New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-29
MY HUSBAND.
BY VIRGINIA TOWNSEND.

My husbands is very strange man. 10
think how he should have grown SO provoked
about such d little matter as that scarlet scarf.
Well, there's no use in trying to drive him, we
settled that in my mind. But he can be coaxed;
can't he thought And from this time hence
forth, shan't l know how to manage him ! Still,
there's no denying, Mr. Adams is q very strange
man. A s= 5zs.,zz. s=s4-r #ss
You see, it was this morning at breakfast,
| said to him . Henry, must have one Of those
ten dollar scarfs at Stuarts. They are perfectly
| charming, and will correspond so nicely with
| my maroon velvet cloak. want to go cut this
morning, and get one before they are all gone.'s
| &c Ten dollars don't grow on every bush, Ade-
| line and just now times are pretty hard, you
know p he answered in a dry, careless kind OF
tone, which irritated me greatly. Besides that.
/ | knew he could get me the scarf just as well as
| not, only, perhaps. my manner of requesting II
/ did not quite suit his lordship.
/ Gentlemen who can afford to buy satin vests
at ten dollars apiece can have no motive but
penuriousness for obleeting TO give tnelr VA wye
| as much for scarf retorted, as glanced al
the money which few moments before be had
laid by the side of my plate, requesting me tt
4 procure one for him: he always trusts my tastt
in these matters. spoke angrily.
4 I should have been sorry for it the next mo
ment, if he had not answered " You Will theI
attribute it to my penuriousness, l suppose
I
ten dollars to-day. .
We'll, then, i will take this and get me th
, scarf You can do without your vest this fall
and took mp the bills and Left the room, for b
did not answer me.
al need it, and must have it;f' solilo
t quized as i washed MY tear swollen eyes, an
adjusted my hair, for a walk down Broadway
but all the while there was a still small voice
o my heart, whispering; 'sDon't do it. 10 an
a buy the vest for your husband and ct las
would you believe it y that inner voice trl
umphed. / went down to the tailorss, seleete
the vest, and brought il home. -
n Here it is, Henry I selected the colo
> which thought would suit you best Isn't
e rich % said. as unfolded the vest after dir
j. ner, for somehow my pride was all gone. ha
Il felt SO much happier ever since l had resolve
to forego the scarf. zasE
He did not answer me; but there was such
l. look of tenderness filling his dark, handson
1t eyes, as his lips dropped to my forehead, that
n rs was as much as ] could do to keep from cryir
II outright. @
sr But haven't told you the cream of the stol
. vet. might, when he came home to suppe
e he threw a little bundle into my lap. Monde
q ing greatly what it could be. opened it, q,
et there (wonld you believe it p was the scarf
q q scarf, the very one set my heart on at Stuar
re yesterday.
as .soh, Henry. said, looking up and tryi
n to thank him; but my lips trembled, and n
the tears dashed over my eyelashes, md
drew my head to his heart, and smeeihad doA
- 10 my curls, and murmured the old loving wer
IA. in my ear, while cried there long time
th oh my tears were such sweet ones.
os He is strange man, my husband; ont ne
lie a noble one, too, aud his heart IS m the ris
cot pl4ee after all, only it's little hard to hna
ota sometimes, and IL seems to me my heart ne I,
'ss as said it so deeply as it does tonight God ol
him!