The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-10-27
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fduCtS VI Out WuO u6NoI lOSl a Chance
of gliding him in private? How was
he to smile back on the deceiver anC
the insulter? He was condemned tc
seem ungracious. He was condemned
to silence. Had he been less proud
had he spoken, VINO would have cred
tied the truth? The acted caIumny
had done its work: my lord and Mrs.
Henry we're the daily witnesses of
what went on: they could have sworn
in court that the master was model
of long-suffering good-nature and Mr.
Henry a pattern Of jealousy and
thanklessness, And ugly enough as
these must have appeared in any one,
they seemed tenfold ugiier in Mr.
Henry; for who could forget that the
master lay in peril of his life, and
that he had already lost his mistress,
his title, and his fortune?
Henry, will you ride with me?"
asks the master one day
And Mr.. Henry, who had been goad-
ed by the man all morning, raps out:
Il will not"
II sometimes wish you would be |
kinder, Henry" says the other, visit |
fully.
| give this for a specimen: but such
scenes befeli continually. Small won
der if Mr.. Henry was blamed: small
wonder If l fretted myself into some
thing near upon bilious fever; nay,
and at the mere recollection feel
bitterness in my blood
Sure. never in this world was a
more diabolical continuance; so per-
fidious, so simple, SO impossible to ,
combat And yet l think again, and
think always, Mrs. Henry might +,
have read between the lines; she :
might have had more knowledge of 8
her husbands nature after all these =
years of marriage, she might have
commanded or captured his conf 9
dence. And my old lord too, that very
gentleman where was all his !,
observation? But for one thing. the ;,
deceit was practiced by a master p,
hand, and might have guIled an angel. E,
For another Gin the case of Mrs. Ii
Henry, l have observed there are D;
10 persons SO far away as those who hi
ire both married and estranged, so of
hat they seem out of ear-shot or to In
AVE no common tongue. For third ca
in the case of both of these specta- SO
ors), they were blinded by old. in co
rained prediction. And for mi
ourth, the risk the master was sup of
osed to stand in Supposed, | say wi
on will soon hear WHY made it seem ON
ne more ungenerous to criticize: and of
eeping them in perpetual tender
olicitude about his life blinded them blu
le more effectually to his faults sc;
1t was during this time that | per- Oft
eyed most clearly the effect of man ''h
er, and was led to lament most pc
eeply the plainness of my own. Mr. ev'
enry had the essence of a gentle {
ian; when he was moved when pei
lere was any call of circumstance, so
3 could play mis- part with dignity lea
I'D spirit; but in the days commerce str
t is idle to deny it, he fell short of Gle
e ornamental. The master ION the hei
her hand) had never movement for
1T it commended him
SO it befell that when the one APP n
jared gracious and the other ungra wol
Gus, every trick of their bodies tan
emed to call out confirmation Nor con
at, alone; but the more deeply Mr. the
enry floundered in his brothers MO
lis, the more clownish he grew; and Vle'
e more the master enjoyed his spite gen
entertainment, the more engag- ana
ely, the more smilingly, he went, set
that the plot, by its own scope and VINE
ogress furthered and confirmed it. whe
#. had
It was one of the mans arts to use II
: peril in which, as | say, he was sic
opposed to stand. He spoke of it to his
,se who loved him with gentle day
asantry, which made it the more NOR
ching. To Mr.. Henry, he used it says
a cruel weapon of offense. | re- wen
mber his laying the finger on the well
an lozenge of the painted window, brini
, day when we three were alone to- to it
her in the hall. Here went your juno
ky guinea. Jacob" said he IS
md when Mr. Henry only looked can
IN him darkly, oh he added, you your
d not look such inpotent malice. He
good fly. You can be rid of your the l