New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-08
GREGORY'S MISADVENTURE.
By w. T.. NORRIS.

W.
"My dear Emily" said Mr.. Gregory, standing
with hs back TO the fire ana pointing blunt fore
finger at his wife, i have learned by experience
that if there is any course which seems natural.
reasonable desirable. that course you VIII con-
sstently and persistently oppose The doctor says
that you require change and that you had better
go somewhere abroad fer time. Very well
| am ready TO take you somewhere abroad until
Parliament meets much as | hate foreign railways
md foreign hotels Naturally therefore you say
you don't want TO leave England, and you sug-
gest BOurnemouth. Good Heavens Bourne
mouth
"Only because thought you would prefer it,
julius answered the pretty little mlddIe,ag geo
do what you hate; and although personally l
should like very well to 90 TO Rome
Rome interrupted Mr.. Gregory is ont OF
the question. I'm not going to have You laid up
with typhoid typhus and have no particular
desire to catch either of those diseases myself
Now l know what you're gong to say heAt;
you're going to propose Cannes. As If the very
thought of an earthquake wasn't enough 10 scare
you out OF your senses
There is so httle choice sighed mrs gregory
The doctor only mentioned Rome, the Riviera,
and the Engadne. And of course. as YOU SAID
Yesterday no one but lunatic would think OF
climbing up 5000 feet above the sea In the depth
You have talent for misquotation which
would be invaluable to you II YOU were sStesr"n
put of office. Emily" retorted Mr. Gregory snap
pshfv " | may have said that no one but lunatic
would do such thing for pleasure; but as u Ger
tninlV
inst now | suppose | shall hardly lay myself open
10 n charge of Iunacv if ! take you TO climate
which your doctor specified as being the most
suitable for you. ,.; 1o
dreaded extreme cold; the journey Wouo De
dreadfully fatiguing. perhaps even lmprdclicdpIe
in tile month of January the anusemeh's ny
means of which young people managed 10 Whlle
away the time in the high Alps would he quIte
unfit for a Sexagenerian and an invalid put the
more she protested the more her huspahd pecano
oo1y 10
You are very fond of reminding me OF my
age" he observed, but ap not quite decrePlt
vet, Notwithstanding my sixty years ana really,
Emily. you must pardon my Sang tnau mos
invahds would be glad to haze hall your com
plaint You want bracing ] ain told and II may
he so Well YOU shall be braced. II IS absurd
TO pretend that the air of Italy or the Riviera
can be bracing" $50
luctant assent.
An astute observer might have surmsed that
her assent not so reluctant as 1t appeared
and that if She had really wished 10 90 70 Bourne
mouth or Rome, or any other place. she would
in dealing with so cantanke rous individual as
Julius Gregory. NJ p. have begun by dccrylng
that place But Mr. Gregory. though man of
weight al Quarter Sessions, and politician who
was listened 10 with little attention and re-
spect on both sides of the House not quite
astufe enough 10 have discovered that he owed
all his success in life TO his cantsnkerOusness:
and so. a few days after the above con-
vcrsation he started for Switzerland with
pleasing conviction that he had taken his
way in spite OF fsctous opposition.
II ne did not always get his own way. he GER
tainv always thought that he did. which proves
Mrs Gregory TO have been a woman of tact. But
for all her tact. there were ends which Mrs.
Gregory had been unable 10 accomplish and calam-
tiles which she had been powerlesS 10 avert,
Chief among these last the deadly quarrel
which had taken place. nearly two years before.
between her husband and her only sOn-a quarrel
which was the less likely 10 be patched IN be-
cause neither party 10 II would make single
step toward reconciliation
Don't tall, to me about Bob" Mr. Gregory
had shouted anGrily. some months back, whom
news had reached the anxious mother that her
10Y, WHO WAS with lis regiment in Burmah. had
had sharp attack OF fever. /" Well or i'll alive
or dead. Eve done with him. lie gets = handsome
allowance and that's all he cares about. ! i'm
agine thought had forbidden YOU 10 mention
his name in my presence Emily"
On the other hand, Bob had written from his
sick-bed: " As for my father, I think Won make
little mistake when you talk abont his being
willing TO forgive me lie must have changed
very much If he Is willing TO forgive anvbod,
and as in the present instance there is nothno for
him 10 forgive, don't feel much inclined TO beg
his pardon"
The fact was that the father and son had al
WAYS been at loggerheads Their final breach
which had been brought about by Boh's not nm
reasonable refusal to give up his profession and
espOuse plsin-fratured heircss whose property
sdloined that which would eventually be his
might have been healed. previous ones had
zen; Desh, II in the course Of discussion they had not
lf'erchangcd words which each of them felt 10
~ u''tv1tV lneXcusable in the other. And So
S HI,em Pms Gregory, by dint of much fneSSe, in
rr.cru ner husband TO take her 10 Maloja in the
,nirbt no. h Tt hope was not SO much that She
ndis". w aoh 70 bring these two obstinate per
',, .ossiner again as that she might contrive
VI LA V,I nous meeting with her beloved Bob.
so i ~ nav psal sent sck-lcave 10 recruit him
o.. Il" '"e eiefr, dry air of St. MOrtz
ne Journey was sufficiently cold and miser-
hns oe, "I'e UT gregory did not allow himself 10
nc nc'Ilt,d rom swearing al everybody and every
.hlng between Calais and Core by the circumstance
That it had been mndertaken AZ his ex nresS wish
No, tbe goo au silent under IT'S winter mantle mad
1 mapdhg ones ONE comfortable home in England to
claned Ind , tbo fi country as this" he ex-
will be- | suppose Well only hope the Gay win
pu meI b one tr 9 ese soouedey doctors win bs
The excellent cooking Of ,Iss n., c.o,,ho,,
bs a no. HauS1r Mr Gregory. who pronounced il
neathenisn Then he declared tb., H. r., -
Az 0s 1870 VIm German stoves was enough to give man
ofoer the sledgeS which womb b vi Wv rooln ~
eer,sin not very practical schemes '''''''o ''oi
vi MS return, about an hour later he en- rr;se5
Nv nnnelnc with him a stranger whom Re- in.