Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-08-10

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'1n earnest, madam" .
"Then perhaps we'd better part"
"Part it is, then.''
"The sooner the better, too"
any sentiments exactly, madam"
To-day ?"
"Why not ?''
Where shall you go?"
II? shan't go. l shall stay here.
"But you don't mean to say that
you're going to turn ME out of house
and home? I never would nave be-
lleved that of you, George Graham"
at isn't that's turning you out
You're turning yourself out. Sup
pose you stay; you have no money to
costs something to keep house, l can
tell you. I've found it out by bitter
experience" .....#
"But where can go? You know
| haven't a relative left me. }"
"You should have thought of that
before you proposed parting. IT'S
not my business to look you up a
home"
II don't know whose else it is
You might do as much as that for
your own wife"
"For my wife I'd do a good deal
more"
"But you are not my wife any more !;
only the legal tie remains to be sew
cred, and I'll apply for divorce at
once"
"And disgrace US both"
"But what can fellow do? now
I've got used to having a home, want
one, and once free from you, there are
a dozen girls that will be glad to take
up with me, careless, good-for-nothing
scapegrace that am"
"And pretty life they'll lead you,
too"
at can't be worse than W h t
you've lead me the last six months
ZoundS! but I've been a fool to bear
it so long. Fret, fret, fret, from morn
ing till night. Thank Heaven, it is
over at lastr and he whistled gaily.
"You seem glad to be rid of me,
sir"
you've made me glad, madam. -
He put OF his overcoat, drew on his
rubbers, and gathered up his hat and
gloves. Was he really going, and
without his dinner?
"When will you be ready to leave
madam? -? I'll order carriage at any
time you name
"You are an unfeeling wretch, Geo
Graham: you are, and that's the truth
You might for decency's sake, give mt
till tomorrow to pack up my thing;
and decide what to do"
"You can have a week, madam, i
you wish. thought you were in {
hurry to go. Yes, you may have {
week. Meanwhile, | 90 to a hotel.
"And having the whole town talking
about US Why can't you stay a
home just as well?'
Because | never did like to be il
anybOdy's way
"But it is your own house, and
and-if you ever had any regard 70
me, you'll stay till I'm gone"
"Well, I'll stay then. But not now
I'll come back tonight. You nee'
not sit up for me, Mrs. Graham; i
will be late when | get i'll, and II
take the spare chamber till you ar
gone
The front door clashed after hir
in another moment.
He was gone; gone without his dir
ner; gone, and not coming back til
nobody knew when, and then goin
up stairs to sleep alone They ha
quarrelled. They had as good as par
ed. They would be divorced. Fl
could get another wife and bring he
home here and she,-she would hav
to 90 cut alone into the cold drear
world, and earn her own living. Sh
didn't know enough about divorces
poor thing, to think of alimony. An
all this because he neglected to leav
his "things" in the hall, and she foun
fault with him for the said neglect
Careless husband! Fidgetty wife
And because he was careless and sh
fdgetty, they must live apart?
Mrs. Graham looked about her .iu'
then. Everything was neat and o
derly. There was nothing to worI
her. Nothing? There was ever,
, thing. And she sat down and crieC
she who was so resolute and defal
! only ten minutes before. But tn;
:. resolution, that defiance had bee
! born OF anger, and the anger was a
gone now. How sorry she was she
been so cross to him, for she had bee
cross, real cross, wickedly cross
What if he had tossed his things al
. and every way! 1t was man 5 tric
7 and-and-here she sobbed out-rigl
he never had a mother to train hir
Poor fellow, he had been knocke
. around from pillow to post all his Ii
y till he got married, and now-ar
! now he would have to knock arour
9 again, for OF course he couldn't G
q married right away; no, he wou
have to get housekeeper, and she
worry the life out of him, and when
did get married, could he ever find OF
re- who'd love him as she had aud di
yes, did 1.-The love was there "
i swelling up and overfowing!
$ She went into the kitchen, hard
:? knowing why driven perhaps by Il
a. force of habit. There stood t
table, laid for dinner, and so neatl
q the cloth white and in its creases, t
it plates and glasses shining bright
L. the knives and forks polished to I;
most silver whiteness.-She gave
N one look and mechanically open
d the stove oven. The chicken W