The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-11-21

NOR, "All the better that signor Carlo
was here to keep you company"
At this my heart beat harder and I
perceived that the widow blushed. She
want away. I departed very soon after.
All day long Ithoughtof Signora Nina.
/ dreamed Of her all night. The next day
I passed the forenoon at the window in
order to see her and had the good for
tune to exchange u good morning with
her. During the next month I
failed to &c at the same hour to the
window and always with the same happy
result. One day I ventured to smile t
her, tie next day she deigned to smile
en- me--and five mouths and one week
later we were married.
We Were happy. We lived in 4 pretty
little house sufficiently far from the
msasing crowd. Our windows were not
overlooked by in%convenient n~ai:-hbors.
Tho colEs We're sunny, and GER new
furniture cleaned il the light. Nina's
CID Uncle had absolutely refused-as he
piiiased ito set MS up in housekeeping
WiFa lis many infiriaities and had gone
" 1iNG Si&Ii IL 6lSsSI vi LIS LII L.lG CDkSts-
try. We were content to be alone. Cur
roe,as were decorated in pink aad filled
with visions not less rosy. Nina had
such grace Of Mariner, EEch a sweet
smile, d lcok SO serene, Il voice all lnu-
slc AID q certain way Of placing her
Lands Oh my shoulders that meant q
love yoa'.--that / could have rrenJ
whole hours in contemplation Of her.
She had q aingle defect-that CT tla.n-
ming the doors when she passed from
] room to another. Often, startlea
from my fantasies BIZ the bang Of \. door,
! should have yielded to an impulse Of
Irritation if her rosy face had not at
once appeared before me.
And it must be admitted that I was d
model husband to Nina. I never left her
alone, or at least as little as my bust
ness allowed. I never contradicted her.
| anticipated her wishes, never spoke
an unkind word to her. Ibid a thousand
childish things to amuse her. / had,
however, ina slight defect-I was hor-
rih.y absentminded. Sometimes. alb
- - oAAi IGa2ittlay / AttllCu
to answer jier smile or her speech.
There am Q day when I was unusu-
ally abstracted, and she banged a door
louder than An .'Oh!' es-
capped me. She heard, and ! regretted it.
But in vain. Another time Nina left me
III q brown study. She walked on tiptoe
and was very careful to mako no noise
ia sllatting the door. The claagor of the
forge Of Eulcaa would not have caused
me to leap quicker from my chair. I ran
after her, embraced her, and we had q
great laugh together. But the ice was
broken. WI. had mutually admitted ono
theEgi,t-Uo were not perfection.
However hard she tried, Nina could
not correct herself. Only when she
slammed 4 door she took Ga q certain
air, half cGzltrite, half miscellaneous, that
made her more beautiful. AS for me. il
was il vain that, caught with my wits
wool gathering, I shook my head and
stared. | became neither wiser no.
hanasnner.
Oar honeymoon had lasted many
months ~uncloudcd. Then carae q day,
q day Of July, when the sun glared aad
the heat was cruel. She asserss that she
Logan the quarrel, asking me what !
was thinking about, with IL head Ill the
clouds. But il was | who gave the first
il the form Of o very little swear
word apropos Of q door. One mild sar-
casn led to another, and soon I was
salky and Nina IA tears. Another coca
sion ended i'll the same way. Tho next
tir1a the thing went farther.
This life Is Unbearable," said she.
"Indeed?" said 7 teasinsly.
Indeed. All, indeed! Oh, I knew
that you were tired ct me! Il d almost
a year that you have been married.
.Ten months" I replied.
(which have seemed Like ten years
to you. Oar happiness has lasted tee
long. Oh, how unfortunate / am. Ycu
will end By hating me, if you cont DC
SO already-and Il shall come to hate
you"
I wanted to catch her up i'll my arms
and run about the rooms with her and
her wrath-a precious armful-lntil
she should cry .Enoughr' WANTED tc
fall on MY knees before her and say my
little prayers for her forgiyeness-alI
sorts of things that an indulgent hus-
band could think of in order to make
her smile. / glanced at her. She turned
her shoulders to me. / took a step TO-
ward her, and she ran into another room
and !, in q pet, descended the stairs,
remorseful before accomplishing my fell
revenge. | took a turn round the square,
not being able to go far away, keep
ing in view the little home where had
been my happiness. I thought of Sulpi-
Clio and Coneetta and told myself that
there was nobody to act as peaccmaker
between my wife ard me, and that we