National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-09-23


knew what she said.
And what am | q he retorted. "lf
you're IA slave. I'm one quite as much.
Who earns every cent that's brought III
Who pays the rent, and buys the fuel
and lays i'll the provisions Who
clothes Mrs. Susan Graham, Id like to
know 2"
"She earned her own clothes once, and
can do it again, George Graham, II 1t Is
necessary, anduo thanks to you, or any
other man
1T is IA pity she hadn't kept on earn
! ING them herself Then she would never
have had to pick up and put away her
I husbands, and newell, it wouldn't be
gentlcmanly to say it
"Out with it, sir. Never spoil IA joke
+ for relation sake.
&" And he wouldn't have caught "A
/ Tarter, but been happy old bach. How
| wish | was y
Are you i'll earnest, sir y
In earnest, madam"
Then, perhaps, We had better part -
/" Part, ii is than.
The sooner the better too"
My sentiments exactly, madame"
- To-day y
" To-day "
Where will you go ?'
4? | shan't go. | shall stay here
I" But you don't mean to say you re
! going to turn me out of house and home!
/ never would believe that OF you, George
Grah III p
8 1t isn't / that is turning you ont.
You are turning yourself out Suppose
you stay you have no money to pay the
rent, or run the affair. 1t costs some
thing to keep the house, can tell you.
| have found 1t out by bitter expert
ence.
- But where can go ? You know |
have not relative left me.
- You should have thought of that
before you proposed parting. 1t is not
my business to look you up house
- don't know whose else 1t is. You
might do as much as that for your own
wife"
For my wife I'd do great deal more.
But you are not my wife any more !;
only the legal tie remaining to be sever
ed, and Il apply for divorce at once. "
" And disgrace us both !?
. But what can "a fellow do ? Now I've
got used to having a home, | want one,
and once free from you, there are dozens
OF girls that will be glad to take up with
me, careless, gOod-tor-nothlng scapegrace
us | am
q" And "A pretty life they'll lead you,
too.
. 1t can't be worse than you have led
me the last six months. I've been fool
to bear 1t 50 long. Fret, fret, fret, from
morning till night. Thank Heaven, ii Is
all over at last =! and he whistled gaily.
= You seem glad to get rd of me. sir
" 1ou have made me glad, madam.
He put on his overcoat, drew ON his
rubbers, and gathered up his hat and
gloves. Was he really going and without
his dinner ?"
= When will you be ready to leave,
madame ? I'll order a carriage at any
hour you name.
You are an unfeeling wretch, George
Graham you are, that's the truth You
might for decency's sake give me till to.
morrow, to pack up my things and de-
eide what to do.
You can have week, madam, if you
wish. / thought you were in hurry tc
, go. Yes you may have IL week. Mean
while I'll go to II hotel
. And have the whole town talking
about us ! Why can't you stay at hom,
Just as well ?'
" Because never like to be in any
body's way p
But it is your own house, and-an,
If you ever had any regard for me
youu stay till--till I'm gone. He
voice was not quite as steady rs 1t hac
been.
Wei, I'll stay, then. But not now
, I'll come back tonight You need no
sit up tor me, Mrs Graham. 1t will b,
| late when | get in, and-I will take tn,
spare chamber till you are gone
, The front door closed after him il
another minute. He was gone Con,
t without his dinner gone, and not com
ing back till--nobody knew when, anC
= then going up stairs to sleep alone The,
had quarrcled. They had rs good "A
parted They would he divorced. II
? could get another wife and bring he
! home here and she-she would have t.
go alone i'll the cold, dreary world an,
4 earn her own living. She didn't know
/ enough about divorce, poor thing, T.
; think OF alimony. And all this becaus
A he neglected to leave his things i
5 the hail, and she found fault with him io
e the said neglect Car less husband
=. Fidgcty wife ! And because he was care
t less and she fidgety, they must liv
n apart
n Mrs. Graham looked about her jus
1t then. Everything v neat and order
y ly. There was nothing to worry her
II Nothing There was everything. An
she sat down and cried she who ha
II been SO resolute only ten minutes b,
fore. But that resolution, that dcfianc,
had been born of anger, was all gou
8 now. How sorry she was she had bee
p SO cross to him, for she hal been cross
y real cross, wlckedly cross. What if i
le had tossed his things any and every way
d 1t was man S trick, and here she sol
IN bed outright, he never had II mother
lt tram hlm. Poor fellow, he had bee
knocked around from pillar to post u
y his life, till he got married, and now
ld would nave TO knock around again, +,
fe of course he could not get married rigI
llt away no, he would have to get hous
ip keeper, and she would worry the life ot
rs of him and when he did get MARI,
could he find one who would love hi
te IA she had and did ? Yes, did = ii
r. love was there yet. swelling upand owe
flowing.
ou She went into the kitchen hard
ld knowing why, driven, perhaps, by Il
ry force of habit There stood the tnbl
ed laid for dinner, and so neat the clo
nd white in its creases, the plates and glass
ny shining brightly the knives and for
IT polished to almost silver whiteness. :
u,vn A nun lnnk and npphnuipullv ,n,