Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-11


knowledge which he SO highly pied. He is
low President of one of our Sou Germ Colleges,
owed and esteemed by all who knp him. And
II his success in life and the es~itsnt position
which he now holds among his fellow men, is
,ut his just REWARD OF PERSEVERANCE.
Who's TO Blame?
One evening, the ilstidioas Harry Wentworth,
On coming Hume tirsJ and depressed found his
wife in tho paror, dressed in spiled morning
gown, and wearing pear of slippers down at
the heel. To increase his vexation she was sit
ting ia an easy chair, with one leg crossed over
the other, reading trashy novel
"Why. FANNY he exclaimed in amaze
ment, for they had been married only few
months, and hitherto he had thought her the
pink of nedness.
Well what is - she asked Iooking up
Theu noticing the direction of his eyes, she as
sumcd more becoming position. " You don't
like my dress, perhaps she continued but
really was to tired to change it"
&" " hat have you been doing al day ~ said
Harry.
"Oh, reading this" she replied she colosed
as she held up the book, and added, " and then
ii has been 50 warm y
Now her husband had been hard at work all
through the sullry summer day, and had. as
was usual with him whea busy with him dlned
at his Office Yet his attire was neat and even
his hair new brushed for he had gone to lis
chamber to do This before coming into the par
lor may be supposed, therefore, that he was
annoyed at the slovenlness of his VILE, the
more Sc, as on looking at the novel, he found
lie quite worthless affair." He said nothing,
however, except, " At least change your slip
pers. my dear. You don't know how dislike
to see lady spshod."
4" Do you how odd - said his wife with a
silly laugh, STOPPING to pu up The heels of he'
shoes There that will do ! think | really
can't walk so far as The chamber this warm eve
nirg. | wish you would ring for tea the bel
is just by you as | want to fnlsh this chap
Iier" -..-.,...-
lIer husband sighed, but did aslie was bid
The tea came up, aud he took his seat, but tn
chapter was not yet concluded, and so he "a
compelled to wait When, at last, Mrs. Went
worth came to the table the tea was cold Th
meal, under these circumstances, was du
one, and the husband, after tea was over. fndln
his wife absorbed in her book, lay down on ii
d sofa and finally went to sleep.
e Mrs. Wentworth had been the belle of Il
e town before her marriage Her sprghtIlnes
e and beauty had been the theme Of constant
K mla,ion. But these qualities would have ialle
o to have won, Harry Wenlworth's heart if the
II had not been sustained by most exquisite Ia
in dress. See Fanny when you would, she W
n always carefn ly auired and as Harry Wen
1T worth was particularly fastidious on this poll
,e he thought himself the happiest of men VIII
Id Fanny, one bright summer evening promised
If be his.
he But unfortunately the bride had no real hab
or of neatness, but only love of admiration.
ly was vanity that had induced her while sing lie
5h be carefa of her dress but now that she "
as mar led she gradually gave way to her natu
ndo'cnce The first occasion on which she
Sc, this to any very glaring extent, was the even
os- on which oar story opens; but 1t was soon
nd lowed by other exhibitions of sIosenllness
ma 81 do wish Fanny, that you would DIR
er- more neatly" said Mr.. Wentworth in ve
he voice, some months later still. Night al
ut, night come home and find you in that at
cious wrapper.
ich "You used.to think mo pretty enough in q
nee dress reiorled Mrs. Wentworth, testify.
But Blu, Inever saw you in one like that bel
md we were married." replied her husband.
lose "To be sure not said Mrs. Wenlwo
bler and she laughed ironically, always dres
for the company then, and do 50 nowS'
ary What could Mr. WeutwOhh say II
i'm wife did not think i, uece saty. "a, be nest in
we're presence-did not consider him as worthy
had pleasing as the comparative strangers "hot,
e of aed company-it was useless TO argue
ccd her SO, after tea, the stpshod 1eeis stll am
,een ing him, with perceptible hole IN the siocS
snry to increase that annoyance, he modify took
onr hat and left the house;
lton At first Mr.. Wentworth walked up and d
cher the street, but at last faligued with this
] to stepped into debating room attached 10 a
ords ern. Here he met several acqnalhlances;
time gradually falling into conversalioh' Inc eve
died passed rapidly away.
| the When he went home Mrs. Wentworth,
cled ing very sleepy, and little ont OF humor'
little costed him with" Where in the world
Her Won been, finished my novel an hour
NINA aud have had nobody to talk ioevef since
and hoped to death. There was iime, she a
man. pou,nly, i" when nothing IN the world
the have induced you to spend an evening away
egan me-"
nent. Her husband was on the point oi r3plyl
words smular upbraiding style, bat he recoll
first that he had exposlulated too often and loo
50 he ly, and so he said nothing.
and TWAS week before Mr.. Wentworth
emo another evening out. He tried sincere
lough stay at home hut his annoyance at his