The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-11-05

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! iesbnethinglt to talk, y Ssaid Mrs. Pol
uheaLia with ~ deep sigh,ig g and anothe,
thing to do Its a great joke to get mar.
Eried, bat it's no joke to get unmarried
again. ~
!" He's got a dreadful temper" said Miss
Louisa.
1.-The children are all afraid of him."
,aid Mrs. Jessup. -
The Ravens always were race of des-
potts. said AIRS Polwheal I've heard my
grandmother tell how old Duncan Raven
turned his wife out O doors on n snowy
night, and how she'd friz to death if the
neighbers hadn't took her in. And there
was VIII Raven, this mans uncle-why,
his wife couldn't live with him.. She had tc
go home to her fathers house,
Thus croaked the village cronies on the
subject of Miss Manners engagement to
Mr.. Raven. Nor were her nearest friends
less disturbed.
Sophy,' said Mrs. Captain Leslie, q
bright little brunette, who sang contralto In
the choir, painted in oil colors, and modelled
in clay, I. Why are you going to marry that
man 7"
" Why did you marry Captain Leslie ?"
.cross-questioned the bride-elect, with a
roguish sparkle in her hazel eyes.
=" Because l loved him."
'sAnd 50 do love Ralph Raven"
- But, my dear, he is such tyrant %
g He won't tyrannize over me-" said
sophy. ,..z.sss=
" He has snch familyr' reasoned Mrs
Leslie.
" Only four" said Miss Manners. And
dote on children"
And they tell me he has dreadful
temper"
SO have l." laughed Sophy. "But no
! isn't going to abandon me on account OF
that"
g Is he coming here to live? said Mrs
Leslie, glancing around the pretty sitting
room, where birds, flowers and Sophy's
work were scattered around in picturesque
confusion.
"0h, yes, said sophy. g The old Raven
house isn't nearly as pleasant as this !"
So they were married, and Ralph Raven
brought his four children to their new
home.
q Isn't it lovely here 2" said Lucy, the
eldest, tall, pale girl of fourteen, who
looked like lily that has grown in the
shade.
" And don't you love our new mamma ?"
cried Fanny, the second, with childish en-
thusiasm.
" She's regular brick !" said Johnny.
"And Dora says that step-mothers are oil.
ways cross, but know she ANTI She says
we may have baseball ground anywhere
we please, and play room in the she'd"
"And 1 am to keep guinea-pigs in the
barn, and have the little white pony for my
own" joyfully cried Willie.
g And papa hnsn't been nearly SO cross
since he came to Mannersley," said Lucy.
2 And We are to have all the story books
| we want to read Oh, Fanny, aren't you
ylad we've got step-mother p f
But the honeymoon had scarcely got into
its gibbous decline when domestic trouble
doomed darkly in the horizon.
:" I shall not permit any of this systematic
idleness, y said Mr.. Raven, sternly. +" With
these two great girls TO assist you, Sophia,
you need not keep servant. And Hannah
is shockingly wasteful F! By hiring woman
now and then, a day, to clean, or"
"Oh, have had Hannah here ever since
can remember" said Mrs. Raven. ~
couldn't do without Hannah. And don't
want to turn the little girls into mere
drudges. On the contrary, my dear, have
sent for new servant who is to act as
chambermaid and waitress"
81 will not have hsr herele exclaimed
Mr.. Raven ~ 2 @9
"oh, yes you will, my love-" said Mrs.
Raven
"The size OF the establishments displeases
me altogether went ON Nh. Raven, frown-
ing "Four horses That is all nonsense
One is all sufficient. We don't keep livery
stable, do weT
3 ," have given the little pony to Willie
said Mrs. Raven. at is an excellent sad
die horse, and Willie is delicate child and
needs exercise in the open air. The black
pair Is for my carriage, and the old sorfsl
IL needed for the farm work"
.s1.shall sell three of them" said Mr..
Raven, stubbonly |: Z shall not allow you
to waste your money so frightfully. Lucy
must learn housekeeping, and Fanny can
dust and sweep as wen as any lazy, extrav-
,gant maid. As for Willie, If he needs exer-
cise there are the onion beds to weed. 1
hare already directed John to pick the
stones off the sidshill pasture and pile them
| neatly up in heaps. That win be a great
deal more sensible than wasting his time in
base ball games. a As for you, my dear
Sophia, Lid not Judge Il szpedient that you
shall drive out SO much and walk away your
lime in the woods. A woman's place is at
| home" lfi
sophys eye spanked oninously.
a'sYou think 50, do you as said she.
Most assuredly do" complacently re-
turned the husband.
l. Here was the. Raven temper cropping out
liatiast. Sophy feit that immediate measures
were essential. If she yielded now, she
should be mere slave tor the rest of her
life. like the poor, meektsprited mother of
the four little Ravens, who had at last taken
| refuge in her grave, and whose children were
is@ beginniagto taste the sweets of child
hood in step-mother's home. Is
Ralph" said she, serenely, this house
10 mine. And intend to be mistress of it,,