Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-08

eccentricities were less than nothing
when compared with her wonderful
| beauty.
One day Sir Carlos drove his wife
| to the city of Como as she had ex-
pressed a wish TO see it, He ordered
n recherche dinner at the hotel where
they alighted; and it happened that
among other things a dish of green
peas was served.
Peas" cried Maggie when she saw
the dish. Il am very fond OF them.
My aunt always said could never
have enough of them"
The continual mentioning of her
aunt as the highest earthly authority
began to annoy him. He was fastidi.
GUS too, and did no.z Ike to hear a
lady speak with enthus @,m OF eating.
This was the least part of the shock
he was destined to suffer- Maggie
helped herself most literally to the
green peas; and presently her hus-
band, looking up suddenly. saw his
beautiful wife using her knife instead
of her fork
Maggie he cried angrily what
are you dOingP
Her face flushed. but she looked de-
family at him.
Il know she said but l must
use my knife; cannot help it. l am
sure Miss Pierson was very particular
| in teaching us never to use kniie
when eating peas; but look at this
! fork-l cannot eat peas with it,
Then 90 without them. 1t is I'M
heard-of vulgarity. Never do that
again, Maggie; it has Mortified mo. ="
'And am so fond of them" she
answered petulently. What can it
matter2 There is no one here to see
me-"
Il am here he said, 'and you are
here. You must respect my presence
and your own; you should never do
when you are alone what you would
not do il any one was with you The
laws OF good breeding are always the
same whether we are alone or with
others
That is all nonsense!" cried Mag
gle.
Her husband looked at her in dis
may.
Nonsense or not when you dine
with me | shall expect you to observe
the same etiquette at table that OBJ
serve myself"
You do not love me; If you did
you would not find fault with me, -
said Maggie.
Il have proved my love" he re-
torted and she finished her dinner in
sulky silence. This was the first dis
agreement
The second arose from a similar
cause. Maggie had never been &C.
customed to wine and she liked it
perhaps little too much She would
drink glass after glass-quite uncon-
scious certainly, of the effect it would
have-until she grew sleepy and stu
pid. Her husband, spoke to her about
it kindly enough. but firmly; and she
bitterly resented his interference
He found. too that he could not correct
her inaccuracies of speech her mis-.
takes in pronunciation. II there was
an improvement one day she was
worse the next; that which the glamour
OF love had hidden from him was glar-
ingly apparent now.
He had not been three days in fall
ing in love; he had not been married
three weeks before he discovered that
his mothers verdict was q true one.
His love had been "a young mans
fancy. Time would have proved it to
be so; but he had not waited for time.
1t was not many weeks before the
unhappy Sir Carlos saw that in the
wife he had chosen there was no
charm save that Of her beautiful face
He had thought he would be able to
form her mind; it was already formed.
He !ancied he could educate hers she
was already educated. He had be-
lie cd he could train her; she was al
ready trained. The conviction came
to him at last that his hasty, ill-advised
marriage had been fatal mistake;
and he had to go through all the hor.
rors OF his disllusion.
When Maggie perceived that he
grew weary OF her society she went
through every phase of jealous fury.
Nothing could have been more unfor-
tunate for them than their isolation
and solitude; for if they had been sur
rounded by friends and acluaintances
they would have seen much less Of
each other.
Maggie was no companion for him
she never read, never opened either
book or paper she had no expert
ence of life, save such us she had met
with in her auats shop If she told
an anecdote. its coarseness and vul-
garity disturbed him When she had
talked to him about her new dresses,
about the impression she intended to
make on Lady Carew and her plans
when she could live at Firhome. she
had no more TO say.
Her vulgarity Jared upon him q
hundred times each day. She had o
taste. She never looked we'll dressed;
she wore inharmonious colors. and
| spoiled the effect OF the most artistic
costume BY wearing the wrong orna-
ments.
He had told her frequently that she
had never looked so we'll in anything
as she had looked in her pretty pink
prints Then Maggie would cry with
rage believing that he meant to insult