The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-11

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 Mf reiirrby bringing hlf chair closer. Mrs Trgcrbv laughed again. gave hlm a hug. and wiped her eyes,
 You know Do.phus my dcar. sad Mrs Teitefhy that when ] vas single, ! might have given mY- sell aRay 70 several Gireeaons At onc time. four after me at once tWo O. them were sons 0f Mafs
 We're au sons oi Ma s my dear :. said Mr Tci.crby Jointly Riih Pas
 "I don't mean that. replied his wife "f mean soldiers scrleants.'
 "Ohl' said Afr Tettefby.
 We'll D0iphus. I'm sure ] never think oi such things uoW to regret them. and I'm sure I've got as good a husband and would do as much 70 prove that was fond oi him. as"
 AS any little woman in the world" said Mir Tettefby. ..DUT you see. Dolphus.' said
 ID Mrs Tetterby this being Chrisimas-time. when all people who can make holiday. and when all people who have got money like to spend some. I did. somehow. get a little out oi sorts when l was in the streets just now. There were so many things to be sold-such de- l!cious things 10 eat, such fine things to look at. such delightful things to haye-and there was so much calculating and calculating necessary, before l durst lay out sixpence for the commonest thing: and the basket was so large, and wanted so much in it: and my stock of money was so small, and would go such little way - you hate me, don't you, 'Dolphus'?'
 Not quite said MT. Tetterby, "as yet
 We'll" I'll tell you the whole truth pursued his wife, penitent- ly. and then perhaps you will I felt all this, so much, when I was trudging about in the cold, and when l saw lot of other calculat- ing faces and large baskets trudg- ing about, too, that I began to think whether I mightn't have done bet ter, and been happier, if - l - hadn't
 T see," said her husband quiet ly; eff you hadn't married at all, or if you had married somebody else?"
 "Yes,' sobbed MT. Tetterby. That's really what l thought. Do you hate me now, 'Dolphus?"
 "Why mo-" said MT. Tetterby, q don't find that I do, as yet"
 Mrs. Tetterby gave him a thank ful kiss, and went on.
 T begin to hope you won't, now, 'Dolphus, though am afraid I haven't told you the worst. I can't think what came over me. don't know whether I was ill., or mad, or what I was, but I couldn't call up anything that seemed to bind us to each other. I could think of nothing except our being poor, and the number of mouths there were at home"
 Well, well my dear,' said MT. Tetterby, shaking her hand en- couraginly, that's truth, after all. We are poor, and there are num- Der of mouths at home here" .c A H! but, Dolf, Dolfl" cried his
 A wife, laying her hands upon his neck, my good, kind, patient fel- low, when I had been at home a very little while-how different! Oh, Dolf, dear, how different it was! felt as if there was a rush of recol- lection on me, all at once, that soft ened my hard heart, and filled it up till 1t was bursting"
 The good women, quite carried away by her honest tenderness and remorse, was weeping with all her heart, when she started up with a and ran behind her hus- band. Her cry was so terrified, that the children started from their sleep and from their beds, and clung dDOuO y4le1. 4NOI ulu lleI gaze Uel4e her voice, as she pointed to a pale man in a black cloak who had come into the room.
 Look at that man! Look there! What does he Want?"
 My dear" returned her husband, I'll ask him if you'll let me go. Whats the matter? How you shake!"
 T saw him in the street, when was out just now. He looked at me, and stood near me. I am afraid of him.
 She had one hand pressed upon her forehe f, and one upon her breast; and there was a peculiar all over her, and hur- ried unsteady motion of her eyes, as if she had lost something.
 Are you ill, my dear?"
 What is it that is going from me again?" she muttered, in a low voice. What is this that is going away?"
 Then she abruptly answered: I'll? No, l am quite we'll" and stood looking vacantly at the floor.
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