The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-28

ought to Enow who she is, without ask
inc. Mime. Damereau's, the great
milliner and dressmaker; every body
goes to her. You are as ignorant as
child. Then owe for India shawls,
and lace, and jewels, and furs and
things. | owe six thousand pounds if
owe a farthing"
"What a sum- echoed Alice,
aghast "Six thousand pounds!'
SAY, you may we'll repeat it! Which
of the Queens was it who said that
when she died the name of Calais
would be found engraven on her hearth
Mary think. Were / to die, those
two words, six thousand, would be
found engraven on mine. They are
never absent from me. / see them
written up in figures in my dreams; l
see them as | walk; in the ballroom,
in the theater, in the park, they are
buzzing in my ears; when wake from
my troubled sleep they come rushing
over me, and l start from my bed, sick
and terrified, and can not escape
them"
"You must have dressed in silver
and gold," uttered poor Alice.
"No; only in what cost it; in such
things as these" said Mrs. Dalrymple,
pulling at her bonnet with both hands,
in irritation so passionate, that it was
torn in two.
"Oh, pray! pray!" Alice interposed,
but too late to prevent the catastrophe.
your beautiful bonnet! Selma, il
must have cost three or four guineas.
What a waste!"
"Tush!" peevishly replied Mrs. Dal-
rymple, flinging the wrecks to the mid
die of the room "A bonnet more or
less, what does it matterp"
Alice sat, in thought; looking very
grave, very panied, very perplexed.
"It appears to me that you are on a
wrong course altogether, Selma. The
imprudence already committed can not
be helped, but you might strive to re-
deem it."
"Strive against whirpoolP" sar-
castically responded Mrs. Dalrymple.
"You are getting deeper into it; by
your own admission you are having
new things every day. 1t is adding
fuel to fire."
can 20 nnkeu.
"But you must have large stock Of
, dress by you"
|, "Do you think / would appear in
last years thingsP / can't and won't.
You do not understand these matters,
Alice, and can not be expected to know
I better"
Then you ought not to go out; you
ought to have stopped at the Grange" "
II could not stop there. / was eat
ing away my heartstrings. Excite
ment is necessary to me to drown
care.
you can only do one thing" OBJ
served Alice, after a pause of refec-
ton; "confess all to your husband. II
things are so bad, they must be kept
from getting worse"
"Be quiet, Alice. Do not mention
his name. That is adding fuel to fire,
if you like"
at is cruel to suffer him to incur the
expense attendant on another London
season. If you object to tell him the
truth yourself, shall do itp should
not like the task, but for your sake
-
"Hold your tongue, i say, Alice"
Nwas the exSited interruption. "How
dare you offer TO interfere between me
and my husband?n
"Selina, do be calm. II you take il
in this light, Of course / must be silent
There is no cause for your agitation;
/ should not speak to Oscar without
your full permission. How strangely
you are alteredr'
81 have had enough to alter me-"
"What is to be the end of all thisp"
resumed Alice, speaking the wordsin a
musing tone, rather than as a question.
"Ah, that's it! The end. But you
need not hasten it. And, as il the
thought Of that were not enough, |
have another worry on me now"
"What elseP" sighed Miss Dal-
rymple.
"Damereau is pressing for her
money" replied Selma. "She has
limited that she can not give me further
, credit"
The very best thing that could hap.
pen," thought her sister.
, "Wnat a shame II Is that there should
4 be so much worry in the world!" fret.
{ fully exclaimed Mrs. Dalrymple.
"Three parts Of the worry we create
ourselves" )" replied Alice; 1--WE bring il
y on by our own acts. And no worry
: ought to have the power very seriously
TO disturb our peace" she continued
I in awhisper.
S "Now, Alice, / know what you are
: limiting at; you are going to bring uT
G some Of those religious notions o.
y yours They will be worse than los
upon me. One can not live with one,
body in this world, and ones heart in
the next"
"Oh yes we can,' said Alice, earnest
$ ly. Owe"
"Well, ! don't suppose I'm going
into the next, yet, unless torment
myself out Of this one; so don't 90 on
about it," was the graceless reply Of
Mrs. Dalrymple. But as Alice rose Ia
leave her mood changed.
Forgive my fractiousness, Alice
indeed, you would excuse it If you
only knew how truly miserable / am.
1t makes me savage with myself and
with every body else"
"Ma'am," interrupted Mrs. Dalrym-
ple's maid, entering the room. Lady
Burnham is at the door waiting for
you"
81 am not going out to-day" an
swered her mistress, rising. 81 have
changed my mind"
"Oh my patiencer' uttered the maid,
whats thisP Why, ma'am, it's never
your bonnetl'