The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-03-04
PARTED IN ANGER.

Agnes, you silly little wife, you are
not really out of temper about such n
tritle Look up, and laugh, or l shall
think you are poutng in earnest"
(The young husband of two months
Standing put his hand under his wife's
/chin,as he spoke, and strove to raise the
pretty face that was hiding its charms
under frown. But Agnes Ray shook
off the loving hand, and turned away
codly.
You may call it out of temper or
pOutinC, which ever you choose" said
SHE " but | am annoyed with you and
don't feel at all inclined to laugh. You
promised to take me to the MOrrises'
ball a; and now, when | have been look
ing forward to it, and preparing my
dress, and promised myself several
dances, you say you cannot go because
your father is i'll. He is no worse than
he has been, and will probably linger
on in this state month after month. DO
you suppose ! am not to 90 out all
through the winter
don't know, dear Agnes" re-
piled her husband, gravely. / hope
my father may get better soon, but at
present he is in Il very prucariOus state,
and IcOuld not with propriety go to
this ball, Or let you 60. But can you
not make yourself happy at home with
me, so early after marriage, my darl-
ing? You used TO say You preferred a
guict evening with me to any ball, and
you see nothing Of me all day. VIII
you give me kiss before | go ?"
" Nonsense, Edmund ! | never eX.
peCted you to be SO unkind," retorted
Agnes, angrily. had better have
stayed with papa, who never refused
me any pleasure, than have married to
be tyrannized over like this. wish l
hadn't married."
Edmund Rays pleasant. cookbook
ing face darkened with pain and an
noyance at his wifes fretful, angry
words, and he struggled to regain his
temper before he answered her.
4" You are saying what you do not
mean, Agnes" he said, cOldly, " and
you will be sorry for it afterward,
shall come home By the five O'Clock eX-
press, and if you have recovered your
temper you can order the horse, and
we will go for ride before dinner,
Good BY"
Leaving the house, for the first time
since their marriage, without parting
kiss, Edmund Ray wended his way to
the station, and was soon being whirled
along toward his Office in New York
while Agnes, struggling hard to re-
press the tears that would force thelI
way to her pretty blue eyes, stood by
the window, listening to the sound OF
tie train dying away in the distance.
They had parted in anger, and, wo'
man like, Agnes would have given
worlds now to have recalled all that sht
had said, and to have given the kiss OF
peace he had asked for in vain. She
had loved her young husband very
dearly, and knew his worth. But SHE
was a spoilt child and he, in his deel
love, was fostering her willfuness anc
impatienCe by yielding and ministerinl
to her every wish.
Edmund Ray was barrister, living
some thirty miles from the city, in q
pretty part of Westchestrr, and conse-
quently Agnes passed many hours o.
the day alone but never had she fel
them SO long and wearsome as they
were that morning. She ordered thC
dinner, re-arranged the flowers in hel
vasis, wrote her letters, and note tt
Mrs. Morris, to say they would be uu-
able to come to her ball, and long be
fore it was necessary put on her riding
habit, that she might be ready for Ed
mund when he came home then, or
dering the groom to bring the horses
round at five O'Clock precisely, she tool
q book, and sat down in her pretty lit
tie drawing-room, to while away tn,
time till she heard the train approach
ing that was to bring her husband home
She had no fears as TO their meeting
after their quarrel. She knew wei
enough that she had only to give
smile to receive one in return from he
loving young husband, and with hap
py light in her eyes she took up he
book, and was soon deep in its absorb
lug pages"