The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-08-21

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be sat himself down st the head Of the .
table with d e0uutcnaHce expressive Of
The utmost case aud oompiacency. lie !
had taken t lelsurcly Ia The making Of
bis morning toilet
4 pleasant morning my dear. Sorry !
kept sou waiting. said Mr. Tbistledown, /.
eating into the steak.
Ycs-yery, replied bis lady, pouring
ont The coffee with peculiar sort Of ner-
yousness, and casting a sidelong glance
at her husband, .
Singular that Mrs T. should have aus
wered ia snch an impending breezy man
ner, and slil more singular when she
burst into tears and lcft the table sudden
~, at which the Young Thistledowns laid
down their pet knives aud forks and
looked after mamma, while the parental
head Of the establishment followed, nap
Kin in hand, to divine possible cause Of
The difficulty.
Mrs. Thistedown had vanished from
the dinniug only to adjourn to the
library and to throw herself down upon
the sofa, and bury oue-half of her face in
her handkerchief But her forehead,
which was not quite covered, either with
hands or handkerchief was so suilused
aud crimson that the husband and father
feared that something serious had hap
pened; so he laid his hand ailectonately
upon the Iady's head, and yentured to
ask the question how she felt,
Feel, Mr. Thistledown? Oh, Timothy,
Timothy
Timothy raised her from the sofa on
ly that she might spring away from him,
and in tragic tone command him to
maintain a very distant aud respectful
distance.
Eve caught you at last, you brute you'll
knew il long agol
She simply threw at his feet torn and
crumpled note, in a lady's hand writing,
which be picked up and read, while his
hands trembled more than his wifc's did
when she was pouring out the coffee.
The missiye was short, and without
address, except upon the envelope, which
bore the name Of L. Thistledown, ESQ.,
and it read as follows: cannot get the
furs; will see you to-day.
Mr.. Thistledown blushed fiercely-the
blush was fierce because the note had
been safely placed in his side pocket,
and Mrs. Thistledown had evidently
gone through his clothes to obtain it, for
Mrs. Thistledown was more jealous than
was comfortable to her husband, and ii
was not the first outbreak of the kind
which had enliyened their matrimonial
existence.
I've found you out at last, Mr.. I.
That's where the money goes, see
Furs for somebody, and that somebody
and that somebody woman!
The supposidon was correct one, al
least. Furs for the lady were the proper
thing in cold winter, and Mrs. 7. had fol
some time deplored the condition Of hel
own-not that they were worn out, bu
they were not the style, and Mrs. I. al
ways liked to be well up to the require
ments of the fashion.
And yet her husband made no answer
The note was several days old. 1t haC
= been written by lady. He was jus
2 angry enough to smart under what b,
1 considered an over-stepping ofthe bound
- of even well founded jealousy; so h
answered:
Well, what Of it? Where did you &c
that note? We're you rummaging in m
pockets for curities, madame!
Well, that is cool! retorted the lady
c who was by this time too angry to pre-
long her crying, and too much exasperat
ed by her husbands GOODNESS to allo,
Z him any explanation.
The two little Thistledowns had follow
oil their parents TO the library, aud wer
standing in the doorway. So the doc
was closed against them, aud the da
Y lings were shut out from the domesti
trouble, while the principals IN the it'll
breezy encounter, were shut in to have
out
Mr.. 4. was dogscdly silent. The lad
raysd aud tore around the room, an
threw the worked sofa pillow at him, d,
ing more damage to the droplight au
shade upon The library than it lid to Il
gentleman against whom tic blew WI
5r directed, and without word, except
80 muttered sentence, sounding very mut
like Confound it, Mr.. Timothy Thisll
down Jeff the room, put on bis overcoa
and len the house; aud the children we
to the rescue Of the mother, who rang q
bell and called up the coachman.
Quick. Richard, follow Mr.. Thish
down: he has gone TO pelmonico's
think! II not, 70 to the office. Folio
Ut him, / say, aud tell me where be go'
and who comes TO see himl
She owned tic carriage aud horses al
she paid the coachmau, aud SO the coac
.es .1S man would obey her orders implicitly.
in- Aud tho irate Mrs. II. was right. II
lOr husband thought more Of biz brcakis
than bis dinner aud, under Mrs. I
domestic management, be bad brcakii
al De.mouico's before under similar c
camstauces.
The coachmau overlook him a conl
minutes before be went iu 10 give his
der.
Mr. Thlsiledowu sent for a sheet of !
s.. per aud envelope, wrote note Wit
lead pencil aud seHt il 10 the rssiaur.
Office.
Richard watched IS he gave Bis Dir