The daily gazette., 1875-08-28

never agree, Stanhope. on tha merits
OF Miss Ferney, SO we had better pase
to some other theme What say you
TO dropping in at Parkinson'se"
ihenceforth the two friends stud
ously avoided the subject, but Stan
hope saw, with pain, that Howard be-
came daily more attentive to Miss Fer
ney. We say. with pain. for Charlotte
terney was all that Stanhope had said
Beautiful, witty. and an only child
she had grown up pctted and spoiled
darling, proud, vain and selfish, Her
coming out produced no little sensa
tion in the fashionable world, for who
could refuse to admire the brilliant
Miss Ferney? Flattery was hsr daily
food. At seventeen she had refused q
dozen offers. Triumphing in the nd
miration she excited, she began at
length to think that the other sex was
fit only to be trampled, and from being
careless firt, she became practiced
coquette.
| But If her selfish heart was suscep.
tible Of love, Albert Howard had at
length reused its affections and almost
from the hour when she frat met him
she learned to think of him differently
from others OF his sex. Yet even tc
him, she was often willlul and Capri
cious. Howard, however, admired ber
too unreservedly to perceive theee
| faults, and intoxicated by the praises
bestowed on her beauty, he urged hi.
suit so skilfully and preservineiy that
at length Miss Fernev consented to
become his wife.
| For a while the newly married pl,I
lived happily, for their time was spent in
an uninterrupted round Of anusemeuts-
the fsttery poured into her ears from
| abroad, and the almost idoltarous stten-
tions Of her husband at home, suficing to
keep the bride In good humor. But this
could not always last The entertain.
ments ensuing on her marriage were at
length over, and the newly welded wife
had now to settle down into the mouot3f
nous, matter-of-fact routine Of life Os
housewifery she was completery igno-
rant, 30 that her servants constantly liz
posed on her to her husbands cha grin,
and often discuiet; while accustomed to
habits of unlimited indulgence, she could
not bring herself down - the sacrihces
of time which her duties raaui. ed of her
| 30 that even those mattats which she did
under.taud were almost Iaiy neglected
She had always spent her mornings ia
promenading the most fashionable streets
and a. she could not hrlHg heI self r. sITs
up the custom she " - oftan absent = he1
| her husband 'auIa home Z dinner. 50 that
he either h 4 to await her return. or or
der the meal himself to lie brought Up
Nor was this all Even IA the evening
| the young wife found L impossible to re
main at home cont.utai 'SHewss not" +"
she said, ''ot damestie character. !.
Mapa, hH5 bYffz bYffz K II II IL ,s 1922 : ? q zia Hqu
weld to 10 hSfrn ih,fn so, 4 ii52ueEtly forced 70
| the quiet rtpo3e w4iCa n i-lIg gntet n
after the tolls ot the day, anu watch he
had pictured - himself a3 one OF tia
greatest pleasures Of 4 married hfe, 10
was now dragged 10 the theater' the BAH
| room, concerts, or wherever else ms wife
could fly from her own hearth. In those
| places, zoo, FER husband was only Sc
ccndary character. Thi-ytinS fer rI-
| umph o. much as ever, she artfully drew
| around q crowd Of admirers, and enjoyed
the pieas which she thus inflicted upon
younger and unmarried women. In va1E
her husband e1Postulatedj she declared
that he was no better than q jallor; ana
in these alterations HoTard teIt the tuil
benefit Of that Wit he mad SO much ad-
zired Instead f yielding to his huuors.
| Mrs. Howard eIacted submission IN
| everything from him a. TIE price tt
\ peace SO that, though man q strotE
mind, he. At lanGth, became tho mere
slave Of hla wife. livery attempt. toe.
Ito release himself proved fruitless; for be
Hound he could do so only a. the cost o.
continual d4scord. HIS lovs soon perish
ed under these circumstances. AID ne
i grew wholly Indifferent 70 his pride.
spending his tlus away trou LeT side. L
the billiard room. the bar room, and otE-
err places ct resort. Hi5 happiness toI
ilife was ruined. HIS dreams u done3nc
felicity we're ever, and he sought compa-
niouship among the vicious and abandon-
Ell. But We viii not longer trace his
history. We will give It in the words CT
mis- old friend. Stanhope, who. ore hight;
as he sat by hi5 wife.5 siGo-tor he had
long been married to ono WHO combined
his ideas Of : true c6mpanIor-related Il
: to her. ,.,.s
, to a question Of his wife, asking why he
: was so sad; 1T is his fate which make
me so. You know how unhappily he
married, and how he has since given him
self I'D to the habits of dissipation. 1t Ia
long since his practice has deserted him
i, and he has long BEEN for year q com
7 mon drunkard. Every effort TO reform
/ thim has proved useless. At times he
| would admit his error. and shed maudln
. tears over it; but the next day he wosid
, be as Moderated as ever. His wIte's ia
|, ther, you know, died poor, and she has
long subsisted on the charity OF her geis =
tiyes. She saw her error. it is said, but
lit was too late; for her husband was ire
trievably a drunkard. To-day he was
! found drowned. and whether it ia q sui
/ eide or not God only knows. His wife.
, | on hearing the news, fell into violent
. Mysteries. and have just learned has
, since died leaving her little family to the
/ charity Of strangers. And all this comes
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