The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-17
from Fraser's Magazine.
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CtAy TEX The SECOND-COnhnued.
And day ay day the young squire went to
e Lone-h- use; each day few minutes ear.
r than e lasi-leaving later; until Mrs.
oveton n, ICED her husband with her elbow,
d said, i a loud whisper, "Eh, papa! l
ink they best be married soon" And
sriau fel, Quite bride like in her bashfulness
d her { nsciousness. But what was the
ost bewi sring thing of all was, that every
y his MI ,ners to Marian grew more rude
ID carele .; and his exhortations to her, to
,opy Mi there" more perplexing to one
lon notG stalking and reproof rendered more
'kward .: manageable. For Marian was
t unlike shying horse. She required most
cular t. ,tment to get on with at all. No
Q elsers the change gradually creeping
er the Il ,r; perhaps he was not aware of it
mself. srian was the only one to feel that
ere was change at all but even she would
We been puzzled to give it name. The
her and lother we're far too simple to dream
such hing as infdelity to promise
,sa too ,ud to Imagine that creature she
Id veryl le higher than she would Bornean
e would are raise his eyes to her level; and
arian ha too little selfreliance and too little
nscious trospection to act or reflect on her
IN dumb truggling perceptions. But it was
thing sc efnite as perception; nothing 60
arked as idea. 1t was simply an uneasy
nd of va e dreamy feeling, which made her
witho, revealing to her the cause of her
dness. re was uncomfortable now when
r. Rawli on said to her, with q coarse kind
banteri slap on her shoulders, NV word,
arian, b. you are Just like great horse by
Q side Miss Arden, youder though
ce shes ,uld have taken such speech and
ch ges gre as love making, and have been
eased a.. thrilled at the novelty of such IA
Iliarity s. m any man.
As for { 80, she was positively pining away
der the oppression of the Devotion love.
ley fuse, !, and caressed, and 6dgsted about
r, till shs cit overloaded-oppressed-ike an
er burds I'd wsyfarer, lying down under her
eight in kind of despairing patience. They
We her all the best things of the house,
tn no q dying, but still with awfully osten-
tious hos itality. For instance, one day Mrs.
oveton b ught in her toilet pin-cushion, which
Is cover 4 with coarse knitting over hard
ok glaz calico, where it was very fight
tn the p, s to get them through, and where,
len thes had gone in with q crack and a
.uggle, " sank down between the loops, and
,sppeah mysteriously; and this pin-cushion,
ged rou, ! with tawdry mock lace, the good
ul brous i to Rosa-when Rosa was dress
e, too n invasion her own mother would
It hsves ,red to commit; but the Dovetops
d no nventionsl delicaey; and with a
aiming nile on her well-soaped face, che
we it to er, with great motherly hug, say.
g, "He, darling, can do with anything
10 ID e. vos, int npoftv rnu2 IL %
st fit fs our pearl" To which Rosa, &C.
stoned the elegance and perfection of a
,ndon l use, would smile family, and say,
Very" if she had been eating lemons, and
uld not pen her lips. They consulted her
shes in ,atters about which che had no wish
all, ans asked her taste in things so vilely
,ly, and horribly combined, that abe could
we no O oice between them. Marian would
,rry hes life out, asking her dozen times in
9 week that hideous little star in the middle
the Law should be filed with china asters or
Iemonea or, Wouldn't bed of rockets or
,llyhock with border of nasturtiums, be
city ~ And Mrs. Doveton consulted her
cry DAP Abo1t dinner, asking her choice be.
zen 20 ,to pot and Irish stew, OF hashed
utton I'd toad in a-hole, till Rosa loathed
g very .ention of dinner, and one day said,
eariedlJ 40, dear Mrs. Dove.on, do not ask
e, for 1 ,ould rather 20 without food entirely
an bavt he trouble of ordering it'-a speech
at hurt ars. Doveton's mind extensively, and
at shel d not get over for many q long ,day.
ltogeth, they Aattered her ard they worried
II; the loved and they bothered her 40 in.
'nvenie; ~ and 30 numerically, that Rosa,
r very Seariness, would wish herself dead
meath q salt wave thousand times. rather
an has fallen on such home of sitting
loratiot Nothing but her Incidence kept
,r with 4em. One ounce more of energy il
sr brai land will, and she would have lef,
em--d ven out from them BY their unre
rained we and BY the heavy vapor Of thsi,
cansa.