Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-04-07
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only Che second brother, and no settle
ment was made on your mother. I had
a post in London. as believe you have
heard, which brought me in six hum
dred a year, and we were married on
that, to rub on as best we could. And
] dare say we should have rubbed on
very WE'LL" added Mr.. Dalrymple, in Q
simple, and we were not likely to go
beyond our income. However, when
you were about two years old, Moat-
Grange fell to me. through the death OF
my brother"
''He was my godfather, was he nota"
interrupted Charles.
Eyes. He
..What was the cause of his deathP
He must have been young man.
"Eight-and-twenty, only. 1t was
young. gave up my post in London,
and we came to Mcat-Grange-"
But what did my uncle Charles die
OFF, asked Charles again.
"Never mind what. 1t was an un-
happy death, apd we do not care to
speak of it. Mo",-Grange is worth
about $4,000 a year; and, in one re-
spect, we have done wrong since we
came to it; we have put nothing by"
"Why should you have put by?" in
terrupted Charles.
There. There is an exemplifcation
OF your random way of speaking and
thinking. Moat-Grange is entailed
upon you, every shilling of it.
"WellP' said Charles. lit will be
enough for me-
II hope it will. But it would have
been any thing but well had l died;
for in that case, your mother and SIS
tiers would have been beggars."
20, father!"
Eyes. You would have had $4,000
year, and they nothing. Let me go
on. Charles Dalrymple left many
debts behind him, some of them cruel
ones; we will not enter into that. l,
Tin chivalrous feeling, perhaps, but
which 1 and your mother have never
repented of took those debts upon me,
to pay. off by degrees. And l paid
them"
'.Gothicly chivalrous, that was,"
thought Charles to himself.
And the estate had also to be kept
up, for I would not have it said that
Moat-Grange suffered by its change of
owners, and your mother thought with
me; so that, altogether, we had q
struggle for it, and were positively less
at our ease for ready money hero than
we had been in our little household III
London. In about twelve years, 1
think it was, the debts were cleared off,
and we had breathing time. Then we
began to think about saving; but am
sorry to say it was only thought of,
not done. The cost of educating you
children had increased as you grew
older; Alice's illness came off about
that period, and was a great and con-
tinued expense; and, what with one
thing or other, we never did, or have,
put by. Your expenses at college were
enormous
"Wcre they?" returned Charles,
somewhat Indifferent.
"Were they!' echoed Mr.. Dalrymple,
almost in sharp tone. do you for
get that you also ran into debt, like
your uncle Charles?"
'Not much, was it, sir?" cried
Charles, deprecatingly who remem-
bered very little of the matter, beyond
the fact that ''the bills had gone in to
Moat-Grange.
"Pretty WE'LL" returned Mr.,
Dalrymple, with a cough. 1.-The sum
total averaged between six and seven
hundred year, for every year that you
were there"
| AOC, uIlCACo SAdAlSo:
startled to contrition.
sit seemed to have made but little
impression on you; you knew it at the
time. But am not recalling this, tc
cast reproach to you now, Charles
not get into debt again, and / believe
you have kept your word"
Il have" he readily spoke up, the
| faorlaSS Look IF trl,th IN hia c0l1ntan,
ance. 81 have not exceeded the in
come you allow me-"
| ''My 10y, believe you. And only
wanted to explain how it is that we
have been unable to put by. Not day
after am we'll, will delay beginning
it. We will curtail our expenses, even
in things hitherto considered necessary
no matter what the neighborhood may
think; and shall probably insure m,
life. Your mother and were talking
this over, all day yesterday"
II can do with less than you allow
me, father; will make the half of i
do" said Charles, in one of his fits o
impulse.
1--WE shall see that" said Mr.. Dial
rymple, with another cough. ''Bu
you do not know the trouble this ha
been to me since the accident, Charles
have lain here and dwelt incessantl,
upon the helpless condition of you
mother and sisters-should be callet
away"
"My dear father-though. grateful
am that the fear has passed-you Nigh
have set your mind at rest. Do yo1
suppose that should ever have though
Of disturbing my mother and sisters il
their possession of their home? No;
should have been theirs just as much a
it is now"
"Ah! Charles-those generous re
solves are easier formed than kept
You will soon be wanting home Q
your own. A wife, too, eh, Charlesp'
"Time enough for that, sir" re
! turned Charles, with very consciou
look.
IF you could only think so. Blu
you are three-and-tYenty, and wa