Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-10-07
"Who is she ?" says !.

a gentleman"
Wore all alike in this country" says
he.
MY English head can't understand it
so" say l. "You're tradesman"
"Wcll, we'll" says he. ''lct that drop.
Ny wife will be suited.n
"What do her folks say ?" asked /.
"Shc has nonc," says he.
"Is she rich ?n
"No."
Then she cams her livingP"
Yes"
"How ?"
Honestly" says he, at last
How Is she at service +? | don't say
I'd be angry at that"
"At service cried Dan, with her lily
white hands and lady-liko look No,
mother, she--"
He stopped again and swallowed the
word
What ?" asked |, in a kind Of shrek.
"Well, she's an actress"
wonder did not die gave a g,oan,
snd Hannah ran for the camphor.
You've killed your Wother, Dan," says
she. She'll never get over il, l don't
think shall myself. an actress ~
Between gyict and the camphor camo
near suffocatipg, but found breath at last
Dan says |, "was it for this whip
ed YOU till You knew the Shorter Cate
chiSm by heart? Was it for this I've pray.
ped for you and took you to meeting and
kept YOU like wax9 Train up child in
the way he should GO" is out of the BIZ
ble, but it hasn't proved true this time
! remember let you read the Shepherd
of Salisbury Plain Sunday, and let you
off of the tenth chapter Of Genesis when
you said YOU couldn't learn it. don't
know what else I've done that YOU should
marry an actress"
"She shall not play after she is my
wife," SAYS he.
But that makes no difference. felt
that should die OF shame $50 TO your
wedding" says |, mot nor your decent
sister Just keep your wife away day
or two. until get housekocper some
where. and Hannah goes to her aunt to
learn dress making. and You'll be rid OF
us; for if you marry her, neither Of Us
would live with you if we starved for GO
ing"
And Hannah said the same, though she
cried over it heartily. And so, in the
end, we went; and Daniel and | had
quarreed woefully, and there were all
ms things-the tins Id kept so bright,
and the woodenware I'd secured, and the
furniture rubbed until ii was like look
ing glass, left for an actress, to do what
she chose with. fused TO lie awake
o'nights thinking OF my lovely tea set,
and wondering whether the bold thing
had cracked the milk jug yet, and how
many of the plates were gone.
hadn't seen her-I didn't want to, ]
knew what she was; painted thing,
with pinched waist, and no good in her
face or heart. And to think that my Dan
should get such one-my Dan
The place I'd got WAS with widower
out of the town. A young man with a
troop of noisy children. Always making
a muss and never quiet, and was wild
with them. Then it was as damp as r
well, and lonesome place. enough to
give YOU the blues. And Hannah wrote
that she hated dress-making and could
never earn her salt, and wished we had
staid with Dan, and was worried and
chilled and heated, and finally taken
down with rheumatism. hid it as long
as | could, but my pains grew bad,
and my limbs were swollen and red as
beets, and, at last, gave up and went
to bed And my master, 4 little, weak
chested gentleman, with-a kind OF help
less look in his eyes, came to talk with
me:
You're very i'll, Mrs. Munday," says
he.
.rm afraid | am. sir" saws l.
Then he rubbed his hands and coughed.
III Mrs. Chester were living" he said,
YOU should stay here until you were well,
but, YOU know how it is. There's no one
to do anything,
The children will kill themselves, | ex.
pcct, and Bridget has already set fire to
the house and put whitening in the bis
cult instead ST saleratus. Where shall
whom shall | write? Your
friends must come for you"
.Send me to the hospital" says /, land
I'm sorry, sir, to have troubled you so.
You're none too comfortable, at best"
Thank YOU" says he, with tears IN
his eyes. "Mrs. Chester was such a
manager. II does seem hard"
And then he went and did just what I'd
rather have died than have done. Sent
for Daniel, quite unknown TO me.
That night he came into the room with
his wife. She was pretty-no denying
,hat-and when | cried out:
NO; 60 away, Dan; l want nothing
to do with you nor that bold actress wife
Of yours. Send me to the hospital"
And he flushed red, and looked as if ne
might take me at my word. She put her
hand-a kid glove on it, the extrava-
n.o,o. ~, he ,rp, .n1 cayS Shn whiSppr.