Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-07-01
THE MAKING UP"

al wish l hadn't said it. Dear me |!
what would I give if could only recall
it," murmured Mrs. Leeds, as she lean
edher face down on the arm she hadrested
on the breakfast table, while the thick
tears sobbed up into her blue eyes.
She was pretty woman, this wife of
a year, though tears dimmed her face,
and the trouble at her heart shut off the
roses from her cheeks, that cheerless
November morning, with the dull,
brOwnish clouds piled low about the
sky, and the hoarse wind cracking and
crumbling through the trees outside.
"To think, too" continued the lady,
raising up her head once more, and alb
stractedly lifting off the china teapot.
"he should have spoken so Grossly and
sharply to me, just becnuse said 1
should like that new velvet carpet at
Myers. Well, 1 don't believe, for my
part, there was ever such a thing as a
woman satisfied with what she has got.
l think it was real unkind of him, any
way; and nothing in the world could
have made me believe, before l married
Henry Leeds, that he would have used
that tone of words in speaking to me-
But l guess l was more to blame than
he, after all; for 1 said a good many
satirical things. 1 almost wish my
tongue had been cut off 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 l wish could see him just min
ute, and forgetting all my pride, wind
my arms about his neck and say, "Hal,
I'm really sorry; won't you forgive me
this once?'-and l will too.'
The pretty lady sprung from the table,
new determination heightening the
color in her cheeks, and bringing bacl
the sparkle to her blue eyes.
"I1l take the omnibus and go righ
down TO the office, and make up with
him, see if 1 don't.''
The young merchant was leaning with
a weary, half detected sort of express
sion, over his desk, about which was
scattered bills, drafts. letters, in endless
ce Infusion. Something had gone wrong
His clerks knew this when he came into
his store that morning, so gloomy and
retiring. so thoroughly unlike his usual
brisk, energetic, jovial manner, that al.
ways carried sunshine into the darE
warerooms. Even the porter felt some,
thing of this, for he stood at a respecta.
bic distance from his employer, and did
not indulge in any of his old and 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 Grim.
son trimmings about her cheeks, that
were SO charmingly becomingly, and
that half smile, dimpling the rosy, small
mouth, that he could hardly believe had
said such very unkind things 10 him only
few hours before.
Now Harry Leeds was very proud o.
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 therefrom. She came close tC
him.
"Hairy," whispered the soft, eager,
timid voice, "I'm so very sorry 1 said
those cross things to you this morning;
l was greatly to blame, and they've
made me unhappy ever since; so I've
come clear down here to make up, and
to hear you say once more that you love
me-"
The cloud was all gone. There was
world of fond tenderness that looked
down from those dark eyes on the lady
"Why, bless you Adelinel you haven
come clear off here for that? 1 wa:
more TO blame than you, a great DEAL
but some business matters were troubling
me, and I'm touchy fellow, anyhow, ]
guess"
"No you're not; 1 felt all the time you
were displeased With me. But you dc
love me just as well as ever?"
That smile, that glance would have
satisfied any wife.
"She is a jewel, anyhow" "murmured
Harry Leeds TO himself after she had
left, as he arranged his disordered
desk, with face as changed and bright
as the sky outside, for the sun had al
ready plunged through the clouds. al
we have pretty good sales this week,
I'll just get her that carpet for Christ
mas present, see if don't"
He who learns not from events, rejects
the lessons of exDerience. he who iudpes