Tracy Park

the price, when his brother's letter was brought to him by the boy who swept his store and did errands for him. But Frank was too busy jus

it was not until he went home to his dinner that be even thought of the letter,

her was her husband, and when he read his brother's letter, which he did twice to assure himself that he was not mis

is going to Europe, to stay forever, perhaps, and has left us Tracy Park. We are going there to live

prevented her from dropping the whole upon the floor. She did spill some of the fat upon her clean tablecloth, sh

d fortune which had come to him. 'We are rich people, Dolly. Read for yourself;' a

to Tracy Park to live; but that do

lanche as to pay for my services, and, though I shall do right, it is not in human nature that I should not feather my nest when I have a chance. Some of that mon

, whose dash and style had completely overawed the plain, matter-of-fact Dolly, who did not know what half the dishes were, or what she was expected to do. But, by watching Arthur, and declining some things which she felt sure were beyond her comprehension, she managed tolerably well, though when the dinner was over, and she could breathe freely again, she found that the back of her new silk gown was wet with perspiration, which had oozed from every pore during the hour and a half she had sat at the tabl

e sun with them, and drinking coffee out of a cup about as big as a thimble. Give me the good old-fashioned way, I say, with peas

r that he succeeded in impressing her with some of his enthusiasm, and after he had returned to his grocery, and her dishes were washed, she removed her large kitche

for it as it ought to be cared for; her eyes were bright, and per

rything elegant and fashionable, and natural

round her eyes, and her complexion is not a bit better than mine was be

So, on the whole, she began to feel quite reconciled to her change of situation, and to wonder how she ought to conduct herself in view of her future position. She had intended going to the circus that night, but she gave that up, telling her husband that it was a second-class amusement any way, and she did not believe that either Mrs. Atherton or the young lady at Collingwood patronized such places. So they staid at home and talked togethe

r mother had given her, and in which the old mother had sat until the day she died, the cradle in which she had rocked her first baby boy who was lying in the Langley grave-yard, were dear to the wife and mother, and though her husband told her she could have no use for them at Tracy Park, where the furniture

au fait as the mistress of Tracy Park, until she reached Springfield, where Mrs. Grace Atherton, accompanied by a tall, elegant looking young lady, entered the car and took a seat in front of her. Neither of the ladies noticed h

s from their plain linen collars and cuffs to their quiet dresses of gray, which

'I ain't like them, and never shall be, if I live to be a hundred. I wish we were not going to be grand. I shall never g

le station was reached, and she saw the handsome carriage waiting for them. A carriage finer far and more modern than the one from Collingwood, in which Mrs. Atherton and the young lady took their seats, laughi

ce Atherton saw and recognized her, and

s, our new neighbors.' Then she bowed to Mrs. Tracy,

ungracious reply: and then, not knowing whether sh

t in return introduce the young girl, whose dark eyes were scanning the stra

thing, and helped to keep her spirits up as she was d

rs and shrubs, the winding walks and clumps of evergreens here and there formed into fancy rooms, with rustic seats and tables under the over-hanging boughs; and when she reflected that all this was hers to enjoy for many years, and perhaps for her life-time, she felt the first stirring of that pride, and satisfaction, and self-assertion which was to grow upon her so rapidly and transf

and said, rubbing his hands togethe

mehow it makes me feel weaker than water. I s