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She blushed, and would have withdrawn it; but he retained the hand with a gentle pressure. "My dear Miss Pillbody," said Overtop, "I will take five dollars from you on one condition, and no other. Will you grant it?" The schoolmistress, not knowing what she was saying, said "Yes." "The condition is, that I shall buy an engagement ring, and put it on this dear hand."
Pillbody could not endure his misfortune. He wrote notes bidding farewell to his wife and child, and commending them to the care of their relatives, to whom he had always been bountifully generous. Then he went to Staten Island by ferry, there took a row boat, proceeded to a celebrated oyster bed which was the scene of his youthful labors, and drowned himself. Pillbody.
At the mention of his name, Miss Pillbody started. She had heard of Fayette Overtop, Esq., through the newspapers, as counsel for Marcus Wilkeson; but not as the philosophic friend of Mrs. Slapman. In reply to questions about Miss Minford, she stated that that interesting young pupil had not taken lessons from her since the death of her father. Miss Pillbody here indulged in a little artifice.
So he addressed a note, through the General Post Office, to "Miss Pillbody, New York City," requesting the privilege of an interview on business, at the residence of the lady, the exact location of which she was asked to designate. Wilkeson, at his house, giving information as to the whereabouts of the lady, and appointing the time for an interview. Mr.
By the time the case was decided, the firm of Overtop & Maltboy ranked among the most successful of the Junior Bar. Now that Overtop had his hands full of business, his thoughts reverted to matrimony more strongly than ever. It is a singular fact, that business men find more time to think of marriage, than men of leisure. Thoughts of matrimony invariably brought Miss Pillbody into Overtop's head.
Miss Pillbody was often and particularly enjoined by her not to tell any one not even her mother of it; and she saw the advantages of carefully observing the request. Great pains were taken to keep Mr. Crull, and the housemaid, cook, and coachman, from a knowledge of the mystery. On Miss Pillbody's arrival daily at ten A.M., she was ushered into the drawing room, where Mrs.
Just as Mr. Pillbody was making arrangements to bring these mines before the public, his stockbroking friend, through whom he had effected the purchase, left for Europe, and it was then discovered that Mr. Pillbody's mines, if they existed at all, were ten feet under a swamp, on property which belonged to somebody else, the title deeds of which had been forged by the adroit operator. Mr.
If strictly classified among the institutions of the city, it might be termed, "A school for female adults in good circumstances, whose early education had been neglected." The idea of this school originated with Miss Pillbody; and, like many other valuable ideas, it was hit upon quite accidentally.
At first, he professed to have been requested, by a friend in the country, to find a suitable private school for two young daughters. This justified several visits, until Miss Pillbody could decide positively that it would be impossible for her to take them an announcement which greatly relieved Overtop, though it temporarily put an end to his calls.
But he little suspected his wife's secret. To Miss Pillbody, this quiet little arrangement proved a fortune indeed. In two weeks after she became acquainted with her benefactress, she was rich enough to take lodgings for her mother and herself at a decent boarding house.
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