OR НОМЕ, A SEQUEL TO "HOMEWARD BOUND;" BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. AUTHOR OF "THE PILOT," "EXCURSIONS IN ITALY," ETC. PARIS: PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI AND CO., RUE VIVIENNE, No 18. 1839. When Mr. Effingham determined to return home, he sent orders to his agent to prepare his town house in New York for his reception, intending to pass the winter in it, and to visit his country residence when the spring should fairly open. Accordingly, Eve now found herself at the head of one of the largest establishments in the largest American town, within an hour after she had landed from the ship. Fortunately for her, however, her father was too just to consider a wife or a daughter a mere upper servant; and he rightly judged that a liberal portion of his income should be assigned to the procuring of that higher quality of domestic service, which can alone relieve the mistress of a household from a burthen so heavy to be borne. Unlike so many of those around him, who would spend on a single pretending and comfortless entertainment, in which the ostentatious folly of one contends with the ostentatious folly of another, a sum that, properly directed, would introduce order and system into a family for a twelvemonth, by commanding the time and knowledge of those whose study they had been, and who would be willing to devote themselves to such objects, and who would then permit their wives and daughters to return to the drudgery to which the sex seems doomed in this country: he first bethought him of the base of social life, before he aspired to its parade. As a man of the world, Mr. Effingham possessed the requisite knowledge, and as a man of justice, the requisite fairness, to permit those who depended on him so much for their happiness, to share equitably in the good things that Providence had so liberally bestowed on himself. In other words, he |