Connecticut western news., 1882-05-24
TRUE AND REPENTANT.

Betty sighed. Now why she should have sighed at this particular moment no one en earth could tell. And it was all the more exasperating, because John had just generously put into her little shapely hand a brand new $10 bill. And here began the trouble.
 "What's the matter?" he said, his face falling at the faint sound, and his mouth olapping together in what those who knew him but little called an "ob- stinate pucker." "Now what is it ?' Betty, who had just began to change the sigh into a merry little laugh rip bling all over the corners of the red lips, stopped suddenly, tossed her head with small jerk, no ways consolidating, sent out the words:
 "You needn't insinuate, John, that I'm always troublesome
 "I didn't insinuate talking of insinuating ?" cried he, thoroughly in- censed at the very idea, and backing away few steps, he gIsred down from his tremendous height in extreme irri- tation. It's you yourself that's for ever insinuating, and all that, and then to put it on ne-it's abominable p
 "And if you tbink, Johq Peabody, that I'll stand and have such things said to ne, you miss your guess, that's all P cried Betty, with two big red spots con- ing in her cheeks as she tried to draw her little erect figure up to It's utmost dimensions. Forever insinuatingi ] guess you wouldn't have said that before married you. Oh, now you can, oi course. !"
 "Didn't you say it first, I'd like to know? ?" cried John in great excitement, drawing nearer to tho small creature he cslled "wife," who was gazing at him with blazing eyes of indignation; "I can't endure every thing"
 "And if you bear more than do, " cried Betty, wholly beyond control now, "why, then I'll give up." and she gave bitter little laugh and tossed her head again.
 And here they were in the midst of g quarrel. These two who, but a year before, had promised to love and protect and help each other through life.
 "Now," said John, and he brought his hand down with such bang on the table before him that Betty nearly skipped out of her little shoes-onIJ she controlled the start, for she would have died before she had let John SC, it, "we'n have no more of this non sense."
 His face was very pale, and the line' around the mouth so drawn that it would have gone to any ones heart to hay' seen their expression.
 "I don't know how you will chang it or help it, said Betty lightly, to con ceal her dismay at the turn affairs hat taken, "I'm sure !" and she pushed back the light waving hair from he forehead with a saucy indifferen gesture.
 The hair that John always smoothe' when he petted her when tired or dis heartened, and called her '" child" He gesture struck to his heart as he glance, at her sunny locks and the ol in different face underneath, and befor he knew it he was saying
 "There is no help for it now, I sur pose"
 "Oh, yes, there Is, said Betty, s,i in the cool calm way that ought not t have deceived him. But men know S little of women's hearts, although the may live with them for years in closes friendship. "You needn't try to el dure it, John Peabody, if you don want to. I'm sure don't carev"
 "Whst do you mean ?"
 Her husband grasped her arms ar compelled the merry brown eyes to loc up to him.
 ''I can go back to mother's," sa Betty provokiugly. "She wants n any day, and then you live quietly ar live to suit yourself, and it will be be ter all round"
 Instead of bringing out violent pr