The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-04-20

trippcd in, her cashmere shawl trailing
over her shoulders, and her dimpleC
cheeks all pink with the fresh wind,
Am ! behind time 7 Really, am b.
sorry ! But we have been driving in thu
park, and
we Who ure we?' growled her
husband.
why, Colonel Adair and the Col
onel Affair that you 60 out with so much.
Now look here, Dasyl' calculated
Mr.. Ainscourt, raising from the table ant
pushing back his chair. 'Adair isn't ex'
actly the man want you to drive with.
But you go everywhere with him =
Il dare say-but YOU and are two dit.
ierent persons +
Now, dear Herbert, interpo:ed Daisy,
willfully misunderstanding him, you know
never was a bit proud, and the associa.
ties that are good enough for my husband
are good enough for me. Let me give
You few mere oysters.
Ainseourt looked sharply at his wife
Was she really in earnest. or was there n
thoNhluS VI Shlllt w utT iOilt!
But he could not decide so artless was her
countenance.
I'll talk to her about it sometime, was
his internal decision
Daisy, he said carelessly, when dinner
was over, I've asked old Mis- Barberry
to come and spend the day with you to.
morrow
Oh, have you ! I'm sorry, for | am en-
gagged uut tomorrow.
You. where
oh, at Delmonico'4. I've Joined q
Woman's Rights Club, and We meet I here
to organize,
'The deuce take women. rights eiac
ulated the irate husband.
OF course don't believe in EN-, bat
IFS the fashion to belong TO club, and
such a nice place TO 20 TO evenings.
nm dull here evenings, Herbert.
llerbert's heart smote him, bnt he an,
swered resolutely
i Beg you will give up tli' ridiculous
idca. What do women want of clubs
What men, do, suppose
but don't approve of it ALL
'lou belong to three clubs, Herbert
/ That's altogether different matter
but ~ly is it different, Herbert?'
'llem--why because-of course an,
body can see why-lts self-evident
i must he very blind, said Ms Aims
court, drmu'cly, shut | confess can
Discriminate the essential difference
Herbert Ainscourt said NJ more. but h
did no, at all relish the change that ha
lately comr over the spirit Of Daisy
dream
She lid change, somehow. She wen
ont driving, here, there, and everywhere
He never knew when he was certain q
her -hc joined not only the club, but in
Vulnerable societies for thousand AN,
onp purpose, which took her away fro,
home almost continually. Mr.. Ann
court chaied against the biz, but it WI
useless; Daisy always had an excuse I
plead.
Presently her mother>n law bore dow
upon her-an austere old lady in blac
satin and a chestnut brown wig.
DAISY. you are making my son wretcl
ed.
'Am = cried Daisy. Dear me,
hadn't an idea it. What's the trouble
You must ask himself, said the motht
in,law. who believed-sensible old lad
in young married peoples settling the
own difficulties. AN know is the bar
fact
So Daisy went home TO the DRAWN
room, where Herbert lay on the sol
pretending to read, but in reality broodiI
over his trouble.
whats the matter, HERBERT 5
Daisy, kneeling on the floor beside hin
and putting her soft, cool hands on b
fevered brow.
The matter! Nothing much, only
am miserable, he sullenly answered,
But Why she persisted.
Because you are 80 changed, Daisy.
How am | changed
'fou are never nj home; you have 10
the domesiicity which was, in my eye
your greatest charm. | never have yc
to myself any more. Daisy, don't you Sc
,, how it is imbitterng my life!'
Does it make you unhappy she AXE
softly.
'You know that il does, Daisy
And do you suppose liked it, He
bertr
what do you meant he asked
i mean, that ! passed the first year
my married life in just such loneson
way. lou had no 'domesticity.' Clut
drives, billiard playing, and champagl
suppers engrossed your whole time
your wife pined at home alone
But why didn't you tell me YOU wa
unhappy
'Because you would have laughed
|, the idea, and called il Il woman's whil
I, | resolved, when we were first married,
fritter away neither time nor breath in ID
complaints, have not complained
=, have simply followed your example.
it was not good one, whose fault W
:, that Not mine surely.
No, Daisy, not yours, he assented.
i don't like this kind of life, went
i Daisy. III is false excitement-a h,
y low diversion but persisted in it
J, the same reason, suppose that you d
l. because il was the fashion. Now I
me Herbert, whether you prefer a fas
l. ionable wife, or Daisy
'Daisy-a thousand times Daisy T.
2. But Daisy can't get along with the