Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-02-26

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YES" ltsped Daisy with girlish smile
You said everybody wentH Aud oh, Herbert
isn't it nice p
Mr.. Ainscourt said nothing more, but Mrs.
Fenchurch found him very stupid companion
for the remainder Of the evening. He was late
at dinner the next day but, late as he was he
found himself more punctual than his wife, aud
the solitary meal was half over before Mrs. Daisy
trpped in, her cashmere shawl trailing over her
shoulders, and her dimpled cheek pink with the
fresh wind.
"Am behind timer Really, l am so sorry !
But we have been driving in the park, and"
"WeY Who are wei" growled her husband
"Why, Colonel Adair and 1.-The Colonel
Adair that you go out with so much.
"Now look here, Daisy ~ calculated Mr.
Anscourt, rising from the table and pushing
back his chair, +" Adair isn't exactly the man
want you to drive with l'
but you go everywhere with him ~
81 dare say but you and are two very diff
ferent persons"
"Now, dear Herbert" interposed Daisy, will
fully misunderstanding him, "you know was
never bit proud, ard the associates that are
good enough for my husband are good enough
for me. Let me give you a few more oysters"
Ainscourt looked sharply at his wife. Was
she really iu earnest, or was there a mocking
undercurrent of satire in her toner But he
could not decide, so artless was her countenance.
III talk to her about it sometime, was his iuter-
nal decision.
Daisy" he said carelessly, when dinner was
over, "rve asked old Mrs. Barberry to come
and spend the day with you tomorrow"
"Oh, have your I'm sorry, for am engaged
out tomorrow"
"You Where2'
"Oh, at Delmouico's. I've joined a womans
rights club, and we meet there to organize"
"The duce take woman's rights; calculated
the irate husband.
&C OF coursa | don't baliaye in them hnt
the fashion to belong to a club, and such nice
place TO go to evenings am dull here eve
nngs, Herbert"
Herberts heart smote him, but he answered
resolutely;
"I Deg you will give up this ridiculous idea
What do women want of clubsY'
What men do, suppose"
" But don't approve oft at all.
" You belong to three clubs, Herbert"
" That's altogether a different matter"
But why is it diferentF'
"Hem--why? because Of course anybody
can see whyHrit's self evident"
81 must be very blind" said Mrs. Ainscourt,
demurely, " but confess | cant discriminate
the essential difference"
Herbert Ainscourt said no more but he did
not at all relish the change that had lately come
over the spirit Of Daisys dream She did
change, somehow. She went out driving, here,
there, and everywhere. He never knew when
be was certain of a quiet evening with her; she
Joined not only the club, but innumerable socie-
ties for thousand and one purposes, which
took her away from home almost 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, au austere old lady in black satin and
chestnut brown wig,
Daisy, you are making my son wretcbed."
Gam II" cried Daisy. " Dear ,ne, hadn't
an idea of it. What's the troubleP"
"You must ask himself" said the mother-in-
law, who believed-sensbe old lady-in young
married people settling their own dihicultes,
"All know is the bare fact"
So Daisy went home to the drawng-r room,
where Herbert lay on the sofa pretending to
read, but ia reality brooding over his troubles.
What's the matter, Herbert2' said Daisy
kneeng on the floor beside him, aud putting
her soft cool hands on his fevered brow.
"The matter2 Nothing much only am mis-
erable," he sulenly answered
But why2' she persisted.
" Because you are so changed, Daisy"
g How am | changed p
"You are never at home. You have lost the
domesticity which was, in my eyes your greatest
charm. l never have you to myself any more
Daisy, don't you see how this is embitterng my
life2'
"Does it make you unhappy" she asked
softly.
"You know that ii does, Daisy"
"Aud do you suppose that liked it Herbert2"
" What do you mean p he asked.
&C mean that passed the first year of my
married life in just such lonesome way. You
had no domesticity. Clubs, drives, billiard
playing, and champagne suppers engrossed your
whole time. |, your wife, pned at home alone"
"But why didn't you tell me you were un-
happy ?"
"Because you would have laughed at the idea,
Ill, ao1o I,
we were first married TO frtter away neither
time nor breath ia idle complaints. l have not
complained have simply followed your exam
pie. If it was not good one, whose fault was
that2 Not mine surely"
"No, Daisy, not yours"
~ don't like this kind of life" went on
Daisy. Z" It is false excitement-a hollow di-
version but you did-because 1t was the fash
ion. Now tell me- Herbert, whether you prefer
a fashionable wife, or Daisy"
"Daisy-a thousand times, DaisyP'
"But Daisy can't get along with theatre-go-
ing, club-loving husband"
Then she shalt have a husband who finds
his greatest happiness at his own hearth-stone-
whose wife is bis dearest treasure-who has
tried the experience of surface and finds it un-
satisfactory. Daisy, shall we begin our matri-
monial career auewf"
Aud Daisy's whispered answer was " Yes."
"B But what must you have thought of me all
this time2 p she asked him after a little while.
"Iknow what think now."
"AId what is thatT'
al think, said Mr.. Ainscourt, with empha-
sis, " that you are the best little wife in the
world"
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