Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-06-12

innate school friend of your aunt Phillida,
but their intercourse was interrupted after
the marriage Mr. Dell the father of Chris
tiana, was reputed to be rich, and Dawson
ingratiated himself with him, that, being a.
hypochondriac, and not good business
man, the fellow soon became his factotum.
Every thing fell into his hands and the
short if it is, that he determined to have
Mr.. Dells money, and his daughter in the
bargain, since he could not get one with
out the other"
"Ah, uncle, I rccollect now; did [ not
see a Mrs. Dawson with aunt Phillida, at
the springs the summer before [ went a.
broad 2"
eyes, about four years ago, just before
she died, and it was there that [ saw how
the wretch treated her and yet no one else
perceived it but your aunt and myself
Very few look deeply into such matters.-
Christiana was compelled into the marriage;
but your aunt thinks that if all the proper
'ty had been settled upon her, Dawson
would have treated her differently. doubt
lit.
'sIt is scarcely possible to tell you in what
his deviltries consisted; but they were of
such nature that in ten years-it was a
slow poison that eye of his-he fairly worked
this gentle creature out of existence. | on
ly wish you dared ask your aunt all about
lit, for women understand this misery better
than men but it almost sets her raying.-
Our principal reason for quitting Starkford
was because he had bought an estate there.
Before the wretch married poor Christiana
Dell, he was the most devoted, the most
Iobsequious, the most tender Of lovers. He
had to work hard to get the innocent young
creature, for her dislike to him at first "a
mounted almost to aversion. He consulted
her taste in everything, and seemed to have
no will but hers
"Well, Leo, only look at this man one
year after marriage, nay, one month, for he
began Immediately. He could not bear to
hear her laugh he could not bear to see her
pleased with any ones conversation; he
Isneered at her whenever she open her lips
-unobserved, mind, by others. BY his
hard manner, he drove off her early associ-
ates, those who loved her dearly and could
have comforted her. His eye--that little
red eye Of kis-was kept OF les, y AAsstea=FF7-.
she opened her lips to speak, or to give an
opinion and it had the power Of serpent
over her. There is no thraldom, Leo like
that of a married mans eye. He expected
Iimpossibilities, almost, from her, for her
Iconstituton was very delicate, and when she
did the utmost that her feeble strength al
lowed her, he sneered at her. At the ta-
bic, he never hel ped her to anything he
thought she liked. She could not bear rare
meat, neither could he; yet am told that
in his own house he would not allow the
cook to send the meat up well done, lest his
wife might perchance get piece that she
liked. He actually punished himself that
he might scourgc his unohending wife. If,
in the most humble way, when she thought
he was particularly good humored, she ask
ed him for slice not quite so rare; he
would say some brutal or unfeeling thing to
her, for which the very negro in waiting
would like to kick him. If he dcigned to
help her to another piece, it was cut from a
burnt, hard part, equally unpalatable. She
without insult or injury.
cit was fortunate that this poor young
creature had no chilren; for his nature was
such that I verify believe he would have
tormented them. for the purpose of torment
ing his wife. When she found that all happi-
ness was denied her in this world, she turned
her affection to another and better. There
she found peace and love-a love tender and
enduring She fell SICK at length and
then you should have seen the hypocrite.-
Oh, how he would run for the leecher and
bleeder--for the doctor and the clergyman!
You would have thought him the most de-
voted and tender of husbands. Almost ev-
cry one save the servants and our aunt Phil
Ida, were deceived. Even the doctor call
ed him pattern-husband
GLOW he must have shrunk from the
touch of the clergyman, on the day after the
funeral The reverend man dearly loved
this pure and gentle wife and it went hard
with him to part with her but with all the
confidence she reposcfin him, never breath
ed syllable Of her husbands undertaking,
petty tyranny. Rest, therefore, in peace,
my son ? said he, as he rose to leave the
room, placing his hand on her cruel hus-
bands head, as she for whom we mourn is
now an angel in Heaven. You tenderly
loved her; you sustained her in sickness and
sorrow, and you comforted her in the last
irving moments Your conscience must ac-
quit you of the slightest intentional unkind-
ness, for you were all that tender, consid-
crate husband should be. Grieve not, there
fore, like one without hope; but let us imi-
tate the purity and integrity of her life, So
that in the end our spirits may again be
united to her.
"Would you believe it, Leo, the hypo-
.crite told all this to one of his friends y
There he comes again. Only hear that
laugh! just so he roared, and made fun,
when he was breaking his wifc's heart at
home Jokes 7 No one sould have a din