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    A. VTIXAGE SKETCH. 405

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    w _^ as a very obstinate man . As well attempt to turn the rusted weatner-eockor to bend the windas try to move Mm when once he

    , , had made up his mind . His yea was yea , and his nay was nay , and when either had gone forth he was absolutely immovable .

    This worthy gentleman had a niece , a lady of rather prepossessing * appearance , young *—well , slie was father five-and remarkable -twenty , perh talent aps

    more . Miss Kayner inherited from her a for spending money , while , like him , she had no idea of turning or making a penny ; indeed , the necessity of doing either was shocking

    to her ideas of gentility . She had been nattered in her day—I clined speak in She tlie had past been tense called , for her _" angel day " seemed and did to not have repudiate suddenly the

    de-. , appellation . But her father had gone the way of all flesh , and his effects went the of all effects which minister to the vanity of a

    man who makes way it a point to exceed his means . And then angels terrestrial liave peculiar disadvantages . That vulgar tiling ,

    appetite , is imperious ( this in a whisper ) . And these unfortunate angels have to do with the landlady . They cannot enter a sumptuous

    escape dwelling the at virago will , and , as poise the real in mid angel -air in may the . best All bed this -room Miss , and Rayner then

    found out to her great confusion ; and what could she do ? Work but was ungenteel it was a little ; she more would compatible beg : that with was humili ladyism ating . And , of c so ourse she ,

    remembered her " horrid uncle" at Benniworth . There was some slight difficulty in the way , for a feud had said long uncle existed but between twice the

    in brothers her life -in . -law She , and had she no had other seen resource this howeverand once so the or li-, , app cation was forwarded in due form .

    Now Mr . Cheever's pipe was a sort of mental indicator . If the whiffs in forth lihtlas if they were having a holidaythen , all ye

    cottagers sp who want g new y hasps to your pigsties or the loan , of master ' s new swathe rakecome nigh ; but if the said whiffs proceed slowly

    and reluctantly as , if they were being sent up the chimney for bad behaviour , well then , better wait a bit , for Mr . Cheever must not

    be disturbed . But the farmer was in neither of these moods when the letter of

    his niece came to hand . He was in perfect balance : his good heart , and it was a good onewas not to be made light of by his judgment ,

    nor Ms judgment , and , that was good too , to be overruled by the dictates of his heart . He read the letter , paper superfine , and sur

    perfLne everything else . I said he read the letter , but this was no li words ght task now : on floundering he stumbled throug , over h French a sentimental phrases and quotation un-make , and -out- now able

    hanging , in doubt over heads and tails of doubtful significance . One thing wa _# clear and only one—she wanted some money . Of course

    she did not express herself in that vulgar way , but she intimated that her longer existence on this terrestrial ball was " contingent on

    the immediate _remittance of a pecuniary favor . "

    A. Vtixage Sketch. 405

    A . _VTIXAGE SKETCH . 405

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/45/