The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-07-26
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Ah' IT, Marshall. returned ben hus
hand. who bad looked ont At the wlu
low and rceoguized tie giocers cart
Aud What have goo sent home noS,
Henry
Hot before Mr. Seaburu could answer
4 tho door Of the sitting room vas open
cd. aud one Of the iomeslics looked in
and asked
Whatn | 90 vl the demijohns,
num-
nemiiohns repeated Mrs seaburu
Put them IA the hall, and I'll attend
to them. interposed tie husband
Henry, Nhat have you sent home
now the siie asked, after the domes-
tic bad gone.
4 Some nice old brandy, replied Hen
ry
+ Cora Seaburn glanced up at the
clock. aud then looked down upon the
! Aoof There was a cloud upon her fair
brow, aud il was very evident that
something lay heavily upon her heart.
I Presently she walked 10 the wall aud
pulled the bell-eord, aud the summons
was answered by the chambermaid
Are George and Charles N their
room
Yes, ma fam.
1 Tell them il is school-tiine
The girl went ont, and IN il little
wblle two boys entered the sitting
room, with their books uu,lor their
aIms and their caps IN their hands
They were bright, happy healthy iel-
lows, with goodness aud truth stamped
upon their rosy faces. aud the hight Of
free conseienees cleaning III their
sparkling eyes George was thirteen
years Of age, and Charles eleven; aud
] certainly those two parents had reason
to be proud Of them. The boys kissed
their mother,gaye a happy good morn
ing 70 their father, aud went away to
school
Come, said Mr. Seaburn, some time
after the boys had gone, what makes
yon SO sober
Sober repeated the wife, looking
mp.
Yes You have been sober and mute
ever since the grocer came.
Do you want me to tell you why2
OF course ! do.
Well, Henry, am sorry that you
haze had that spirit brought into the
honse.
Pooh what's the use in talking SO,
Corag You wouldn't have me do with
outit, wonld you?
Yes
Why, what do you mean ?
/ mean that | would cut clear OF the
stuff now aud forever
But, Cora you are Wild. What should
we do at parties without wine?
DO MS others who have it not.
But, mercy what would people say !
Are yon afraid but no, | won't ask
so foolish a question.
Ask it, Henry. Let us speak plainly,
now that we have fairly commenced.
Well, | was about to ask if you were
afraid that should ever drink too
much
That's not fair question, Henry
| was not thinking OF that at all, But i
will answer it by-and-by. You have no
fixed appetite for it now?
OF course not.
Then it would not cost you any ef-
fort of will to abstain from its use,
Not a particle.
And you only have it in your house,
aud serve to your friends and drink it
yourself, because it is fashionable or,
you do it because others do it
do it because, said Mr Seaburn,
hesitating in the choice Of language, be.
cause it would appear very odd, and
very niggardIy, aud very fanatical, rot
to DO it. The last was spoken EN-.
phatically
But, pursued Mrs Seaburn, with the
calmness aud assurance of one whc
feels the sustaining influences Of right
, you would not do what you were con.
, , yinced was wrong, out Of respect Of any
such considerations, would you?
You know ] would not, Cora This
, question Of temperance, know, is |
! good one in the abstract, aud / an
, willing to give up to it as understand
8 it; but | am no teetotaler,
Henry, said his wife, with an earnss
! look into his face, will you answer me
, few questions 2 and answer them hon
! estly and truly, without equiyocatior
or evasion
Bless me, how methodicdly yon pa
il Cora But / will answer.
Then first, do you believe you, ol
/, your friends, are in any way benetitte'
|, by the drinking Of intoxicating beyer
! ages at your board2 That is, DO yoI
derive any real good from it?
No, cant say that we do
n Do you think the time has ever beel
/ since We were married, that We actual
!. needed wine in the house, either 70
: our hea th or comforts
Why, ] think it has added TO on
comfort, Corn.
How
g Oh ln many ways.
q Name one OF them
{ Why, 10 the enjoyment OF our guests
y Ah bat ala speaking Of ourselves
{, Henry 81 you aud me, and Of our ow
. little family. Has il ever ministers
10 your comfort
e No, cannot say il has.
Y And IL It was bauisEel from on
z house to-day and forever, as beyer
y age, should We suffer in consequence 2
q Certainly What would our friends
2 All ! but stop. ! am only speakin
;. Of our own affairs, shut out from Tia
9 world. by oar own areside want a
2 ex,raneous considerations left out {
q the question. Should We. as a famil,
: suffer IN our moral, physical, social Q