Her Husband's Purse

her bedroom dressing to receive her lover, Harriet, who had been quite unable to dis

u dress, dear?"

s thing up the bac

s new chiffon waist, Margaret; ch

be putting a wrap over it," said Mar

g out, but, Margaret, c

hough I'd rather mash the waist than forego that pleasure. Sti

Mr. Leitzel since your engagement, and he's quit

ooked at h

between the two facts, you

argaret. "Now I s

all

r, you needn't be

rgaret, you're too thin; there's no excuse for anybody's l

r. Leitzel; he's t

n days; you and I and Mr. Leitzel can meantime be addressing the envelopes. I've drawn up a list of name

y we

's quite cold-blooded eagerness to speed her on her way. Harriet seemed to be almost feverishly

er, so strong that when she had conquered it, by reminding herself again of all the arguments by which she had

, a diamond is always property; capital safely invested. I'm only too glad and thankful that I can afford to give my affianced bride a costly diamond engagement ring. Is it tight enoug

inger and fling it in his face, and such impulses were so fo

s, "for if you don't use me well, I can sell out to Isaac or Israel and run of

marrying him with so little idea of his great possessions; another proof of

r help, "struck a bonanza" in getting such a wife; so sweet-tempered and unselfish, so lovely looking, so healthy, such "a perfect lady," so "refined," except when she said "damn" and "devilish." He must warn her not to forget herself before his sisters-they'd never get over the shock. He

tune was. He knew how eager they must be to know. He was beginning

self for the hundredth time. "But she seems so disinterested in her love

rgaret here reminded him, "for the wedding a

running this wedding?"

I have got to address envelope

ent from his pocket and unfolding it, "though not nearly so much as it would if I were being married in New Munich and having a larg

a, her family for generations had scarcely even rubbed against people of any other status than its own; and the gradations a

nd, naturally, you don't want undesirable people calling on you. If you didn't return their calls, you would make enemies of them; and while

ces that are 'undesirable,' and in what sense undesirable-so

rhaps club together and give us a handsome wedding-present if we send them

lives are, aren't they? I imagine it might be a very broadening and interesting experience to

nd interesting" to know such, quite counteracted the disturbing effect of this absurd suggestion. He had only to remember his sisters' long struggle for recognition and their present precarious foothol

him, his sense of his sisters' crudities being dulled by familiarity

"Jennie and Sadie will be a great help to you in telling you

es there would be only your family's friends

few others, may bother us some. You need not worry about it; Jennie

le of your people. Your s

dear, that my sisters keep house for m

n secret consciousness it seemed disloyal to rejoice that she was not going to be thrown alon

ontinued Daniel; "it's so much cheaper for us all to l

ablishment," but concluding, rather, that they were dependent upon him, hastened to assure

they understand me and all my little habits so well, and they do take such care of my comfo

o take care of his comforts and learn all his "little habits," which occupation ap

it seemed worth while because of what he was givin

," she asked Daniel, "is it anyth

cked at the suggestion that it could

man fit for his work, they surely want to know that his w

ll my legal work a 'job') must benefit society; if I make money, I not only

, certainly must know, that society has outgrown the philanthropy and charity idea; has learned to hate p

istian influence on you, as fond of me as you are, will soon make you forget his infidel teachings. For goodness' sake, dear, don't forg

sudden sense of despair, what her uncle wou

kly, I can't hold out!

onted a worse fate in the alter

your sister

women, though as vigo

er to them than Hattie had ever been to her. "They s

relatives in New M

But Hiram lives in

nts are no

my parents ar

t quite sure

ng sense of inferiority to a Berkeley of Berkeley Hill. What a shock it would be to "a perfect lady"

't get out of telling her about mother; she's bound

p-mother," he

es in Ne

t in the country. We

said Margaret, glancing dow

e necessary to

ith her? She was not a

's an inoffensive, good-hearted old woman. But-well, we se

oints with her, you would send your fathe

of her, Margaret; we're not, j

nd good-hearted,' and she was your father's

he'll tell it all over the township! I mean"-he pulled himself up-"well, you see, she's old and n

ok a pencil from his vest-pocket and s

he paper back to her. "Anyt

nie

, dea

e way you speak

ented to send cards

ves money to charities and the church, as you tell me you do, coul

ch Home for Old Ladies." He drew out his purse, extracted a newspap

uncement of your wedding to the 'aged, inoffensive, kind-h

ou see her, you'll not blame me! You'll understand. Anyway, family sentiment among yo

re it m

end us a wedding present," he added as

hildish simplicity, the eccentricity of legal genius, perhaps. Had she known that he actually felt it wasteful to invest an exp

g announcement to old Mrs. Leitzel of Martz Township was going