The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-07-28
Mr.. Lorimer looked bewildered

| ana You btlleVel tnat L Was a mar
ried man, Miss Spencer7' he sail,
looking down into her face with some
thing like reproach
| Jennie colOred violently.
Yes. | believed so: why should |
not. Mr. Lorimer?" said she inditfer-
emily.
But there was something in Der
manner which contradicted the iudif
ference, and he took heart.
Jennie" said Mrs. Spencer with
| trouble In her countenance two or
three weeks later, Il thought you
i weren't ever going to look at our gen
tleman boalder. and mere you have
been seen walking with him nearly
every day since he mas been here.
Aunt Maria says so, and really, Jennie
do not like his manner toward you
at all. He doesn't take his eyes off
you at the table, and | must say that
you seem to be pretty we'll acquaiEt
ed with him, also Miss Grant asked
me if you had ever net before, and
she looked very queer, | thought"
Miss Grant would do better to at
tend to her own affairs, and Aunt
Maria" said Jennie, land mother,
with your consent. [ AN engaged to
marry MIR. Lorimer."
Nv by, he's married man already"
she exclaimed. 80 Jennie, Jennie,
what are yon thinking off"
oh, no indeed, mother yon'Ie mis-
taken. He spoke of his mother as
Mrs. Lorimer, he always does so, be
cause she is not his own mother, Ouly
his fathers wife, and you misunder
stood him
well, if he isn't married, he is one
Of those tlirtiog city beaux and he
doesn't mean what he says Oh, dear,
dear me! it is Just as Maria prophes
led. after all. What can you know
about him or his family either? and
you've only known him little more
than two weeks. Oh, what shall / do2
what will your father say? How he
will blame me because | insisted on
taking summer boarders against his
advicew
Father likes Mr.. Lorlmer very
much, am sure" said Jennie, with
dignity, land all the misgivings |
have. are because / am not good
enough for him. He is one Of Cousin
Jacks friends, and in the letter which
| received from him this morning he
speaks of him in the highest praise
(but | did not need that to convince
me that he was everything that is
noble). lie says that his family are
of the oldest and best in the state
Then he has wealth and we are SO
poor. He has had every possible ad
vantage, fashionable society, foreign
travel, every means of culture. while
| am AS ignorant a country girl as ever
lived"
"Ignorant" exclaimed her mother,
Indignantly. ''Why, there isn't girl
in the country that's had more advaE
tages. Didn't you tend Sprngvale
Academy for three years running, and
all your aunts and uncles pestering
me about orr extravaganza in keeping
you there?'
Then Mr.. Lorimer came into the
| room, and having overheard some
thing of the conversation pleaded his
own cause with the afflicted lady, and
not in vain.
What objection have you to me as
son in law? " he asked at length,
seeing that though she consented and
| believed him to be an honest man.
there was something which troubled
and disturbed her dreadfulIy. Il can
see that you are not satisfied with me
| by all means, Mrs. Spencer
Il think it is a great deal too soon" ="
said she. "Wby, Samuel courted me
two years before he found ont that he
really liked me better than anybody
else, and then l wasn't ready to say
yes when he asked me the first time. ,
''Bnt there is something else" he
persisted. Il am sure of it."
No" said she, Il have no objections
to you, only [ would rather Jennie
shouldn't marry a summer boarder,
that is ALL"
Il am delighted to know that you
have nothing against me individually"
said he. Il guess can bear it since
1t is only collectively
But in spite of Aunt Maria, who
never withdrew her objections from
the husband of her niece, Mrs. Spen
Ger grew very complaceDt of her son
in-law after awhile, and used to boast
to her neighbors concerning Jennie's
fine establishment in the city, Jennie's
carriage and Jennie's silver, "and
there never was such devoted husband
as hers in the world, although l cans
say approved of the match at first.
she always used to invariably add
with a little pensive smile.