Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-31
SATURDAY. moRNINe, DEC. 81 1850.
A T VI AT ION;
OR. THE FORGED uHRQUE.
THE NERoHANT AND HIs wIFs,
oHApTER ".


deceived. She, ono of the fairest Of earth's
daughters In person, whatever she may have
been in mind, leaned in listless attitude
against the window Frame looking cut on the
SQUARE. PeIhapa listening; for a woman Of
misery with three children round her, was
singing her doleful ditty there, and gazing up
at the noble mansion as il she hoped some poor
mite might he dropped to her from its super
fluffy Of wealth. The children were thin and
haggard, with that sharp, pinchinR look of age
in their faces so unsulted to childhood, and
which never combs but from famine and long.
continued wretchedness. The woman - she
was little more than a girl-made halt op
posite the window; her eye had caught the
beautiful face enshrined there admist the cuT>
tans, and she sang out louder and more piti>
fully than ever.
"Now l think that's real-no imposture--
none of those made up cases that the Mendicity
Society lock up and expose
The remark came from Young man, who
was likewise looking out, OF elegant appearance
and prepossossing cOuntenance. There was an
air Of tenderness in his manner as he spoke,
implying tenderness OF heart for her who stood
by him And the Lady Adela reused herself
and carelessy aske J. whats reall'y For her
mind and thoug ghts had been dwelling on invisi
bic and absent things, and the poverty and
the singing had remained to her as II it had not
been.
THAT poor wretch there, and those famished
children That one--the boy--looks as if he
had not tasted food for twelvemonth. See
how it fixes its eyes up here!'
ooh, Charles, don't worry about such OBJ
iects. What are street-beggars to usl They
| are hardened, wicked set | wonder they are
suffered to prowl about our end of town.
should be made to conhne themselves to the
| citv and those low parts"
| HWhats that alb, ut the cityl" inquired
gentleman, tall, fine man, who now entered
and caught Lady Adela's slast Words while
the young man, moving listlessly towards a
distant window, stealthily threw shilling from
it, and then quilted the room,
"Street beggars," answered the lady. 81
say thoy ought MOTTO be allowed out OF the city
exposing their rags and their wTetchedness to
u.s. 1t is dsgracetul."
The city is much obliged to YOU" observed
the gentleman, in a marked manner, as If inns
plying that he belonged to it. Aud the Lady
Adea shrugged her shoulders in very French
fashion, the gesture betraying contempt for the
speaker and his words,
i"Lady AdeIa," he said quietly. sitting do oWn
beside her al have long wanted few minutes
serious talk with you, and have put it # from
day to day. for the object ls full of pain to me
as it ought to be to you; of shame, had almost
said"
Sho turned her magnificent eyes full upon
him, and he saw their hard, defiant expression
eyen through Inc dusk Of the summers even
ing
"You may spare yourself the trouble OF a lee
ture. if that is what you intend Better &c
back to your wine and your nap. The one viii
do YOU moro good than the other-and mt
also"
"What YOU mean by wine and nap DO moi
understand To wine l have never been Gd
dieted. az YOU know, and if | have now unt
then fallen into doze after dinner, my harc
davis work in the city may cxcnse 1t, for my
mind and brain are there always in exercise
hut IL happens rarely. These inuendoes fa
harmlesslY, Lady Adela."
She hummed merry tune.
"Adela, listen to me-" he interrupted some
what peremptorily. your behavior is moi
what il ought to be- and you must alter it,
$50 you have told me ever since we were
married, all the four years and the odd months,
she said, with mocking laugh.
"Of vour behavior to me | have told you sS
repeatedly and uselessly that have now drop
ped the subject forever, What | would nov
sneak of is your behavior to Mr. Cleveland -
Tho world is already beginning to notice it
and, Lady Adels, what Is Objectionable in
shall be discontinued"
W
tome turning towards her right hand. on which
the young man mentioned had stood-"Char
lev, do hear himl Ho would lnsinuate--Wh her
is hel ! thought he was here"
"Had he been here should not have spoken,
was Mr.. Grubbs reply, biting his lip with dee
Ve1aton.
"Is your role now going to he that of eal
GUS husbandl" she seorniuly returned.
= "No," he replied. "You have striven, wit
unnecessary endeayoT, to deaden tho love 70
YOU which once filled my heart If that love hs
not turned to gall and bitterness, it is not you
fault At any rate there is not enough Of
% left for jealousy to disturb me, like a ion
h seho olboy. But your reputation is, in a degTe,
II in my keeping my honor is bound up in yOuri
=, and that honor, that reputation shall be care
n for in the eyes Of the world "
II "There is no necessity for your caring for it,
ahe retorted; ''your honor"-wIth a sneer
tae word-"is perfectly safe n my keeping.
am not going TO lose myself; the man is not
8 being who could bring such disgrace upon m'
rs rs You are out OF your senses
Is "That it is really safe do not doubt"
$, returned, drawing himself slightly up. "Fo
y give me, Lady Adela, If my words could hA'
VI borne any other construction. But am sol
citous that it may be 30 in appearance as wa
= as reality. Your mother spoke to mo to-da
= about MI Cleveland She said il did n,
interfere with you in the matter she should
q "Lot my mother mind her own ailairs," sa
4 Lady Adela, in a Tesentiul tone. "She ca
~ control my sisters who are left to her; b
o. when married emancpated myself FROM
;" Pray, where did you see herl Has it come
secret meetings, in which my conduct is di
: eussedl"
"she came to me in the city, Int upon 9th
e business. pass over your insinustion, Lao
Adsla; it is unworthy Of your mother or m
self"
J. sand 80 you got up nice story between y
nd that was too intimate with Charley Cley
N land and was TO bo snubbed for it, like
ia child"
w THAT you were too free with him, La,
- Adela," corrected hor husband; that your ma
ners with him, chiefly in this, your own houi
we're not tempered with sufficient reserve.
.R She said the world was already coupling 20
names together"
"And what did you say" sneerod La
! AIela.
II said nothing" he replied, sort Of sAdnc
10 in his tone. IL could have said that the su
II ject had long been to pe a source Of annoysnC
1 could have added that had relrained from
monstrance, for that TemOnstrRnce from me
my wife had ever been worse than useless"
"Thats true enough, sir. Then why attem
n II nowi"
uFor your own sake. And when in years
come, when time shall have brought to y
sense aud feeling, you will thank me for bel
more careful of your fame than you seem
clined to be yourself do not wish to purs
w the subject, Lady Adela; let the hint ! ha
given YOU avail. BE more crcnmspect in yo
manDGrs with Mr.. Cleveland, aud them"
"And then---Welll"