Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-16

| casting down her eyes: and how are you!
| I'm blooming" SAYS /.
And there we stands. Molly and me. her
| hand in mine, and her eyes looking up and
| down. and her boozom swelling and palpitating
! to that degree that ii looked for all the world
| as il it being worked by steam power. 1
| was gone. sir. dead gone, She beauty.
| and no mistake. There wasn't a woman within
a mile OF us that could hold a candle to her.
| will you take nv arm. Molly" says l.
Yes: Mr. Blindweed." says she, IF you
please"
Oh. how meek and sweet she was,
IF I'm to call You Molly" says 1, 'you
mustn't call me Mr.. Dlindweed"
What must call your" says she.
| call me Thomas. SAYS l.
| Then she says Thomas so soft that had
| to put my head down to hear it. quite close to
| her mouth. and her breath was as sweet as vio
let's I'd never been SO close to her before.
| and II set my heart beating like o'clock.
| Wei, sir. we walked up and down the street,
arm-in-arm, for an hour, and people stared at
| us. And who should we meet but Dick Paw
son? He comes up and says:
! Good morning, Molly"
| But Molly losses up her head at him. and
says as cold as ice: Good morning sir"
Molly
Don't take liberties with nv NAME" SAYS
Molly, land I'll trouble you to keep your dis
lance, and to speak when you re spoken to-"
Away goes Dick Pawson, with flea in his
| ear.
Il could never abear him, says Molly.
| Couldn't you, Molly?' l says. thinking
| what fool I'd been ever to think different
Never" says Molly. why. he's as thin as
ashaving!" Presently she says to me, Thomas"
| she says.
Yes. Molly" says 1 to her.
Its such long time since I've been to a
theayter''
Would You like to go to one?" says l.
| 81 would" says She
with me, Molly" says I.
! Il shouldn't enjoy it with nobody else" says
| she.
If it's quite agreeable" says I, Twill you go
| to-night?'
.'Oh Thomas says she.
didn't take her to see tragedy. but some
thing as would make us laugh and l didn't
take her to the pit. but the boxes. And there
we set so close together that felt as if I were
IN the Garden of Eden. She looked beautiful
| IL say that of her. She was the prettiest girl
III the whole theaytre, and she laughed so
| much that she had to ketch hold of me to keep
| from tumbilnS off her seat. and the more she
caught hold OF me the more liked it. There
was dark scene III the play that | wished had
lasted three times as long When come out
OF the theaytre, us happy pair of birds in
spring. says:
Molly. what do You say to a bit of SUPERB
If You please, Thomas" says she.
We went to reStauronG. and had lamb
chops fried potatoes and port wine. and be-
| lore we q finished supper she calling me
Tom. When we come out of the restaurong 1
| says:
Shall we walk or ride? It's fine night"
She looks up and says: How bright the stars
are, Tom
=, And SAYS, pressing her arm close: ''Yes,
they are, Molly"
And she says. cuddling up to me: We'll
walk. Tom
SO we walked. and before we'd gone half a
mile asked her plump whether she'd have
| me. and she said she would We had a lot of
n fStr tl.r ,Nnlin o.,
long way off, but he didn't take particular
notice of us. eSsept l dare say. to wish that he
was III my place: and l says
Molly, I've loved you long"
Tom. dear" she SAYS: I've loved YOU ever
since first set eyes on YOU"
You didn't show it, Molly" SAYS l.
Il didn't want to look bold. Tom" she says
And was spoons enough to believe it. In
month from that time we was married. A
| slap-up wedding, with a coach and two horses
driver with white bows, Molys family smart
and spruce. Molly herself picture and a reg
ular spread afterward at the Royal George.
Everything passed off splendidly. and then we
! TOOK tour to Gravesend. and spent our honey
| moon there. I've got a prize" thinks | to
myself. and it really seemed so, guv'nor. Molly
was as good as gold, and when we come there
was these two rooms ready furnished for us.
Molly didn't say anything at first. but saw she
was little put out; she let week go by, and
| then she saws:
Tom" she says, 1--WE oughtn't to live in
rooms; We ought to have nice house of our
own
Rooms are good enough for me, Molly
says /, land what's good enough for me ought
to be good enough for you"
Why, of course it is Tom," says she, ''but
think of the neighbors"
why should 1 think of emp SAYS l.
They're beginning to talk already SAYS
she.
Are they?' SAYS I. What about?'
about Us living here she saws
What's that to them?' says l. Tell 'em to
mind their own business"
But. Tom." says Molly, coaxing like.
"Wcll. Molly" says |.
| when We re SO rich y saws Molly '.that we
can afford to live in style. what reason is there
why we shouldnt?"
"How rich do you think We are?" saysI.
you've got hundreds of houses, haven't
you?" SAYS she.
Not by long way" saysI. "Only four
little 'uns."
"Only four little 'unsr' she cries.
That's all" | answers
But you could bug more if you liked" says
she.
No. / couldn't" saws l. ''unless they'd sell
EN- to me at about bob a time. l invested
all my fortune in them four houses, and very
tidy fortune it is.
Yes. Tom, says she, Fifteen thousand
| "Oh. no." says 1. mot quite fifteen hun
dred, aud they bring me in thirty-two bob a
week"
She was regularly took aback at this, and a
matter OF three or four days passed before she
spoke of 1t again. Then she said:
If we've only thirty-two shillings week to
live on, Tom"
Which" says l, lis all we've got"
"Then you ought to go to work, Tom" SAYS
she.
Not me-" says l. I'm quite satisfied with
the way were living. and l amt fond of
work. Now, Molly" says |, don't you go run
ming your head against brick walls; you'll come
OFT second best If you do. We can be happy
and comfortable if You don't act contrairy if
you do act contrary, shall be the other
| thing"
Then, guv' nor. she begins to cry and storm.
and says that deceived her.
Flows that, Molly?" says l.
| Didn't you make me believe" saws She sbe-
fore you married me that you had E15.OOO and
hundreds of houses?''
mo. didn't" says l. Il never said a word
about it, and you never asked me-"
But it was in everybody mouth" saws she.
THAT amt my business" SAYS /. 'If people
will talk. they must talk. advise you again,
Molly. DONE you go and act contrary. We've
got along all right up to now, and we can keep
along al right if you We mind to-
But she hadn't got mind to. From that
minute she begun to change. and instead of
making things pleasant and comfortable, she
nagged and nagged to that degree that she
almost drove me wild. tried to bring her to
reason, but it wasn't bit of good She kept
on crying that I'd deceived her. and that I
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