Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-08-12
DELAWARE. OHIO, FRIDAY. AUGUST -. 1870


reverted to the unhappy couple of whom
she had told Leighton when he first spoke
to her of marriage. She was possessed
| sympathetic black eyes, his methodical
/ life and hard nationality, his want Of
sentiment and tenderness.
Why do you talk of that person so
much 2 Leighton implored. ''You
seem to be charging me with his cruelty.
am not like him.
The tears filed her eyes as she start
ed toward him, saying. No. you are
nor like him. Even if you should be-
j come ike him, couldn't reproach you.
/ should merely die. "
But you know him so well p he ask
ed inquiringly. You seem to fear him.
Has he any power over you
/ For a moment she was so sombre
! that he half feared lest her mind should
be unstrung on this one subject.
No, she at last said. His power
is nearly gone. Oh, if / could
only forget 2
After another pause. during which she
seemed to be neTving herself for con-
fession, she threw herself into her hus-
band 5 arms and whispered, ''He is my
uncle. ~
He was puzzled by the contrast be-
tween the violence of her emotion and
the uninportance of this avoWal but as
he at least. saw. that the subject was
| painful to her, and as he was all conf
dence and gentleness, he put no more
inquiries.
forget it all. " he murmured caress-
| ing her and with deep sigh, the sigh
of tired childhood, she answered, ''Yes. =
The long summer days laden with
| happiness for these two, sailed onward
to their sunset havens. After time, as
August drew near its perfumed death,
Alice began to speak of a journey which
she should soon be obliged to make to
New York. She nfzfst go, she said to
| Leighton-it was matter Of property,
Of business; she would tell him all
about It some day. But she would re-
turn soon; that is, she would return as
soon as possible; she would let him
know how. soon by letter.
When he proposed to accompany her
she would not hear of it. To merely go
on with her, she represented, would be
a useless expense, and to stay as long
as she might need to stay would injure
his practice. In these days her gaiety
seemed forced, and more than once he
found her weeping yet so innocent was
he, SO simple IN his views of life, can
did in soul, that he suspected no hidden
evil; he attributed her agitation entirely
to grief at the prospect of separation.
His own annoyance in view of the
Journey centred in the fact that his wife
would be absent from him, and that he
could not necessarily surround her with
his care. Whether she would be safe
from accidents and alarms, whether her
delicate health would not suffer, were
the questions which troubled him. He
had the masculine instinct of projections:
he was as virile as he was gentle and
and afectionate.
The parting was more painful to him
than he had expected, because to her
it was such an undisgdised and terri
bic agony.
You viii not forget me 2 she plead
ed. "You Will never, never hate me
You will always love me You are
the only person who has ever made the
world pleasant to me; and you have
made it so pleasant so different from
what it was a new earth to me a star
/ will come back as soon as this busi-
ness will let me. Some day I will come.
back. never to go away. Oh. will not
that be delightful p
Her extreme distress, her terror lest
she might not return, her forebodIngs
lest he should some day cease to love
her, impressed him for moment-with
doubts as TO a mystery. AS he left the
railway station, full of gratitude for the
last glance of her loving eyes, he asked
himself once or twice. tWhat is it
What was it ?
We will follow her. She is ominously
sad during the lonely journey; she is al
most stern by the time she arrives in
New York. In place of the summers
sweetness and gaiety, there is a wintry
and almost icy expression IN her face,
as if she were about to encounter trials
to which she had been long aecustom-
ed, and which she had learned to bear
with hardness if not with resentment.
No one meets her at the railway sta
ton, no one at the door of the sombre
house where her carriage stops-no one
until she has passed up stairs into a
darkling parlor.
There she is received by the man
whom she has SO often described to
Leighton man of thin, erect form,
high and narrow forehead, regular and
imperturbabIe features, fixed and hlIny
eyes, a mechanical carriage, an icy de-
meanor.
At sight of her he slightly bowed
then he advanced slowly to her and took
her hand he seemed to be hesitating
whether he should give her any further
welc lne.
You need not kiss me, she said, her
eyes fixed on the floor You do not
wish to do it.
He sighed, as ifhe TOO were unhappy,
or at least weary but he drew his hand
away and resumed his walk up and
down the room.
$50 you chose to pass your summer
in village he presently said in a
tone of a man who has ceased to rule,
but not ceased to eriticise. II hope you
liked it.
q told you in my letters that liked
il, . she replied in an expressionless
monotone.
''And | told you in my letters that I
did not like It. II would have been
more decent in you to stay in Portland,
among the people whom | had request
ed to take care of you However, you
are accustomed to have your own way.
can only observe that when a woman
will have her own way, she ought to
pay her own way.
A flush, perhaps of shame, perhaps of
irritation, crossed her hitherto pale face,
but she made no response to the scoff|
and continued to look at the floor
After a few seconds, during which
neither of them broke the silence, she.
seemed to understand that the reproof
was over, and she quietly quilted the
room.
The man pushed the door to violently
with his foot, and said in an accent Of
angry scorn, THAT is what is now called
a wife.
Well, we have reached the mystery
we have found that it was a crime.
Concluded ae-rt 70eek.
WHERE IS HAPPINESS.
The following little paragraph con-
tains a whole volume Of truth and Sltp-