New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-11
The making Up"

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The making Up"
~ wish hadn't said it =" I" Dear me! what would
give if could only recall it, murmured Mrs Leeds
as she leaned her face down the arm she had rest
ed on the breakfast table, while the thick tears sob
| bed up into her blue eyes,
| She was pretty little woman, this wife of year.
though tears dmmed her face and the trouble that
was in her heart shut off the from her cheeks
that cherries November morning, with the dull
brownsh clouds piled about the sky and the hoarse
wind cracking and crumblng through the trees
outside. ....
"To think, too,r continued the lady, raising her
head once more, and abstractedly lifting the cover
off the china teapot, che should have spoken so
GROSSLY and sharply to me, just because said should
like that new velvet carpet at Myers We'll don't
believe, for my part, there was ever such thing
woman satisfied with what she has got. l think it
was real unknd 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
wordsin speaking to me. But guess was more to
blame than he, after all for said great many sa-
cut oil before they passed my lips but somehow my
temper got the better of me, and he went off without
one kind word, or even kissing mel" Here there was
another outbreak of tears.
"He won't be home till night, and how can | ever
get through this long. dreary dismal day, knowing
all the time Halls angry with me; he who has been
such true generous, loving husband How wish
could see him just minute, and, forgetting all my
pride, wind my arms about his neck, and say Hal,
I'm really sorry won't you forgive me p and ! will
toon
The pretty lady sprung from the table, new deter
mination frightening the faint color in her cheeks
and bringing back the sparkle to her blue eyes.
"lll take the omnibus and go right down to the Of
flee and make up with him, see if don't"
The young merchant was leaning. with weary,
hafdeected sort of expression, over his DESK about
which scattered bills drafts and letters in end
less confusion. Something had gone wrong. His
clerks knew this when he came into his store that
morning, so gloomy and retirent, so thoroughly unlike
his usual brisk, energetic, joval manner that always
carried sunshine into the dark ware-rOoms Even the
porter felt something of this for he stood at respect
full 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
little tasteful velvet hat with its crimson trimmings
about her cheeks that were SO eharmingly becoming,
and that half smile dimping the rosy small mouth,
that he could hardly believe had said such uery un-
kind things to him only few hours before.
Now Harry Leeds was very proud of his 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 cloud there
from. She came close to him.
Harry" whispered the soft, eager, timid voice,
I'm so very sorry | said those cross things to you
this morning | was greatly to blame and they've
made me unhappy ever since; so I've come clear
down here to make up, and hear you say once more
| that you love me-"
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tenderness that looked down from those dark eyes on
the lady.
"Why, bless YOU Adeline! you haven't come clear
| off here for that? l was more to blame than you,
great deal but business matters We're troubling
me, and I am a touchy fellow, any how, guess
"No, you're not. felt all the time that you were
dspeased with me. But you do love me just as well
as ever ~
| That smile, that glance, would have satisfied any
| wife.
"She is jewel, any how murmured Harry
Leeds to himself, after she had left, as he arranged
his disordered desk with face changed and bright
as the sky outside, for the bad suddenly plunged
through the clouds. "lf we have pretty good sales
this week, I'll just get her that carpet for Christ
mas present, see if I don't"
"GoING 1T WITH RUsH."-Hram Person the
| California millionaire who has now no little notorety
in Europe by sitting in the Popes chair challenging
the Archduke of Austria and other pranks of SIMILAR
character has again made his appearance in the Euro
pean papers, which don't know what to make of the
| dashing Yankee. Hiram was travelling small
steamer and began to smoke his post parandal segar
The captain politely informed him it was against the
rules OF the boat. The Colonel shifted his quarters
and nuffed away for dear life The cantoin in ner-
! emptory tone ordered him to desist. Must smoke'
said the Colonel. Can't said the captain. Come,
| Ill buy you out. What's your price? Cant sel.n
Cantyou charter for thevoyage? what's your figure"
"T Three hundred pounds answered the captain.
| Done,' says the Colonel and continued the enjoy
ment of his Havana. The bargain was concluded,
| the money paid, the papers executed. "Now, your
Excellency can collect your passage money" said the
captain believing he had some crowned monarch on
! board in disguise. o. You navigate your craft, said
| the Colonel, ~ and will arrange the passage money.
| Gentlemen and ladies' said he to the now gathered
crowd, q your passage is paid, and there are no
rules on this boat you can just smoke much you
| please"
TEMPERANCE SToRY.-One evening last week we
took our place at the suppertable of Cincinnati and
Louisville packet. Supper and conversation had pro-
| crossed some before we were seated. An animated
discourse was going on twixt an old gentleman and
an exceedingly soberfaced lady, not less than thirty
years old, on the subject of temperance:
| "Oh!' exclaimed she, with horror depicted on her
thin lips, do despise the whisky drinker."
The gentleman dropped his knife and fork, seized
her hand giving it hearty shake-we thought tears
were going to drop from his twinkling eyes.
Madam" said he, Il respect your sentiments and
the heart that directed them. | permit person to
go beyond me in despising whiskey drinkers. | have
been disguised on this very boat and ! say it now
before our worthy captains face. What, | ask you
can be more disgusting than to see weldressed re
spectacle, aye, yirtuoas looking young men, whose
mothers are probably even now praying that the ten
der instruction by which their youth was illuminated
may bring forth precious fruit in their maturity.
say, to see young men step up to the bar of Thu
boat and without the fear of observing eyes, or thu
condemnation Of enlightened opinion, brazeny ash
: for old Bourbon or Rye, Monongahela whisky
when in that bar they know there is the very best
1 Old Cognac Brandy" Exchange.
" Jem you brute, you've been drinking!" "No
r hay'nt. I've been looking ut another man drinking
I. but it was too much for me"