Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-24

what rendered it more lnsupportable
was the presence of his wife for he
could not bring himself to overwhelm
her with the news. She saw, however,
/ with the quick eyes of affection, that
all was not well with him. She marked
1 his altered looks and stified sighs, and
was not to be deceived by, his slckly
and vapid attempts at cheertulness.-
She tasked all her sprightly powers and
tender Establishments TO win him back
to happiness but she only drove the
arrow deeper into his soul. The more
he saw cause 70 love her, the more tor
turing was the thought that be was
soon TO make her wretched. A little
while, thought he, and the smile shall
vanished from that cheek-the song
will die away from those lips the bus
1 ter of those eyes will be quenched with
sorrow and the happy heart, which
now beats lightly in that bosom, will
be weighed down, like mine, by the
cares and miseries of the world.
/ At length he came to me one day and
related his whole situation in tone of
the deepest despair. When | heard
/ him through inquired, " Does your
wife know all this 2" At the question
he burst into an agony of tears. "For
Gods sake ~ cried he, I" If you have
any pity on me don't mention my wife?
! it is the thought of her that drives me
almost to madness.
" And why not z" said /. She must
know it sooner or later you cannot
keep it long from her, and the intelli
gence may break upon her in more
startling manner than if impaired your
self for the accents of those we love
soften the harshest tidings. Beside,
yoa are depriving yourself of the COM
forts of her sympathy and not merely
! that, but also endangering the only
bond that can keep hearts together
an unreserved community of thought
and feeling. She will soon perceive
! that something is secretly preying
upon your mind and true love will
not brook reserve; 1T feels undervalued
and outraged when even the sorrows of
/ hose it loves are concealed from it.
! 4" Oh, but my friend to think what
/ blow am to give to all her future
/ prospects--how am to strike her very
soul to the earth, 10y telling her that
/ her husband ia a beggar that she is to
/ forego all the elegances of life-all
I the pleasures of soclety--to sink with
me into Indulgence or obscurity. 70
/ tell her that | have dragged her down
/ from the sphere in which she might
I have continued to move in constant
/ brightness-the hight OF every eve--the
admiration of every heart, How can
she bear poverty She has been
brought up in all the refnements of
/ Opulence. How can she bear neglect
/ She has been the idol OF society.
/ Oh it will braak her heart--it will
break her heart ="
/ saw his grief was eloquent, and | let
, it have It's flow for sorrow relieves it
self by words. When his paroXysm
had subsidized, and he had relapsed in
to moody silence | resumed the sub
/ iect gently, and urged him to break
his situation at once TO his wife. He
shook his head mournfully, but posi-.
lively.
But how are you to keep it from
herr 1t is necessary she should know
it, that you may take the steps proper
to the alteration of your circumstances
You must change your style of living
nay, observing a pang pass across
his countenance, don't let that afiilct
you. | am sure you have never placed
your happiness in outward show-y Il
have Yet friends, warm friends, who
will not think the worse of Won for be-
ing less sp endidly lodged; and surely
1t does not require palace to be hap
by with Mary"
Il could be happy with her" cried
he, convulsIvely, "in hovel Icould
go down with her into poverty and the
dust | could could God bless
herr cried he, bursting into trans
port of grief and tenderness.
"And between me, my friend, said
| stepping mp, and grasping him warm
ly by the hand, "beheve me she can
be the same with you. Ay, more; it
will be a source Of pride and triumph
to her-it will call forth all the latent
energies and fervent sympathies of her
nature for she will rejoice to prove
that she loves you for yourself. There
! is in every true woman's heart spark
of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in
the broad daylight of prosperity, but
which kiudles up, and beams and
bIazes in the dark hour of adversely.
No one knows what the wife of his
bosom is--uo man knows what minis
terng angel she ls-uutil he has gone
with her through the fiery trials of this
world"
There was something in the earnest.
ness Of my manner, and the tiguratlve
style Of my language that caught the
excited imagination, of Leslie. knew
the auditor had to deal with; and fol-
lowed up the impression, | had made,
finished by persuading him to go
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