Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29

As this view of the glorles of her fu-
ture state beams upon her, Polly's face
glows with gratifed vanity, and all her
tears are dried up at once. The tears
threaten to spring again when Mrs. Sal
toun says:
''It won't be all balls and smooth
sailing, Polly dear; remember, you will
have days and weeks alone with him
very often. Do you love him well enough
to stand that ?''
st will be better than being like
Aunt Helen and Aunt Grace, anyway"
Polly says. And Mrs. Saltoun says re-
signedly:
"Well, there's nothing for me to do
but to write to papa and mamma. sup
pose Leonard will say something about
il te me to-night .
"Yes, Belle, he's written by to-night's
post to papa. And now hadn't l better
60 and dress %
Mr.. Staunton's letter is received by
the paternal power in due time, pro-
nounced to be most straightforward
and admirable one; and Polly-when
practical arrangements for her comfort
and security in the future have been
made, is delivered up by her we'll satis-
fed parents to the care and protection
of Mr.. Staunton for life. They come
back after the wedding tour, and even
the most critical observers are bound to
confess that the hastily devised and car
ried-out scheme seems to promise we'll
for Polly's happiness. For a year she
is popular, pretty, much-sought young
matrOn, living in whirl of glittering
garrison-town gayety. And her husband
is proud of her. and tolerant of .thinys
ds tuey are. Az Unc tuu UI GnaI Ilme
excitement begins to tell its tale in the
flushed cheek and sharpened outline of
the face. A heavy, feverish cold attacks
her; and when she is recovering from
the effects of this, her first child is bOrn,
and, by and by, it is very weak and
emaciatod Polly who comes out into the
world again.
Weariness and languor are her pre-
vailing sensations now, and she does not
know that her elastic young constitution
has been overstralned, and that the ut
most care Is needed to restore it to its
proper tension. She does not know, and
there is no one to tell her, for Belle
Saltoun is far away by this time, and
her husband confines his supervision of
her health to requests that she "will
take care of herself AS if she knew
how to do it and commands that she
"does not allow the child to worry her. -
"She has nurse why should she keep
a dog and bark herself? ?" he asks, when
the poor, languor- stricken mother tolls
about in vain, painful endeavor to keep
the nursery peach. He also kindly sug-
gests that "Polly should walk a good
deal" never taking into consideration
that Polly's overtasked frame invariably
falls prey to utter fatigue and pros.
trating neuralgia after she has tried hi:
invaluable panacea of "a long walk"
Fortune, in one respect, has greatly
favored Mr.. Staunton. He has come int
a property which is sufficiently good tt
enable him to retire from the service anc
buy place in the country, where ther,
is beautiful scenery and little or no so
ciety. He is ''sick of the hollowness o
the world" he assures his wife he ha
had enough of it, and never cares fo
anything beyond the occasional compan
ionship of one or two intimate friends
on whose fidelity he can rely. So poo
Polly. who has not had "enough of it
by any means, and who married befor
she had been taughht to rely upon her
self at all in any emergency, stagnate
and grows sad, and pines with hot pin
ing that scorches all interest out of he
daily life, for change" which he can
didly assures her he shall not allow he
to have. "A woman's sphere is he
. home" he tells her "and if she has nc
a wholesome desire to shine in tha
: sphere he will not indulge her in tn
unwholesome one of desiring to shin
, elsewhere.
In the midst of this unsatisfactor
s Arcadia. Mrs. Saltoun comes by and by
: but unfortunately she comes only for
e brief time. She, in her perfect happ
ness and content, is more beautiful an
bright than ever; and Polly's husban
: feels good deal of what he calls 'jul
:. tifable annoyance, when he contrast
her younger sister, his wife, with sti
S brilliant Belle. He complains to the la
ter that Polly mopes, and ''looks tire
d when he comes in, and wants her
| amuse him." And when Mrs. Saltou
: suggests that perhaps Polly is not wei
he lauOhs at the notion.
: "She has everything she wants. e.
it cept excitement, he says, "and that 81
is better without" Then he repeats b
: phrase about woman's proper sphel
It being her home. And Mrs. Saltoun cal
If him a prlg in her heart, but is powe
e less to help her sister.
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