The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-03-24

twice or thrice year, for W. has his business on
week days, aud never gets up till one on Sunday
every now and then, size walks with him, the
delighted creature gives skp,nnd squeezes his arm,
aud looks up in his face she is so happy And is
he, too, for he is good fellow as breathed-
and he resolves to take her out the very next Sunday
only he DOESN'T Every one Of these walk days
noted down in the poor souls little calendar Of home
as saints days. She talks Of them quite fondy aud
there is not one Of her female friends whom she
won't visit for weeks after, and whom she will
not be 10 find pretext for rccounting the
wonderful walk.
Mon deu, ddies-ull the time | was describing
that affair at Durosons those odious French women,
and their chatter, their oglng and their champagne,
| was thinking Of Arabella far away in the distance
alone. declare upon my honor, she was never out
of my thoughts for a single minute. She was the
moral o! the PDrlhenon-the simple, white-robed,
spoicss, meek-eyed angel of wife thinking about
her husbnnd-and he among the tawdry good. for.no-
things, yonde! Fial there goes the first champagne
cork. Mr. WagslaT is making tender speech to
Madam Vrgine,
At that moment Arabea is up stairs in the nursery,
where the is shining in, and putting her
youngest boy to bed
-Fzimons roars with laughter WJgstafT hob nobs
with the Old lady, who gives a wink and nod -
They taking away the fish and putting down the
entrees.
At that moment Arubeu has her second child he
tween her knees Uhc lille one is asleep, with its
thumb in its mouth and The elder is beginning to rub
her eyes over he rvorite fairy tale though she has
read II many scores of timcs.} ArabeIla has tho
1, / i Iii,
lag his glass II the old lady in London his wife at
Bosnor says something to the child, who says after
her,
"D0d bless my dear rapo:" and presently he is in
bed, too and sleeps soundy as his little sister
And SO it is that these pure blessings are sent
yenrning after that fellow over his cups Suppose
they reach him? Why, the spotess bngs must
blush and go out again from the company in which
they shall find him. The drinking goes on, the jokes
and fun get faster and faster. Arabela by this time
has the eldest child asleep in her CRIB, and is
looking gu, at the moon in silence, the children
breathe round about her soft chorus Of sumLer -
Her mother is down stairs alone reading 'Bairs Ser
woman. She wonders her daughter don't come down
TO tea-there is her cup quite cold, with the
quite srngnnn on the surface, and her work basket by
one lazy scrawI from her husband -four lines only and
ten days cd. But Arabella keeps away, thinking.
nnd preerrng TO be alone. The girl has n sweet
soft heart, and little sympathy with the mothers
course, rigid strong minded nature. The only time
they quarrel ia, when the ed lady calls her son in
law brute; ;hen the young fires up,and defends
her own like n little Amazon.
WHAT'S the secret of ove7 how does it spring.
How is it that no neglect kill it? In truth, its
origin and endurance alike, utterly absurd and
unreasonable. What secret power was il that made
this delicate minded young creature, who has been
bred up upon the purest doctrines Of the sained Mrs
Chapone who had never thought about love; who,
simple SOUL had been utterly absorbed in her little
daily duties, her Pianolore practice, her French les
son. her of the globes, her Canary bird, and her
Magnal's question what, say is that makes this
delicate girl all of sudden expand into passion Of
love for young sugar baker, simply because she meets
him three times riding gray mare On Chapman COM
mon, and afterwards 1.-The SLY rogue!l on half doz-
en- occasions at her aunt's at tea? What is it thai
makes her feel that young sugar baker is the fatal
man with whom her existence is bound up; go
through fire and marry him glove him in spite
of neglect and Indifference; adore him absurdy,
that half hours kindness from him than balan-
ces months brutality9 o mystery of woman's
heart.
Wagsaff, so splendid with his dinners and so gen.
erous on himself, is not so generous at home. He
pays the bills with only few oaths; but somehow
no leaves his W ife without money lie will give 1t
to any body rather than to her, fact of which he
himself lie, very likely, unaware at this minute, or of
the timity of his wife in asking for it, In order to
avoid this asking, the poor girl goes through unheard
of economics, and performs the most curious tricks OF
avarico. She dresses herself for nothing, and sho
dresses her children out of her rrocks. Certain
dimtes caps pina(ores and other faIlaS, have gone
through the family, and ArabeIla, though she sees
every such pretty thing in shop window, VIII pass
on with sigh; whereas her Lanceot ia perfect Do
yourer of wnstcoais, and never sets his eyes on
Aaring velvet that strikes his fancy, but you will be
sure 10 behold him the next week staggering about
in the garment in Pail Mall. Women are ever prac-
tcing these petty denuls, about which the lords oil
the creation never think.
I will tell YOU what once saw ArabeIla doing
She is woman Of very high breeding and no incon'
siderable share Of family pride: well one day, on 60
rs, ho had inyifed n q