Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-02-05

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on to Miss Niddlius. She always had a
dreadful faculty for onsetiling laviny."
Mis-, Pheb, hal roniemptuous nose,
turned upward at the end like sled run
ner. Ii curled highS. yet at this remark.
81 wish YOU had some Of my spirit,
Reuben Hiukle," said she, coiling her
back harl with rapid circular motion,
as if she were winding herself Up; Ill
you had you wouldn't 60 high Layiul
Tor one while. She's contrary aud depend
upon it shel lie great deal more apt 10
como back If you don't tease her. III
keep house fer you SO don't you be mite
concerned"
Mr Elinkle groanel in answer. As
dough is without yeast, 20 was he without
Laviny {" lie needed her TO keep him
up" be said, pathetically, and for tOrtur-
es would not have wrung from her the
confession, it was equally true TINT La
viuy needed him to keep her down. Some
lcaven is safest hidden in Its three meas
ures of meal. Certainly, in her husbands
presence. Mrs Hinkle had been patient
Griselda compared to What she Eow was.
freed from home restraints. She fretted
and fumed IN an explosive manEer raising
an unwontcd fermentation in the Trip
household. She hated his folks, she hat
ed Reuben for not hating them, she hated
herself for having borne their interference
so long, and declared sheh not the
OF fy'-whicb, indeed, was quite true.
: Art as the week wore on without bringing
the coveted vision ST her husband at her
feet, the effervescecce Of her mood was
, fast subsdiDg, when the rumor that Miss
c Phebe was welding her domestic sccptcr
= agitated it anew. Pretty work it was, 70
Z be crowded out OF her home by his folks !
She knew now why Redbcn did not come
y They Lad been setting him against her
r What if he should never come? For the
II first time this thought intrudcd itself, and
in her anguish she sought relief in th'
l. camphor bottle. What right had Pheb'
in her kitchen, solacing Reuben with del
I cctabIe cookery, when he should hav'
J. been hungcring IN solitude after his wife
l She declared such conduct would provok
L a saint, though she did not give her au
!, thority Cor this conviction One thin
vas sure, Phebe should not have tn
1t washing Of her teaspoons, and wlthou
y delay Mrs Hinkle sent a juvenile Trip
to remove these and other personal valua
5 bios, choosing the dinner hour for the eI
s. rand, that the scene effect might be great
er er. When Mr. Hinkle was forced to sti
T. his tea with a fork. perhaps he would b
ly in more haste to conciliate his wife Th
1g plan was we'll laid but it failed il tn
execution through the tardiness Of littl
us Joe, who, having a woodchuck to atten
to on the way, did not reach his uncle's ii
re thc remains of the dinner lay cold op th
st pantry shelf, and MIR Hinkle Was half
OF mile away at his afternoon plowing.
D. Miss Phebc sent the spoons obediently
inwardly resolved that Reuben should NJ
know of this proof Of "Laviny's ugliness
for she was well aware that only her ow
repeated assurances that Laviny woul
IN soften toward him il left TO herself ha
ed cad kept him passive thus far.
is Seems if | wasn't doing the hano
y. some thing not to &c nigh her." he oftc
\" said. IL wonder whether or no she ain
he counting on my fetching her 2
,is IF she comes of her own free-will she
cb be likely to stay but, Miss Phebe wcu
answer; ''hut try to drive her. and yt
at ktoW what Lavl0y is.
Nv Mr. Hinklc did know, unfortunatel
er and, knowing, schoole himself to patie
he waiting.
Thus the days wore SC, and he plodne
K, through the spring work, cheered a hit
H. in spite of fhimself by Miss PhebeS earne
a efforts at making him comfortable, viii
n Laviny, mortified and then alarmed
l." his non-appearauce, worried herself into
H. course Of exauperating sick-head-ache
ee and in every sense shut out the sunligl
py from the house Of the Trippf In midst
a paint-scrubbing Mrs Trip found no lea
GO ure to devote to aer complaining sistc
IN but left one of her children to wait up(
As her. Mrs. Hinkle felt abused. When ha
is. Reuben been too busy to battle her achir
temples? LittleJoe made her nervous as
Ii witch. and one day she told him SO, and
momcnt after had the satisfaction of hea
Y, ing him say to his mother in the kitchen tn
en- he "couldn't get a,ong with Aunt Layir
no-how."
ss Why, that has just what Reuben hi
IN said = Reuben, VINO had never spoken ha
at tily to her in his life! Was she an uncol
Portable person to live withf
no tsTain in fhn ynypnr of mortal man