The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-10-09
WESTERLY, r l., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1856.


ard at length made movement of i'm
patience.
4 This reading interests me madame,
should like to peruse it uninterrupted
! This music -
Does it disturb you! am exceed
ingly sorry, but it is necessary to con
tinue my musical studies.
Without touching the keys A
singular method
| am in despair that it does not
please you
The tattO became more animated
L must withdraw my study said
Edouard, at length.
/ would not have the presumption to
place any obstacle in your way
Edouard rose Louise, as she was
about to quit the room said
IF, however, you should decide
Ito accompany you to the boule-
wards : Impossible, madame
AS he was crossing the threshold OF
the door he turned:
IF, on reflection, you should con-
cludc-'
TO follow you to the country' Never
sir
Edouard marched out with measured
step, and shut the door with all the
gravity of an asprant to the magistracy
1t is declaration Of war; said
Louise, Indignantly L accept it,
From this timo, matters became wors,
and worse every day. Edouard anc
Louise, more ahd more irrtatcd agains,
each other, had no Olher-care or occu-
patton than to invent means of annoy
ance In their rare conversations irony
and epigram were ever on their lips.
Happiness and peace seemed forever
banished from the household
Louise went one day to visit a friend !;
it was raining, aud while the ladies were
talking of the fashions aud the theater,
the master of the house entered, follow
ed by IA Newfoundland dog who was both
wet and muddy. Happy to fnd himself
under shelter, the animal--gavc IA shake
which distributed around him dew Of
a very doubtful purity, then began to
leap upon the silk dresses OF his mistress
and Louise, leaving the print of lis
paws at every bound at last he stretch
ed himsclf out on IA divan Of sky blue
velvet between two cushions whose en-
broidcry he gnawcd by way Of amusc-
ment. On her return, Louise was i'm
prudent enough to describe this scene in
no approving terms in the presence of
her husband. Her comments were not
lost upon Edouard, who returned the
same evening with u magnificent New
foundland dog answering the name OF
Tom,
At a breakfast which Edouard gave to
some of his friends, the conversation
turned upon the instincts and habits Of
animals each Of the guests spoke of
his repugnance or prediction ; Edouard
expressed the greatest autipathy to the
cat 1t is selfish, thieviug, cruel, he
said, its caresses are not marks of af-
fcction, but expressions OF its wants.
When it gets mouse in its claws, it
will restore it to dreadful liberty twenty
times, for the pleasure Of seizing It again.
There never was more horrible torture
for Il pleasure, not more refined cruelty
in an cxecuiioner After this violent
sortic of the feline race, Louise could
not live without cat; she chose a
superb Augora, which she chris'cned
with the name of Ranton.
1t may be imagined that there was
not an entente cordiaie between Tom and
Ranton. Louise, always ready to come
to the assistance of her favoritc, was
lavish of correction to Tom, while Ran
ton received an equal share from Edouard
all of which did not increase the harmony
of the household Among the visitors
whom the ties of relationship or their
position in the world obliged Edouard
and Louise to receive, there were some
whom monsieur favored with his attcc-
ton. while tor others he felt a repug-
nance. Madame made it her business
to be very liberal of courtSies to the last,
and to reserve all her coldnoSs to the
former. 1t is useless to add that mon