The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-24
In her youth with his own humble

in her youth with his own humble
boyhood.
MRS. Sparsit saw how things were
going. and, OF course, did not approve
She had selected Mr.. Bounderby as
a husband for herself. She submitted
to fate. though, and retired to apart
ments over the bank furnished for her
by Mr.. Bounderby, who also conuhueu
her yearly compliment These terms
of capitulation she managed adroitfy
to conclude with her employer before
she left his house. She was q fOun-
tain of compliments to his ability ana
good sense before his face, but If ne
could have seen the manner IN Whlch
Mrs Sparsit shook her aged fist In
the face Of has picture when he was
absent and muttereG .-Noodae. ne
would have known better the reat
state OF mind of that estimabie ie-
male concerning him. Bounoeipy
could but contrast sometimes the JUST
appreciation which Mrs. Sparsit had
Of his manifold virtues and his great
ness with the calm Indifference, al
most verging upon contempt, with
which his wife treated him. But the
feeling that his wife did not appreciate
him he would try to put away with the
reflection: "Of course that is my imagi
nation. How could it be possible for
Tom Gradgrinds daughter not to ad-
mire and appreciate Josiah Bounderby
Of COketOWn?'
And now there came to Coketown a
young man with a bored manner and
a letter of introduction to Bounder-
by The letter was from Gradgrind.
who was now in Parliament. This Mr.
James Harthouse, Esq, had found it 4
bore; had tried life as an attache OF an
English Minister abroad, and found
lit a bore; had strolled to Jerusalem.
and found it bore; gone yachting
around the world. and got bored every
where. He had a brother III Parlia-
ment, and this brother had suggested
that James go down to COketoWn and
come back from Coketown as a col
league of Mr.. Gradgrind in Parliament
assembled. There is an opening
among those Hard Fact fellows said
the honorable member to his brother.
go in for statistics; it's easy enough
SO James drifted to Coketown. and MIR.
Bounderby was detailed to initiate him
into the solemn mysteries Of the Hard
Fact fellows.
Mr.. James Harthouse, when he saw
what sort of a hole Coketown was
! once but for Louisa Bounderby. Louisa
did not bore Mr.. Harthouse- lie
| thought her the most remarkable girl
he had ever seen. She was so con
strained and yet SO careless; SO re
serve and yet SO watchful; SO cold and
proud and yet SO sensitively ashamed
Of her husbands braggat humility
from which she shrunk as if every ex-
ample Of 1t were q cut or blow
that it was quite a new sensation TO
observe her. Her features were hand
some, bat their natural play seemed
to be looked up SO that it was i'm
possible to guess at their natural eR<
preston. Utterly Indifferent, perfect.
| ly self-reliant, never at a loss and YET
never entirely at ease-she bafiied MI
James HarthOuse's penetration
| farmhouse saw her face light up
with a genuine expression of enlotoh
when Tom came in and said TO him
sell: An. there is one person, any
way, who can move her" Harthouse
invited Tom to his rooms at the hotel
gave the young man to drink copio1sy
and to smoke furiously and pumped
him of all the family secrets. MI
farmhouse summed up his opinion %
Tom in one word-whelp-gOt the
Whelp drunk and sent him home bE
a porter.
1t was very remarkable that
youth brought up under one cohuAu-
Gus system Of restraint should ."
hYpocrlte. but it was certainly the case
with Tom. It is very strange tha- "
Young gentleman who had never bee"
left to his own guidance for five con
secutive minutes should at last "e tA
capable Of governing himself; hnt 80
1t was with Tom. 1t was alto2 en-
unaceountable that young gent5o''.-I
whose Imagination had been str.+-I..'7"
III the cradle should still be III
Veniencad by its ghosts in the SIN"
of groveling sonsualities; but :ue"
monster beyond all doubt was Tom.
/ Mr.. Harthouse first began TO 'i''-
est Louisa in himself by a1ect
be looking after the welfare OF
!; Finally he saw that the face WIZ
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