Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-08
IRE MHE EXPERIENCES OF 4 BARRgs- ltA TER---M0. 3.
The Marriage settlement :.

TER--No. 3.
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 ; ssIt is really time that properIy-quali- fled governess had charge of thoss girls z observed my wife, as Mary and Kate, af- ter more than usually boisterous ronp with their papa, left the room for bed oI may here remark, inter atiG, that I once surprised dignified and highly distin- guished judge at game of bEndman's buff with his children, and very heartily he appeared to enjoy 1t too, '1t is really time that q properly -qualified governess had charge of those girls. Susan May did very well as 8 nursery teacher. but they are now far beyond her control. / cannot attend to their education, and as for you"- The sentence was conclud- ed by shrug of the shoulders and toss of the head, eloquent1y expressive of the degree of estimation in which nag govern ing powers were held.
 ssfime enough, surely, for that" I ex- claimed, as soon as had composed my self for I was little out of breath. ''They may, think, rub along with Su- san for another year or two. Mary is but seven years of age"- a5 td iA
 Flight years, if you please. She was eight years old last Thursday three weeks. '"
 Flight years Then we must have been married nine {! Bless me, how the time has flown; it seems scarcely so many weeks !' ... l.... -.-..t.. ..
 Nonsense" rejoined my wife with a sharpness of tone and rigidity of facial muscle which, considering the handsome compliment had just paid hex, argued, was afraid, a foregOne conclusion. 'fYOu always have recourse to some folly of that sort whenever am desirous of en- tering into serious consultation on fam fly affairs" ll.a.z -, .E-s--t si.a 2
 There was some truth in this, confess. The consultations" which l found profit able were not serious ones with my wife upon domestic matters; leading, as they invariably did, to dimunition instead of an increase of the little balance at the bankers. If such proposition could therefore be evaded or adjourned by even an extravagant compliment, considered it we'll laid out But the expedient, I found, was one which did not improve by use. For some time after marriage 1t an- swered remarkably we'll; but each suc- ceeding year of welded bliss marked it's rapidly declining efficacy. s.s 2 Fa5-a. '.
 ''Well, we'll :; go on." ..... ......... ?
 sI say 1t is absolutely necessary that a first-rate governess should be at once en- gagged. Lady Maldon has been here to- day, and she'- ...... -....5
 "Oh, thought it might be her new la dyship's suggestion. I wish the 'foun- tain of honor was somewhat chafier of it's knights and ladies, and then perhaps"- What, for merey's sake, are you run ming on about ?" interrupted the lady with peremptory emphasis. Lady Nal don knows a young lady-a distant rela- tive, indeed, of hers-Whomshe is anxious to serve"-
 'At our expense.H
 Ineed not prololg this coRnqbial dia- logue. It is sufficient to state that Edith Willoughby was. duly installed in office on the following day and that, much to my surprise, found that her quslifica- tions for the charge she had undertaken were scarcely oyercolored. She was q we'll l-educated, elegant, and beautiful girl, of refined and fascinating manners. and possessed of one of the sweetest, gentlest dispositions that ever charmed and graced the family and social circle. She was, I often thought, forher own chance of hap piness, too ductile, too readily yielding to the wishes and fancies of others. In Q very short time came to regard her as a daughter, and with my wife and children she was speedily 8 prodigious fayorite. Mary and Kate improved rapidly under her iudicious tuition, and felt for once positively grateful to busy Lady Maldon for her ofiicious. interference in my domes- tic arrangements. n..s .g3is5.... Edith Willoughby had been domiciled with us about two years, when Mir. Har- lowe, a gentleman of good descent and fine property, had occasion to call several times at my private residence on business relating to the purchase of . house in South Audley Street, the title to which exhibited by the vendors was not of the most satisfactory kind: On one occasion he stayed to dine with us, and I noticed that he seemed much struck by the ap- pearalce of ous beautiful and aceomp- lished governess. His evident emotion startled and pained me in much higher degree than I could have easily accounted for even to myself. H..e-M MT. Harlowe was q widower, past his first youth certainly, but scarcely more than two or three-and- thirty years of age, wealthy, not ll-look- ing, end, ss far as Il knew, of average character in society. SHrely an excellent match, if it should come to that, fer an orphan girl rich only in fine talents and r1k1 IL so. I disliked the -issstilsctiUely dis liked and distrusted him for | could as- sign no very positive motive for my an tipathy. ssszat A 'l.ssui3 ota3ais boa .seI3o 'sThs reason why, | eaaAot tell .l.5 5s-4t ai But don't Ike thee. Dr. FsA. raSsaah
 These lines indicate an unconquerable feeling which most persons have, I pre- sume, experienced; and which frequent ly, think, results from kind of cumu- lative evidence of uncongeniality or, un- worthiness, made up of a number of slight indices of character, which, separately, may appear Of little Ip9naant, hptaltogeth- CT, produce a strong, II und dafnabls. feel ing of aversion. Mr. HarloWe's manners were bland, polished, and ,insinuating i; his conversation was sparkling and in structive; but a cold sheer seemed to play. habitually about his lips, and at times there glanced forth concentrated, polished ferQcity--so to speak from his eyes, revealing hard and stony depths, which shuddered to think D being 90 pure and gentle as Edith might be doom
 cd to sound and fathom. That he was a man of strong passions and detefmination of will, was testified by every curve of his square, massive head, and every line of his full co0ntenanCe. 2s9 7tsl sSAite 4N'sit My ayersiQn--reasenable ior otherwise, as it might he==yqs not shared by Miss Willoughbys and it was soon apparent that, fascinated, intoxicated by her ex- treme beauty (the man waa, | felt, inca pablo of love in it's high, genefouA, and spiritual sense), Mr. Harlow6 had deter mined on offering his hand and fortune to the unportioned orphan. He did so, and was accepted. Idid not conceal my dis like of her sqitor from sEdithy and my wife--who, with feminine exaggefation of the hints threw out, had set hin down as kind of polished human tiger with tears intreated her to avoid the tglittaring snare. We of course had neither right nor power to push our oppositien beyond friendly warming and advice and when ] we found, thanks to Lady aMaldon, who was yehemently in favorof the naatch--to,