Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-05-24
aTHE MAKING UP.n

WISH HAUL uoHe III! Lear me
what would Egive could ] recall it, 2 mur-
INJURED Mrs Leeds as she leaned her face
down on the arm she had rested upon the
breakfast table, while the thick tears
sobbed up into her blue eyes. % 70 500
She was pretty little woman, the wife
of year. though the tears dimmed her
face, and the trouble at her heart shut off
the roses from her cheeks, that cheerless
November morning, with the dull brownish
clouds piled low about the sky, and the
hoarse wind creaking and crashing thro,
the trees outside. lfIs3 su odv as6dI
"To think, too," continued the lady.
raising her hand once more and abstracted.
ly lifting the cover of china teapot, that
he should have spoken so GROSSLY and
sharply to me because / said should like
that new velvet at Myers Well, I don't
believe for my part there ever was such a
thing as a woman satisfied with what she
had got | think it real unkind of him
any way, and nothing in the world
would have made me believe before mar
ried Henry Leeds, that he would have
used that tone or those words in speaking
to me. But guess l was more to blame
than he, after all, for l said good many
satirical things. Ialmost wish my tongue
had been cut off before they passed my
lips, but somehow, my temper got the best
of me, and he went off without one kind
word or kissing me! gI ig}d,ie -toij
The pretty lady sprang up from the ia.
bic, new determination brightenin e the,
faint color in her cheeks and bringing
back the sparkle to her blue eyes. ga,mo,
yu"Illtake the omnibus and then go right
downlto the Office and make up with him;
see If don't,' odt o.sIq ts1b
The young merchant was leaning with
weary, half detected sort of expression
over his desk, about which were scattered
bills, drafts, and letters, in endless con.
fusion, Something had gone wrong. His
clerks knew when they came intoothe store
that morning so gloomy and recticent, so
thoroughly unlike his usual brisk, ener-,
getic, jovial manners, that always carried
sunshine into the dark ware-rooms.a
Suddenly the merchant looked up, and
saw his wife making her1way through the
store to his desk. How pretty she looked
that morning, in the little tasteful velvet
hat, with its crimson trimmings about her
soft cheeks that were SO charminglyobes
coming, and that half smile dimpling the
rosy mouth hardly believed it had said
: very unkind things to him two hours be-.
fore. 30 .sar q ai3f9a 70 4ciIiB5u
Now Henry Leeds wasbvery proud Of
/ his wife, and of the evident admiration
7 which her occasional advent at the store
always excited. He rose up to meet her..
the surprise half chasing the cloud there
from. She came close up to him. hlaas
r Harry" whispered the SOFT. timid,
4 eager voice, ~ am so very sorry r said
! those cross things to you this morning,I
: was greatly to blame, and they've made
f me unhappy ever since, so I've come away
r down here to make up, and hear you say
i once more that you love me. ~ nj aa siLt
: 90 "Why, bless your little heart, Aaeline,
: you haven't come clear off here for that 2
/ Twas more to blame than you, great
S dehl, but some matters just then were
! troubling me, and then I'm kind Of, a
touchy fellow anyhow ''a2. & iasa ot
!. mo- you're not; but L shouldn't have
a lived through the day, if / felt that'you
e were displeased with me- But do you
love me just as we'll as ever?"
That smile, that glance would have sat,
e listed any wife, X'od91Gls@io ag9Gi % 500
"That wife of mine is little angel,
anyhow" murmured Harry Leeds to HIM
e self, as he arranged his disordered desk
? with face as changed as the sky out.
!, side for the sun had suddenly plunged
| through the clouds. "If we have pretty
d good sales this week, Eli just get her that
d carpet for Christmas present, see ifroI
9 aon't.sp yne 10 s9hUi g!5lss ysa ~
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