Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-09-15
TRUsTAOT WOyu.ayN
A CHAPTER FOR YOUNG WIVES.

A CHAPTER FOR YOUNG WIVES.
"The painful virgil may never know
That anxious watches Ger wandering heart"
MRS TIGHE.
1t was past midnight, and she sat lean
ing her pale cheek on her hand counting
the dull ticking of the French clock that
stood on the marble chimney piece, and
ever and anon lifting her weary eye 10 its
dial 10 mark the lapse of an hour. 1t was
past midnight and yet he returned not!-
She arose and taking up the lamp, whose
pale eyes alone illuminated the solitary
chamber, proceeded with noiseless step
TO small inner apartment. The curtains
of his little bed were drawn aside, and she
gazed on her sleeping child! What WV
id contrast did that glowing che ling
brow present, as he lay in rosy slumber,
to the faded yet beautiful face that hung
over him in tears will he resemble
his father was the thought that passed
for moment through her devoted heart,
and sigh was the only answer.
IT'S his well known knock-and the
steps of the drowsy porter echoes along
the hall, as with murmer on his lips, he
drew the massive bolt and admitted his
though,less master. -Four o'clock, Will
lis, is it not 2 and he sprang up the stair>
case-another moment he is in the chamber
in her arms
No reproaches met the truant husband,
none save those she could not but spare
him in her heavy eye, and faded cheek
yet those spoke to his heart.
- Iulia, haves been wandering hus.
band
But you have come now, Charles, and
all is WE'LL
And all was swell, for, from that hour,
Charles Danvers became an altered man.
Had his wife pet him with frowns and
sullen Nears, he had Become hardened
: .libertine; and her affectionae caresses, the
joy that danced in her sunken eye the
hectic flush that NJ up her paid cheek at
his approach, were argument he could not
withstand; married in early life, while he
fell; all the ardor but potthe esteefof love;
possessed Of splendid fortune, and hith-
) erta had the senlire command Of his own
pleasure, Danvers fell into the common
error of newly married men-the fear of
being controlled. In vain did his parents,
who beheld with sorrow the reproaches
and misery he was heaping up for himself
in after life, demonstrate; Charles Danvers
turned a deaf ear to advice, and pursued,
with his companions every way unworthy
Of his. society, the path Of folly, if not Of
absolute guilt.
hus the first three years Of their we'd
ded life had-passed-to him fevered and
restless pleasure, to her in blighted hopes
I or unmurnuring regret. But this night
crowned the patien. forbearance of the
Asglecsed julia with its just reward, and
Ne blow to the folly ia the bosom OF
4hvers. Returning with disgust from
The hazard table, her meekness and long
suffering touched him to the soul; the felm
fell from his eyes, and vice in her hideous
tlsformisy stood unmasked before him.
Ten years had passed since that solita-
: ~ midnight, when the young matron beh.
in tears over her sleeping boy. Behold
her now! Still in the prime of woman
hood, surrounded by their cherub faces,
who are listening, ere they go to rest, to
her voice. as it pours the accompaniment
of her heart and evening song of 10Y and
melody while manly form is bending
over the music page to hide the tears Of
happiness and triumph that spring from a
swelling bosom, as he contemplates the
interesting group. Youthful ma.rons We
who watch over wandering. perhaps an
erring heart-when reproach ,rembles on
your lips towards truant husband, imi-
tate Julia Danvers and remember though
Hymen has chains; like the sword Of Her.
modious, they may be covered with flow
ers, that unkindness and ir.i,ability do bu,
harden, if no: wholly estrange the heart ;
while, on the contrary, patience, and gen.
tleness Of manners (as water dropping on
the flinty rock will in time wear it into
sottness,) seldom fail to reclaim to Lappi>
ness and virtue the truant husband.
What curious being a printer is. He
stands when he sets, and sets when he
stands. and when he wishes to SET with
ease. he always stands erect = L