Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-04-09

Luke, giving Mrs. Darcys poodle kick that
sent it bowling to its mistress. "Anything but
a woman's retortng and recriminating tongue.
Mrs. Darcy, | won't endure it any longerW
"Neither will r' said Evelyn, resolutely ad-
vancing, as her husband plunged into the closet
| for his business coat, and promptly shutting
and locking the door. GO think have endured
it quite long enough-and here is an end of it ~
+" Mrs. Darcy, open the door - said Luke,
scarcely able to credit the evidence of his own
| senses.
al shall do no such thing" said Mrs. Darcy
composedly, beginning to re-arrange shirts,
stockings and flannel wrappers in their appro-
pirate receptacles.
Mrs. Darcy" roared Luke, at fever heat of
impotent rage, " what on earth do you mean ?"
q mean to keep you in that clothes-press, Mr.
Darcy, until you have made up your mind to
come out in a more amiable frame of mind"
There was dead silence of full sixty seconds
in the closet, then a sudden outourst of vocal
| wrath
"Mrs. Darcy, open the door this instant,
madam ~
But Evelyn went on humming a saucy little
air and arranging her clothes.
Do you hear me?'
| ayes, hear you"
I" Will you obey me ?'
| Not until you have soemnly promised me to
put some sort of control on that temper of yours
not until you pledge yourself hereafter to
treat your wife as a lady should be treated, not
! as a menal."
! 81 won't"
"No? Then in that case I hope you don't
find the atmosphere at all oppressive there"
! Another sixty seconds of dead silence, then a
sudden rain of heels and hands against the
wooden panels.
Let me out, | say, Mrs. Darcy Madam,
how dare you perpetrate this monstrous piece of
audacty?'
"My dear Luke how strongly do you remind
me of Freddy. You see there is nothing ! have
so little tolerance for a bad temper. 1t ought
to have been checked long ago, only you know
I'm so 'ridculously induIgent."
Mr.. Darcy WINGED little at the familiar sound
Of his own words.
Tap, tap, tap, came softly Oh the door. Mrs
Darcy compOsedy opened it and saw her hus-
bands little Office boy.
PLEASE, maam there's some gentleman at
the office in great hurry to see Mr.. Darcy. It's
about the Applegate will case"
| Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant there was a
triumphant rustic in the closet, and her determi-
nation was taken.
"Tell the gentleman that your master has
bad headache, and won't be down tosn this
morning"
Luke knashed his teeth audibly, as soon as
the closing of the door admonished him that he
might do so with safety.
Z" Mrs. Darcy, do you presume to interfere
with the transaction of business that is vitality
important, ma am ~
Mrs Darcy nonchalantly took up the little op-
era air where she had left it, letting the soft
flowing words ripple musicaly off her tongue.
Evelyn. dear"
"What is it, Luke ?" she asked, mildly.
"Please let me out. My dear, this may be a
joke to you, but"
81 assure you, Luke, it's nothing of the kind
it is the soberest of serious matters to 1t is
a question as to whether my future life shall be
miserable or happy"
There was third brief interval of silence.
Evelyn" said Luke, presently, in a subdued
voice, " will you open this door?"
"On one condition only"
" And what is thatP'
"Ah ah p thought the little lieutenant-gen-
eral, L" he's beginning to entertain terms of cap
itulaton is he? On condition" she added,
aloud " that you will break yourself of the
habit of speaking sharply and Grossly to me,
and on all occasions keep your temper"
My temper, indeed" sputtered Luke.
"Just your temper" returned his wife,
sternly.
win you promise ?"
"Never, madam"
Mrs. Darcy took up pair of hose that required
mending, and prepared to leave the apartment.
AS the door creaked on its hinges, however, II
voice came shrily through the opposite keyhole.
" Mrs. Darcy-Evelyn- r'
eyes"
" You are not going down stairs to leave me
in this placeW
clam"
"Well, look here, promise"
" All and everything require ~
eyes, all and everything you requre-con-
found it all p
Wisely deaf to the muttered sequel, Mrs. Darcy
opened the door, and Luke walked out, looking
right over the top of her shining brown hair.
Suddenly a little detai ming hand was laid on
his coat-sleeve.
"Luke, dear /"
dwell P'
"WOn't you give me kiss?"
And Mrs. Darcy burst out crying on her hus-
band $ shoulder.
Well" calculated the puzzled Luke, off
you aren't the greatest enigma going. kiss
Yes, half-a-dozen of 'em if you want, you
knd-hearted little turnkey. Do not cry, pet
I'm not angry with you, although l suppose
ought to be-"
" And may let Freddy out?"
ayes, on the same terms that papa was re-
leased. Evelyn, was very intolerable? ?'
" If you hadn't been never should have ven-
tured on such violent remedy"
" Did make you very unhappy"
"Very."
And the gush of warm sparkling tears sup
piled dictionary full of words.
Luke Darcy buttoned up his overcoat, put on
his hat, shouldered his umbrella, and went to
the Applegate will case, musing as he went upon
the new state of affairs that had presented itself
for his consideration.
"By Jove p he calculated, that little wife
of mine is a bold woman, and plucky one."
And thus he burst out laughing the steps.
1t is more than probable that he left his stock
of bad temper in the law buildings that day. for
Evelyn and Clara never saw any more of it, and
and Freddy is daily getting the best of the pep
perry element in his infantile disposition.
PHYSICAL LEssoN.-Here is something from
the Book Of Beauty that is strictly local. here or
! anYMhere else. Wnmen shnnld rnad L..