I have counted so much on your
company. Please say that you will go anyway, and I will go to Papa and see
if I can get him to do better," pleaded Austin. "Well, but he will not do
any more. I know he will not," she said. With a hasty look upward to the
One who can give grace to calm the turbulent soul, Austin went to confer
with his father. He set the matter before him in all its pathos.
"Nell has worked hard, and been such a faithful housekeeper. She is not
wanting to buy extravagantly, and she ought to have all that she has asked.
I can't do any more, and I can hardly bear to see her so disappointed. Can
you not do better by her now?" he had pleaded, humbling his own spirit in
the asking, for he would rather have gone bungry and cold than to have
asked his father for a cent. But his plea only succeeded in making his
parent angry.
"You are both as ungrateful as you can be. The idea of a girl not being
satisfied with ten dollars to go off on a shopping-tour. She needs to come
down a bit. And if this is the way you appreciate what I do for you, I
shall pull out of here and leave you to yourselves. Do not think I shall
give another penny for any such a purpose."
And, suiting his action to his word, Henry Hill began making himself ready
for his departure from the roof of his ungrateful children.
Austin went back to Nell to tell her that he had been successful only in
making his father angry.
"Let him be angry, and let him go.
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