Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-01-03
-FFLINTOWN, JUNLATA COUNTY

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Suddenly her cheeks blossomed into
roses, her whole countenance frightened
as tall and rather elegant looking gen.
tleman hnguidly sauntered toward her.
"Charley, thought you never were
coming ~
"ive only been down to the supper
room, for a few moments, my dear !: I'm
sorry you have missed me. Anything |
can do for you now?"
"Yes-do set my fan and shawl and
we'll 60 up stairs It's after one o'clock,
and I'm completely tired ou.."
Couldn't my dear said Mr.. Elwyn,
breaking a moss rose from his wife's
bouquet, and fastening it jauntily into his
coat. "I'm engaged for .hree waltzes
and quadrille Mics Raymond would
never forgive me for deserting her"
Kate's lips curle6 haughtily, and a
deeper shade of crimson stole into her
cheek.
jealous eh ?" laughed her husband,
patting her bright hair lightly. SNOW,
Kate, that's a little to silly in you
Don't you know that at place like this
man is expected to make himself gen.
orally agreeable to the ladies'? Pray, my
dear, don't become SO absurd and redicu.
loue as to-"
"And So" interrupted Mrs. Elwyn
bitterly, "your wite's wishes and conven.
fences are secondary to Miss Raymond S
will"
"The green-eyed monster has certainty
invaded your peace, my love !" said Mr..
Elwyn. Upon my word, l have always
given you credit for little more common
sense"
Charles" said Kate quietly, and with
out needing the careless sarcasm of his
tone, Il am weary of this round of
senseless gayety; | am sick of the tu-
multi and vanities of Washington. Will
you take me home 2"
"Why, Kate after all your anxiety to
pass winter in this great center Of So
cial and political life! You have been
teasing me ever since we were married, to
indulge you with season in Washington.
81 know it, Charles" she meekly an
swered, trying to suppress the tears that
were brimming in her eyes, "but l have
at last learned the folly Of oeeking real
pleasure anywhere but in the precincts of
ones home. My taste for gayety is salts,
fed, and you can't imagine how homesick
| feel-how anxious to see tie dear little
ones again. When will you take me home,
Charles?"
Next week, perhaps, my love-or the
week after, if you positively insist upon
it."
ooh, Charles, why not 60 tomorrow 2"
Impossible, Kate. l am positively
engaged for every day this week, for dri-
yes and excursions in the ncighborhood
of the city"
Engaged" repeated Kate, opening
her blue eyes. II knew nothing of these
arrangements.
mo, my dear. 1 suppose not" said
E!wyn, lazily. "Did you imagine l was
going to come and ask your permission
every time | wanted to drive out with a
lady or smoke cigar with two or three
gentlemen ?"
Kate's lips quivered and she turned
quietly away. Charles Elwyn looked af.
ter her with au aroused expression in
his eye and a half smile on his lip.
"She's jealous, as [ live ?" be muttered.
jealous of Aurora Raymond and the
pretty widow. Well, let her pout it out
at her lesure-it Will never do to encour-
age this sort of thing"
If he could have seen her few mo-
ments afterward Gust when he was whirl-
ing through the waltz with Miss Ray
mond's midnight curls floating over her
shoulders), sobbing in the silence Of her
own dimly lighted room, the golden hair
all unloosened from her hair-pin and jew.
eled comb, and her blue eyes looking like
morning glories drowned in rain. Well
perhaps it would have done him good,
perhaps not. 1t is not always best to let
man know the full extent of his power
over that miserable little captive, his
wife-it is astonishing how much the sex
delights in tormenting its victim. There
is always one blessed avenue of relief open
to womanhood, however, good cry -
No wonder that Kate Elwyn felt better
when she wiped away the shower of tears
and brushed back the lovely ripping tres
ses from her fevered forehead.
"What shall | do ?" she murmured to
herself, deluging her handkerchief with
rose water, and trying vaiuly to cool her
burning eyes; "what ought l to do? Oh,
I wished I had never come away from
home-it's a judgment on me, for leaving
my dear little babies in the hands Of cold
hirelings I was happy before | ever
thought of this hollow, deceitful whirl-
pool of fashion"
She burst into fresh floods Of tears, as
as she remembered her husbands last
words.
at was cruel of him to speak in that
cold, sneering way to me" she sobbed.
"Have l lost all the spells he used to
tell me possessed? If he enly knew
how these things hurt me, am sure he
would treat me in far different man
ner.
She sunk involuntarily back, as it some
rude hand had struck her, and Miss Ray
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