The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-02-02


"She told me she had clothes in it,"
continued Mrs. Paley.
"Well 2"
"She didn't seem willing to lend it to
me 20 whom she offered to take them out
and let me have tho tub, 1 told her she
needn't trouble herself"
1T was very wrong, Mary, for you to
ask her to lend her tub on Monday morn
ing"
81 suppose SO; if any one was wrong,
l am the one," pouted Mrs. Paley, DISCUS
ted with her husbands partiality and in
justice.
Never mind, Mary. Is supper readyr
mo; that wood you got last is such
miserable stuff, it won't burn at ALL"
I" 1t is the best 1 could get, ana the hest
there is, for that matter. I gave eight
dollars cord for it,"
I" A fool and his money are soon parted
"a fool and her husband" But
John cut the sentence short, thinking it
little too wicked for the occasion.
"Just like you Ifthere is fool any,
where, am the one."
1" Never mind, Mary. Let us have sup.
per as soon as you can. am going to
the caucus this evening""
You are You never stay at home
evenings now"
Why, my dear, I have not been out
Of the house of an evening for a month"
Why need you go at all p
because l am deeply interested in the
election"
:" More so than you are in your wife,"
she replied. petulantly, as she opened the
stove oven to see if the biscuits were ready.
81 declare! This is the meanest oven
ever saw. 1t will not bake worth a
cent"
Have you just found that out ?" asked
John.
1t was never good for anything"
And so Mrs. Paley went on from one
thing to snothsr. regularly and systemat.
ically cOndemning everything upon which
she set her hand. She was not suited.
Everything and everybody were out of
joint. Nothing went right; nobody could
do anything to suit her.
John Paley was not particularly happy
in his domestic relations. The purcupine
temper of his wife was continual annoy.
nnce to him. 1t was very hard, to use
his best endeavors to please her, and then
fail. He had tried to study her wishes,
but they were mere caprices, and in des.
pair he gave up his attempts. Nothing
that he could do would please her nothing
but that she found fault with him.
CHAPTER II.-sEcoNp DAY.
John Paley was of an easy temper. He
was disposed to make the best of things as
he found them, but there was no such thing
as compromising with incessant grumbling.
Unlike many others, he could not be driven
to the dram.shop, nor even to the usual
haunts of loafsrs in the country places
He was obstinately bent on staying al
home in the evening. He was fond oi
reading, and home was the center of hii
thoughts. Even the perversity of his wife
could not eradicate bis deeply seated love
for home.
Still, home was not pleasant place tc
him-at least not half SO pleasant as i
might be. Mary loved him, he could mo-
doubt that. During long illness. tn,
winter before, she had been unremittiu,
in her devotion. A piece of red hot iror
flew into his eye, SO that the ball of it hat
nearly run out. He had suffered the mos
intense agony, Day by day he had groaas,
with anguish, and seen the tears of hi
wife fall as she witnessed his suffering
By night, while he tossed in agony, sh
had watched by him, nor slept for week
His pain was hers and, while he suffer
ed, she never complained of the watchin
and privation that his illness oecasioned
she never used an ungentle word, eve
when worn out with suffering he becam
testy and impatient,
She loved him; she sacrificed all he
comforts for him and why should he nc
bear with her infrmityi Should he, wh
had been so tenderly watched over, VII
had been nursed and nourished SO devoted
ly by her, cast her out-should his affe
tion be alienated from her?
1t Is true, her fault was grievous on
1t gave him continual uneasiness.
kept him harassed from one weeks end
the other. 1t almost embittered his vel
, existence.
81 will cure her." said John. while
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