Chapman, with a
condescending bow. "You see there is Bowles. Bowles is such an excellent
servant, and so very respectable. He has such a presentable appearance
when in his livery. I have great respect for Bowles--he understands me
so well. You won't have any objection to his having a fixed position in
the family, will you?"
Mattie blushed, and drawing her mother aside, whispered in her ear: "We
can settle such matters, my dear mother, when others of more importance
are disposed of."
"But you know, my daughter," she returned, with an air of great
seriousness, "he has done so much to make these common country people
understand what our position was in the city."
* * * * *
Two weeks were passed in making preparations for the wedding. And now
the day was come, and that ceremony that was to unite two loving hearts
for weal or woe, which was to seal their fortunes in one bond, was to be
performed in the little old church, quietly and unostentatiously, by
Dominie Payson, for it had been settled after some reluctance on the
part of Mrs.
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