The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-16

mands, necessarily repeated, persist ently
urged and pressed, wore upon the young
wife; she knew they were actuated by
love which jealousy demanded every
thing from her, but they developed
a sort Of GOODNESS and pervcrseness in her
mind.
On one occasion, when Hugh asked if |
she really loved him, she replied, listless-
ly, "How can you expect me to love you |
when you wear me outlilxe this? I shall |
soon begin to hate you if you go on IN
this way"
These careless words produced the
most profound impression upon Hugh's
mind, and were the beginning of Calami- !
ty. He brooded over them, necessarily
repeating them to himself. Agnes, who
was mere child at heart, and of ma
turo not wide enough fully to absorb the
idea of another's, realized nothing of the
suffering she had inflicted. Besides,
Hugh's conduct began to estrange her.
1t became his wont to sit looking at her,
his large black eyes growing gradually
cavernous in their depth and unearthly
in their brilliancy. At times he would
exclaim, "You do not love me. You
will soon hate me-" At night he never
seemed to sleep, and, hanging the lantern
so that the rays fell on her face, blind.
ing and dizzying her, he would sit on
the edge of the berth staring into her
face, and muttering, "She hates me!'
! The voyage was a short one; in ten days
they were in London, where they met
friends, and for the three months which
followed both Hugh and Agnes had
comparatively happy and cheerful time.
Agnes upbraided her husband for his
absurdities, and he himself seemed to
see his conduct in the light of day, in
stead of the lurid glare of an insane,
jealous dread. Still, married life was
palpable disappointment to Agnes, who
began to feel that if she must bend her
every faculty to the task of pleasing a
man whose brain seemed in whirl of
false and distorted ideas concerning her
and his love for her and her feelings for
him, she should lose all respect for, and
belief III her husband.
Toward the latter part of the time they
spent in London, her cousin, George
Dana, a young man Of twenty two, whom
she had known ard loved like brother
from her infancy, happened to join their
party. His coming was the signal fer
the most violent outbreaks of jealousy on
Hugh Glendenning's part. His mind
} seemed all astray; he was Indifferent to
the fact that he placed his wife in cruel
and humiliating position; he persisted in
the chimera that an easy habit of intimacy
? with her Cousin George was the express
sion of love which far surpassed bel
affection for himself. Again and AGAR
he tainted and insulted her, till she i'm
plored her cousin to leave London
George Dana, however, little guessing
Agnes's actual position with a man VIII,
4 was half insane, could not be induced
to 60. He was not through with hi
sightseeing; he was interested in tn
races; in short he liked being in Londo1
at this time Of the year better than bein!
I anywhere else in Europe, and he insiste,
on remaining, and even felt sort O
boyish satisfaction in augmenting Glen
y Jennings jealousy to the utmost by con
slant cffers of attentions to the youn
e wife.
By the first of July Hugh's bushes
- was concluded, and he took Agnes t
France and Switzerland for month, bu
the two were no longer on terms of affet
tionare intimacy. Hugh was stilljealou
7 and regarded his wife's steady coldnes
as sign of the mostchilling indifference
Agnes, on her side, tel: that to maintai
semblance of buoyant happiness whe
she felt so detected at the way she ha
n been outraged was to lessen her dignit
W as woman. The two sailed from Hav1
of for New York on the 18th of Angus
ty 1876. On the seventh day out, Whe
fc they we're half way across the coca
to Hugh Glendenning was suddenly misse
e. There was no trace of him on board Il
ar steamer, and it was readily conclude
% that the rash and unhappy young man ha
or thrown himself overheard.
i. It was naturally the cruelest possib
r. trial for Agnes when she was forced
I'd believe that her husband had committe
eft suicide. She knew, too, that he had bee
n disheartened by her GOODNESS; again an
again she had repulsed him when he hs
10 tried to have an explanation with he
re. Naturally, now that he was gone, all Il
AZ generosity of her first love returned: 81
a forgot his faults, land remembered only b
,st own she accused herself of cruelty al
In despairing of widows.
re IL Setueu udluIdl, uuueI Iuc ClICui
,is stances, that Agnes should not on
le. mourn, but mourn with peculiar hop
tn lessness, for her young husband, who h
no been taken from her only few mont
,as after their wedding day. She sorrowed
ed year, two years, three years; but by th
of time her family all began to make
,at effort to persuade her that it "
NJ wrong thus to continue expressing I
Id only herself but them with this Ion
a past aff1iction. She was faithful and
he nacious of impressions, but at the end
1at four years she had resumed her ordins
mt, dress and begun once more to min!
ed: freely IN the society at her mothe
to house. She was more attractive than
ife. her girlhood, and her story, too, was W
it'll known, and created touching interest
i'm her youth and beauty. She had seve
ace admirers, but not until George Dana
Drv turned did she allow any one to CO.
Div near her az lover. George had, p
M paps, always been fond of her; he was,
ted any rate, now ardently in love with b
de. Remembering, as Agnes did, poor GIL
- 1onninr'c ioa)O,1ou IF tho vOl1ncy m an