Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-06-24
CHAPTER VII.
A BOXING MATCH.

Prendergast, who resided not far from Ket-
tlewell, had occasional opportunities of meet
ing the Temples; and it had been the It'll
mothers expectation that he might rnew
his suit, ard, perhaps. after time, draw
Sophia's affections t. himself. Ee made l.,
sign how ever; and fer .ong enough it sttue,.
as if our heroine rs 10 have TO Furt, ,r
trouble from mankind Tut at last-at i
end of the five wears after Percivals depart.
ure for Australasia new lover c0ire upon
the scene. ..-
His name WIS Done He was the cilly %.
of one M. Johl Do#e, Il leti! ed trchn Z
great wealth Who,e GlitCccticn. were ,,n
ally deserted il t..iS u'a'', that he had ,olD
thing to 90 Iitn ,eaTller. Iba DoNes N,r
plain people, IL. not VI. ar; and la, ,ilI !,
sided in X tt,ewcl ttr twenty yea :, nll
being char.tal. e and T. lici us, they had =: ;,,!
ually ma'4e their way MO our town society
In fact they Were IL w received in connr,n
where, at their first con ing, they dared !.
have set foot. Sti !, i was never forgot,
that Mr.. Done was not altogether one Of US.
When any stranger would make inquiry con-
cerning him, the reply would generally be in
this form: Done is worthy old fellow, and
gives capital dinners. II you want a sub
scription for any good cause, 60 to Done.
He is modest, unaffected, and not the least
purse proud. In early life he had something
to do t0ith Eeather" This last clause was a
formula repeated as faithfully as if it was
line of "God Save the. Queen"
The virtue of the Bones being not of Mrs
Barbara Temples kind-piety and charity
could not make her regard anybody with
klos. H>os..
plain, she had never liked them. Indeed, at
home-she would not ridicule people in COM
pany-she would sometimes say to her daugh-
tiers that nothing could ever be made of those
glorified trades people Then, with charac-
teristic dread of too sweeping assertion, she
would add: Except sometimes, dears-ex-
cept sometimes" "You know, girls" she
said one day, In her gay style, lit is a pro-
verb that there is nothing like leather; / don't
think there is" Which she delivered with one
of her Frenchifed faces of dislike, which al
ways set the girls laughing. The plain Dones
dreaded the witty, dashing, fashionable Mrs
Barbara Temple; and Mrs. Barbara Temple
regarded the plain Dones with repressed, but
not invisible, scorn. H'
There were John Done the first, and john
Done the second. As Is very often the case
with sons of self-made men, John Done,
Junior, while lacking his fathers native sense
and business energy, had inherited double
portion Of his homeliness, made quite intoler-
able by brassy assurance and q disregard Of
other peoples feelings, which indeed amount
ed to an anxiety TO infict pain wherever he
could. At school he had been hated for q
tyrant and bully, and it was also known
among the boys that he would tell . leland
that not schoolroom he-whenever it suited
his game. Percival Brent went to school
with him, being just three years his junior.
Percival was bright, merry little boy. very
well put together, and everybodys favorits,
onay that Done, whe always disliked o boy in
proportion to his school popularity or his edu-