The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-03-18

f1'N'' 1890 -
OF instead Of drawing him nearer.
However, tears were too scarce yet for
me to disregard or Withstand them, 80 /
kissed my wife and did my best to
soothe her, and by degrees brought her
round 30 far that she left OFF crying
and began to kiss tho baby, as If it was
something quite now and she had never
kissed it before.
Though l was sorry to see her cry
this vexcd me again. She had not seen
me ell the day, and she had had tho
boy. ] thought she might have n little
attention to the n who had been alb
sent, to put it on no other ground.
But when / demonstrated she only
answered, ~ know, George, you do not
care for baby. You never have cared
for him, and if 1t were not for me he
would die Of neglect"
/ began TO laugh at this. IL struck
me as too comicll that q wife should
reproach her husband for not taking
care Of the baby for surely if there is
such a thing as "woman's work" in the
world, and they ore not meant by ma
ture and the eternal fitness Of things TO
be soldiers and sailors md lawyers and
doctors, and the Lord knows what be.
sides, that work is to be found in the
home aud nursery. Blu. she was angry
when | laughed, and raising herself on
her elbow drew n picture Of the infamy,
ruin, degradation that was 10 follow on
my taking TO bad courses, founded on
my not caring for the baby and my hay
ing won fifty pounds Mt the Derby, that
| seemed TO be listening to u maniac,
not the Edith ! had left in tho morning
and had loved for 80 long. Perhaps |
was too impatient, and ought to have
remembered that il | found my life
dali hers was not too gay | ought to
have made allowance for the morbid
nervousness and brooiing fancies Of a
woman left alone for the whole day
but ! was younger than | am now, and
the thing ended by our having our first
grave quarrel, wherein W were both
silly, and both unjust, and neither of
US would give way.
The bad blood made between us to-
night grew worse as time went on and
the circle We were in was Il vicious VI ,
I kept away more and more from home, !
because my wife made it too miserable !
for me by her GOODNESS, her tears, her Z
complaints, her ill-humor; and the more d"
! kept away the more che resented 1t. y
She took IN almost insane hatred and .
suspicion OF my friends and my actions, =
and did not scruplc to accuse me and y
them Of vices and crimes because | was u
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w,o,io5 o,t their notinnce and thay on
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Il. or
The fortune which had 40 long be- an
Jack Langhorne deserted him IA,
md with bis fortune his nerve. n
Where no had stnkcd with Judgment he IN
ow backed wildly, recklcssIy, an. the II
loro he lost The more recklessly he ~
His fortune seemed TO intu- W.,
ace mine. Hitherto / had been i'm fl,
.enaely successful ; now the luck ran sn,
cad against me, and | lost more than tbl
could afford, and soon more than I NJ,
uld pay, and so came face to face no,
th rain. tba
all this time the ostrangement off
tween Edith and myself grew daily 10
der. She took the wrong method c,n
n me-, and heinz u woman she kent .,n
il. She Thought TO DRAGON me back 20;
the quiet of my former lille, and tho
lde my private actions personal to ly
rself seeking to force me into ron con
ring an account OF all my dolngs, and his
every item Of expenditure, then TAX the
9 it rs an affront when l refused to nor
lswer questions. But now there was wit
hope for it. I must perforce COD LA
as. With that writ out against me II del
as useless To attenpt %conceaIment,
I'd II marriage IL not feminine superb
yet it Is partnership.
You may be sure 1t was Il bitter mo-
ent for me when | had to tell my wiIo ma
lat all her worst anticipations were Jar
that she had been right IN
lroughout, and L wrong; and that the rel