The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-25
VOLUME VII-NUMBER 2.
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LITTLE THINGS.
BY T. s. ARTHUR.

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only single month. What ails tn,
sweet young bride Her eyes look a.
if she had been weeping. The curve
on her lip is not the arching beauty Of
a smile. Has Edward spoken unkindly
or refused some darling request Ha'
he left her to be gone week or failet
to return at the appointed time after &
few days absence No-none of those
Then why has grief visited her gentle
bosom for grieving she is, as she sit'
their by the window, still as an effigy
Do not smile at the answer we give
you =" Edward has only forgotten the
exected kiss at parting, and gone forth
to his daily business leaving a shadow
upon the spirit OF his young wife,
You smile in the face of our caution
1t is such little thing! And so you
say, if Katy Cleveland is going TO make
a bracket to hang troubles upon out OF
every trdhble like tbi,, she will soon
have her whole house tapestricd with
gloom
But it was no triae to Katy. The
young husbands kiss may be nothing tc
you, not even beld to the value of a D. o.
pcl-coln-but had even come TO look
forward to the daily pa,tings aud meet
ing with pleasant anticipation of the
uDtallng kiss that sweet token OF love
But the token has been withheld at
last and on he closing day OF their hon
cymoon. How omiuous Was the
shadow already thrown acruss The thrssh-
hold Of their bone?
ACES we aIt lgstinctlgely regard a. the
Representatives Of hcught and fecliugs,
lhis kiss with Katy, was an expression
of oye Is denial an evidence OF failing
warmth 0n the pait Ot her young hus-
baud. She had 10 Other lnterpre tatlon.
No wonder, therefore that tears dimm, d
her eyes no wonder that veil was on
her countenance. 1t was the brides first
sorrow.
Away to his store Edward Cleveland
had gone, wholly unconscious of the sbad-
ow he had lett behind him He did not
even remember that in parting he had
withhe d the usual kiss. Thoughts of
business had intrudcd themselves even
into bis home, and claimed to share the
hours sacred to domestic tranquility. -
The merchant had risen for the time su-
perlor to the husband.
When he met his wife at the falling
of twilight, it was with lovers ardor.
Not only one kiss was bestowed, but
many. In the warm sunshine of his
presence, the clouds which bad yelled
her spirit for hours, were scattered into
nothiDgness.
And yet the memory of that forgotten
kiss remained as an unwelcome guest
On the next day, and the next, and eve
ry day for week, the expected kiss was
given yet ever in her hours of loneli.
ness, would thought 90 wandering back
to the hour when her husband left her
without this token of his love, and troub-
led the crystal waters of her soul.
At the end Of a week the kiss was for
gotten again nor was this all-Edward
had shown, on one occasion, a spirit OF
impatience, and spoke words that smote
upon her feelings with sharp pain
He. had not meant to speak unkindly-
had not even felt so-but Katy had
seemed unusually obtuse in some mat
ters about which Edward sought to in-
terest her, and her dullness provoked
him.
You are little simpleton !" He
spoke half in sport, half in earnest, bis
brown slightly contracting. " Why, a
girl fourteen years old could see through
it all y
He observed that the color on her
checks deepened, that the expression Of
her eyes changed, and that she turned
her lace partly from him but be never
imagined the degree of pain bis lightly
spoken censure had occasioned. Itnev-
er entered entered into his heart to con-