The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-06-06

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| party broke up. were not at hand to
give true version OF the story.
The few persons who did not accept
the current one. and who, being old
were merciful, said that perhaps mid
dleaged man like Mr.. Eyre could not UNI
derstand that two young, high-spirited
| people, drawn together by the eternal
law that inclines like to like, might In
time come to prefer each others society
| to his. q 4
And suppose that such q thing as
falling out of love with person for no
particular reason, just as one may sud-
denly tire of food or an occupation,
| that has satisfied one for years, Is nat
ural enough. UnconsciOusly to our
| selves, little things-trifes even-may
have been undermining person IN our
| regard, and one day we awaken with a
shock to the knowledge that what we
most valued has forfeited our regard;
| that by no conscious volition OF our
| own he has been tried by a secret tri-
bunal within us, and sentence passed
upon him; so that it is corpse only
that occupies the place of the living OBJ
| ject Of our worship of yesterday, and
deeply as we may regret it, passionate
/ ly as we may seek to recall our tender
ness for it, we cannot bring it back to
life again, for love and it have died to-
gether. Oh
If Madcap had no such sense of fall
ing out of love with Mr.. Eyre, it was,
/ nevertheless, certain that she realized
the charm of youth in Frank more
wildly than she ever dreamed of. He
came to supply misunderstood want
in her life that had often saddened her,
for while her whole soul reposed itself
on Mr.. Eyre's love and strength. the
gayety natural to her years and charac-
ter never found free vent in his pres
ence; and her pleasure in Franks COM
pany was.that struggling out in her Of
repressed mirth that had always made
her so bright and beloved companion
to her hildren-laughter and jest that
may have no meaning to older ears, are
natural and easy to young spirits who
look out upon life with clear eyes and
unshadowed hearts, that meet happi-
ness half way, and to whom the hues OF
sunshine are more natural than those
of night.
Only to Frank the attitude of matters
was less pleasant. If he could. for an
hour. throw himself into her brilliant
happiness. he afttrward suffered long
hours of anguish that bronSht the sweat
to his brownie was but Il nun, and he
must love her all in all, or not at all
her very virtues to her husband, her eX-
quisite devotion to her children, but
made him love her the more passionate
ly as thinking of what u wife she would
have made himself-the cruelest thrust
with which q woman can stab a des-
carded lovers heart is when, in after
years, she shows herself wife beyond
temptation, a mother more beautiful in
her motherhood than she ever was to
| m of nd
fancy.
At about this time, but for his solemn
promise to Mr.. Eyre, Frank would have
run away-he could tell lie to save
Madcap, but to act the part of her play
fellow and friend was another matter,
and, unfortunately, he entertained a
fine conviction that he would have made
her far better husband than Mr.. Eyre
had ever done.
If he had famed out once to her face,
and told her that God makes man and
woman, but the devil invents the cant
word Of friendship between two of OPP
posite sexes and similar ages, she might
have drawn back from him as a scorp-
ion, and despised him as before; but he
had not such strength of cruelty or
selfshness, and let her seem to lead him
as she willed. p. A.,.-l-. a. ~"
And gradually the estrangement be-
tween Madcap and her husband grew,
for she could not forgive his hardness
TO Hester, and refusal to herself, while
the slight GOODNESS she had lately shown
him, though 1t pierced the mans heart
to its core, aroused his pride, 90 that It
seemed easier to him to let GO than en-
treat her to remain beside him.
Each day he grew less a companion
to Madcap, shrouding himself from all
communication with his fellows, and
often speaking and moving like man
in 2 dream, though at times he would
be inspired with those violent spirits
that by some are looked upon as the
forerunner OF death or disaster.
A curious observer would have MOTTO
ed that Mr.. Eyre constantly put Frank
forward to perform those little acts Of
attention to which she was accustomed
from himself, and Madcap's pridebeing
touched, she took them willingly, and
grew into the habit Of looking to Frank
on every occasion, and that, too, with
out any apparent disrespect toward her
husband.
Her health was so sound, and her
spirits so good, that often Mr.. Eyre
would forget her situation, nor feel that
it called for any special tenderness from
himself. Indeed, it was his settled aim
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ward her as it arose, so that after time
the habit Of GOODNESS seemed fixed; and
stranger seeing the two together,
might have supposed this proud, resery-
ed man to be bitterly repenting the
folly that had joined him to the Joyous.
girlish creature that he called wife.
Perhaps Dody was the only one who
got peep into her real heart at that
time, or saw the tears that never fell
save when her arms were round him.
Perhaps. too, he guessed the cause of
them, for one day, as he kissed her eyes
dry, he exclaimed triumphantly-
Daddy makes you cry--I make you
well!' -.
Mr.. Eyre would have Frank at his
house at all hours, and the children
must 60 to the Towers and fetch him If
a day passed without his appearances;
and often from his window Mr.. Eyre
would look out at these two young peo-
pie, and the happy children, feeling
himself as far away from all four as
though he inhabited another world; but
no twinge of healthy jealousy or pain
moved him, profound apathy held him