Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-04-05
Her old face which had been a plump

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when she dried her eyes, and SHOOK
her head and her handkerchief at Tug
by, with an expression of tirmness
which it was quite clear, was not to be
easily resisted. Trotty said bless her,
bless her.
Then he listened. with painting
heart, for what should follow. Know
ing nothing yet, but that they spoke of
Meg.
If Tugby had been a little elevated
in the parlor, he more than balanced
that account by being not little de-
pressedi in the shop, where he now stood
staring at his wife, without attempting
to reply: secretly conveying. howev-
er-either in n fit of abstraction, or rs
a precautionary measure-all the mon
ey from the till into his own pockets as
he looked at her.
The gentleman upon the table-becr
cask, who appeared to be some author
lied medical attendant upon the poor.
was far too well accustomed, evidently,
to little differences Of opinion between
man and wife, to interpose any remark
in this instance. He sat softly whis-
Ting and turning little drops of beer
out Of the tap on the floor, until there
was a perfect calm; when he raised his
head, and said to Mrs. Tugby, late
Chickcnstalker.
'There's something interesting about
the woman, even now. How did she
come to marry him?'
why that said Mrs. Tugby, take
ing scat near the man, is not the
least cruel part of her story, sir.-You
see, they kept company, she and Rich
ard many years ago, when they were
young and beautiful couple, every
thing was scttlc,l, and they were TO
have been married on a New Years
day. But somehow, Richard got it
into his head, through what the gentle
men told him, that he might do better,
and that he'd soon repent it, and that a
young man of Esprit had no business to
get married. And the gentlemen
frightened her and made her melan-
choly, and timid of his deserving her,
and of her children coming to the gal
lows, and Of its being wicked to be
man and wife, and good deal more
fit. Andin short, they fingered, and
fingered, and their trust in one another
was broken, and so finally was the
match. the fault was his. She
would have married him sir, joyfully.
Pvc seen her heart swell, many times
afcrward, when he passed her in a
careless way and never did a woman
gricve more truly for man, than she
for Richard, when he first went
wrong
'Oh! he went wrong, did her said
the gentleman, pulling out the vent-peg
of the table beer, and trying TO peep
down into the barrel through the hole.
! We'll, sir, don't know that he right
" understands himself, you see. |
think his mind was troubled by their
having broken with one another and
that but for being ashamed before the
gentlemen, and perhaps for being un-
certain, too, how she might take it he d
have gone through any suffering or
trial to have had Meg's promise and
Meg's hand again. That's my belief.
He never said so more's the PITY
He took to drinking. idling, bad com
panions all the fine resources, that
were to be so much better for him than
the home he might have had. lie lost
hi. LOOKS, his character, his health, his
strength, his friends his work: every
thing'
sHe didn't loose everything, Mrs.
Tugby, returned the gentleman, be-
caus! he gained a wife; and want to
know how he gained hc..
'rm coming to it in a moment
This went on for years, he sinking
lower and lower; she enduring, poor
thing, miserics enough to wear her life
away. At last he was so cast down.
that none noticed or employed him and
doors were shut against him, 90 whci c
he would. Applying from place to.
place. and door 10 door and coming
for the hundredth time TO one gentle
man, who had often tried him, (he was
good workman to the last,) that gen
tleman who knew his history said, |
believe you are incorigibIe, there is but
one person in the world who has
chance of reclaiming you ask me to
trust YOU no more. until she tries to do