Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-27
MILLERsBURG HOLMES COUNTY, OHIO THURSDAY OCTOBER
gloomy home, is like the rift in cloud

gloomy home, is like the rift in clou'
that lets the sunshine through"
Lee struggled with himself while long
er. His own i'll nature had to be conquer
ed first; bis moody, accusing spirit had 4
be subdued. But be coming right, and a
last got right. Next came the question a
to how he should begin. He thought o
many things TO say, yet feared to say them
lest his wife should meet his advances will
cold rebuff. Al last leaning towards her
and taking hold of the linen bosom upol
which she was at work, be said. in voic,
carefully modulated with kindness
"You are doing that work very beauti
fully, Mary"
Mrs. Lee made no reply. But her bus
band did not fail to observe that she los
almost instantly that rigid erectness with
which she had been sitting, nor that the
motion of her needle had ceased.
any shirts are better made and whittier
than those of any other man in our shop,
said Lee encouraged to go on.
"Are tbey?" Mrs. Lees voice was low,
and had in it slight buskiness. She did
not turn her face, but her husband saw that
she leaned little towards him. He had
broken through the ice of reserve, and all
was easy now. His hand was among the
clouds and a few feeble rays were already
struggling through the rift it had made.
"Yes, Nary" he answered softly; "and
I've heard it said more than once, what a
good wife Andrew Lee must have"
Mrs. Lee learned her face towards her
husband. There was light in it, and light
in her eye. But there was something in
the expression of the countenance that a
little puzzled him.
''Do you think so?" she asked, quite
soberly.
"What a question: calculated Andrew
Lee, starting up and going around to the
side of the table where bis wife was sitting.
"Wbat question, Mary!" he repeated, as
be stood before her.
"Do you" II was all she SAID.
ayes, darling," was his warmly spoken
answer, and he stopped down and kissed
her. "How strange that you should ask
me such a question:"
'.If you would only tell me so now and
then, Andrew, it would do me good
And Mrs. Lee arose, leaning her face
against the manly breast of her husband;
stood and wept.
What a strong light broke in upon the
mind of Andrew Lee. He had never given
to his faithful wife even the smallest re-
ward ofpraise for all the loving interest she
bad manifested daily, until doubt of his
love entered her soul, and made the light
arouDd her thick darkness. No wonder
that her face grew clouded, nor that what
he considered moodiness aud i'll nature took
possession of her spirit.
"You are good and true, Mary. My
own dear wife, am proud of you'll love
you-and my first desire is for your happi-
ness Oh, if l could always see your face
IN sunshine nay home would be the dearest
place on earth"
SHOW precious to me are your words of
owe and praise, Andrew" said Mrs. Lee,
smiling up through her tears into his face.
With them in my ears, my heart can ner-
,r lie in shadow"
How easy had been the work for An |
lrew Lee. He had swept his hand across
he cloudy horizon Of his home, and row
he bright sunshine was streaming down,
md flooding that home with joy and
S. arthur.