Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-09-29

alwaysl By no means the man wa,
MORTAL, and ndemnIfed himself al HON.
Tor the efforts he made abroad. Eons
had too high toned n mind aud too proue
heat 10 complain OF her husband ano
there necessarily arose n reserve be
tween The sisters that had never existed
before.
4 In The course Of the following week
the Howards dined with Emma 'er
lanllle.' Trusting TO the prudence ol
her husbands usua manners in society
she had invited u couple Of gentlemen
one oi them foreigner of distinction, {,
meet them Conversation was general
and became animated, until even Mr.
Brown caught the spirit and rarely did
ms words come so fast, and sadly wer,
they misplaced, and mIsapplicd IN ii man.
ner that brought the quick color ,nore
than once 10 the cheek of his beautiful
wife.
/ Some slight allusion was made to Il
very second.rsie novel which il seemed
some OF them had not read, but which
unfortunately MIR. Brown had. IL was
an unusual circumstance for him To read
"a novel, and when he did, il was slowly
and leisurely done every incident was
OF Importance, and stamped itself on hs
memory as a fact. Aud now To Emma :
! confusion he entered Oh detail of the
one IN question, with a prosy mlnu'eness
suspendlng all oiker Conversation that
made the blood tlDgle To the tips Of her
pretty fingers. Emma made up her mind
as she lett the dining room, that It was
the last time she should gather two OF
three agreeable men round her table. -
Ienceiorih her entertainments should be
conilned to those on large scale. But
she soon found that her husband wa,
wiling To give one or two grand dinners
IN the course of the winter, and perhaps
ball for it gratiied his vanity to dis
play his wealth, and assure himself Ca.
slonally that he could command the beau
~ and the fashion OF the city 10 his iries
lie had no idea, however, of. cSpendlng
so literally the money which for so man,
years he had tolled TO gam, aud which
nothing now but his vanity could have
induced him TO spend at ali.
/ And thus Emma found that she had
Judged most erroneously IN supposiug
when she married that she was To have
society, at least on her own terms She
also found, as time wore on, that though
her husband was proud of her IN society
and chose to see her mag efficiently dress.
ed, yet she had no command of funds
lie was one Of those men who never
trust their wives with money. All beiI
accounts must pass through his hands ,
that he might Judge for himself that
there was no unnecessary expense, and
above all no giving away and hurnllat
ed and indignant did Emma feel at being
schooled and treated like child. Nani
~ was his only weakness, aud thai alone
could combat meanness all the other
points Of his character were strong, OF
we should rather say hard ones. The
perseverance IN business that had crown
ed his efforts with success, degenerated
INTO periInacity IN the lilile details of life
which made his wife give up as hopeless,
any opposition to his plans aud projects
the rest OF his mind was multiplication
addition, and subtraction. Those tastes
too which she had looked forward to
graiIly ing, music particularly what sym
palhy could there be between them there Il
And what he did not like, and what cost
money too, she must 90 without. True,
he followed always 10 the wake of fash
ion and if an Italian uoupe arrived, or
Signor Ms music, which more than
talks along the walls, threw the ga, |
world IN Il fever, he took Emma once 10
hear them because they were the fashion.
But ice must suffice.
Books too were a forbidden pleasure :
at least she must not buy them. lie had II
indeed very handsome bookcase, with
some OF the old standard works elegantly Il
bound, Johnson, Pope, etc. big names
and big books !; but the new works, the 4
literature ofthe day, she might
borrow oI Clara or go without. In short,
he had no sympathy III her tastes, and no
indulgence To supply the place of sym.
palhy. IL Emma had thought herself
'cabined, cribbed, confined" before he,
marriage, because she had wanted the
means to indulge those elegant accom- /
IIishmcnts that her parents had delig GIFTED \
o cultivate, what were now her emotions
when she knew that the wiH only was
wanting to crafty her, Emma had not
owed her husband when she married him. |,
nd her heart closed against him still i
nore coldy and haughlily now She
'as too high h-principled and high bred
ot To treat hIm always with the respect
tie to hun as her husband yet he could
ot but feel the truth, and resent not be-
e loved, although he was doing nothing
} gain that love and his eyes grew
old and hard as Il turned to her, and ,
is hrst impulse was rather to refuse than
ratIty her. A less keen sense of her
wn superiority and his Deficiencies on
er side, or more liberal and lndulgenl !,
'lrIt on his, and they might have fell I,
differently towards each other H.
Chaied in spirits, sick at heart, and n
cary of the dull monotony Of the life h
lc Ted, Emma took advantage of hel sI
absence from the city To spend d.
long day with Clara. The cheerful a,
r OF the house, the gay tone of her sis tr
RS voice, the happiness that beameo III
her eyes, formed as strange a con III
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