New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-09


/ We u both SOCK compensation io' old slavery
lic was coming gaiy toward her when in On
Instant shr caught tho knife up rom tho table md
started ono pace back
Stand still she said or shall murder you
Tho sudden change Ia her the towering fury and
intense adherence sparkling IN her eye.snd light
inr up her brow. made him stop a. 81 4 fro bad
stopped him
Stand sul' she sail. come no nearer me
upon your liiei'
The both stool looking q, each other Rage and
a'toni'hment Were IN his face but he controlled
them and said lightly
/ Come, conc Tush. we are alone and out OF
/ every body sight ard hearing Do you think -
/ ifighteu me With these tricks Of virtue
/ Do you think to frighten me- she answered
I heFcely. from any purpose that have, and shy
! course nm resolved upon by reminding me Of the
solitude Of this place aud there being help near
/ Ne wb0 Am here alone, designedy II feared
\ you. should ! not have avoided you II | feared
| you should be here, IN the dead OF night telling
/ you 10 your face what am going 70 tell p
And what is that he said you handsome
shrew Hands0mer 50. than any other woman Ia
| her best humorl
! Il tel you nothing she returned. until you 60
/ back 10 that chair-except this once sgain-Don't
/ come near me Not a step nearer. tell you, IL
+ you do. as Heaven sees Us shall murder you
/ Do you mistake me for your husband be re
torted with grir
pointing TO the g.. He bit his lip. frowned. laugh
/ ed and sat down in it, with bsihed irresolute rn-
/ patient air, be was unable 70 conceal and biting
/ his nail nervously and looking at her sideways.
with bitter discontinue, even while he feigned 70
/ be amused by her caprice.
She put the knife down upon the table, and touch
/ ing her bosom with her hand, said
/" ! have something lying here that is no love
/ trinset and sooner than endure your touch once
more, would use 1t on you-and you know II.
while speak-with less reluctance than | would
/ on any other creeping thing that lives.
He affected to laugh lestingly, and entrested her
to act her play out quickly for the supper was
/ growing cold. But the secret look with which he
/ regarded her, was more sullen and lowering, and
he struck his foot once upon the floor with NUT
tered oath.
How many times" said Edith bending her
/ darkest glance upon him, has your bold knavery
assailed me with outrage and insult How many
times in your smooth manner, and mocking words
/ and looks have been invited with my courtship
| and my marriage How many times have you laid
bare my wound Of love for that sweet injured girl,
and lscerated 1t How often have you famed the
| fire on which, for two years. | have writhed and
/ tempted me to take desperate revenge when II
| has most tortured me
Il have no doubt Maam. he replied, that you
have kept good account and that il s pretty ac-
curste. Come, Edith To your husband. poor
wretch. this was well enough
why It. she said surveying him with haugh-
~ conten pit and disgust that he shrunk under let
him brave Il as he would If all my other reasons for
despising him could have been blown away like
feathers his having you for his counselor and favor
/ rite, would have almost been enough TO hold their
! place
lis that reason why you have run away with
me q he asked her, tauntingy.
Yes and why We are face to face for the last
/ time Wretch We meet tonight, and part To-
! night For not one moment after have ceased to
/ speak, will stay here -
/ He turned upon her with his ugliest look, and
/ griped the table with his hand but neither rose,
/ nor otherwise answered or threatened her
Il am woman she said confronting him stead
| tasty who from her very childhood has been
Z shamed and steeled have been offered and re-
/ ected put up and appraised, until my very soul
has sickened have not had an accomplishment or
grace that might have been resource to me, but it
has been paraded and vended 10 enhance my values as
fthe common crier had called 1t through the streets
/ My poor proud friends have looked on and approx
/ ed and every tie between us has been deadened
/ in my breast. There is not one of them for whom
! care, as | could care for pet-dog. stand alone
in the world remembering well what a hollow
world /. has been to me- and what a hollow part of
/ il have been myself You know this and you
know that my fame with it is worthless 10 me"
Eyes ! imagined that he said.
And calculated on it,, she reOined " and so
pursued me Grown too Indifferent for any oppo-
hands that had nodded me 70 this and knowing
that my marriage would at least prevent their
hawking of me up and down suffered myself 10
be Sold as UNANIMOUSLY as any woman with halter
round her neck IS sold in sny market place. You
know that.
Yes he said, showing all his teeth. know
that
And calculated on il" she rejoned once more.
and so pursued me. From my marriage day,
found myself exposed to such new shame-to such
solicitation and pursuit Expressed as clearly as u
il had been written IN the cOarsest words, and
thrust into my hand at every turn from one mean
villain that felt as II had never known humilla-
ton till that time This shame, my husband fixed
upon me hemmed me round with himself stepped
me in with his own bands. and OF his own act re-
peated hundreds OF times And thus-orced by
the two from every point OF rest had-iorced by
the two to yield up the last retreat OF love and gen
tleness within M. 10 be misfortune on its
innocent obiect-driven from each 10 each and be
set by one when | escaped the other-my anger
rose almost 10 distraction against both. do not
know against which Il rose higher-the master or
the man
He watched her closely. a. she stood before him
ia the very triumph OF her indignant beauty She
was resolute. he saw undsuntabe with no more
fear of him. than OF a worm.
What should say OF honor or Of chastity to
YOU 90 she went on What meaning would 1t
have to you; what meaning would IL have from
your hand makes my blood cold with antipathy
that from the hour when first saw and hated you,
to now, when my instructive repugnance IS en-
HANGED by every minutes knowledge OF you have
since had, you have been a loathsome creature to
me which has no, its like ON earth how then
He answered. with faint laugh, Ay How
then my queen
On that night, when embodened by the scene
YOU had assisted at, you dared come 20 my room
and speak 10 me" she said " what passed T.
He shrugged his shoulders, and laughed again
What passed :" she said
Your memory is so distinct he returned, that
have no doubt you reca it,
81 can she said. " Hear Il Proposing then
this ght-not this dight but the Hight you thought
it--you told me that IN the having given you that
meeting. and leaving you to be discovered there It
YOU 80 thought tit, and in the having suffered You
20 be alone with mo many times Beforehand
having made the opportunities you said and IN
tho having openly ayowod 10 you that | had no
feeling for my husband but aversion and no care
for myself-l was lost had given yoa tho power
to tra,lucc my name aud lived, tn vir,uous ropu'
tation nj tho pleasure OF your breath.
An stratagoms IN love- hc interrupted
L..