The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-14

| nut nave some stpulatloDs 10 make
about it, he said ] must select and invite
the guests, and you must allow me to place
some of my favorite dishes upon the ta-
ble."
"All as you please, love-" she answer
ed, delightedly; but when shall it be ?"
Next Wednesday, if you please"
| But our furniture and window draper
les are very old fashioned. Is it not time
we had new ?"
L should think it hardly necessary to
re-furnish our rooms, Nancy. All our
furniture is excellent of its kind"
But our smooth carpets, white draper
les, and cane chairs have such a cold look
do consent to have the rooms new fitted
we can move these things to the unfur.
nished chambers.
And what use will they be in those
rooms which We never occupy9 Besides,
it is near spring, and to fit up now for
winter is superfuous.
We'll, would not care" she persisted,
"only people will call us parsimonious and
ungenteel"
"Oh, if that is ALL" he said, gaily, 81
will promise to expcnd thousand dollars
on the evening Of the party, not in furni-
ture, but in manner which will be fur
more grateful to our guests, and profitable
to ourselves, and which shall exonorate us
from all imputation of parsimony and
you expend in dress, eatables and desert,
just what sum you please, and do not for
get the wines" And so the colloquy end
ed. He resumed his studies, and she gave
her mind to the consideration of the dress
which would be the most becoming and
the viands that were the most expensive.
The next day she went busily about her
preparations, wondering all the time how
her husband would spend the thousand dol
lars, but as she had discovered something
of the eccsntricity of his character, she
doubted not that he meant to give an
agreeable surprise; and her curiosity grew
so great that she could hardly sleep during
the interval.
At lergth the momentous day arrived
The arrangements were all complete, and
Mrs. N--retired to perform the all i'm
portant business of arraying her fire per-
son in fne attire. She fingered long at
the toilette, relying on the fashionable peo-
pie, and when the hour struck, left her
chamber arrayed like Judith all glorious
ly, to allure the eyes of all who should
look upon her, and full of sweet smiles and
graces, Notwithstanding the uncomfortable
pinching Of her shoes and corset. Her
husband met her in the hall.
"Our guests have all arrived" he said
and opened the door ofthe reviewing room
Wonderful wonderful What strange
ASSEMBLY,. There were congregated the
cripple, MANNED and the blind, the palsied
the extreme aged, and a group of children
from the aims house, who regarded the fine
lady, some with wide open mouths, others
with both hands in their hair, while some
peeped from behind furniture to the covert
of which they had retreated from her dag.
zling presence. She was petrifed with as
tonishment,then dash of displeasure eros.
sed her face, till having ran over her eyes
the grotesqus assembly, she met the com.
ically grave expression of her husbands
countenance, when she burst into violent
fit of laughter, during the proxysms of
which the bursting other corset laces could
be distinctly heard by the company.
Nancy I" at length said her husband,
sternly. She suppressed her mirth, STAN.
mered an excuse, she added.
"You will forgive me, and believe your
selves quite welcome"
"That is we'll done" whispered Mr.. NJ.
then my friends" be said, {" Us my wife
is not acquainted with you / will make
few presentations" Then leading forward
an emaciated creature, whose disordered
limbs were unable to support his body, he
said,-" This gentleman, Nancy, is the Rev.
Mr.. Niles, who, in his youth, travelled and
endured much in the cause of our common
Master. A violent rheumatism, induced
by cold, contracted among the new settle.
ments of the West, where he was employ
cd in preaching the gospel to the poor, has
reduced him to his present condition. This
lady, his wife has piously sustained him,
and by her own labor, procured mainten-
ance for herself and him. But she is old
and feeble now, as you see"
Then turning to a group, with silver
locks and threadbare coats, be continued,
-" These are soldiers Of the revolution
Ttev were all sons of rich man Thau