Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-22

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from home"
"Horae?" repeated her husband (;
sand what do you cad this
"This" was the charming cottage IN
which he and she and Jasper, their BABY
boy. were living so happily. They had
made what is called n love match i've
wears ago. and though Berthe Forester
WAS poor. and called himself an ablect
pauper. everything around them was
sretty. and so we'll arranged and com
fortablo rs 10 be almost luxurious
..Poor Annette has been III again,
said Lima she is better, bnt the doc
Cor saws she must 90 from home.
"Ask her here; surely we caa put
her up somehow.
Lima shook her hesd-it was very
pretty one. "She is TO go to the sea-
he insists on it." Then she was silent,
thinking of the difficulties which lay IN
the way of this. Father will never be
able TO afford il, BERTHE. Nancy says his
income has shrunk to almost nothing.
And there are so many OF us
al should Just think there we're J" he
exclaimed fervently. al can never re-
member how many, and have no idea
how they como. My brain spins If l
try"
"Oh, Berthe" she said reproachiully.
"Ithink you might remember II you
really don't, will tell you. Lima is the
eldest; yon have got Lima, and she IS
yerv glad Of il. Then comeJOsie, Fran
che. Maisie. Annette-she is the one who
ia i'll. poor dear Nora is the next, and
then the twins, Judith and Ruth that
makes eight girls, only / am not there
now and there are two boys, who come
somewhere in among the girls. You VIII
remember now, won't you
He shook his head and said: "And
what is one house among so many? 1t
must be awful even to have headache
in that house, or any other kind OF ache
that makes yon long to be alone. You
never could go into any room without
finding two or three people in it already. "
Lima sighed and said: land she 80
i'll. and father so poorl Will people
never pay rent again
cit doesn't look like il. / wish we
could afford 10 take Nancy to the sea,
Lima. can spare G10 if you would like
10 send it TO her"
"Bertio, how good Of you But she
ought to 60 for n long time. "
Lina's father, baronet OF ancient
lineage and terribly small means, was
rector of Scalby, in Noitinghamshire-a
Trinity lving--to which he had been
presented as fellow OF his college. He
had thought himself made man when it
fell in: but he had married, and year by
year his family had increased and his
income diminished. Now the latter
seemed to he on the point Of disappear
ing altogether.
Don't sigh so, darling" said BERTHE.
"You keep thinking OF these dismal
things till Won make yourself quite
wretched, and you are eating scarcely
anv breakfast. You have q lot Of other
letters why don't you open them ?"
81 had forgotten them. Ny head is
full of Nancy"
She turned these letters over, and sud
denly exclaimed. "There is one from
Mrs Prendergast How delightful it
would be II there were something nice
in it? Bette, there might be-they
must open their hearts to us some time. "
Lima Lima he exclaimed Joy
ously. From Mrs. Prendergast Well,
they say that good luck knocks once in
a lifetime at every ones door perhaps
this is loud double knock at ours !"
Mr.. Prcndergast was Bertie's uncle
q rich uncle. with large estate in York
shire and another in Devonshire, and no
one to leave them to hut his nephews.
OF these there were thTee-,john For
roster. Bertie's eldest brother, who
would eventually succeed TO the family
estate in Northumberland, BERTHE him
self, and Arthur Carey, a successful
barrister. who had been so often held
up to BERTHE as an example that he
had no liking for his name. John
was amply provided for already. so he
probably would he his uncle's heir, and
BERTHE was in disgrace. For five years
now he had known that he was not likely
10 have any part in this goodly inherl-
lance. His father and all the Forresters,
and his uncle and all the Prendergasts-
were hopelessly ont of love with him be,
cslse at the age of twenty-five, instead
OF choosing n lucrative profession for
himself and working at it. he had chosen
a penniless wife and settled down IN a
cottage in Lincolnshire TO live on a pit
lance of five hundred year bequeathed
10 him by his grandfather. They had
never forgiven him for not marrying
money or his wife for preventing him.
"Bertie. darling! !" exclaimed Lima,
"there is something nice in it There
is something splendid They want us
TO 90 and stay with them. They have
taken a place in the North called BAN
borough Castle, and want us to go there
ON Tuesday-Tuesday next-and stay
Blk weeks. Mrs. Prendergast writes
quite kindly, and says it is great big
place. with no end Of rooms in it, and
that she is going TO fill them all with
visitors. / do like places that are filed
with visitors"
"But does she say nothing about
the GOODNESS there has been between us
nothing that looks as if this was to be a
nice productive making-up ,"
"Yes, think so. | am Just coming
TO il. but am so excited. Stop what
is this?" And she read Gas our nephew
Arthur Carey is TO be with us We think
il only Just to ask you and your husband
70 come too. We are getting old, and
your husband and Arthur are our nearest
relatives.
"My goodness, Lima. what could we
have more than that a? They are going
to put their two unpropertied nephews
on their trial. Ii is rather an alarming
visit for me-"
"Not q bit OF it." she answered, gaily.
"They liked you before and they will ike
you again. Who could help it? Do
you know Marlborough ?"
"Of course L do. 1t is only thirty
miles from my fathers place. BAN
borough Castle is magnificent 1t is
built on a cliff hundred and fifty feet
above the sea
"Aboye the sea /" echod Lima, as il in
distress
"Yes; Why not? Surely there is
nothing to be dismal about What is
the matter?"
"You said the sea--Bertie, that BAN
borough is on tho sea. 1t does seem so
hard that you and L, who are strong and
well, should have this delightful invita-