Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-17
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AT the age of thirty Allan Moore mar.
ried, taking for his wife pretty Mary
Graham. He had been waiting until he
might commence the new life fairly and
independently and when he said "inde-
pendently,' be meant that he would not
be dependent upon lodgiug-honse keepers
for a home. He did not hope to be indie
pendent OF toll and fatigue; but he bad
planned that he and Mary would work
together, and perhaps, in coming years,
find n competence upon which to enjoy
healthful repose. Allan was a lawyer,
with fair practice; and be had prom
ised himself that when Mary had become
his wife, she would help him in his labors
NOT that she would delvs for him into
the mysteries of law, or do the druid gerry
of copying; but he looked for sympathy
and love-for love that should make his
labors light. and for sympathy upon
which he could rest his confidence.
1t is said that "L9ve is blind :" but
true love is not so blind as it is often rep
resented. The good qualities which are
| awakened in the heart to love are not
wanting and even the imparfections
were seen and noted in the outset. The
good seed was in the soil, and so were the
| tares. The trouble is, that love ia apt to
be over-hopeful. 1t is not blind but it
looks through sunny glass and the flu
ture thus viewed, presents only pleasant
prospect. Love is not so blind that it can
not see faults but it is so kiud and for
bearing that it overlook1 them and thus
| it often happens that the tares are suffered
to thrive, and finally to outgrow the bet
ter seed
Allan Moore had known that Mary had
her faults but he had also known that
her heart was good and true, and in his
great love he found the assurance of peace
and joy.
They had been married three years,
and cloud was upon the household
And whose was the fault? Allan exam
ined himself very closely, but he could
not discover that he had done wrong
And yet Mary was neither happy herself,
nor did she try to make him happy. His
business had increased until he had az
much business upon his hands as he could
possibly attend to; he labored early and
late he toiled without eessing; but the
sympathy which he had expected at home
was not his. The result was that be often
wore cloud upon his brow. Expecting
GOODNESS when he entered his home, be
came with compressed lips; and fearing
he should find no sympathy, he did not
seek it.
Allan Moore wondered whether be had
been mistaken in his estimate of Mary
had he given her credit for good that she
did not possessp Certainly there was
little of the good now to bless him but
evil continually. In short his home was
very far from being happy one. and
open rupture was frequent. Mary had
become fretful and fault-fnding, and in.
stead of sympathy with her husband in
his engrossipg and oft-times perplexing
business, she would not permit him to
mention his bushes in the house.
Mary was growing to have sharp fea.
lures, and the old look of beauty was dis
appearing. But upon Allan the change
was working with deeper effect. He was
growing thin and pale, and there were
shoots OF pain and mysterious throbbings
at the heart; aud the pain was growing
deeper.
Why was it2 Was the good all gone,
or had the tares only come up and out
growing the good-tares that might have
been rooted out long ago, if the hand of
prudence and skill had been applied Fl
Had the heart been locked up and all its
good hidden from the fructifying light 2
If so, why could not some kind power I'M
lock the closed heart, and set the bless
ings free?
The good genius was at hand.
DR.. Ralph Graham, Msry's uncle, had
seen the gathering cloud, and bad marked
the progress of the deepening gloom. He
had known both the hnshand and tho uife
from their infancy; and he had loved
them both; and when he saw them thus
unhappy, he wondered if he could not
help them. He knew that the greatest
fault was Mays; and he knew, too, that