Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-04-28

tacles, and began on the police sheet oI
the Times; feeling that she had disbur-
dened her conscience, and performed her
duty to society. s4..a ...
The wedding day came a, last. Miss
Harrington, who had been dignified and
i'll used, sulky and snappish by turns,
gave the dinner-from charity, she said
gave the wedding clothes, because boun-
~ girls have no notion of propriety, and
she did not choose her old servant TO
disgrace her house, and she gave two
thirds OF her furniture--'only to keep
the poor wretch from the work house al
first; she will be sure to 60 there in The
end ...a..
IL is not because l approve of the
match, or like the man. she said. Il
do neither; it is only from the merest
charity that give anything to them
IL is SO shocking to imagine that per
son who has been SO long about one as
Janet has been about me, should 90 to
the union and live on the parish, after
she has made ones very caps, and worn
ones very gowns. II is horrible! and |
cannot bear the thought OF it. So have
done all this just to keep her out of the
work house for my own sake. As far as
she is concerned, she might go to NOR
row for any thing | should mind. Her
folly in marrying that Rober. Maylin de.
serves some punishment.
old maids who are determined that heav.
en- shall have nothing to do with them
Their charity is only contemptuous
alms-glvlng; their mortified affection,
vindictive spitefulness; and if they do
you good, il is from selfshness alone.
She was resolu.e in making herself out
as evilminded as possible, and took a
crabbid pleasure in being vicious. On
the day OF the marriage she sat up stairs
and cried all the time; but she said i,
was from vexalion at the blunders of the
little red haired parish oef-she bad cbo-
sen the ugliest and most stupid girl in
the school--who had taken Jane,'s place.
As for Janei--on the whole, she thought
she was glad to get rid of her. She had
found out that she did not quite suit her
wants.
TO Go Robert Mayln justice. be was
as much attached TO Janet as he could
be to any one. But his love was OF a
kind shat did not wear well: il was love
born of personal fancy alone; drawing
nothing of its nourishment from respect.
and less from principle. II was all very
well while The gloss OF newness lasted
on IL but II soon grew thread-bare and
shabby, and then he got tired Of it. The
first month of his married life went on
smoothly enough. The pretty cottage
and the pretty wife. the air of peace and
love within those four walls, had charm
for Robert which surprised him, vagran,
as he was by nature. He liked his ne W
occupation, too, that of market garden
Grand felt the effect of its healihfuI
action on his frame. which was not a
little enleeb!ed by his London habits
Being very clever fellow. handy and
capable. he soon learned his business as
well as the rest of them, and made some
hits in cabbages anG cauliflowers. Il
was Pleasant chance to him altogether,
and he dad not regret his plush and gold.
knobbed stick more than once or twice
a week-when he was teased with
snails, or bafiled by blight.
But this season of pleasure did no,
last long. With the waaing summer sun
faded Robert Maylin's frail flowers OF
love; and when the autumn moon had
passed away, scarce leaf remained to
seen, ,he air. His garden became stu
pid and his work degrading; his house
was small and mean--so different to the
jolly times in Chesham Place and Berk.
ley Square! HIS wife was growing ug.
ly, and deemed tiresome; somehow he
wished that he had never married. He
was deal better Off AS he was. Wha.
need had he TO screw himself up for a
life in the village, with silly woman
and parcel of yokels! he used to say,
as he went to the ale-house; where he
found more amusements in skittles. and
the bar-maid's saucy blue eyes. than in
his own home or in his own wife. This
W"o h'S busuiCs ~ uC ldu udIIlcu all
angel, he would have exchanged her for
the devil; and six months of Venus
would have seen him Medusa's lover on
the seventh.
Jane, saw the change but she tried to
smooth it away like sickness. She
did her best to make her house inviting,
and herself smart--a quality that Rober.
placed az the head of all feminine vir-
tues. Blu, all would not do. fle had
wearied Of matrimony as he had wearied
Of love SO often before; and you cannot
bring back the dead to life. He was tir-
ed OF her affection and bored by her at
tentions; and he wished twenty times a
day that he had never left his plush and
his footboard. And at last he told Jane,
plainly that she bothered him, and he
wished she would leave him alone.
Jane, had a pair of red eyes that even.
ing when Miss Harrington sen, for her 10
give her scolding and baby's cap.
Perhaps it seased Rober. because
am changed, and can't be as l used. and
don't look as used she thought, az she
slowly walked to her former home
when it is all over and things put to
rights again. and when he has baby to
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