Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-02
Don't
BYr. s. ARTHUR.


Landell to her husband 81 hope nothing
has gone wrong during the day."
Mr.. Landell, who had been sitting with his
eyes upon the floor, silent and distracted for
some moments, reused himself at these words Of
his wife, and looked up at her, smiled in fore
ed way, as he answered.
"Ob, no nothing at all has Como wrong"
I" Don't you feel well?"
The voice of Mrs. Landell was just shaded
with concern
swell enough in body, but not as comfor
table in mind as desire"
Then something has gore wrong said the
wife, her manner troubled.
" Nothing more than usual replied Mr..
Landell. The forced smile faded away from
his countenance. Mrs. Landel sighed.
"Than usual!' She repeated his words
looking with earnest inquiry into her husbands
face Then sho added in tender manner
Bring home your trouble, dear. Don't
hide anything Let Inc share with you the
good and i'll of life. Did you not know that
hearts drew nearer in suffering than they do in
joy"
Bless your kind heart, Alice p said Mr..
Landell, broad smile creeping over his face,
as he caught her round cheeks between his
his hands and kissed her. There ism t any
thing in the case 50 serious as all that comes to.
I'm not going to fail in business; haven't lost
anything worth speaking about; haven't cheat
ed anybody and don't intend to; it's only this
hasty, impulSive temper of mine that is always
leading me to say or do something that leaves
sting"
The cloud passed from the brow of Mrs Lam
dell.
You will overcome that in time, Edward"
81 can see that make any progress. Yester
day | spoke sharply to one of my young men,
when mild reproof would have been more just
and Of more salutary effect. lie is sensitive,
and my words hurt him severely. The shadow
that remained on his face all day, was my per-
petual rebuke and felt it long after the sun
went down. My punishment was greater than
his. But the lesson of yesterday did not suffice
This morning was betrayed into captious Ian
guage, and wounded the same young man, and
threw him off his guard so much that he an
swered me with feeling. This | regarded as
mpertinence, and threatened TO dismiss him
from my service if he dared venture repetition
of his language. When feeling subsidized and
thought become clear again. saw that had
been wrong and felt unhappy about It ever
since. | wish that had more self control
that could bride my tongue when feeling it
suddenly spurred But temperament and long
INDUCED habits are against me-,
Mrs. Landell soothed and encouraged her
husband, and SO won his mind away from its
self-reproaches.
On the next morning as Mr., Landell was
leaving for his store, his wife looked up at him,
and with meaning, said to him
"Don't."
There was the slightest perceptible warning
in her tone.
/" Don't what?" Mr.. Landell seemed a little
puzzled.
" Don't forget YOURSELF
"Oh!" Light broke in upon his mind
6 Thank you, will not :" and he went forth to
meet the trials of the day.
Almost the first thing that fell under the
notice of Landell was an important letter,
which after writing, he had given to a clerk to
copy and mail. Instead of being in Boston, as
it should have been, it lay upon his desk. Neg
loct like this he felt to be objectionable.
John, " he called sharply to young man
at the farther end of the store.
" Don't!'' it seemed to him like the voice OF
his wife in his ear" don't forget yourself"
This mental warning came just in season.
The clerk came quietly towards him. By the
time he reached the desk of Mr.. LandelI, the
latter was under selfcontrol.
"Why was not this letter mailed John?" he
asked.
The tone was neither imperative nor captious,
but kind and the question was asked in way
that said OF course there is good reason for
omission and so there was.
F" / think, sir" answered John, (" that there
is mistake, and thought it not best to put
the letter in the mail"
GA mistake? How ?" and Mr.. Landell
opened the letter
(" 1t reads said the clerk, " three hundred
cases of shawls.'
"0h no; thirty cases." replied Mr.. Ian.
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