Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1853-10-08

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meat we have had this season."
He was 50 much taken up with my
delicate reproofs as not to notice thai
I was outof ofspirits. | was halfploas
cd and halfprovoked, but kept rath'
er still, making little conversation,
excepting in reply to him.
After dessert, handed him his cup
of coffee. He was quite astonished,
."Why, Annette" said he, "I do he.
lieve you went to work to-day to SEQ
what you could do"
He had hit the truth, though with
out the least suspicion of the cause
Ny first impulse was to be honest and
out with it repIying--Is itas good as
your mother makes This would
have given the key to the whole sto,
ry-lre would have ferreted it all out
and we should have settled it there ;
but felt ashamed to. I slipped my
coffee in silence. The golden mo-
ment passed, and my gnod angel took
his flight. Pride had the day. | even
began to be vexed at his enjoying q
gond dinner SO much, and so easily
forgetting what had caused nc so
much suffering. He was very busy
on that day, and did not stop with me
as long as usual to chat, but went off,
whis,Iing even more cheerily than
when he came.
went up into the nursery and sat
down to think it over. Baby was a.
sleep; the rain was Pattering against
the windows: the wind was rising,
and to me the world looked dreary-
dreary enough. Ihad tired myself
all out getting up such dinner, and
now the excitement was over, and |
felt the reaction, | began to ask my
self what I had got for it. Just moth
ing q: all. My husband either did
not or would not see that there was
anything to be reconciled about. l
blamed him for his insensibility.-
"Once," thought I, "he would have
noticed any change in my voice CT
any shadow which came over my
spirits, now can really be cross to
him and he does not mind it at all.
Ihad doIeful afternoon oft. !
was restless enough; trying first one
employment aud then another, but
finding nothing which would suit
| went down to tea, farther, If any
thing, from the right point, than | had
been at noon. sa, detected and ST.
lent. Ny husband tried once or TWICE
to engage me in conversation, without
success.
"Annette," sa;d he at length, in a
kind tone, "do not you feel we'll to-
dayT
"No, vory," said I, with a sigh,
"What is the mu,terl"
"My head aches; the baby kept
me awake almost all night" This
was the truth, bat only inpart, aud |
felt guilty as said ii.
Then he begged me to go and lie
down on the sofa, in the parlor, and
said he would read to me anything
which l would like to hear.
felt this was kind in him. 1t was
like old times; the new times, you
see, had been but day, but to me it
seemed very long; yeti was not
wha, | wanted, wished to have the
trouble cleared away, not bridged O.
yer; and determined tohold out un.
til ii should como to this, and he
should see and feel that could not
be made happy after cross word.
wlthout;a scene Of mutual contrition
and forgiveness; SO | would not stay
aud be read to, but told him | must
20 to bed. l left him in his easy
chair, with his study-lamp aud book
and bright fire, in regular old bache-
lor style, and went off into my nurse
ry, and then to bed, and cried myself
to sleep. You laugh, Kate, as ifson
thought | was a fool. think SO my
self now
"How did it all end. Annettel"
al held olt week, becoming ev'
cry day more und moro sad, and sui
ky, as ! may well call it,. When |
was left alone | used to takomy baby
up aud cry over him as if my hus-
band was dead, and the child was all
that | had left in the world. Dear