The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-05-19
Clarence assented.

"But," continued Mr.. Wardle, you tear
that there will be gloom in your home when
| YOU return?'
The young man bowed his head as he re-
J piled in the affirmative.
| because" the merchant added with a
touch of parental sternness in his tone, you
are resolved to carry it there
Clarence looked up in surprise.
IL carry it?'
AYE; you have the burden in your heart
and you mean to carry it home Remember
my boy, know all about it, have suffer.
ed, until discovered my folly, and then
resolved that would suffer no more. Upon
| looking the matter squarely and honestly in
the face, found that he burdens which had
50 CALLED me had .bern elfimposcd. Oh
course such burdens can be thrown Off
Now you have resolved you will go to dinner
| with heavy heart and dark face. You
have no hope that your wife will meet you
with smile And why2 Because you know
that she has no particular cause for smiling
\ OH know that her heart is burdened with
! the attlction which gave you so much unrest
| And you are fully assured that YOU are to
find your home shrouded in gloom. And
| furthermore, you don't know when that
gloom will depart and when the blessed sun.
shine of love will burst in again. And why
don't you know? Because it is not in your
heart to sweep the cold away, You say to
yourself, | can bear it as long as she can
| Am right ~
Clarence did not answer in words.
II know am right" pursued the mer-
chant and very likely your wife is saying
to herself the same thing. So Clarence, you
see it does not rest upon the willingness to
forgive. but on the inability to bear the bur-
! den By-and-by it will happen ms it has hap
| pened before, that one of the twain will sur
render from exhaustion; and it will be likely
| to be the weaker party. Then there will he
| Il collapse, and n reconciliation. Generally the
| wife falls first beneath the CALLING burden,
| because her love is kcenest and most sensi.
| tive. The husband in such II case acts the
part ola coward. When he might with II
breath blow the cloud away, he crnges until
| his wife is forced to let the sunlight through
her breaking heart
Clarence listened, and was troubled. He
saw the truth, felt its weight He was not
| n fool, nor was he liar During the silence
| that followed he reflected on the past and
he called to his mind scenes lust as Mr.. War
die had depicted. And this brought him to
the remembrance of how he had seen his
wife weep when she had failed and sank be-
meath the heavy burden how often she had
| sObbed upon his bosom in grief for her error,
The merchant read the young man S
| thoughts, and after II time he rose and touch
| cd him upon the arm.
"Clarcnce, suppose you were to put on your
| hat and go home now. Suppose you should
| think, on your way, only of the love and
blessing that might be with this thought, you
| should enter your abode with II smile upon
your face, and YOU should put your arms
around your wifc's neck and kiss her, and
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