The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-07

seems my best chance. know that
/ am no better looking, no moro en-
tertaining, have no better principles
and no moro money than some Of tho
men you have already refused; but I
do think / am ahead Of them in that
one point You enjoy being a manly
woman-woll, / enjoy being a man
with womanly tastes Why shouldn't
we bo just the people for each other?
No, that was only rhetorical ques-
toni don't want an answer yet, for
/ should like to set forth the whole
plan. That is the great advantage in
proposing 10 sepsible woman-one
doesn't want TO get hurried and fur
ried. If you married me, you
could go on just the same with your
work; the housekeoper and could
manage the house well enough, 1 am
sure"
you and the housekeeper inter
rupted the lawyer, impulsively.
Eyes; no doubt we could get a
capable woman TO help us out / have
quite good taste IN the furnishing OF
a house, the equipping Of a small con-
seryatory, and SO on; and / could
confer with her on the points l am
weak in. She could manage the cut
sine with hints from me about game,
fish, aud a few other matters in which
am we'll up. know quite a little
Of landscape gardening, and if she
had taste, too, no doubt we could man
age to make the whole place quite at
tractiye."
81 thought you said would make
a delightful home.
80 you would; the housekeeper
and I are only going to see to the
house"
MAY I ask why you don't marry
her?"
Because I am, unfortunately, in
love with you"
"And yet you don't count me in
your plans at all !"
am dwelling merely on the mate
rial side now. When you came home
at night, after dinner about which,
you remember, you need have no
thought whateyor) if you had no ref
erences to look up, and if there was
nothing you cared to go to, why you
and could talk. am good listen
er, Anna"
"And what should we have to talk
about? Every possible common in
terest would be monopolized by the
housekeepor, it seems to me.
ooh, no, not at all. read a great
deal-cspecially fction-and we could
discuss current literature. know
little Mrs. Hardy and her husband
often read the magazines to each
other in the evening after she has at
tended to the ordering breakfast and
other household matters-and they
seem very happy in doing so.
CATER she has attended her house
hold affairs" unused the lawyer.
, Eyes; but OF course you would not
/ have any household affairs to mar you,
enjoyment. You could feel exactly as
if you were in a hotel.
2 81 haven't the faintest doubt that
should" said Miss Beggs, warmly.
"All the details of our life together
: would soon fall into shape-there are
a good many things / should like to
D do if / were established in home O
my own, but should never think o
= insisting on your sharing them. Fol
, instance, / should like to have
L visit from Aunt L@ltia, thu
S dear old lady back in the Eas
It who brought me up; but if we haC
y succeeded in getting pleasant woman
L as housekeeper, Aunt Lefty woul'
S not be in the least a drain on you
j, She isa chummy old soul, and very Xix
Il " she would grow fond Of the house
keeper and they could go on ali sort
" of larks together. Then l should Xix
3 to take u pew in the nearest church c
Z our-of my persuasion. My fathe
40 had one as long as he lived, and som
way an interest in church has alway
seemed to me part OF domesticity.
dare say should not 60 often, but
y she were Christian woman, An
! that is the sort we should like to ge