Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-10-30
MLLERsBURe HOLMES County, o. THURSDAY OcT 3O 1873.

1 guess; and, Harry, l don't know how
to make myself understood; l don't
want to hurt you; but somehow that
which was sweetest in those old days
seems left behind with them-the ten
derest note in all their melody of low
ing-lost.'
The voice was very timid and very
sad. The handsome face, whose clear
eyes seemed trying to read woman's
soul, grew suddenly cloudy.
81 don't understand you, I guess
Mr.. Sinclair said, in half-whisper.
mo? Well, you see, my dear, I'm
thinking if we could only have stayed
lovers, how much happier We should
have been. Everything has grown so
commonplace with US. All either Of
us thinks of, apparently, is to make
money We don't enjoy it. You work
like hireling, and yon are fast break
ing down. You take no time for pleas
ure of any kind. You are too tired,
when night comes, even to pet Hally.
A nd in the old days it was SO sweet to
have you pet men'
How mournful the soft voice was. q
"To pet you! Why, Lulie, YOU would
not bring the billing and the cooling in
to earnest practical life, would you?"
"Yes, would-if the thousand and
one little tender courtesies that made
the days in the old time radiant for both
of us were "billing and cooing." The
fact is, Parry, we are grown too world
ly, and In our ambition to make what
we cab home, We are losing sight of
the only things that can in reality
make one." -
Her husband was silent and she went
on:
''I can't bear that we should drift into
the humdrum sort of life so common
among people who are married. am
not blaming you any more than-not
so much, even--as L blame myself. l
have grown careless in many ways.
do not take the pains to hold your love
that. l took to win it-for always want
ed it, dear; and l want it now. Oh,
Harry! 1 want it so very, very much
that all other wants are as nothingt'
She broke down there, and the eyes
she lifted pleading to his were drown
ing in sea of tears. Her lips were
quivering, too, like gr:eved child's,
and again she had forgotten her baby
her boy with fathers eyes and brow.
"Don't you know that you have it,
my wife? Don't you know that nay
love for you is stronger, deeper, inten-
ser, than in the days you spoke off"
"You never say so! How can 1
know?"
81 say so by my care of you."
"No; pride would make you care for
me. do know that you love me-some
But, Harry, woman never outgrows
her need to be told, and told often, that
to the husband of her choice she is the
one thing most precious under the sun.
" So? Why darling, l thought you
had grown Indifferent to that sort OF
thing. You have not t:seemed to care for
much but your house and your baby.
Not that have blamed you. 1 Isuppos-
ell you accepted the fact of our getting
to be old married folks, whose lives
were in the work-a-day world, and 1
have tried to do the same thing"
"But 'old married folks may still be
lovers, Harry. Forgive me, dear, if 1
have hurt you by the utterance Of any
word of mine. And let us try--won't
we? to make all toll sweet, and all rest
tender, as only two people who love
each other can and ought.
eyes, Lulie, we will try"
When Harry Sinclair stepped over his
threshold, on his way to dinner that
day, he passed under "four-leaf. But
he never knew it. He knew he had
never seen his little wife looking so like
a girl for years; and that, when she put
her arms around his neck and kissed
him, his blood went tingling in his veins
as it had not done for many day OF
homely, honest toll. And it all seemed
new and nice, if he and she were old
married folks.
81 think, Lulie," Mr.. Sinclair said
that evening-"I think the little "four-
leaf'' had and accomplished mission.
Some things you said this morning an
gered me little at the time; but now
1 know that you were right, and l thank
you. We will be lovers always, if you
will, Lulie!"
And for an answer the girl-wifc bun
died herself and her baby up into her
husbands lap, and he forgot to remem-
ber that he was tired. 90"