The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-11

George Goodwin had dashed down the
blinds and flung himself into the arm
chair, to think, and from thinking he
| felt that it Was time to act.
He began to act. He made his way
| TO the dairy. A maid was there arrang-
ing the pans for the coming in of the
midday milking. In q quiet corner
stood a small hamper. It caught his
eye.
What is that p he asked sternly.
a" don't know, sir it was Mrs. Jones
as did it up"
"Ohi"
He turned it upside down. A roll of
butter, a fowl, some eggs and a bottle
the latter mingling their contents
| dashed down on the stones, the port
wine running in little stream along the
floor.
"Don't let me find any more of this.
shall hold you responsible for all that
comes in and goes out here" he said TO
the girl, as he turned away in a ten
times bitterer mood than before. The
things were his own, but he felt as il he
| had committed a meanness in meddling
with them. He strobe off to find Mr..
| Peck, the gardener, cow-keeper, pig
keeper, of the farm, to put matters into
his hands. Mr.. Peck, with very white
| frock and q very red face, was coming
| out of the cow-shed with a couple Of
frothing pals of milk. He did not
notice the farmer, for there at his feet
was the farmers little daughter, her
careless nurse-maid leaning on the
fence talking to one of the men.
entity Pet, me want to see ee moo
cows" said the child, running past him
into the shed, tho floor of which was
quite clean and nice. But Maggie, per
fectly delighted with the whiskinR of
the tails, made a dash forward to seize
one, and was splashed from head to foot
over her plum -colOred velvet-dress and
white hat and feather.
"Dear, dear" cried Mr.. Peck, sit
ting down his pals and lifting her up
" dear, dear here you've been and
spoiled your fine dressp
ga great deal too fne," said the
father, coming forward. "Take her
into the cottage, Peck, 1T stood not a
stones throw from the shed" and see
if your wife can't dress the child mp in
something that won't spoil so easily"
He took no notice of the nurse-maid,
who followed Mr.. Peck to claim her
charge.
The nurse took the child to her mis-
tress.
Maggie was in red cotton frock and
a brown piRsfore, and had, moreover,
| been eating bread and treacle. She
had certainly q rather more plebian air
than usual.
- I cant help her being such fright"
cried the maid " Miss Maggie would
run into the shed and get herself dirty,
and the master said she was a deal too
fine, and ordered MIR. Peck TO put them
nasty, ugly things on her. Snail take
them of, mum?"
" No." said Lavinia, firmly; " leave
them for the present. Where is your
master?"
81 heard him say he was going over
to the grange, and saw him ride
away" replied the girl. "The grange"
was the manor house in which lived the
owner of Georges land. He was riding
thither as fast as his horse would carry
him. AMI for what purpose? For no
less a purpose than the giving up of his
tenancy, if his landlord would take the
lease out of his hands.
"You are too hasty, Mr.. Goodwin"
said that gentleman. You will lose by
it If you throw it up in this way.
Think little better of it, and come
back TO me again. If you are deter
mined to go away, 1 will endeavor to
meet you and give you tOlerably fair
/
He was obliged to be content with
this, and TO return home but he was
resolute man, George Goodwin, and not
liFely TO change his mind when he hal
made it up. He had made up his mind
to leave England.
And all the while Lavinia lay longing
for her husband, longing and WAITING till
she grew faint and miserable. She
closed her eyes and clasped her thin
white hands, and prayed to be made
able to bear her life for the sake of her
babes, and the tears oozed out from
under her closed eyelids and wetted her
pale cheeks. "She's fretting, I can
see" F." said the nurse to herself, "and
that's why she doesn't get oD, nor the
baby neither )" and she mentally be-
slowed a very uncomplimentary epi-
thet on the master of the house, aud
resolved that if possible she would
plant a thorn or two in his pillow.
She waylaid him, accordingly, on his
return, and gave him q rather exRgger-
ated account of Lavinia's condition-an
account which vexed him exceedingly,
and therefore made him more angry
than ever. Fretting, is she ?" he said
to himself. "What more does she
want? Is she not satisfied with running
me?"
He could be very perverse, this man,
but he could not be cruel so he went
: up stairs at last and inquired very
! kindly for Lavinia and her baby. He
J did not think she was looking very Ill
and miserable, however, for she ha6
a, flushed brightly at his coming, and re
!, ceived him with a smile. He knew moth
ing of what had been passing in hel
heart, and was not likely to know-shI
| ha oh 81, 20
served. he had not been going to tel
her OF his resolution Just yet, but aftel
= = moving about restlessly for some time
: out it came. Lavinia," he said, no
: . VenturiDg to look at her, I've made
" mp my mind to leave England"
. "To leave England I" she repeated
: "Why should You leave England ?"
. Because if stay I shall soon be
beggar," he replied, grimly.
4 "Oh, 1 am so sorry |" she said
- "What a pity did not know before
a And what will become of papa an,
. mammaP" She said it all in breath
{ rising up and sitting fully reused befor
. him.
4 The last words drove him wild. ''Sh
= does not care n straw for me-" b
!, thought, "only thinks what will becom
: of them" CT shall leave you and theI
"a all that have" he said, with passion
+. land 60 away and earn my bread as
= laborer."
At "Leave the money to them, and tax
le me with you I" cried Lavinia, lookin
Al quite radiant as the brilliant idea struc
le her. She had not understood him an
-e more than he had understood he
"a When she had said she was sorry, it ha
in not been for herself, but for him whe
she had said it was pity she had nC
{. known before, it was that she regrette
,e having spent so much which might haJ
a. been his now and when she had {,
RS claimed, "What will become of par
IN and mamma ?" she was thinking whi
N they would DO in their poverty withoI
/ her help, and in their loneliness withoJ
her presence. OF herself she had n,
IN thought at all, except for one brigl
of moment, as her husbands companion
10 more TO him than she had ever been b
fore and he n bar