The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-13


stances. to have anybody else ms
ia ken for me-a Very great reli.s
and it's Il circumstance that n.E-
occurred before, though l havt. s.
saral times been mistaken for r,,.
daughter Kate. | have no douht t..,
people We're Very foolish. but Z,
they Gid take me for her However
IN this instance. Of course, / shou.l
90 exceedingly wrono if suffer,
anybody TO be ~oade uncontrolled :,
on my account. Therefore | Trims
my duty to tell the gentleman th5t
am the lady who. ne Was told MS.
some impairment person was me-.
to the Council Of PAWN Stones ava
| do beg and entreat Of him To .a.
quietly away, if it's only here Mrs
Nickelby hesitated shyly. for NJ
Sa ke''
To Mrs. Nickleby's horr!nad
shocked Amusement, the old sentl,-
man. instead of returning q suitable.
and courteous reply to this touching,
delicate appeal stared At her with
his rolling eyes and replied loudly.
"Avaunt. Cat"
Sir" cried Mrs Nickleby Ill /,
faint tone.
Cat" repeated the old gentleman
obligingly. "Puss. Tabby. Erindle.-
Whoosh.'
MIS-. NlckleDy wasted neither time
nor words but tainted away at once
Il shall never forgive myself
never said she. when she returned
to consciousness after the gentleman
had been led away. You saw what
he was the other day. You see what
he is now. [ told your brother Kate
that | hoped disappointment might
not be too much for him. You see
what a wreck he is. You have heard
the dreadful nonsense he has been
guilty Of tonight, and the manner III
| which he has gone on with that IN
fortunate old maid. Well, If | am
the unfortunate cause of this, | have.
the satisfaction of knowing that l am
not to blame. If the matter had only
been properly taken up first. as
wished it to be. But you both ara
SO like your poor papa
Gradually Mrs. Nickleby schooled
! herself to take comfort in the knoWl-
edge that it was another case in
which her sound judgment and dis
Greet counsel had been neglected
recklessly. In time the little old gen
tle1nan took his place with those
other innumerable important Incl
dents of Mrs. Nickleby's career. such
as the exact position and appearance
Of a certain pair Of salt cellars in her
fathers house. and the exact number
of steps that one had to take to get
into the garden from the little store
room in her own old house, and Mr..
| Watkins who said that Kate was the
finest child he ever saw (She remerl-
bered that incident particularly be-
cause Mr.. Watkins borrowed twenty
pounds from Mr.. Nickleby that same
day and never paid it back) and
the extraordinary fact that once. on
a visit to Stratford, she dreamed OF
Shakespeare.
She succeeded In forgiving her
children for having plunged the old
gentleman into maddening despair.
and she would have forgiven even
Miss La Creevy had that shameless
spinster not become engaged. alto
gether to Mrs Nickleby's astonish-
ment, to a fine young boy Of sixty
who was one of the Cheeryhic
Brothers establishment. This said
Mrs. Nickleby justly, was something
that she could not overlook.
She would say nothing against the
man, except that he was the weakest
and most foolish man she ever knew
But declared Mrs. Nickleby, more
grieved than angry. that he should
have gone and offered himself to z
woman who must be-ah. half az
old again as | am-and that she
should have dared to accept him, L
don't signify, Kate: but I'm disgust
ed with her.
And ever after that Mrs. Eickleby
conducted herself toward her friend
in stately and distant manner, de
signed to mark her sense of the i'm
proprlety OF her conduct, and to sig
My her extreme and cutting dlStp-
probation Of the misdemeanor she
had committed so f1agrantly..
Copyright, 1912, by j. W. Muler)
Title of Next Sundays -\rGcle>->ir
John Chester: Dickens Most Crue
, Character.