The Other Girls

neral from the "late residence," largely attended; there were letters and calls of condolence; there was making of crape and bombazine and silk into "mourn

d wife; also the use of the homestead; fifty thousand dollars to his daughter Sylvia on her reaching the age of twenty-

; just time for Sylvie to be named as an heiress, and then

ere memoranda of good safe stocks that had stood in his name a little while ago, and no certificates; there ha

e home to dinner one day

es and lands that have gone under. That explains the sunstroke. Half the cases are mere worry and drive. In the old, calm times it was scarcely heard of. Now, of

" said the quiet voice of Aunt Euphrasia. "How s

ndertake to blame," said Mr. Sherrett. "People are born int

Aunt Euphrasia. "Tremendous physical forces have been grasped and set to work for mere material ends. Spiritual

elt in Jerusalem. And now, there are his wife and daug

mining; but she was tender over all the poor souls who were not to blame for the whirl of fever and falseness they were born into; who could not or dared not

be with the

anything left, sir? Nothi

his father first spoke: he had lifted up his eyes quickly, and

young people were both too really interested, from their intimate knowledge

e may be something secured; there ought to be. Mrs. Argenter had a small property, I belie

Aunt Euphrasia, again. "Can't somebody hel

d affections in the world, too; but there's loneliness and broken hearte

s just what peopl

hom nobody can help, directly, and who scarcely know

Amy, as she followed him, after her usual fashion,

his match, and he stood crumbling the end of it, frownin

ve to go away

ourse. They'll be just t

l it will be

o stick by. Maybe she won't want you, at first; but you ought to do it. Father,"-as Mr. Sherrett came o

wouldn't like to intrude. There are executors to

uding-of your sort. And the executors ha

ke to see a neighbor. Yes, I think I will go. You can drive me round,

es, you know. The brother-in

of the world. He couldn't advise to any purpo

l be very glad

xt night. Mr. Sherrett went in alon

vie came down to him, looking pale in her black dress, and with the trouble

said. "She does not feel able to see anybody. Bu

k things over with. I know your mother must have much to think of, and she cannot have been used to

sit down a few minutes and

like Amy Sherrett. Mr. Sherrett had not come for a "mere call," as he said; and there was no mere "receiving." The llama lace and the gray silk and the small savoir faire could not help her now. Mrs. Argenter was up-stairs in a black tamise wrapper with a large pla

k that had come to be wrought in. She had been counting little brick after little brick that she had watched idly in the piling; now there was this great weight that she could not deal with, laid upon her hands for be

ink she really understands. She has lived so long with things as they are, that she cannot imagine them diffe

Mr. Sherrett looked at her with one upon his own face that had a

ust go soon at any rate, because nobody else would know where things belonged or are put away, or fetch her anything she wanted. And the very things, I suppose, don'

d hear of a house,-if you could propose something definite,-

needed, wasting no words. He saw it was the best service he could do t

de. Perhaps she wouldn't want to keep house. I don't know whether we could.

you would ne

people who live so. It would give me a very mean feeling. It would be like trying

tt, warmly. "All you want is to be set in the right d

her like it. I could understand living better. There would only be a lit

knowledge abou

come of that; and there might be things, perhaps, that we should have the right to sell, or keep to furnish with. Seven and a half per cent, on twelve thousand dollars would be nine hundred dollars a year. If

by herself; she did not stop to think that she was doing the small sum now for the enlighten

for less than-say, four hundred dollars, and that would leave v

gs, Mr. Sherrett, rich and poor; and it seems to me that is what we should be trying for, if we got into a boarding-

a "kitchen girl, and have a few things in boxes, and Sundays out," threw a charm of independence and enterprise and cosy t

ething? Could you ke

ey want Kindergartens, and all the new plans, that I haven't learnt. And it's just so about music. You must be

ed for pleasure, and the suggestion of it at this moment, as she sat in her strange black dress, with the pale

re to work from, and something to work for. You can easily furnish it from this house. Whatever has to be done, you could certainly be

Cardwell's name, and the thought of business. She cann

tion of neighbor and friend, should plan and suggest for them, rather than Mr. Richard Car

ouse in Upper Dorbury that always seemed to me so pretty and pleasant; and nobody lives there now. At least, it was all shut up the last time I drove by. The house with the corner pi

stead property. Two of them had passed into other hands; one-this one-remained in its original ownership, but had been rent

. I'm afraid mother wouldn't quite like being in the village, but of course there can't be anything that she would quite like, now. And we aren't really separate people

r mother I say she may be glad of her daughter. I'll find out about the house for you, at a

d in both of his, as a father might have pressed it, and went ou

of woman, and I'm not sure it is a queen!" he said to Rodney, as he

t place," but he was very apt, also, to do the driving himself, after a

ett inquired about the re

's store, in Opal Street, and a

ed and fif

isn't it, for

and, I guess," said Mr. Horner.

ll the property f

ve hundred

ill not mention its having changed hands. I have some friends whom I wish sho

of thirty seconds, after the rapi

t. When will yo

t eleven o'clock. Wil

ght. Ye

the First National Bank for eight thousand dollars, and Mr. Sherrett the title-deed to house and land on

y, which he found she could have on a lease of two or three years, for a rent of three hundred and fifty dollars. It was in the hands of a lawyer in t

which I put my own money into. If it appears suitable to you, I have no doubt it is right. I am very much obliged to you, I am sure.

r and her mother's rooms ready before Mrs. Argenter saw it. During the removal, it was settled that they should go and stay with Mrs. Lowndes, at River Point. This practic

village one day, when they were b

to which amount Mrs. Argenter might reserve such articles as she wished, at the valuation. So much, and two thousand dollars in cash, were given her in exchange for her homestead and her right of dower in the unincumbered portion of the estate, upon which was one other smaller mo

some little mortgage that he had just sold,-was not hers to keep. She came very near stealing it from the estate, quietly appropriating it, without meanin

e day after he died, it w

far as the stone sidewalk before the Bank entrance. He jumped off, hitched Red Squirrel to o

as far as the parlor door; then he tapped with his riding-whip against

lp coming in, seeing you a

urther movement. Rodney ought to have known better than go in then; if indeed he did not know better

id of her sunshiny hair had dropped from the fastening which had looped it up to her head, and hung, raveling into threads of light, down over her shoulder and into her lap; her cheeks were bright wi

ng to look here," said

se," at every question that came up-was a small figured Brussels of a soft, shadowy water-gray, with a border in an arabesque pattern. This had been upon a guest chamber; the winter carpet of the drawing-room was an Axminster, and Sylvie's i

ike small articles of use and grace and cosy expression lying about upon it, as if people had been there quite a while and grown at home. There were bronze candelabra on the mantel and upon brackets each side th

ple should not drop out of the world, between the ranks, when changes happen; they can't change out of humanity. Do you know, Mr. Sherrett,-if it w

r parlor is a village parlor. All in good fa

at keeps people in the misery of falling. I mean to come to land, right here. I guess I preexisted as a barefoot maiden. There's a

cksmith's wife's parlor is finer. B

that we have no conservatory. Village people always have plants in

u brough

and daphnes? No: I shall have li

won't the street

the blinds shut, fo

t Euphrasia; you'll let them, won't you? You don't mean to be

, it does seem almost old. But I didn't think I kn

ot to be generally. Do you know, the Scotch-Aunt Euphrasia is Scotch-have a way of using the word 'upset' to mean 'set up.' I think that is what y

was in. I've no doubt it was a piece of the preparatio

over and over between his hands. He was not quite ready to perceive as yet, that the baker's daughter was just the person for Sylvie Argenter's intimate frien

a would come over to see them, and took himself off, saying th

the red-roofed house so early, and he set down in the front porch what he took carefully, one at a time, from the vehi

, they stumbled suddenly upon this beauty that incumbered the ent

ey Sh

ndly comp

ll she had grouped the whole in her wire frames in the bay wind

and perfect; and that was always a great barrenness of glass. The street can't star

nobby," s

green topped library table; green piano cover; green inside blind

ession was not so much of an object meantime, nor even wages; she had laid up money and secured her standing, living always in the first families; she could afford to take it in a quiet way; "it wouldn't be so bothering nor so dressy;" Sabina had a saving turn with h