The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-14

that she was stiffening and hardening
before the icy breath of her mother.in
laws constant surveillance. A wort
here aada word there win prejudict
almost unawares. George, for the frs
time, noticed that his wife had defeets
she lacked self-control, self possession,
These things would come in time, but
they were an indispensable part OF the
equipment Of finished woman Of the
world. fH tInf
Gradually George began TO object. 70
her frequent visits TO her parents. al
though never in so many words. The
argument he used was that she was SO
much away from home; no saw so little
iof her. Gradually Eddie abandoned
this point; but in return she resolved
that she would be equally chary of her
visits to other places. She established a
character for unsociability and iudjfier-
ence among all the lie Roys' friends in
Port Royal, people whom Mrs. lie Roy
had urged her to cultivate-'for your
husbands sake, my dear: physicians
wife cannot exercise too much disere-
tion in the choice of acquaintances.' i'A
Gradually she did not seem to herself
tobe the same girl. Oh, if only she and
George could live in little house Of
their ownl This great, grand house was
a prison, But it had always been on the
cards that George should live with his
mother. An unusual devotion existed
between the mother and son. '"e
George and she drifted farther and far
ther apart. He was of an impressionable
nature, which speedily fell away from
the magnetism OF any Influence which
was not vigorously exerted. And he
liked life and gayety: Eidie's mood
chiHed and repressed him. BE had no
sympathy for people with the blues. So
he sought amusement elsewhere. II
Eddie refused to return visits, the more
reason that he should visit vigorously.
He was always warmly welcomed at
the houses of his old intimates.
Port Royal--at least its exclusive cir
cle-always left home in August and
September. The LIE Roys from time in
memorial had gone to the Sweetbrier
Springs during those months. 1t was
decided to carry out the usual pro-
gramme almost without consul ing Mrs.
George LIE Roy. She, for her part,
detested the idea ofgoing, as indeed she
had ended by detesting all the LIE Roys'
doings.
Nevertheless Sweetbrier Springs was
a pleasant place enough, in the heart of
the peaceful, serene mountains. 1t was
not so far from Port Royal but that
George could join his family once a
week, for which fact Eddie would have
been more than thankful had she had the
full benefit Of his society when he did
come. But there we're not many men at
the Springs, and DR.. lie Roy was hand
some and popular. His weekly arrival
was the signal among the idle girls at
Sweetbrier for struggle to monopolize
his attentions. And George was nothing
10th. He came up here to recuperate
and TO have good time, and when he
applied himself to having good time, it
was with the same zeal which he had
brought to bear upon the study Of his
profession.
The Storey girls were his warmest nd
mirers. Minna Storey was as bewitch-
ingly beautiful as the typical Eastern
houri-all rounded curves and dimples,
soft. tendrilly brown hair, and laughing,
mischievous hazel eyes. She was a girl
who never hesitated to follow the bent
of her pleasures, although these at times
led her into somewhat devious ways.
Eddie was wretched. Those women
are perhaps to be envied who, in similar
situations, cultivate a gayety which, if
feigned, ,atleast serves as an escape valve,
Eddie not only was wretched, but look
ed so. And George became irritateG.
He actually was at last in the condition
of believing himself to be the aggrieved
party. bas .algosq oIodw
One evening, when Eddie had hung
over the children until they were asleep,
crooning soft airs to them which always
lulled them to rest soonest, she wander
ed down stairs with the vague intention
of finding George, and trying to dispel
the miserable cloud which had hung be-
tween them now for so long. A wish to
do so had come into her heart as she
kissed her babies goodnight. She drift
ed down the great sounding stairway,
looking like a pale ghost, with her sad
eyes and her flowing white dress. She
glanced out on the different piazzas on
her way the boarders we're apt TO walk
and sit about on these during the long
evenings. But she did not see her hus-
band. She drifted through the parlors,
where there were card playing, dancing,
music.
'Look at Mrs. lie Roy. How beauti-
iul she is 7 one person remarked.
'And how intensely unhappy Poor
thing What a pity that any one with a
heart should have married George LIE
Boy tL d
She stood in an open doorway, and
looked up and down the piazza on which
opened the parlors,' All, at last George
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