The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30
OTTAWA FREE TRADER: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1862

"But don't approve OF 1t at all"
"You helope 20 three clubA Herbert"
"Thsts altogether q different matter, my
dear
But Why is it different 2" e y
~*Hsm--wAy? Becanse, Of course. saybody
can see why-it's self evident"
II must be very blind" said Mrs. Ainscourt,
essential difference"
Herbert Ainscourt said no more, but he did
not at all relish the change that had lately come
ovef the spirit of Daisy's dream. 60
She did change somehow. She went out driy.
ing here, there, and everywhere. He never
knew when he was certain of quiet evening
with her she had not only joined the club, but
innumerable societies. for q thousand and one
purposes, which took her away from home al
most continually. Mr.. Ainscourt chafed against
the bit but it was useless Daisy always had
an excuse to plead.
Presently her mother-in-law bore down upon
her, an austere old lady in black satin and a
chestnut wig.
y~sDAisey, you are making my son very I'M
IAN ~ Dried Daisy. Dear me, I hadn't
an idea of it What's the trouble?
"You must ask himself" said tho mother-in-
law, who belisved-sensible old lady-in young
married people settling their own difficulties
y So Daisy went home to the drawing room,
where Herbert lay on the sofa pretending to
read, but in reality brooding over his troubles.
"What's the matter, Herbert 2" said Daisy,
kneeling on the floor beside him, and putting
her soft, cold hands on his fevered brow.
''The matter Nothing much, only I'm miser-
able," he sullenly answered % GAIA
''But why z" she persisted.
because you are so changed, Daisy"
"How am / changed Pr ,-r.rv r---ry- D. -
,"You are never at home; you have lost the do.
mesticity which was, In my eyes, your greatest
charm. l never have you to myself any more
Daisy, don't You see that this is embittering my
life ?"
"Does it make you unhappy she asked
softly. ~ ~ - 4 '-17~- - CD ~
"You know it does, Daisy"
"And how do you suppose that like it, Her
bert?"
"What do you mean 7"
~ mean that passed the first year of my
married life in such lonesome way. You had
no domesticity. Clubs drives, billiard playing,
time. !, your wife, pined at home, alone"
Butwhy didn't you tell me you were unhappy,
Daisy ?" .il ..t.o.f
because you would have laughed at the idea,
and called it womans within. l resolved when
we first married, to fritter away neither time nor
breath in idle complaints. have no. complain
ed, but simply followed your example. If it was
not good one, whose fault was that Not
mine, surely"
mo, Daisy, not yours"
IL don't like this kind Of life" went on Daisy,
ut ie a false excitement hollow diversion but
Ipersst in it for the same reason, suppose, that
you did-because it was in the fashion. Now tell
me. Herbert, whether you prefer fashionable
wife or Dalsey9"
"Daisy-a thousand times. Daisy"
"But Daisy can't get along with theatre-go-
ing, club-living husband"
"Then Daisy shall have husband who finds
his greatest happiness at his own hearth stone
whose wife is the dearest tressure-who has tiled
the experience of the surface and finds it unsatis-
factory. Daisy, shall we begin our matrimoni-
al career 2"
Sand Daisy's whispered answer was
eyes" ,ss,fEt
"3ut what must you have thought OF me all
this timer" she asked him after little while.
~ know what think now" tf-.EE.f /
"And what is that 2"
81 think" said Ainscourt with emphasis, "that
you are the best little wife in the world"