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THE HUSBANDS STORY,

The following story of husbands
life, related by him to bosom friend.
will give our readers much to reflect
and ponder upon. 1t is taken from a
late English novel entitled, g n Tale
Of Every Day Life" 1t may prove a
useful lesson to many.
lounged, in the isolation of feeling
which ] experienced, for some one
TO love-some one disinterested and
loving | thought of wife, for at that
time | had, upon the whole, remem-
bering my mother, a higher opinion of
women than men. It was while in this
frame of mind that | first met. at din
ner party Cecilia Morris. She was.
without exception, the most beautiful
woman ever beheld-I can recall her
now-her tall graceful figure, envel-
oped in flowing white robes, her daz-
zling complexion, her beautiful fea-
lures, her full, round arms and snowy
neck, and her luxufiant black hair
adorned with one damask rose. She
was but eighteenth the early bloom
of womanhood-I was myself twenty
six Ever peculiarly alive to beauty
and Cecilia's was the style which at
that time / NEST admired--my senses
were quite captivated. I was intro
duced to her, and very soon found N.Y.
self explaining to her my sentiments
and views. She responded to them en-
thusiastically-she would have done
the same had they been directly the
reverse--for she was one of a large
family of handsome, penniless daugh-
tiers, brought up to consider marriage as
the sole alternative of life of poverty
and neglect Poor things! now pity
such creatures more than blame them.
| know not that even at the time | con-
sidered her sentiments the result of con-
viction--I believed them partly TO pro-
ceed from admiration for me. In short
nv senses were intoxicated and NV
vanity fiattered--T loved her passion
ately but with far different love from
the pure, ennobling influence which
now binds me to you, and under which
hope to become better being. After
a short courtship, married Cecilia
You know already that misery was the
consequences. Passionately fond Of
amusement, inerdinately vain, and with
admiration for the ain, ef her existence,
she had also violent, childish and OBJ
stinate temper, which was reused by
opposition, and would not brook contra
diotion- Almost from the very first
our married life was constant scene
of alteration With my arbitrary dis
position, and with the strict notions I
entertained of the relative duties of the
different parties in domestic life-no-
tions to which had sacrificed my own
cherished plans--T never used towards
her either persuasion or argument.
commanded her to forego the life of
dissipation and vanity she was leading.
aad she at once scor1fully and violently
rebelled against what conceived TO be
my lawful authority. Ia her own way
she had as strong will as mine. but
it was never exercised in self-control:
and I, Anne, who had taken her to love
aud cherish, never sought to win her by
words Of kindness or Of forbearance.-
Poor, misguided, badly educated thing!
aImess child in years and understand
irlg, whom had married in selfishness
and folly, on my own part and vet to-
wards whose folly and selfishness had
no compassion; |, who ought to have
loved her as my own flesh, and given
myself for her, as the Saviour gave him.
self Tor his church, was harsh and bit
ter to her, and never sought to make
virtue lovely OF attractive in her eyes :
and she fed to scenes naturally allu-
ring TO persons Of her age, and doubly