Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-09-25


e out for a walk, or call upon some Of the
e few intimate friends.
f Dear Henry said Lucy to her hus
band one evening, as they sat talking tc
, gether after lea, how worried Mr. Lowr
: looks Of late. think he must be in ba
, health How glad / am you are Away
well. | know not what should do if yor
we're TO be taken SICK
MAY that day be long averted, my owl
Lucy said the husband as he kissed he
white brow, but have noticed somethin!
the same look in Lowry, and have a,tnb
uled it to the cares OF business. His wife
is woman, yon know, who could do lit
tie TO alleviate husbands WEAKNESS
ooh! how can she be wife and mol
wish to soften a husbands cares. Idneed,
indeed, if you only look the leas, worried
| share your trouble until your brow clears
up
And it is that which makes me love
you so dearly, said the husband as he
pressed her to his bosom. All he con-
inued TO himself, if Charles saw me to
night, ] wonder whether he would not en-.
Wy mel'
That evening there was a brilliant party
at the house of Mrs Lowry, who was
smiling upon her guests in all the citation
of grali6ed pride, Never had she appear
ed more happy. But even the enved mis-.
tress Of the revel was not without her
cares. One or two favori'e guests did no,
come, and she could no. help overhearing
some of the ll-natured remarks of her
ncighbors. Her only qualification was IN
listening to the batteries Of others OF her
who were either more fawning, or
more deceilful. At length, however, the
was over, and wearied aud
dispirited she paused momen, in the de-
serted parlo-s before rellring-her hus-
band was there.
We'll, Mrs Lowry SAID he with a
vawn, so this grand affair is over at length
and pretty penny ii has cost, | do not
doubt Charles had lalte.ly found that
his income was frigh,lully beneath his en-
pences, and had begun to wish his bride
ess extravagant-'bul why did you pur-
chase those new oltomans-and those cam
lelabra, aud that" and here he used an
oath, expensive set Of mirror told you
he old ones were good enough. and here,
when | come home, | find YOU have pur.
chased them in defiance Of my orders
Why, madam, an Earl's fortune would
lot sustain you in your ex.ravagances'
and whose fortune, | wonder buys
hese things;' said the passionate beauty,
you would not let me have the common
comforts Of life if you could have your
way
'Pshaw, madam. none Of your airs But
tell you this extravaganza neither can
Tor will submit to-
You're brute, said the wife, so you
re. Do you-can you think. she conln-
ed, bursting into tears, I'D ever have mar
led you, when might have had so many
etter husbands, If Id though, you'd used
ne in this wayI'
well, madam, so you've got up a scene,
DOLLY SAID the husband, 'ali wish is, that
gu had married some one Of your other
uitors.' ,
you do-you insult mel won't live 6
18th you day. Oh, that should be abused c
4 this way and the now really wretched
roman burst into fresl, flood Of tears.
AS you please, madam t
But we omit the rest of this scene, which $
nded with a fit of Mysteries on the part OF |
he wife, and a volly of curses on that Of s
le husband. The difficulty was next day e
lade up between the newly married cou- I
lie; but from thit hour their alterations f,
ere frequent and bitter. Charles began n
, think as his old friend had told him, T.
lat there was a great difference betwixt h
larrying for love and Tor money. q
Three years passed A, the end Of that C
eriod how altered we're the circumstances /
Charles and his friend. {
The EXPENSES Of his establishment had {
,creased upon the former uutill his tor.
Inc not only staggered, hut gave way UNI a
cr the pressure, and after several inenect. Il
al attempts TO retrieve it by specula,lons, z,
Inch ending aJortively, only increased a
is embarrassments, Charles found himself i
pom the brink Of ruin. In these circum- f
.anccs he found no consolation in the SYM b
athy Of his wife. She rather upralded p
i'm with the loss of her fortune, forgetting
ow much Of it she had squandered in her v
,shionable entertainments. Their alter r
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