selhshness."
ASsuredly, thought Mabelle, thes
were not the traits of hard character
Only, once, when his father was relat
ing something concerning woman
one of his tenants, who had lost he
child, partly through her own careless
ness, and had added; "She married
her husband for his position; there wa
ayoung fellow whose heart she nearl,
broke four years ago." Philip had said
with what seemed to Mabelle yer.
cynical laugh:
at is good thing the child did die
Such women are not fit TO be mothers
She stole glance at him, and saw il
his eyes what he meant by saying hi
disaster had hardened him.
Mabelle was rather sad that day. TO
in two days more she was to go back t.
Irkford. angela had written some yer
pettish letters, in which she upbraide,
Mabelle for her selfishness, adding tina
if she did not come home soon, she
Angela would have to come to Foul
haven and take lodgings there. Thes