Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-09-27
II ann happy. / know, and / don't care

lord sits lightly ON his throne Come, let us
make ready, aud we'l talk till
Nights candles are burned out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty
misty steeple of Old Trinity church-since
we haven'o any misty mountain-tops in the
neighborhood."
"One would think you the happy man."
al am; your enthusiasm is so contagious
that | am back in my twenties again.
"Why do you take your pleasure vicari-
ouslyl There is Mrs. Norcross, the charming
woman; l love her, because"
"No, sir. not her-one is enough"
"Then why not love her yourselfg Wen
make a double barrelled shot of 1.-TWO
couples brought down by one parson.p
"Very ingenious, and economical, too; but
| think not. 1t is too late. l was brought
up in the country, and | dom think it a good
policy TO begin agricultural operations in the
fall of the year; my spring has past. But
is the day ixedl When are you to be the
truly happy manF'
"No, the day is not fixed said Oakhurst,
thoughtfully. "You see, | was so bent upon
he settlement of the difficulty, that l had
not considered the practical bearing of the
matter. am too poor to marry, and | am
heartsick at the prospect of waiting"
"With the chance of another rupture"
Move shall not quarrel again. But ]
SHALL go TO work. I'll inundate the town
with pictures; if l can't sell them myself, /
will have Jew to peddle them for me.n
"Hear the mercenary mani No,-go to
work in earnest, but put your life into your
pictures. If you can keep up your present
glow, you will be warmer than Cuyp,
DREAMER than Claude, more imaginative
than Millais."
SBut the desperate long intervalr"
81 don't know about that. l quite like the
philosophy of Mr.. Micawber, and ~strenuously
believe in something turning up"
"What is thatF' asked Oakhurst, noticing a
letter on his friends table. at seems to be
addressed to me-"
Eyes, | met a lawyer to-day, who asked me
if | knew one James Oakhurst. AS I did.
he gave me the letter. Some dun, probably,
or threat of a suit. l wouldn't open it.
Don'tl'
"You only make me curious. / shall open
it. To-day l can defy a dua even from
what, what's thisl Trillion deadi-left in his
will a bequest-forty thousand-to mef'
Palette looked over his friends shoulder
with well-simulated establishment.
"Suro enough; there it is, in black and
white. What do you think Of Micawberl"
II think" said Oakhurst, with many tears
in his eyas, that you are the artfullest,
c~rnfsies' A." -.,r-muGeerina denr oil rascal
mat ever lived. Now let ME embrace ION In
good earnest. Oh, Palette, this is too muchl
Here is Agnes-minel Here is Europe, that
[ have looked az as l would Heaven, beyond
reach in this life. Now we will go TO work;
aud let Cuyp, Claude, and the rest of them,
look out for their laurelsIn
@Softly, my 10y; you squeeze like a cider
press. But how came the old miser to give
you this9n
any father was his partner; he was thought
TO be worth a handsome sum while he lived
but at his death, though Trillion and another
junior went on with the business, there was
nothing left for us. My mother died poor. |
am the only child living. This, | suppose, is
the return for the property that Trillion
%wrongfully detained-with compound inter
est, too. | should say. Let us not speak i'll Of
the dead. He has made restitution and
squared the books; l hope the correction has
been made above"
"How lucky for you that Trillion was your
bankerl Suppose you had grown up with
the expectation of having this money, what
would you have been good forl You would
have run all to patent-leather boots. silky
moustaches, and pug dogs. You struggles
have developed your muscles, metaphorically
speaking, and made a man of you"
1.-TWO sides to that question. 1t is true,
luxury might have spoiled me, for ! am &C.
cessible to such influences; but, ON the other
hand, / should have escaped some painful
things. No one who has not been poor can
understand me, can know the wounds which
a sensitive man must receive as he is working
his way up in the world,-wounds which
cave leave lasting scars, too. / am con-
sciOus of certain feelings, most discreditable,
if | were to avow them, which have been cul
| tiyated in me, and which will probably cling
to me all my days. What nave gained in
hardness l nave gained as the smith gains
strength at the expense Of symmetry, sensi
bility, and grace"
Nonsense, mimosal Don't curl up your
leaves before you are touched"
But if l nm a sensitive plant, as you say,
| can't help il; if l were q burdock, ]
might"
"You'l get over that. By-the-by, you
may as well tell Agnes. know you will be
uneasy; go, go-but come back soon. 1t l.
jolly that she accepted you poor; if the re-
port had got abroad, you might have thought
she was influenced by golden reasons"
"That's because you don't know her, my
| cynical friend. She is incapable of mercen-
airy motives"
what female heart can gold dcspise?
What cats averse to fish,"
swell, for an hour, goodbye. Have a
good fire and the pipes ready"
Eyes, truly-and a magnum, if my closet
is not empty. TIL king will drink to Hamlet. .
Little more remains TO be told. After the
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necessary that the nuptials should be deferred
beyond the time necessary to make due
preparation. In a month the wedding took
place at Mr.. Jamieson's house, Mr.. Palette
giving away the bride. / do not say that the
bachelor felt no twinges when he saw among
the guests the lovely Mrs. Norcross IN her
becoming white robes; in fact, he "thought
seriously, /" as all such people do while there
remains even the recollection of youth, -bu;
his habits were too fixed. He saw and sighed,
and that was all. However, he is on the
right side of-forty, we will call it, and
there is hope for him. We may find him in
some adventure yet; if so, the reader shall
assuredly know it.
In the spring Oakhurst with his wife went
abroad and took up their residence in Rome.
what pictures has he painted!" did you
asks
Really, Madam, a great many; but / have
not the least idea of letting you come at the
name of my hero in this way. You have
seen them both here and in New York, and
you thought them the productions Of arising
man-as' they are.
Our friend Jameson isnow a partner in the
house of Sleavin. He makes frequent visits
to the villa of his employer, and is always
welcome. Mr.. Sleavin considers him a most
sensible and worthy young man, and his
daughter Clara has implicit confidence in his
Judgment of literature as we'll as in his taste
Tor pictures. One fine day last summer, Mrs.
Jameson was prevailed upon, after some
weeks of solicitation, to get into a carriage
and TAX a drive with her son. "She's a nice
giTl, = said the mother fervcntly, on their re-
turn; "and if You must marry anybody, !
don't think you can do bettcr." Roberts
smile showed that he thought so too, although
the alternative was hardly so painful as she
seemed TO consider it-from which we infer
that his relations with the senior partner Of
the house nave become, or will be, still more
intimate.
TO live with her relatives some fifty miles
iistant-the place Mr.. Palette can tell rs
he has had occasion to send her n few lett,
The personages of our drama are all dis
missed; the curtin begins to fall; but a voice
is heard, "What became of the'World Of Wall
Street, . What became of Mars and Mi
nerva after the siege of Troy! Men die: but
the deities. Internal as well as celestial. live