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Barrington’s Lesson-
Milly Barrington was only eighteen
when she came to live at Holy Lodge.
Very young to be married, said the
gossips of the neighborhood, still
younger to assume all the cares and
responsibilities of a household. And
there were not lacking doleful proph
ets who declared with eyes rolled up
and mouths drawn down that Mrs.
Barrington never would “get on” with
the old gentleman.
“He is so fastidious,” said one.
“So difficult to suit,” said another.
“His ideal is so impossibly high,” de
clared a third.
But to their surprise—perhaps a lit
tle to their disappointment—Milly and
her father-in-law were the best of
friends from the very first moment in
which they looked upon each other’s
face.
Milly was anxious to learn, so eager
to comprehend the ins and outs of the
great, roomy old house, so ambitious
to excel every housekeeper in the
neighborhood, that the old gentleman
said, with a smile to his son:
“Don’t let your little wife undertake
too much. Dudley.”
And Dudley Barrington answered
with a yawn:
“There’s no danger of that, sir. The
women of Holy Lodge have always
been good housekeepers, you know.
And if a woman is at work she isn't
spending money foolishly or gossip
ing.”
Mr. Barrington’s keen blue eyes re
garded his son sharply for a moment.
“Do you think Milly is addicted to
either of those pernicious practices?”
he asked.
“They come natural to all women,
don’t they?” said Dudley, shrugging
his shoulders.
“Not at all!” said his father.
Ancf in his secret soul he wondered if
Dudley was worthy of such a jewel as
Millicent.
So the weeks went on, and Milly
stood bravely to her helm, until one
bright October day the old gentleman,
chancing to pass the low kitcnen win
dow where the vines made a screen of
moving shadow, looked smilingly into
where his daughter-in-law was *il
work.
“Have you got a glass of cool milk
for me, lit lie girl?” said he.
Milly brought the milk promptly.
"See, papa,” she said, triumphantly
pointing to the table, “what a baking I
have done to-day'! Three apple pies
three loaves of bread, a pan of biscuit,
a cake and a dozen plum tarts!”
“Bravo!” said Mr. Barrington. “But,
Milly', why are you baking? Where is
Hannah?”
“Hannah wanted her wages raised,”
said Milly' rather soberly, “and Dudley
said it was all nonsense keeping a girl
when I was so fond of housework. So
she has gone.”
“But are you fond of housework?”
he asked. “In itself, as an abstract
thing, I mean?”
“Yes, napa.” Milly answered with
some hesitation. “But, I am a little
tired this morning. I rose and swept
die house through before breakfast so
as to have time for the baking.”
“You are a good little girl,” said the
father-in-law. “But we musn’t let you
work too hard.”
“Papa,” said Milly', with downcast
lashes and a deep pink shadow creep
ing over her cheek, “I’ve been thinking
for some time that—that”
“Well,” said Mr. Barrington encour
agingly.
“That I should like to ask you for a
little money,” faltered Milly.
“Money!” he echoed in surprise
“Doesn’t Dudleys give you all you
want?”
Once more Milly hesitated.
“He wants to know what every
thing is for,” said she. “He thinks two
shillings is too much for ribbon, and
he says hats ought to be had cheaper
than three shillings each, and he de
clares it is all nonsense to buy kid
gloves when cotton will do as well.
And I do need another hat since the
rain spoiled my best one, but I don’t
like to ask him for it,”
“Do you mean to say,” said Mr. Bar
rington, leaning his elbows on the sill,
“that you don’t have a regular allow
ance every week?”
“No, papa,” said Milly, lifting her
prettily arched brows. “Dudley says
women don’t know how to use money,
and that a wife should always receive
every halfpenny she spends from her
husband. And I can tell you, papa,
because you are so kind to me—l am
ashamed to have him think me extrav
agant, and I really need so many little
things that men haven’t any idea of.
It’s a little hard sometimes.”
Mr. Barrington took his purse out of
his pocket ana laid it on the window
sill.
“Here, little girl,” he said, “you have
earned the contents of that a dozen
times over.”
Milly reached up to kiss him
through the vine leaves.
“Oh, papa, you are such a darling,”
she said.
He only patted her cheek in reply.
“Dudley doesn’t know what a treas
ure he lias,” be pondered as he kept !
on his walk up to the front veranda, j
where a great chestnut tree was show
ering its blooms over the steps and the
balmy sunshine slept on the painted
floor. “He is making a Circassian
slave out of that dear little woman.”
And he took his book and stretched
himself comfortably out in the ham
mock for his evening’s reveries.
It was the next day that his son
came to him in the library, where a
little fire of logs had been kindled, for
a chilly northwest rain had blown all
the yellow maple leaves away, and the
sunshine was obscured in driving
clouds.
“Well, my boy,” said his father
kindly, “ you are off to the city, I sup
pose?”
“Yes, sir,” said Mr. Barrington, Jr.,
a tall, straight, handsome young man.
with a brown complexion and spark
ling eyes. “And before I go perhaps
you had better give me a check, if it
is convenient.”
“A check?” said his father. “For
what?”
“I’m about out of ready cash,” said
Dudley, carelessly, “and a little spend
ing money would come in very handy
for current expenses.”
“Ah! and what are you going to
buy?”
“I need a summer suit, sir,” said he.
“and”—
“Yes, yes,” nodded the old gentle
man. “And how much do you pay for
a summer suit now?”
“Oh, six or seven pounds,” answered
Dudley.
“Six or seven pounds!” echoed Mr.
Barrington. “Isn’t that rather va
:gue?”
“A fellow never knows exactly,” ex*
plained Dudley.
“Ah, but you ought to know,” inter
rupted the old gentleman. “And now
II am on the subject, you buy yours
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