The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-25
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hour to her, the time she had been
chatting with friend, not over five min
utes
Edward was able to keep back from
his tongue an indignant rebuke only
enough to get fairly out of the house,
Then he said -
Katy this is insult cradle #! And if
you treat me so again I'll leave you to
get home as best you can y
Upon the pleasant state of feeling lefr
by the evenings recreation, what chill =
ing pail was this fling Katy had drawn
her hand within his arm, and was lean
ing towards bin but the pressure of her
hand relaxed instantly.
more than halfa hour have you kept
me waiting, with my heavy overcoat on
momentarily expecting you to appear!'
No, Edward, it was not ten minutes
but one ten would have been more than
twice too long. l never saw such a
thoughtless creatulen
Katy had done wrong, and she saw it;
but not to an extent that warranted such
an angry state of feeling in her husband
The time she had talked with her friend
had passed so quickly that she could not
believe more than ten minutes had fown
away--but even to keep her husband
waiting, under the circumstances, for
ten minutes, she felt to be wrong; and
bad he not spoke so angrily, she would
have acknowledged her error, and prom
ised never again to offend in simila"
way. As i. was, she simply remained
silent, while he in the excitement of his
unhappy state, added other words Of re-
buke no more carefully chosen.
1t was very, very hard, under the cir
cumstances, for Katy, suffering as she
was from the indignant rebuke of her
husband, 10 think clearly and feel right
ly. The punishment was in her view
altogether beyond the offence. He talk
ed on I; but she remained silent.
At last he began to feel that he was
saying too much. Katy had not meant
to offend him. Hers was only thought
less act, which his impatience had mag
ui6ed into crime, and which he had
punished as if it had been crime Had
this young wife given way to her feel
iDgs, she would have wept herself to
sleep that night, refusing to be comfort
cd. But there was common sense, right
feeling and great deal of true percep-
tion in that tboughtless little brain Of
hers. She knew that her husband loved
her, and she knew that she had done
wrong in tresspassing on his naturally
impatient disposition. So, as soon as
they were home, and she could say what
was in her thought in manner to give
it the right effect, she spoke to him in
these words, in low voice that slightly
trembled-
Edward, forgive my thougbTessncss.
| will try and not to offend you again in
this particular. And forgive also the
frankness that accused you of fer great
er wrong than mine. do not remem-
ber anything in the marriage contract to
which we both asSented, that gave eth
er of US right to be angry with or speak
harsbly to the other. We pledged mu-
tual love, forbearance and kind Offices
aud little things, no matter how annoy
ing should not make us forgetful Of our
pledges. | was wrong, very wrong
but wrong from though tlessness. Oh,
Edward If you bad only spoken of it
in kind remoustrance, would have seen
my error quite as clearly, aud resolved
to do better quite as earnestly aud low
ing, instead of painful emotions would
have trembled in my heart. 1t is not
good for us to be angry with one anoth-
er The trite old precept Of bear and
iorbear, must never be forgotten, IT we
would be happy together L am notPer-
feet, and cannot attain perfection in
day. Bear then, with my inhrmlties Tor
the sake of the love ofmy heart-a love
that. to save you, dear husband, would
smile in the face of death. Such love
sIould cover a multitude Of small often
ces.'
Edward Cleveland caught bis yor mr.
wife to his heart aud while be. held her
there tightly, covered her Ups with kiss.
ee.