New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-15
CHAPTER Y.
&" What we most hope for
Might mali Us;
What we most abhOr
nTi0hf save ia.

The ball was coming off in few days time
All had been going well, except that Iamblyn
would press his wife to get the DucneSs 10 my
another dress he had had made by girl he thought
IL worth while rs his custom slightly Improv
ing to employ in his shop. tie wished, he sad, TO
recOup himself for the fifteen pounds NE had lost by
the court dress he had sold her But Mrs. Thomas
could not OF course, do this. Il was all very well
to recommend the shop IN a general way,
hut TO Try and force articles IN It on
certain people was different thing.
The Duchess might justly resent It as nDertnence,
which would be very serious thlng Tor Mrs.
Thomas, as II might create a GOODNESS between
her and the woman that she still depended on good
deal for acquaintance She therefore thought the
best thing do was to reply to his letters, and he
would not dare to, call on her and thus passiyely
resist his impossible demands; for 10 explain such
a thing 10 himsO A. he might see for himself how
absurd 10 was, would be quite hopeless She I'M
derstOod by this time the ways and customs OF the
people she was with, aud knew how they Thought
which Is a great matter to those VINO want 10 geL
with the people they live with. She ielt herself
equal 10 talk with the best ladies IN tngand-and
way shouldn't She since for weeks and weeks they
had thought 50 too and that but Tor her 1eIng al
ready married she wOud be able to get husband
more equal IN brain power to herself than the one
she had Nor can she be accused OF WlckednesS or
lnhdelty. Tamblyn good little man as he was IA
his way, was almost silly. lie mad married merely
TO have some one to console nun, ahd 10 Wlhpa-
thlZe with him." as he called IT, And as ms Wlle
refused 10 demean herself so mucn as 10
pet, and co1dole with him about every
hddle-faddlc ne fa1ced greved him: he
cared but little for her, aud lived principally IN the
society Of EnsOD the backlcg She was, however
very kind 10 him, and even liked him more tnan
she pretended she did. She had determined more
over. 10 make hun something more OF man imam
he was at present, and therefore When we say she
felt she could marry any young man she cared Tor,
u was merely thought logically DEDUCTED from
the many soft things that had been said 70 her and
the many hearts she felt she had wounded by her
necessarily frigid replies.
Her husband was trying her patience sorely. ana
was making her quite unhappy about tins dress
she could not possibly dispose Of for him In l"-
ter she got from him one day he urged her again,
and in much the same words of his letterot the day
before, to get il of his hands saying his funds were
becoming short tnat she had not been much OF
success aud would soon have TO wind up her ANA rs
aud return 10 INN IN Bayswater She knew her
fashionable life was fated to be short-liyed, ana
she was scarcely sorry 10 end a deception that
though still success, troub ed her consc lonce ln-
cessantly; STILL she sighed she tnought of leay-
ing so many kind friends for ever. IL she had been
the wife of Davantage and lived in this circle all
her life. she would, perhaps have been very happy.
She was lady, too, By brrth--har father having
been a major in line regiment-but was too poor
10 support n family. Two generations back her
family were landed propretors, and had held broad
acres for many, many years. but when Mr. Ihomass