The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-05-05
DO AS YOU'RE BID.
" Mind a man p

Mind MANI
These words were uttered in q tone of
splendid scorn; but an unseen auditor
round the corner of the piazza only
smiled and yet he was man.
But, Doll, you will have to mind
your husband" responded a gentle,
drawling, exaspefating voice.
"Shan Ig' returned the clear and
spi 1ted notes of the first speaker. ''He
Las not appeared on the stage yet, Grace.
When he does, it seems to me, it will be
time enough to contemplate submis-
siOn."
The gentleman on the piazza smiled
again, but he rose quietly and walked
away; he did not like to be listener,
however inVoluntarily, for he was a gem
tlemap. He did not altogether escape
that presence, however, by his own ab-
sence. He carried with him a vivid
picture of the tall, slight figure, grace
full as deer; the dark, tender eyes,
that could be full oflightning; the
proud, delicate, sensitive face; the
abundant brown hair, shot with red
rays, like ripe chestnut skin. He had
studied this portrait many days, for he
had known Dorothea Schenck as a
child and though for years they had
not met. this summer they were together
at a quiet little tavern in the hills of
Vermont, Mr.. Horton for rest from a
year of hard work in city parish, Dora
to be with her invalid neither, who
could not bear her usual round of New
port and Saratoga.
Dorothea Schenck was aspoiled child.
The idea of obedience was as distaste--
full to her as bit and bride to wild
horse. Her outbreak this morning was
excited by some careless gossip of Grace
Hamilton's-a girl of her own age who
had come with them TO Adds, partly be-
cause Dora had coaxed her, partly be-
cause it was cheap and Grace was not too
rich
The subject of their discourse had
been the sufferings, publicly paraded,
of certain little lady known to this
party, who had been very-and, indeed,
absurdly-extravaga and brought
her husband to the brink of failure; so
near that he had been compelled to &C
cept a sudden and severe retrenchmentt
Grace's aunt, who was. also staying a
the Saltash House, had blamed Mrs.
Blake severely, and Dora had not OBJ
iected till Grace affirmed that she did
not at all sympathize with Mrs Blake,
as her husband had been very open with
her in regard to his business affairs, and
had long since told her she must give
up certain habits of lavish expense, or
expect him to fail-a fact which the
natural leyity and folly of the wOman's
nature led her to treat as threat; and
so the end came.
and Pm not sorry for her: she
ought to have mindedF Grace said.
" A woman's natural duty is obedience;
she ought to have known that it is our
destiny TO Weld to cur suDeriors."
...,,>. 4,arss hamilton; ana thIs, which
seemed to Dora superlative cant, had
brought out her sharp exclamation.
She herself was utterly undisciplined
a blind Indulgence had set her adrift IN
life without an idea of duty, and she
had yet to learn any law but her own
will, or any restraint but her own ca
prices. Poor child life is the sternest
of teachers, even with all the prepara-
tions that can be made for its encounter,
and a merciless pedagogue TO the Willlul
and IGNORANT Mr.. Horton was be
witched with Dora against his judg-
ment, and her very insurgent way of
action and speech, captiVated him; he
knew with painful clearness that she
was unfit for q minister's wife as woman
could be, but he knew also that with
out her his life would lose its SAVIOR, and
become routine of the dullest order, per-
haps misery, though conscience warned
him not to be SO weak az this, while his
work remained yet to be done.
The next day there was to be that
resort Of country boarders in lack of
all other amusement, a picnicl to Glen
Falls, wild Tayine in the heart of the
9hrough hills, which q rapid brook tore
its way, plunging from one precipice to !
another, st no one spot to be seen in
full beauty, but reserving its coy sur
prises for those who had skin and
strength to climb upward to its source
"a clear mountain pond that slept