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Show THE LAWYER AND THE LAD Y, A rather tunny little incident happened hap-pened a feW days diUcc to a disciple ol B acUtone, whose shinyle is hung out on Chapel street. Tiie lawyer n1inl,iee-T 'ni-of his after d'n-reL1i d'n-reL1i r'WlttVns vated at the leather cloud emanating from the cigar aforesaid, when suddenly there Ca.V,?ra tufPlllE at his chamber door. . lis some vieitor," he muttered, bringing his feet down to the floor; and Uien, aloud, "Come in." In response to the invitation there entered a female, over whose head had rolled ths suns of some fifty sum-mere, sum-mere, as indicated by tho occasional thread of silver which relieved its pre-a pre-a hns retW The figure of the Ucly as copious, and there was an ftiroruftunilew resolution about her wb;ch betokened business. "Sir," she said, addressing the lawyer law-yer and advancing into the middle ol (ho room with measured stride "I am m deep amiction and come to you for advice and assistance." The lady's accents were touchingly "plaintive, "plain-tive, being evidently founded upon Mrs. Bardell, of moun.ful memory. "Madam, be seated. My services are at your disposal. Command me" said tbe lawyer. "Sir," said the bright haired client, "one year ago I was the motbdr of a fair young girl, then scarce nineteen years of age. She was, indeed, beautiful. beau-tiful. The roso aud the lily were delicately deli-cately blended in her cheek; her form was ot fairy grace; all who knew her loved her." This touching etilocium brought a tear into the lower left hand corner of the lady's eye, and the lawyer made a note on't. "Among her many suitors," pursued pur-sued the aflectionate pareut, "was a young man, a machinist, named George. We all regarded him as an exceedingly estimable and right-principled young man. He doted on my daughter, and my daughter, she doted on him In abort, bis suit prospered, and they were married. 'George,' my dear daughter said before the ceremony, cer-emony, 'you know I cannot live away irom my precious ma; she must abide with us.' 'Ity all means," replied re-plied George; 'life would be a desert without .her.' " Here the lady gave vent to a powerful sob which threatened threat-ened to rend tbe bosom of tbe black moire antique dress which enclosed her well-developed form. Alter a briel season of recuperation, Bhe proceeded: "We all lived together very happily for about b.x months. To my daughter aud her husband life was like a summer dream an Arcadian Ar-cadian paradise. The bud shone, the birds saug, tbe waters played everything every-thing was bright and beautiful." "Ah, I tee," murmured the lawyer, "the goose bung allitudilum." "Just so," assented the lady; but one day my daughter was taken sick, and after a very brief illness she went to sing songs with the angels. As she lay on her deih-bcd sue summoned her husband, and said, 'George, care lor mother when I am gone; be good to her.' " Sob the second. J "After she was dead, I asked George what construction he placed upon our darling's dar-ling's dying words. He said he had been tiimkiug at out them, and asked ma how I construed them. I told him it seemed to me that she desired that we should live together forever and ever; that I should, in fact, fill her place iu his desolate home. He replied that such was pretty much hia idea. And ao," continued the veteran, becoming a trifle mixed in her parts of speech, "from that day we were all in all to each other, and wesuftered much happiness." "Do you mean to say,"' asked the lawyer, "that you and this man lived together as man and wife?" "Such," responded the lady, "i the plain English version of the fact. As 1 said, everything was lovely for a time, but recently he his imbibed a habit ho always would imbibe something some-thing ol absenting himself from home at night, more especially ou Wednesday and Sunday evenings, and I have learned by dint of patient and vigilant inquiry, luat he is sparking, actually sparking, a bold-faced and brass-mouthed milliner ou Orange street. (Another sob of tremendous vehemence. "Well, what do you mean to do about it?" inquired the lawyer. "Do about it!" shrieked the enraged en-raged female, "do about it! I want you to get out an injunction to restrain the man from sparking that nau'y milliner any more, and I want you tu get cut a summary process to compel iii in to marry me." "Madam," responded the lawyer, with gravity, "I am sorry that I can do nothing for you. Those cheerful enactments which were in vogue in the days of Miles Stand ish and the Pilgrim Fathers generally, which prohibited pro-hibited sparking on tbo part of young people, are not now in force, while our more modern legislators, with reprehensible negligence, have fail oil to enact a law for compelling a man to marry bis mother-in-law. The case is hopeless." The lady arose, and, after casting a look of withering contempt upon tho lawyor who amid do nothing, and having given vont to a most prodigous and complicated snifl, she swept haughtily and majestically from the premises. New Haven Union. |