Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-11


vile reading and intonation. and the
remarkable turns of thought given to
lit by many minds insulted ner reason
Even the poetry of the diction had
been spoiled for her and seemed. she
lsaid. to reek Of half-fiedged curates-
Under some conditions this expert
lment of the Warnings might prove
success
''Oh. but with that mother.
''Ah, yes. that alters the whole as
pect of affairs If you could only have
heard the passionless, analytical style
in which Waring and his wife dis
cussed the matter and speculated on
the issue, which they think will be
more typical in Gwen than in Dacres,
his brute strength being. in their Opin-
ion, his strong point, and his theolog-
icaI side hardly worth considering.
They throw it in however, careless
like as, if the experiment is to be
tried. it is just as easy to try it on
! two as on one
Mercy on u.s. again said Mrs Eel
loves, Gathering the fire-irons vic
ciously.
| by the way, Waring amused me in
tensely by one revelation he made, he
could hardly get it out. and / saw him
fling a pathetically deprecating glance
at his wife and give her hand a
! squeeze before he began. He felt he
! had to account for the luckless Dacre's
strength of legs, of which he seems to
have poor an opinion as the Psalm
icsf no r iohf fol in4n no
ror of casting the blame on him or his
wife. so he determined I should know
the real cause You will hardly be-
Heve me- he observed, when I tell
you that my wife with her refined in
tel1ectuality is the outcome of long
generations of soldiers and of-ahem,--
famous duellists, and I fear our son,
Dacre, is a very clearly defined speci-
men of throwing back. Poor Mrs.
Waring! she felt her ancestry keenly
and got as red as a rose during the
confession"
Goodness gracious me! What a
woman! what a pair! What in the
name of goodness brought the two to-
gether and made them marry each
other and produce children. If 1 were
Providence and had that Gu my mind.
I'd never look UP again"
/ "My dear child!'
John, in the present state Of my
feelings, brought on by you yourself
recollect, you must forget your Sacer-
dotal character and only remember
my state of original sin. Why should
two beautiful childrens lives be
spoiled for the yagarieS of a pair who
never had amy right to bear children?
Think Of Owens sad old, face full of
trouble of all ages, think of her
naughtiness with that horrible unique
sort Of Internal touch about it; that
painting herself blue is the most child
ish escapade remember.
Il was at Mrs. Doyle's yesterday
and She was telling me a lot about
Mrs. Waring before we came. After
Dacre's birth, she said it was abso-
lute1y CHASTITY to see her with the child,
she was terrified to hold it, and uem-
bled like a leaf whenever she abso-
lutely had to. Poor Mrs. Doyle, she
got quite irritated and excited about
one thing; it seems she could not
nurse her own children at all, and that
Mrs. Waring was a capital mother
from that point of view, and Mrs.
Doyle seemingly could not see at all
why an unnatural little bundle Of
scientific data should score off her, a
good wholesome creature made for
mother, in this manner"
"It was certainly too bad, and one
would never have expected it of Mrs.
Warning" said the rector laughing.
.'Oh. and whenever Mary brought
either of the babies to her or she
met them in the corridors or about the
grounds Mrs. Doyle says her one re-
quest was that Mary should take the
creature away and give it food, it
looked faint! They were both huge
flourishing, healthy babies, I hear
Ruth" said Mr.. Felowes suddenly,
II wish those people would keep
away from church"
"You are shedding your sacerdotal
character with vengeance. What do
you meanT
"You have no idea how they distract
me, sitting there together With their
eyes far away and their ears sealed
except at the odd times they give those
spasmodic simultaneous starts. and
twist their thoughts back for the min
ute to what's going on"
Gut, John, for the sake of the
parish"
IF the parish can't keep up to its
ordinary pretty low water-mark with
out this prick to it's piety, it must be
in a poor state, and even more OF a
discredit to me than l imagine. They
are far TOO good 10 be asked to play
this weekly farce for the parish sake.
1t was Hopkins, not J Who insisted
upon this church-going. and Of course
they gave in in their gracious simple
way; and now, not even a water spout
would stop them from coming, they
are so concerned for my feelings.
What a pair of unconscious Christians
! they are to be sure! One sees it crop
ping up in all directions.
Il wish it would appear anyway IN
the management of their children. L
don't see many traces Of it there.
When is this wretched experiment to
be set going?" asked Mrs. Fellowes.
LAS soon as 1 can procure a suitable
person to conduct it. I think I know
a fellow who might do"
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