Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1857-06-06
The :. Making Up,

wish hadn't said it J" "Dear me
what would give il could only recall
il, +" murmured Mrs. Leeds as she leanee
her face down on the arm she had rested
on the breakfast table, while tho thick
tears sobbed up into her blue eyes.
She was pretty little woman, this wife
Of year, though tears dimmed her face
the trouble that was in her heart shut of
the roses from her cheeks, that cherries.
November morning, with the dull, brown
ish clouds piled about the sky. and the
hoarse wind cracking and cru,nbline
through the trees outside.
ITO think, too," continued the lady,
raising her head once more, and abstract.
edly lifting the cover off the china teapot
4" he should have spoken so Grossly and
sharply to me, just because l said l should
like that new velvet carpet at Myers.
+" Well, l don't believe for my part, there
was ever such a thing as woman salts.
fed with what she has got. think it wa.
real unkind in him any way; and nothing
in the world could have made me believe,
before married Henry Leeds, that he
would have used that tone Of words ia
speaking to me. But l guess l was
more to blame than be, alter al for
said great many satirical things. a.
most wish my tongue had been cut off be-
fore they passed my lips I; but somehow
my temper got the better Of me, and he
went of without one kind word, or even
kissing me! :" Hero there was another
outbreak Of tears.
/" He won't be home till night, and how
can I ever get through this long and drea.
ry, dismal day, knowing all the time Hal's
angry with me, he would have been such
. true, generous loving husband! How
I wish could see him just minute, and
forgetting al my pride, wind my arms
about his mock, and say, Hal. I'm real
y sorry; won't you forgive me - and l
will too" @
Tho pretty lady sprung from the table a
new determination heightening the faint
color in her cheeks, and bringing back a
sparkle to her blue eyes. |ar-sar +,..a
"I'll take the omnibus and 90 right
down to the Office and make up with him
sse If l don't" aa 9h 81 ."ia79a7 7.-I
u The young merchant was leaning, with
= weary, half.dejected sort Of expression.
over his desk, about which were scattered
bills, drafts, and letters in endless confu.
sion. Something had gone wrong. His
clerks knew this when he came into his
store that morning, 90 gloomily and reti.
rent, 90 thoroughly unlike his usual brisk
energetic, jovial manner, that always car
ried sunshine into tho dark ware-rooms.
Even the porter felt something Of this, for
he stood at respectful distance from his
employer, and didn't indulge in any Of his
old stale jokes. '' '.'' @
Suddenly the merchant looked up, and
saw his wife making her way through the
store, straight to his desk. How pretty
she looked that morning, in the tasteful
velvet hat, with lis crimson trimmings
about her cheeks, that were 90 charming
y becoming, and thst half smile dimpling
the rosy small mouth, that he could hardly
believe had said such very unkind things
to him only z few hours before. 9q 7as8
Now Harry Leeds was very proud Of
bic wife, and Of the evident admiration
which her occasional advent at the store
always excited. He rose up to meet her,
the surprise in his face half chasing the
clouds therefom. She came close to
him. i.sl4 dts aHa7f Fsfs laE Ha. .lse8
q Harry" whispered the soft, eager,
linid voice, aI'm 50 very sorry I said
hose cross things to yoo this morning !
Vas greatly to blame, and they've made
mo unhappy ever since 20 I've come
clear down hero to make up, and hear
you say once more that you love me-" pcs
q Tho cloud was al gone. There was a
world Of fond tenderness that looked down
from those dark eyes on the lady.
"Why, bless, you, Adeline you havn't
come clear OF hero for that! was more
10 blame than you, great deal but some
business matters were troubling me, and
am Z touchy follow, any how, 1 guess
mo you're not. l felt Ill the time you
wore displsssed with mo. But do you love
ne now just as weM as evsrl"
That smile, that glance would have sat
is6ed any wife. e.e'oi slso'it a1a ss7al
"She is Z jewel. any how" murmured
Harry Leeds 10 HIMSELF after she had left,
q ID arranged his disosaered desk. with .
ace changed and brighs ~ the sky out
,ids, for the sun had sssddenly plunged
through the clouds. II we have pretty
,coA s.l,e ahis veek.. I'm INST cat h0P that