Grimshaw."
"Mimmy!" she said, with a wild laugh, "is there a deeper pit in
perdition than that to which you urge me now?"
* * * * *
Fortune certainly favored the lovers that day; for when Thurston reached
home in the evening, his grandfather said to him:
"Well, Mr. Jackanapes, since you are to sail from the port of Baltimore,
I think it altogether best that you should take a private conveyance,
and go by way of Washington."
"That will be a very lonesome manner of traveling, sir," answered the
young man, demurely.
"It will be a very cheap one, you mean, and, therefore, will not befit
you, Sir Millionaire! It will cost nothing, and, therefore, lose its
only charm for you, my Lord Spendthrift," cried the miser, sharply.
"On the contrary, sir, I only object to the loneliness of the long
journey."
"No one to chatter to, eh, Mr. Magpie! Well, it need not be so! There's
Nace Grimshaw, and his set--extravagant fools!--going up to the city to
flaunt among the fashionables. You can go as they go, and chatter to the
other monkey, Jacquelina--and make Old Nace mad with jealousy, so that
he shall go and hang himself, and leave you the widow and her fortune!
Come! is there mischief enough to amuse you? But I know you won't do it!
I know it! I know it! I know it! just because I wish you to!"
"What, sir? drive Dr.
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