Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-06-29

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with a large fortune all her own. The
vulgar husband was -'mercifully
released, my DEAR the widow would
say; though what it was from Except
herselD no one one could have told
And yet Mrs Mainwaring Trumpet
was not happy. Who is Z? She wan
ted TO get rid of this dreadful name
Mrs Blow the Trumpet. How should
she manage it? Mrs. Mainwaring
Trumpet bethought her of an easier, a
more agreeable and more economical
wav.
The rector of her parish was wild
over, tall, lank, gloomy and always
wearing a comforter An ordinary
hedge stake, neatly dressed in clerical
attire. with a white wooden wrapping
at the upper end, surmounted by a
black hat, might have passed for the
Rev. Arthur Arrowsmith at a very
short distance Mr.. Arrowsmith was
a powerful preacher, and in common
life grave, yet apt at times to be seized
with kind Of grim humor, of which
the sign would be series of violent
inhalations. These, in an ordinary be-
ing, would have denoted the onset of a
fit, but with Mr. Arrowsmith only
meant that bis fancy was tickled. He
bad been twice married His first wife
had 100000, and she lived ten years.
He became trebly gloomy for the space
Of eighteen months, and always had
An allusion in his sermons to the grave
where ones heart was lying. Sudden
ly he cheered up and married another
lady, this time with f20, 900, and his
sermons began to allude to the possi-
bilities of comfort which are provided
for even the greatest sorrows The
second Mrs. Arrowsmith however,
held out better than her predecessor,
and it was twenty years before her re-
Iict found himself raking up his old al
lusioDs to the quiet grave and the peo-
pie who are there. And now Mrs.
Arrowsmith the second had been dead
for eighteen months clear. and Mr.. Ar
rowsmith, thinking once more of conso-
lation, fixed his eyes on Mrs Mainwar-
ing Trumpet His eyes were not much
to look at, being deep-set and no-color-
ed ; but they told their tale to Mrs.
Mainwaring Trumpet as clearly as if
they had been azure or jetty orbs, sig
Mailing from the most delicate environ
ment of hair and cheek Mrs. Main
waring Trumpet saw that the Rev.
Arthur Arrowsmith bad fallen in. love
with her To show her appreciation
of his taste and her reciprocity she
bounded into love with him-took a
kind of header into the sentiment, and
Immersed herself with an amazing
splash They were engaged two days
after. Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet talk
ed about the affair everywhere. She
laughed over it, cried over it, grew
crimson about it, published it on the
housetop, swore her friend TO secrecy
about it, and generally behaved like
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet gone mad
outright, which may be taken TO denote
mania Of seven-.old power She court
ed Mr.. Arrowsmith at the Sunday
school, and stood 80 close TO him when
he came to visit her class, that one
she trod on his corn and made
him jump three PAGES clean, with
squeak that frightened the whole room.
She ogled him from her front seat in
the gallery with such dircctness and
power that several times he lost his
place and spoiled his best sentences
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up to him-sly, solemn and cadaver-
Gus az he was-all hrcathless and heat,
which, at her time Of life, did very well
for bushes. She sent him presents Of
slippers that he could not wear because
they were too small, and worsted jack
cts for the cold weather which hung
about him in vast, loose folds, because,
in her hcadlong way she had taken the
measure Of her own frame for the pat
tern. She never lost an opportunity
Of talking about him, praising him,
dragging him forward and linking him
with herself. Mrs. Mainwarng Trum-
pet vowed and declared that every
night Of her life she dreamed Of Mr..
Arrowsmith without ceasing, and
awoke calling upon his beloved name
In fact, her love was perfect cataract,
always going on and making tremen-
dous noise in the meantime.
A last grand idea struck her, in pur-
suit OF which she started for London
by the early express. getting to Pad
dington at ten o'clock. She gave
porter half crown TO catch her the
very first cab. She told the cabman
tba: she would give him half sover-
elgn If he drove her TO Dolland's in
twenty-five minutes. She sprang from
her cab, rushed into the shop painting
and demanded TO see the very best tel
cscope manufactured for field use. She
saw one with stand complete for $40,
tried il in st. Paul's churchyard,
bought it, paid for it in five pound
notes, got her discount for cash, was in
her cab and rafting back TO Padding
ton again exactly in ten minutes and Il
half She caught the return express
and was home again before lunch. bav-
ing Travelled between two and three
hundr d miles and transacted all her
business. lier lunch was pheasant.
aud she ate the bird to the bones and
then set about completing her design.
Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet's boudoir
window looked straight across to the
rectory, Mt a distance Of about one mile.
In her boudoir window she erected her
telescope, aimed full at the dining room
and study Of lthe rcctory She adjust
ed the focus, and scarcely breathing
with excitement, applied her eye to the
glass.
A long silence ensucd Adams the
maid, who stood by, with serious
expression carefully spread over de-
risive grin, began to think that the ex-
pertinent had failed, when, after long
interval, Mrs Manwaring Trumpet
sprang 10 her feet with n violence