The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-11

Il stand WlIes PRIDE and agony at seeing
J herself deserted and pitied.''
"Do listen to- reason, Edith. IF vol
4, Eeep your own counsel, who is to know
the truth of the matter %
t @And live q lie % she said through her
? clenched tseth, while her eyes literally
+ blazed. "Nevec p
"Well, if you, won't be advised, Z can't
II help it, groaned her mother, sinking
back into her chair, with her handker-
chief pressed toher eyes. eve rnust try
and bear the disgrace"
"No listen to me MOther. The little
4 cottage that father talked Of selling
again, because he could not make the paw.
ments upon it"
"Well, what Of it ? l am anxious he
should dispose Of it. 1t is isolated, right
upon the sea coast, with nothing but the
moss fiat stretch Of sand and the melan :
choly ocean beyond, a little struggling
village in the background PERHAPS a
mill, and altogether d miserable place.
"AThat does dot matter | want it i'm.
mediately, and will purchase 1T of father
at any price"
"You mean tobury yourself 2" question.
ed her mother,in wide eyed astonI8hment.
"Yes-bury myself"
GAS you ike, but you will soon get
tired of the queer notion and be glad to
come back, evan if you do have to live a
lie," and she arose and took he0 depar,
tuEe, without g. single attempt to comfort
! the child she had trained for inst such
sorrow.
Edith obtained the little cottage by the
sea and Went thither to iive,with couple
of old erTants, man and wife, who
were abun3antly able to minister to her
simple wants. She found some comfort
ip embellishing the house anGi grounds,
and never wearied of gazing at the ever
restless, troubled ocean. Her ife glided
on quietly, summer and winter. The
world fanCied her abroad VITA her hus-
band, and she only dreaded meeting some
/ familiar face, and scarcely ever left her
/ little home.
| 1t was true she missed the false excite
ment Of fashionable life, and passed
many an hour In useless regrsts. But she
found mEch time for reading and refec.
tioE, and gradually learned to love the
quiet and solitude. Her feelings towald
her husband, also, had changed. She
found it apostolic to remember him with
anything bat gratitude. She recalled
his affectionate, fond chances, his vegyI
tender sOlicitude. This was now her
world, and iQ it sue found something of
happiness, while she reflected, with shame
and sorrow, upon her treatment of him,
and yet lived in anticipation of the time
when hewould come back and receive her
confession, and she, forgiveness
She had given letter into the keeping
of his lawyer, to be forwarded the mo-
ment his address should be obtained.
Money had been deposited at banking
house in London, subject to his orderand
tnither her letters had been sent. But
days and weeks and months passed, and
Edith ceased her useless repining and
anxiety She lived Ito of calm expec. |
tatlen. Her character had become greatly
changed, her baughty manner gone
while few lines could have been found
upon her brow. Into the hard brilliancv
Of her eyes was softened, melancholy
sWeetness-a new womanly light. The
footsteps of him who had Gained the
troubled waters had left their impress
upon her heart and life; had created with
in her right spirit-hence her strength
and patience to bide her time.
But one day, Edith sat in her vine
covered porch, overlooking the sea, her
hands claspiDg letter, which she read
again and again, with such whirI oil
gratitude that vespers were sung in her
heart and brain. It was from her hus-
band-told how her letters had followed
him from land to land, by sea and bv rail
at times almost within his reach-tor
many long months, and at last had been
placed in his hands.
81 noW," be wrote, "see how hard and
cruel | was, and that expected from you
far too much. But it was whispered in
society that you married me solely for
money, and your conduct attested the
truth. At least,so thought. dailv felt
that my spirit was growing more seryile
beneath your beautiful tyranny, and was
learning to despise myself as did all who
knew me. And [ should very soon have
learned to pay back scorn for soorn, and
so lost my high standard of true man
hood, as we'll as clean hands and O. pure
heart; for it is impossible for man to be,
come the half way sinner that woman can.
As if she said to her soul, Thus far shalt
thou 60, and no farther The verv i'm
petuosity of his nature drags him, by
swift stages, to the lowest DEPTHS of
Hades. So, like a weak coward. I fled
from you, hoping thereby to leave behind
all unhappiness and responsibility. But
scarcely need say 1t was futile, and nv
wretchedness and loneliness have been
complete. Dreams and regrets would
come. But enough dearest. l shall soon
DO with youth the little cottage where
you have secluded yourself. I bless God
that you find in your heart true affection
for me at last, and that you conceive me
to be necessary for your happiness. When
we meet, let the reconciliation be perfect,
and regrets and recriminations be of tbe1
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