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

sAA1' "do 0ClhpolhS O'ClE w q uy opOpoiO
stomach. e.. a.staatle a.1l.
"Such a nice dinner, and no one to
eat it. | wish-I wish II hadn't
been so cross to him. | began it and
kept it up, too; he wasn't cross first !;
he held out till | made him mad. O.,
dear! wish-I do wish it didn't
worry me to see things lying around.
| wish he was more careful, thought
| ful-such a dear good fellow as he is
about everything else. Never scolds
when bills come in, like Hannah Ben
tons husband. Mercyl | don't know
how she does live with him. And he's
always giving me change, too. I don't
know whas I should do if | had to
l1lanage DIS Carrie Stanford does TO
get dollar out of Jim. IF | had
such man, Td-Td leave him, if |
had to work my fingers to the bone
to earn my own living. And he
wants me to have girl and be dress
ed up all the time, and read and prac-
tice, and 60 out with him, and there's
poor little May Miller that never sits
down once a week, but is forever
stewing in the kitchen, and never a
word of thanks, Joe always wonder
ing why she don't do more than she
does. He ought to go to the tread
mill himself And she" never tastes
drop of liquor, nor wouldn't for the
world, and there's Nellie Gray's sot of
a man coming home beastly drunk
every night of his life and soaring the
life out of her. I'd see him drowned
before I'd live with him. And ''he"
never smokes, nor chews, while you
can't 90 into anybody's else house
hardly, without standing over spit
toons, or being suffocated with some
body's pipe or cigar Dear me!
should die in a week if | had to live
that way. And "he" is always so
good natured, too, never gave me a
cross word till to-day" but here she
broke down entirely, sob after sob
tearing away in her throat and threat
ening to choke her entirely.
The paroxysm was to violent too
last long. AS it subsidized. she dashed
| off the tears THAI flooded her cheeks.
wiped her eyes, brushed back her
hair, and, going to the sink, bathed
her face thoroughly. Then she stood
a few minutes as if gathering up res
olution, a calm beautiful expression
playing about her lips
The words of her old pastor had
come back to her all at once as she
sat there weeping. The words he
: had spoken to her the evening before
her marriage. my little girl, YOU
have made i good choice. George
Graham, your promised husband, is a
young man of excellent principles
and good disposition, and will do his
best to make you happy. But he is
not perfect. No man is. And YOU
must be patient One cross word
t leads to another, and that to another
till by and by there's quarrel, and
then, good by to happiness! Don't
scold, but coax; don't drive, but lead
= And if you ever feel tired with him
+ think how much more it might have
been. And always, always remember
:. that he is no saint, but only a man {
d man. mortal and week. Be it yOu
t work, little girl, to make his earthly
Il home happy one, and to lead hin
e onward and upward towards that no
lier one not made with hands"
Dead; yet speaketh. she sale
solemnly as that long, earnest tall
l. came back to her. And-and, III dt
|, it anyway. If he ,cont forgive, if b,
G won't agree to begin again and try i
d over, why-O, | never can 90 ou
t alone into the world, and see hin
e married to another woman. O, II
T never say another word, | won't, no
e one, if he has every chair piled to tn
y ceiling with coats and pants, and tn
e floor waist deep with boots and rut
5, bers. | don't see what made m
d speak so cross to him. I'll get a Gil
e tomorrow; somebody that can coo
d better than |, and I'll keep out of tn
: kitchen; and whenever he comes il
}! I'll take his things myself and tax
le care of them. What must he hav
thought of me to hear me say sue
st dreadful things p
r And filling up the stove with Goa
y draining the water off the vegetable
y and leaving the oven door open, sb
| ran up stairs and put on her sacqu
1t and bonnet, seized her muff an
1T gloves, and, locking the door aftt
N her, went out.
II 1t was bitter cold, but she did nj
d mind it. The wind was driving til
IN sleet right into her face, but she onl
= drew the thick veil closer over he
~ swollen eyes and hurried on, 1t We
k, slippery as glass, but her gathered fe'
1t, ran along as if sharp shod. She ha
n. but one thought to see George agar
I'd tell him how sorry she was and brin
fe him back to dinner!
I'd With a shout and "hurra T a Ii
Id tie fellow came coasting down one {
ct the cross streets just as she had 81
Id her foot on the curb-stone. The sic
ID whirled, zigzaged moment, and the
ne run her down.
ne She screamed involantarily, and {
d. she fell, put out her hands inplo
1T, ingly. nai2. tiloq~ lssa
Some one clasped them, held tigh
y ly a brief spell, and then gently a
he sisted her to her feet. h 8. .i''
he Some one spoke to her. Some OF
y, said kindly, tenderly, lovingly, ga
he lyon much hurt Susie ?" 9''-2 =
vi Some one drew aside her We
al Some one locked pityingly into h
it eyes. Who was it think you -
ed 40, Georgel Pm so glad you ha
as pened here. was going down