The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27

you Will be able to have carriage. Don7
begin to grunble, Honoria have got e15O
to spare, and if you care to come round to q
jewelers. you can spend it on what YOU like. VI
Oh, you delightful personi" said his wife.
80 they went round to the jewelers.. and
Lady honorla bought ornaments TO the value
OF ESQ. and carried them home and HING
over them, as another class of woman MIGHT
hang over first born child, adrliring them
with tender ecstasy. Whenever he had n
sum of money that he could afford to .part
with, Godfrey would take her thus TO n
jewelers. or Il dressmaker's and stand nv
coidly while she bought things to its value
Lady Honoria was delighted. Itnever entered
INTO her mind that i'll n sense he was taking n
revenge upon her, and that every fresh exhi-
bltion of her rejoicings over the good thinrs
thus provided added to his contemrs for her
Those were happy days for Lady Honoria
She rejoiced in this return of wealth like a
sehoo!boy at the coming of the HOLIDAYS or a
half frozen wanderer at the rising of the SIN
She had been miserable-as miserable as her
nature admitted of-tlRring all this night of
poverty. Now she was happy again. as she
understood happiness, for Lady Honoria.
bred, educated, civilized-what you will
out OF the more human passions, had replaced
them by this idol worship of wealth. or.
rather, of what wealth brings. 1t gave her
positive physical satisfaction. Her beauty.
which had begun to fade, came back to her
She looked five years younger. And all the
while Godfrey watched her with an ever
growing scorn
Once it broke out. The Bolton street house
had been furnished; he had given her fifteen
hundred pounds to do it and with what
Things they already owned she managed very
well on that They moved into it and Homo
ria had set herself up with sufficient supply
OF grand dresses and jewelry, suitable to her
recovered position. One day, however, it
occurred to her that Effie was child of re-
markable beauty, who, if properly dressed,
would look very nice in the drawing room at
Tea Time So she ordered lovely costume
Tor her-this deponent is not able to describe
lt-but 1t consisted largely of velvet and lace.
Godfrey heard nothing of this dress; but.
coming home rather early one afternoon-it
was on Saturday-he found the child being
shown OFF to room full of visitors and
dressed in strange and wonderful attire.
with which, not unnaturally, she was vastly
pleased. He said nothing at the time. but
when at length the dropping fire of callers
had ceased he asked who had put Effie into
that dress.
Il did" said Lady Honoria land pretty
penny 1t has cost, can tell you. But can't
have the child come down SO poorly clothed.
it does not look we'll.
Then she can stay upstairs" said Godfrey,
frownng.
Nv hat do you mean?" asked his wife.
Il mean that will not have her decked
out in those fine clothes. They are quite I'M
suitable to her age. There is plenty of time
for her to take to vanity"
Il really don't understand you, GeofTrey.
Why should not the child be handsomely
dressedl"
why not! Great heaven, Honoria. do YOU
suppose that l want to see Effie grow I'D like
you, to lead life of empty pleasure seeking
ldleness and make god of luxury9 l had
rather see her"-he was going to add 'sdead
first" but checked himself and said, "have
to work for her living. Dress yourself up as
much as you like but leave the child alone.n
Lady Honoria was furious, but she was
also little frightened. She had never
heard her husband speak quite like this be-
lore, and there was something underneath his
words that she did not quite understand.
Still less did she understand when on the
Monday Godfrey suddenly told her that he
had ESQ for her to spend as she liked; then
accompanied her to mantle shop, and stood
patiently by smiling coldly while she invested
1t IN lace and embroideries. Honoria thought
that he was making PREPARATION for his sharp
words, and SO he was, but to himself, and in
another sense. Every time he gave her money
In this fashion Godfrey felt like man who
had paid oR debt of honor. She he'd tainted
him again and again with her poverty-the
poverty she said that ne had brought on her:
for every taunt he would heap upon her all
those things in which her soul delighted. He
would slut her with wealth as, in her hour of
Victory, Queen Tomyris giutted dead Cyrus
with the blood Of msa.
CHAPTER XIX.