The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19

future wifes fortune, and whom the possible
suspicion of interested motives pursues every
where: but at the same time he was not disposed
to be his wifes dependent, and he knew the
world we'll enough to be aware that, with the
backing of her wealth, he would probably
make great deal more OF his profession
than it had hitherto been possible for
him to do. AS for Grace herself, she talked OF
his profession, and of his work, and of the neces-
sity for living where it would be the most con.
venient for him, as if her entire future depended
upon that, and divers work was to be the sup
port of the new household. A girl without
penny, whose marriage was about to promote
her to the delightful charge of house of her
own, and whose every new bonnet was to come
from the earnings of her husband, could not
have been more completely absorbed in consid-
Grafton of all that was necessary for his per-
feet convenience in his work. She bewildered
even Mrs. Ford by the way she took up this
idea.
II honor you for what you say, and love
you for it, Grace; but still you know divers
profession is not what you would call very
lucrative. is it, and he could do his writing any
where, you know?"
Indeed, don't know anything of the kind"
said Grace, Indignantly. HE has to be con-
stantly in the House when it is sitting. He has
to know everything that is going on. Would
you think your husband was well treated if he
was made to manage his work. say from the sea-
side or country house, for your sake and the
childrens instead of being on the spot9 You
know you would not, Trix"
"Oh, WELL perhaps that may be so: but then
my husband" faltered Trix. with troubled
look. She would have sad my husband is the
bread winner and everything depends on him.
but she was daunted by the look in Grace's eyes,
and actually did not dare to suggest that Oliver
would be in very different position. Mr.. Will
braham, the solicitor who managed Miss Good
harris affairs interfered in the same way with
similar results She was in a position of almost
unexampled freedom for SO young woman.
She had neither guardians nor trustees.
There was nobody in the world who had right
to dictate to her or even authoritatively
to suggest what she ought to do, for the
reason that all she had had come to her
as it We're inadvertently, accidentally, because
her uncle, who always said he intended to leave
her nothing, had died without will. Mr.. Viii,
braham was the only man in the world who had
any right to say word, and he had no real
right only the right of an old friend who had
known ner all her life, and knew everything
about her. He said, when the settlement was
being discussed lin which respect Mr. Went
worth's behavior was perfect for all that he
wished was to secure his wife the undisturbed
enjoyment of what was her own, that he hoped
Miss Goodhart meant to remain, when she was
married, among her own friends.
II don't think you would like London, after
Ironborough," he said, with perfect sincerity;
''and to get house like this in town would cost
you fortune, you know"
1T is not a question of liking" said Grace,
live where Mr.. Wentworth's work requires him
to live. He cannot carry on his profession in
the country"
s'The country!" said Mr. Wilbraham, with a
snarl which his politeness to an excellent client
could only soften docs he call this the coun-
tryl And Mr.. Wentworth's profession, if you
will permit me to say So has never, so far as
know"
'It is the country, though you know" said
Grace, preserving her temper though with a
ftn lxokx
could call fresh fields and pastures new"
And when he looked up at her, Mr.. Wilbra-
ham made up his mind it was best to say no
more willful woman will have her way. Per
haps it was only the lavish and tender generos-
ty OF her nature which would let no one see that
she was conscious he position was different from
that of the majority of women; but l think it
went even little further than this, and that
Grace had got herself to believe that divers
work was all in all. She talked to him about it.
till he believed in it too, and they planned to-
gether the localities in which it would be best to
look for house, in a place which should be
quiet so that he might not be disturbed, and yet
near everything that he ought to fire.
quent and see; o place where they would
have good air and space to breathe, and yet
a place where his chambers and his newspaper
office. and the House should be easily accessible.
In short, just such house as q rising barrister,
who was at the same time a man of letters, ought
to have. Grace, especially, was very anxious
that it should not be too far away. LAS for me.
you know, it does not matter bit-one place is
just the same as another to me- but every body
says mans work loses when he is not always on
the spot he said Sometimes Oliver himself
was tickled by her earneStneSs, but she was so
very much in earnest that he fell into her tone
and did not even venture to laugh at himself
which was thing he had been very apt to do.
And those consultations were very sweet It
is doubtful whether anything in life is so sweet
as the talks and anticipations Of two who have
thus made up their minds to be one, while as
vet life keeps its old shape, the shape which
they feel they have outgrown, and all is antici
patton. Everything loses little when it is real
lied. No house, to give small example is ever
SO convenient Sc delightful, so entirely adapted
for happy habitarion, as the one which these
two reasonable people actually hoped to find To
Be Let in London. 1t was to have a hundred
advantages which never come together it was
to be exactly at the right distance from the
turmoil of town; it was to have rooms arranged
just in this and that way; it was to be very
capable of decoration, and yet to have a charac
ter of its own. divers library was to be the
best room in the house, and yet the other
sitting-rooms were to be best rooms too 81
will not endure to have you pushed into dark
corner as poor Mr.. Ford is, said Grace. 1.-THE
master OF the house, ON whom everything de-
ponds. should always have the best To be sure
poor Mr.. Ford does his work in his Office which
is some excuse; but your study, Oliver, will tell
for so much You must let me furnish it out of
my own head"
lie laughed little, and colOred, and said
Seeing you will probably furnish it out of your
own purse, Grace"
AT which she opened her eyes wide, and
looked at him. then laughed too, a little, but
gravey as if it were not subject for a jest
and said, ''Oh, see what you mean. You mean
me to be the accountant and all that. Well, 1
am pretty good at arithmetic, Oliver; and, of
course, it might disturb your mind while you
are busy, and shall have nothing else to do"
This was the way she took it, with readiness
of resource in parrying all illusions to her own
wealth which was infinite, though whether she
succeeded in this by dint Of much thought, or
whether it was entirely spontaneous, the sugges-
ton Of the moment, no one could quite make
out The result upon Oliver, as have said was
that he began to believe in himself, too. Instead
of laughing at his brief business, which had been
his custom, he began to take himself and his