River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-08-21
MADAME is amusing herself watch
ines the driva -

MADAME is amusing herself watch
ing the drive"
MADAME shrugged her shoulders.
Amusing myself? ?" she said. "Oh,
dear, no. Supplying myself, think.
Mr. Waldo, if you know any girls who
think OF marrying, tell them how dull
married life island warn them from il.
oh, II never see any girls now"
said Mr.. Waldo. "Girls are insipid,
don't you think? l do, lately. like
but no matter what like. Wouldn't
You like drive to-day? The good
papa" - Mr.. Waldo became French
again-"the good papa is immersed in
business, and naturally madame does
not remain at home always"
Rose looked longingly ut the pretty
carriage. But this was a step beyond
those that she had taken. Dared she
go?
Yes, she would, and then tell her
she did not NOPE for him. She would
provc-oh, all sorts of things.
"And papa will probably not be
home until six !? said Mr.. Waldo,
little anxious on this point.
ooh, he has been away two nights
probably he won't come at all, 4" she
said, coldly, and went up to put her
bonnet on.
When she returned, Waldo, with
flushed cheeks and dancing eyes, adj
vancod toward her.
GLOW well you look" he said. at
is too tempting would you be very
angry, l wonder, if l should steal a
kiss {? +"
Would she have let him do it
Would she, if at that moment step
had not crossed the hall, and voice
her husband Scaled:
Rose, where are you ?"
Rose Winner never knew, though she
often asked herself.
/ But the step came, the voice came.
There WIS the master of the house, and
| Mr.. Waldo-not French in his manner
now, very business like and American,
/ indccd-had said:
my dear Winner, how are You?
I've been keeping Mrs. Winner from
her pleasant walk, I'm afraid but my
sister wanted her receipt for canning
fruit, and / called for it. I'm sure
Amelia will be very much obliged, Mrs.
Winner. Thanks but / must go now.
The horses, you know And l hope
you'll have a pleasant walk. Good
bye"
"What clustered manner Waldo
has, said the man of the house, look
ing after him. "Rose, look out of the
window"
cat Mr.. Waldo ?" asked Rose, coldly.
4 "No," said her husband. "Come
here.
She came. She stood beside him. At
| the gate she saw basket phaeton and
pretty pony.
Nice, amt they?" said her husband.
Yes" she answered, more coldly
still.
Don't You guess whoes they are?"
"No."
"Yours."
He stood back to mark her astonish-
ment. Then he draw her down upon
| his knee.
ever since baby's coming made You
| less strong than you were, I've meant
You should have them" he said "and
SO I've managed to get them. I've been
working four months at the translation
of a scientific work and they are the
result. / know left you alone a great
deal, but / wanted you to be able to
drive out in this sweet spring weather.
You can drive, you know, and these are
very safe, and i'll the evenings we will
go together, ell, wife?"
She was crying on his breast. But
why, he could not guess, and asked
=" You are SO good, she said, ''and |
am 50 bad, l thought you were tired of
me. was angry"
Astonished, he looked into her face.
9 | can't see how you could have got
such a notion, he said. "I'm sure l
was nice to you, wasn't /? What ON
/ earth"
Then the good, stupid fellow kissed
her again.
g 1t was want of exercise and you
were not well" he said. "You took
foolish notions-women always do"
" Yes, know it was foolish now,
she said, very foolish"
! But in her heart she made worse ac-
cusations against herself than that.
Mr.. Waldo called once more after this,
4 butAlrs. Winner was SO distantly polite
/ that he called no more. He bolievedhe
had made mistake in asking her to
kiss him-at least she had become one
of those prudish women who would not
flirt, and he lost interest in her.