Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-02-05
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eyes, am married-I have a char
ming little wife, iolie a marveille. All,
my friend, they are a great comfort
these wives they keep off distractions,
Wearisome Interruptions from us poor
arms with my domestic, the excellent
Marthe-dgure to yourself that when I
was q bachelor she would interrupt me,
in my most important experiments, to
ask me if I would have an cmeletEe for
supper, or some such puerilitY l-my
wife regulates the whole menage I go
about a free man."
''You will then have time to perfect
your discovery. How goes it Have
you brought it into working order yet -
"Not yet there is something want
ing-a link in the chain-but shall
master it soon. My only wonder is thai
it was not made before. What have
they all been about, the great chemists
of my own time and earlier, that they
have passed this by, and left ii for me
To me it is as clear as daylight ] will
just explain it 20 you.1 s1 -E2a
ga thousand thanks, but not to-day
have promised to dine at the Trois
ting late. Adieu make my compIi-
ments to Madame your wife"
And the friends parted.
The younger wended his way to tbs
Pa1ais Royal, according to appointment
while the man of science turned TOWARD
a more anfashionabIe quarter of Paris
| and presently arrived at the modes
apartments garnis" in which he ha6
! installed his young bride.
As he opened the door of his own pri.
Yate sanctum he became aware of Z
lively humming sound, aud beheld
/ perched on tip-tOe on chair, and bust
| ~ engaged in busting with feather
brush row of dingy bottles on a shelf
the pretty little wife whose praises h'
had so lately been sounding.
Pretty she certainly was, with spark
ling brunette beauty, arounded, plumI
/ little figure, and a sweet Httle higl
\ voice that just escaped being shriH.
| She few down from the chair wheI
[ she saw him, ran to him, and steppinl
his mouth with the feather brush, crie'
out Vehemently, "Ah, traitor ! thoI
saidst thou wouldst be gone for hours
and back thou cOmest, taking me b,
surprise. Now, no sco1ding, mechant
1 will not be scolded, for I have no
hurt any thing, nor touched the retort
aud crucibles, nor altered the place G
even one OF the books, It is I VIII
should scold thee for keeping dangerou
things that will blow me up some day
but will not, am so glad thou art re
turned"
tThen don't choke me with thy brusl
art little angel, AntOinette, but i ca
not have thee meddling with my pos
sessions" -
"But the dust, the dfrt4 ii was incor
ceiVable, abOIninabIe.' I have used U
all my busters that the cures sister CAV
me behold them and still the room
! not clean. / would not let Marthe in
help me-" -,..-,.- Sass .e-i1 s.s..vr.
/, If thou hadst, I wouId have blow
her into a thousand atoms,'' said Ii
chemist, savagely, putting mis- wi
! aside, and handling, with sort of liz
gering fOndness, some very suspicious
looking blue bottles, which stood on
table near the charcOal-fire- ''LeaN
me now, my little heart, L have an idea
d 'Tiens let me first bring thee SOU
lemonade to 3Ool thy throat Did
choke thee with dust, wicked wife tn
, L was AS for me, have sWallpwe
cart-loads, but what matters hat 2 Wi
thou not be q little more comfprtab b
: now that thy room is cleaner 81,
The poor chemist made a grinac'
he loved his little chamber of horror
n dust and all. He had always manage
> to keep it sacred from Marthe was b
: wife to be allowed to invade it at h
$, pleasure LII.
art the best child in the world, and Il
: Intentions the most excellent. TIL,
J mayst do what thou wilt with the re
of the house, but I and this room
I, mine must be left independent tht
D. D. must not take liberties with either
e, us"
n There came a bright spot of color
n the brown cheeks, and the red lips c1C
q ed suddenly with q kind of a lit
~ snap but She gathered her busters a
: brooms together, and left the roc
without reply, In a few minutes s
reaPpearedz with some iced lemonaf
s. tapped gently at the door, and hand
o. it in. .-fr E-r-y-.ra
s ST erieved to have taken a liberty
es she said, in a smothered voice 81 I
n desolee at the thought oft. Say ii
u you forgive me, my Lucien-t'
"Ot course forgive thee, he rejoi
ed. Have not said thou art the b
child in the world ?"
''That is well," murmured she
herself as she turned away. "Ah,
ne ne had spoken as 1 felt just now hs
"a the temper of tiger M. le cure M
re we'll warn me against giving way to
To She did not look much like 4 tiger
Ids she lripped up stairs to smooth
,p- glossy hair, and wash her face q
hands, and don her black silk dr.
and knot Of rOse-eolored ribbon. Th
I. was a so t, pathetic sweetness in
. childish face now, yet different f.
the merry mischief of a few nome
before, but quite as far removed fr
10, When after some time she passed i
1ly her sitting-rooEn she found IL all a!
~ with preparations for dinner.
No "DO not be too quick to-day, NJ
low the,n she said. Your master has
idea; he may not be ready yet awhil
lha 'And so Madame has to wait, and
!. dinner spoils," grumbled Marthe, il
= low tone.
Madame did not affect to hear q
She took q rose from q vase, went {
'od. mirror and stuck it in her hair, EuTl
her head from side TO side with co
, cal little reflective air, like a bird t
has been drinking, and then sat do
~. and took up n book, LsplRce's "
ood canique Celeste"
cis- She was an odd mixture--this III
woman of, goodness and coquetry
ne. childishness and soaring intellect.
~" was the daughter of a learned profes,
1t and had been allowed to dip into G.
sics and Ologies, but she had 60
practical mother, and host of brC
ers and sisters, and circumstaT
would never have let her be blue, @
if her lively French nature had
,iDS stood in the way Of such developmi
1t had been a great change to &C
l. from the stirring atmosphere of
- home and shut herself up with
Nc somewhat gloomy Lucien. But
had been positively with him she wo
-, not have minded. What really Ii
~. her was the fact that his studies
ii1g chemical experiments were almost