Year: 1876

when that woman came to sit by YOU


When saw YOU put the rose in your but


tonhole | felt so bad that went of to


hotel and STAYED all day. imagined yol


were being very well amused without me


If you had come, dear. and found me tax


ing a rose and smile from a man you


dlsapproyed of, wouldn't you have felt ag


grieved? Carrie said it was nothing, ant


she has scolded me, but you know" She
stopped, for her voice was too tremulous
to go on, and, besides all was said


There was not Il sign OF confusion in his
face, only astonishment, pain, and perhaps
q touch Of Indignation He seated himself
by her and took her hand is that all the
confidence my wife has in me ?" he asked
II don't wonder you We're displeased-
you had reason aud right to be-but if
you had come directly to me, it would
have been better. Anne, you have seen
actually, the only fault of which | have
| been guilty, and You went just minute
| too soon to see me atone for it. Let me
tell you all. Perhaps may have answered
her salutatlons when we met on the stairs
or IN the street with more poiteness than
before. don't know why, unless for that
reason, she has come out here several
mornings, knowing that | always come
Once or twice we met with Il word but
iyt1cd hti, and came later Yesterday
morning aud to-day in order to get rid Of
her, But to-day was in different mood
when saw her, and for Il few minutes
felt like seeing how far she would 90 un-
assisted. 1t was wrong in me, but it was
only iof II minute: and when. after WAS
fool enough to put the rose in my coat,
she said, I'm afraid your wife wouldn't
like 70 see You wear that, | answered her
You are quite right and flung it away
before her face. She got uo and left me in
a fury at that: She had not expected such
4 reply, Now, my dear, | have told vou
everything, and God knows am sorry
that my folly has cost you 50 dear"


What true woman, on seeing husband
or lover BUNDLED before her, does not i'm
mediately feel that in some unaccountablc
way She is the only one to blame. and
that he is, as they sny III Italy. like u
white cloth i'll the sun? We are sorry to
record that after her logical argument of
tie morning Mrs Francis ended by beg
ging her husbands pardon in the after
noon; Il should have known that Your
only way to put stop to such annoying
attentions Was to let them 60 far enough
to Justify a decided reproof.n


That was the way in which this ngen-
iOus creature took her lord off his Deniten-
tial stool and climbed up to it herself,
quite to her own contentment and to his
immense admiration. Mr.. Francis was
honest enough to know precisely who be
onged on that seat but he did not insist
on changing places again Perhaps he
knew that while he would have made
an awkward appearance in the situation
She was quite at ease in it, He would
have had the pain of real humiliation,
sorrow resembed shame only las the mist
resembles the rain Indeed, these vica-
rious feminine penitcnts have II pleasure
which 40 one else can know, for al the
while they drape themselves in silhen
stckcloth and strew n most becoming lit
tie powder oi silyery ashes on their hair
down III the bottom Of their hearts, wheth-
er they will look at it or not, a joyful in
nocence IS al! the time dancing like u
fountain bnbblin@ under ground


Meanwhile, the carriage had been wait,
ing some time, the lady in it regarding the
couple in the piazza with the greatest pa
tience and compIaeency. When at length
they perceived her, Anne ran and en-
braceh her in the eyes Of elyhody
YOU dear creature how aLomuably |
have treated you this whole day - she ex-
claimed. And now, finally Il million wei
comes to Rome We have Just come, you
know, and will begin to 1--we in it from
this moment. Carrie" she whispered,
while her husband was giving directions
to the coachman, ''Do you recollect whcth-
er you called me a fool this morning -


II could not say positively whether |
c0}lc0 you one, with II little emphasis.


"Bectuse if you did" she added. lit
was the truest word you ever spoke in
your life"