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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1909-4-15, Page 8Tianagualt, Aran. lb, 1908 71'9.1Pr.. THE SIGNAL: GODKRICH. ONTARIO THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE ;mum OF SOLD ON TIE MERITS MINARD'S LINIMENT .1• .i..f• .t• .11..,1•••••11••••.1•••••11••1• i NIAN ScBtuts? PriCe 25 cts.lightS EIS LINIMENT1 - LIMITED - Wats, L C 1.11L.hAP C ' _ A 1 ' S. • • 1 • Meadow Brook BY MRS. MARY J. HOLMES Ando, of Tempest and Sunshine," "Una Rivas," ITIr English Orphans" FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED GARMENTS are cut on large patterns -designed ba qtve the wearer the utmost comfort llINT1IIRANI MAN QUAllijetrDwarimpu00t zweitzezewernme owe, %ere Terse rename re ea. --FIP*•••••• te.et Women should remember that men can't be convinced by scolding. CANADIAN PACI FVC Going West? Take advantage of the Hoineseekers' Excursions, by special trein from To- ronto. April I. and every second Tueeday until Sept. 21. Tourist sleepersfkeday return tickets to principal Northwest points at very low rates, Ask agent for pamphlet. DURING APRIL ONE WAY SECOND CLASS TWEETS TO VANCOUVER - VtCTORIA - SEATTLE - $42.15 and other points Full information from JOS. KIDD, C. I'. R. Agent. Goderich, GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY .SYSTEM N EX'I' HOMESEEKERS EXCURSIONS ALL RAIL VIA CH (' A G 0 . APRIL 20th VIA RAIL and BOAT. ettearuer leaves Sarnia 33) p April 21st, weather permittng Winnipeg and return $32.00. Edmonton and return $42.50. Proportionate rates to other pante In Western Canada. Tickete good for fit dep.. Secure tickets from F. F. LAWRENI K, T, w n Agent. 1 • *110 614 01* • • 04. 0,0 Or See Ada had quite tercet:en herself. or i e!se she miaunderstood the limn with l whom she had to deal. Very quietly he lihened, but the sterm wee gather- ing within. and when she had finish- ed. it burst upon her with a ven- gennee. he bidding her never again, either in his presence or the presence of any. one, say aught disparagingly ie hi. wife. "Her actions shall not be questioned by you." said he. "and you shall treat her with deference, for oi every respect% she is POUT superior, SANT that of age, and there, T admit, tou have the advantage." This decided the fruitier at onos, fag Ada wee afraid of ham, rend though she could not mensal her dielike from me, she was in his presence alweys kind, considerate and sometirom even affectionate in her demeanor towards me, coming at Last to call him "Uncle Dick." in imitation of Halbert and me "Aunt Rose," particularly If there were any strangers present. The morning following my arrival I was formally presented to the ger- vents. who received me eith many demonstrations of joy, the i 'der por- tion "bressin' de Lord they 1 id lived to see Marer Richard look : , happy and peart like as 1 - did s ith the new Miss." Only oni eyed rns at all askance, and that wi Aunt Hagar. the housekeeper, who ew in me a rival --one who would In deforth wear jingling At her belt the hi ie bunch of keys, which for so long a time had been to her • badge of honor. Then, too, the old lady, like my other new relatives, had some fears "that Miss Ruse didn't long to the quality:rind that Mars'r Richard had done dieted hisself down a peg or so by nutr_r one who was brought up in de•-• statee, whar dar warn't nary nigger to fetch 'em a drink of water or fan when de sun was roastin' hot." - With, a look of injured dignity, whir}, made the steeple of a turban cm her head tremble, she undid from her waist the bunch ef keye. and effering them to me, said, "1 'erecter these are yonrn now." I drew back, for to me there was nothing pleasing in the idea of being d..eurbeti every time a lump ef sugar, e piece of coal, or a pan of &me was emend, so II said. 'If my husband is, stilling I'd rather you'd keep them y•istreelf, as I knew you are trusty." Hacar's face. brightened perompli- shit.- and. 1 am induced to think she 'forgot in a measure my iniefortune . ' -heewebeen--lo-a--tseeestatel At all events I have not now a more -devoted servant then Hagar_ who de - claire me to be R "perfeet Indy." and v. -ho ha. more than mee venturcid the treesonable remark, that "if ell de Free State folios IR like :iies Rose, ;hell be beim' she'd -1:17:-. to live Ilar.." Regulariy jell m 'ming ebe comes to me and mks "what Mies sameld like for dinner."'end regularly eneh morning "Miss" Anse ..,, "TStair me. Hagar, I don't know. get what you like:" feeling confident the while that the program is *treacle made out and that any material suggestion from me would be superfluous. Se minel Int fIliatIORP and sieve. With his Mual generosity, my hus- band made all of the negmes presents in honor of his marriage: offering for Rili's steeeptance it silver width, wh;eh he had purehasod for him in harleeton. Taking the timepiece in 11 'hand. Bill evnmtned it attentively, lie 11V0 his ear. put it in his market, look at the kev, and then handing it brie -.. to his master, said, "no 'fence. Fire hut if you please thar's somethin"cil like better.' "Very w 1, what is it?" risked Riehard; en Bill answered. "Why, vu see. ..lars how dent hosses, Fred and Ferri, httA never hrel proper 'pert showed tn th r .memory. Te be sere, 1 wres a weeition my het and T 'fined te rine in de dance t'odder re eta, but thet'a nothitt'. Ferri had tio Hell bleed in hini to keer for an role nigger's montinin', and what I want; 13 for you to paint de stable black, and thin 1 reckons will show 'em proper 'tension. What do you sny. MiSe Rese5" As the horses lied fallen in my e805e..1 readily espoueed Bill's pro- ject for thei novelty of the thing, if nothine else; and should any one of m readers vsisit Stinnv Bank which iviAt I may, t ey tri see the feeble.. wearing st line RA dnrk a/1 Bill himself. who hes now it pair of iron - frays, whieh lie sidle "Richanl and Iliiee," netwithstanding that both are of the masculine gender. , Them, pars settlarly the latter, are the pride of Bill's !were and when the year of mourning lute expired, he intends. he ,:iy,i, to have the stable peinted "yeller," thet bring the color et a young girl elm has lately made ead hrivee with his nff. ctions ! ,ffere 1 may n, well say that Mre. lensing menaged until she procured Ise desired piano. which came in -impart), with another, a much nicer ote, on the front of which was in- sPribM. "Rate from her husband." In return for her brother's gift, Mrs. Leming matte a hire:. party, where I had an epPortenitv of wearing my bridel dress., together with a rostly e t of diamonds. Which 1 found upon nty table when ,11 'went up to make iny toilet. It did not need the sim- ple word "Richard" on n bit of paper m tell me whence they came, and the leers started to my eye* when I ihritiyht how kind he was, while I ARA POOPC:011P Of n glow of pride, when 1 !taw little Resit Lee flashing eith (liamonds, which encircled het 1, -- CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY. Homeseekers will find the route hyOhicago, Duluth, Fort Frances and Canadian Northern the most interesting And direct to Western Canada 1•0a, I MOP for SETTLERS' and HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS Apply to nearest fi rand Trunk Ticket Agent, or write C. Pince-opuses, Passenger Agent, Canadian Northern Building, Toronto A SOCIAL DISEASE That is what eminent specialis! on the subject cAl Consurnptic • The Metropolite:, ri Magazine [--,7 shows how Consumption ca, 1, overcome by concerted act '.i of the people. Reel the APRIL Number no Causes of Cons.;-notL- ^ 'Irma and neck, and slums among the c-orla of her hair. Bertha, my tasteful e siting tnsid- for I was getting quite ,,iitherfined- pronouneed me beauti- ful. sr she gave the finishing, ntroke 9 my toilet, while one, for selvage m 1 deent I cared still more. and who sII the time had been conning his evehl,rinr paper, apparently oblivious to the presence of white satin, point nee. orange flowers end diamonds. reenacted. "Yes, Bertha, your yming mistrerc in beautiful." nft.14/1 (TOM make a vast deal of difference in one's bloke, end if that night two-thirds of the three hundred pertieular friends, whose hands I shook, pronoutteed me "beautiful, handsome. (harming, lovely," and an thee it FRS owing chiefly, I think. to the fltnette of mv Mlles, and the bril- liancy rtf my diamonds. These last were the anhjeet of much remark, thee being the finest which had ever loon worn In W- -. tela very ft a *Mei Seri= . "Rho honed my 46 •i• •e• 4} Iattentive and approving. It IS true she eteeeted to Inv ,lescribing myself SA en cl. homely child. "Jolt tell de truffe and done wid it," she said; whereupon I assureil her that I had telt the truth. and then elle nuggerted that in order to make amen& for my ugliness T ehould represent myself as having been "peart like and smart." So, if the reader thinks I have made myself ton precocious the fault is chargeable to Bertha„for I did it !,t) pleme her. FA? two 'make- 1- -wrote.- .rosisk- lowing myself a moment" rent, and Bertha, who, when she sets how It wore upon me, began at last to ex- postulate. "Thar wasn't no 'region," she said. "to kill myself. when thar MSS heaps 'o niggers kickin' round under foot, and if miss "misted on writin' a book. why didn't ehe make sorne dem lazy critters do it for her!" At the end of two weeks Richard returned, &eking me as he looked in my face "what was the matter, and how I had spent my time?" Before I could answer, Bertha, who was quite incensed against my book. Raid. "she's done writiii. a pipeline teen, or somethile, and .6t8 up 'most all night. I tell hers how 'tvriU kill her. but she paysno 'tention!" The secret was out. and with many blughes I plead guilty. and produc- ing my manuscript. watched Richard while he read it. Over thef first chap- ter, where he thought I was going to die, he cried—or that is, tears came to his eyes; the third he skipped partially, the next entirely. and the next and the laftXt (I hope the reader has not done likevrisel; but when he found Dr. Clayton he read every word, his forehead tying itself up in knots, which, however, cleared away the moment he came upon himself at the theatre, though I believe he didn't feel much cemplinienttel by my de- scription of his personel appearance. There, jute in lie was introduced, the !dory ended. and fortunate was it for me that it didso for he deelared I should not write another word after I got through with him; and I pro- mised that I wouldn't. mentally re- solving 'hat it ahoeld be some time before I reached r ! point. This then, my reader. is the reason why T said no more of him, when fir -t 1 presented him to your notioe, but left him for a while in mystely. I knew Riehard was anxious to hear what did become of himself. and I fancied that if I wrote considerable before I saki anything very definite of him. he would- be more likely to let me finish the book, as he would not wish to waste so much paper for nothing! ..1,nd the seqeel proved that I was right. Regularly each day I wrote, Richard always stopping nip the mo- ment he thought 1 was tired, and in- variably breeking me off in the wrong place. sr) if there should be any parts of my story which do not join to- gether smoothly. you may know it was there that Richard took my pen from my hand, or hid the inkstand. Toward, the middle of August. in- vitations came to attend A large wed- ding in Charleston. 7 was exceed- ingly anxioua to go. having heard much of the bride, who wee a distant relative of my_ husband. and through both he and Mrs. Lanaing raised every conceivably objection to my .leaving home. I adroitly ..put etude all their •rgumenta, and ere Richard fully realised that he had been coated into doing something he had fully deter- mined not to do, we Were rattling along in a dusty Charleston omnibus towards one of the largest hotels, where rooms had been engaged for us. The morning after our arrival, I went into the publie parlor. and • as 1 seated myself at the piano I saw just acrom the room, near an open window. a quiet, intelligent -looking lady, apparently twenty-six or twenty- seven years of age. and near her sporting upon the carpet was a beau- tiful little girl with flowing marls and soft dark eyes, whieh instantly rivet- ed my attention. they were so like something I had seen before. At the sound of the music he came to my side, listening attentively, and when I had finished, she laid one white. chubby hand on my lap and the other on the kepi. saying, "Please play again. Rose like to hear you." "And so your name is Rose?" I answered. "Rose what?" "Rose Lee Clayton, and that's my new ma," she replied, pointing to- wards the lady, whose usually pale cheek was for an inet ilit suffueed with a blush ruch as brides only wear. I knew now why I had felt inter- ested in the child It waa tbe father which I saw looking at me through the eyes of brown, and taking the little creature in my arms. I was about to question tier of her sire, when an increasing glow on the lady's cheek and a footstep in the hall telt me he 'RBA coming' The next moment he stood belire me, Dr. Clayton! his face perfectly unruffled and wearing an expression nI coutent, at least, if not perfect happiness. I -Wee Foffatiduirtirli-Tal71.- 11eSS stealing over me, but by a strong effort I shook it off, and ris.ng to tny feet. I offered him my hand, which he pre:seed, pitying, "This ie indeed a nurpriee. Rose ---1 beg yotir pardon, Mrs. Delelleld, I suppose?" 1 nodded in the affirmative, and wits about to say something more, when another foreetep approached, and my husband's tall figure darken- ed the doorway. For an instant both turned pale, and Dr. Clayton (ramped the piano nervonsly; but the shock soon messed away, and then As friend meeta friend after a brief separation. RO met these two men, who but the year before had watched together over my pillow, praying, the one that I might live, and the other that I might die. Wrinderingly the little girl looked up into her father'e face, and pulling the skirt of my dents, said, "Who n the lady, pa? with the pretty curls So mueh like miner' Never before, 1 believe, did I like .Dr. Clayton an 1 did at that moment when I saw the deep tendernens whieh broke over his features sot he took his deughter in his arms, and preseing hie lipts to her foreheed. answered, "Tt is Rona Lee, my child, the lady for whom you were flannel." "Don't you love her, pa? T de," she' te.swkel:mtr:tething her little fat arnin glsneed at my hnehand—his brow was dark as mirinieht T looked ,it Dr clevten. thei', was a alight quiver fins of t,,s 11(111. while his wife wine pale IRP a water lily. end then I beret into a merry laugh, in which the 'tenth. - men soon jninM. theugh it wonld have pusakel 11R all to have told et whet we were letiehing After a few words of explanation am to why we were there, Dr Clayton suddenly remembered hirneeff, and leading me toward, the lade. Intro - timed her es "My wife, Mrs. Clayton." She had been living in Florida with a remain, at whose house they were married, Owed two weeks Were, and they were inner on their way tet Beaton. *topping for a few days in rharleeton to mew the ..it,. 1 fennel her R 'ere mite!, sensible woman. het as differ ant frem Dell Thomason. or Seas crest fortune staimlilii t Tots hirn my Mrs. Lansing'k pertv tVaft followed by many ninre, ancl ere I was aware of it Mre. Richard Delatielii was quite s belles what she raid. what Alla did, and whet she wore brain prononneed ail fait by the fashionableof W—. Clem all this Ada looked jealously: never ellowing an opportunity to page without speaking elightingly of me, though always careful that Richard ..11001d not know of it. In his pres- ence she was very kind., sitting at my feet. calling inc "Aunty," and treating me as if T had been twenty years her senior. At first she spent mlich more ot lier time et flttnny Bank than was at all agreeable to me. and 1- was not sorry when a little incident occurred -which in • measure tended to keel', ler away. She had always been in the habit of treating my husband with a great show of affection, and now that he WILL as she said. "an old married man," she -seemed to think it no matter how much she caressed him. Even I dared tiot seat myself upon his knee as cool- ly as she would. and tier temerity troubled me, particularly as I knew it wari annoyiog to him. -Thiri mug% have manifested in some way, for one morning, when as usual she entered our room without knocking, and perch- ed herself on Richard's knee, he _pushed her off saving half in earli- est, half in jest, "Den% act so foolish, Ada. you make me sick, for now that 1 hare Rosa to pet me I can easily diepense with your earestses, which are rather too much of a good thing." aria was angry, and with • little hateful laugh. she said. turning to me, "jealous, I suppose, and have read your better -half a lecture on propriety. When I marry. I trust I shall have faith enough in my hue- band'e love for me. not to care evert if he rime chance to look at some pr 1:;11"ew"Rieliard would vindicate my can. . en I remained silent while he ensweeed. ou do Rose injustice. for miter have we exchanged A word swarming the wanner you have assumed towarde me, and which I should suppnee your own sense of propriety •woold condemn. Were you mv wife ',would be different." "Your aife," interrupted Ada, with hitter scorn, ."I 'ern not your wife, thank fortune, neither did . I ever /tapir.* to be. and I have yet to see the -nowt A4144446 1 would -fog a moment thsik (if marrying," There eis- not the slightest cause for thie-spe---,t. but Ade was angry, and, Fie if t • exasperate her still more, Rie:iard--till!... 'asked, "Didn't you think nf • tarryinc Herbert Langley when rii - agegediyourself to him?" He hs' lieard tile whole .tory of Meadew Brook, hut this was the first time he had hinted it to Ada, who tweed very pale and withdut another word left the room. going back to Ceder Grove, where .for three weeks she pouted and cried alternately. At the end of that time, however, ithe coneluded. it, better to "make up;" go She wrote it note blue both, asking my pinion for her rudeness and beg- ging my husband to forgive her for the teeny falsehoods ishe had told eoncerning her engagement with Fier- iest. i.vhielt slie now frankly confess- ed. rit course we forgave her, and as she was not one who remembered any - thine long. she soon began to visit it; O.: of old. though she no longer ent (in my husband'. knee. or wound her twine around his neeks His re - Nike did her good, and she profited be it. while thh fact that he FRIA telly 'ware rif the deception she had prase- tirol tended to humble her, and oa rainy (ley., when Richard was nesse- ,nrily nwayfrom home, 1 found her -trite an agreeable companion. Thus 'the winter and spring passed awny. and my mother's letters began to crew urgent fer my return, but for ietriona reseone Richard did notthtnk it edvisable for me to undertake so Isms: it ,ireirney, and as Runny Bank we. ell the world to me. T very eheer- 'Silly enneented to wait until another eeason ere I visited my New England hornef About this time 1 was settled with mv olden desire for authorship, inAticed in e metutine by my knowing ho', mneh Mrs. Leneine reverenced anythang l'etTeli i-avored of il book- wr.ter. To be an authoress, then, and make het proud to own me am her tiefer, *an a subject over which 1 grew pale and "nervous," Richard said, while the mermen called me "flteety" and wondered "what done tailed Miss Rost," At butt, after many %rarebit nights and measles dnys, niter sick headaches, nervous headaches, and all kind of headachee, the Jaen win marked out for a story. I would be th, heroine myeelf and rive to ti." world as much of my il RfOty tie I thought proper and if I failed - if no railroad, steiiinboat, or stageemeh passenger ever pointed rne out as "the woman who wrote !het hook," or if my publishers "re - :peel fully declined" another bearing my ?signature. I thought I should still have the eatiefsetion of knowing I tied tried to benefit the world, end I felt almost sure that in Meadow Ilronk at tenet there were people stupid enotieh to buy my book and poesibly to like it, jute because 1.ttle Rosa Lee. who used to climb tem*. and hunt hen's eggs with them in her eitildiali days, had written it. So, one sunny morning in June, when my litieband had lett me to be gone for two weeks. I shut _myself up in my room, donned * Ione. wrepper, flicked hiek my atria., opened my writing silesk, took out A quire of foolscap. end loot just written "Meadow Brook,' tt hen the hell rang end Berth's 11 "a lady in the patter." With a deep eigh. as 1 thniteht how ."we A riter., dielikeil to lei disturbed," 1 errenged my eurls. reeented my enm. brie morning 'sewn, and went down In receive my %leiter, tellitor her that I was very well, that the weather was ter, warm, Hutt I etpected to he very irmety withnot my Mobutu', that her bonnet was very pretty, that 1 didn't think neutron as annoying and hate- ful is site did. other which she took her WIWI ; and I went bnek to my rurtnt.• thie time lo -king the door rinsl writing the first chapter of my book beton the bell rime for dinner Te Bertha 7 imparted my secret. rendlng to her retch page AS 1 wrote It, and though RI1P MRA not. perhaps, the most appreciating auditor nne Gaeta hairs. he was eartainly the name .1 Lee, as a pervert well mule be. ana I was wondering to myself how it watt possible for a man to Inve so rnany people of opposite temperaments, ' when she saM something about New . England, and 1 asked if she were ever there. "Oh. yes," she answered, "I was born theirs. in Wilbraham. Mass. I was living with the grandmother of the first Mrs. Clayton at the time of her death." In a moment it ail came to me; Dell had told me of Mabel Warrener, who had inherited her grandmother's for- tune, and now she sat there before me, Mrs Clayton ed Surely the freaka of fortune are wonderful! Nat- urally refined and intelligent Mabel had employed a part of her money in giving herself • good edema/ion, grad- u•ting at Mount Htoiyoke Female Bunn- inary and going thence back to her home in Wilbraham. which ehe bud fitted up with match taste, and where she was living when Dr. Clayton met her on his return from Georgia. Of her then he only thought al of a pleas- ant.. "grenade woman; but when time. absence, and my marriage had soften - el the keennem ot his disappointment, ha often found hie taloned' wander- ing towards the fair Mabel, who, up- on Inquiry, he leeened had gone to Florida. Ram needed a mother, and he needed • wile; so, idler an inter- change of letters, he one morning litarted with his little girl for the 'land of flowers," where neither sick- ness, nor death tsar yet a Richert Delafield, came helms= him and his bride Not a went hummer, did he say of tho past. or in any way allude to Georgia. except ones when he asked me if r did not Oen& Rose resembled Jessie in a 13100111070. I hsA thought of the same thing, though Roaa's eyes were darker and her hair more of • chestnut brown. els was a sweet lit- tle creature, and if anything oouid have reconciled me to being the wife a Dr. Clayton. it would have been the fact that she was nay daughter. But as I oonireistal the two men. as my eye fell on Dr. Clayton's hand- some faoe and curly looks, and then rested on the dark feature* end raven hair of Richard, I felt that in him there was more of the true, the noble man, end my heart warmly approved me for the ahoioe I had media Nearly all the morning we .at there talking on indifferent subjecte, and when dinner was over, Mrs Clarion name to my room, staying a long time, and gaining fast in my good opinion, when I saw how kind and friendly ,the lama. Elbe had heard the whole ,tory, for *he told me so. holdtng lit- tle Bose upon her lap and smoothing her silken curls. "We cannot all love tbe same per- 4on," eh midin conclusion; "and I am me gl .d you refused him, for other - edge he %mak' not have been my hug- hend"; snd her quiet eyee lighted up with • 1 ok of happiness which plainer than w ads could expres, told me that ate had brought to Dr Clayton din ied affections. At tho making of my toilet tor the .weddhig she waa present. aiding Ber- tha greatly by her own tastehil mg - amnions, and when at last I wee cheesed with perfect childish tinoplio- ity, she ran for her hueband "to come and SPA if I didn't look pretty." "Mrs_ Detail* was alwaya pretty te me." was theiael _octor's answer, and that was all be haid They were to leave early next morn- ing belore I would be op. and so when the carriage WAS immenmesd. we went to bid them goodaree "May T kias yriar sole:" Irked the doctor of my husband. RP he bead my hand "Certainly. sir." answered Richard, ••an even exchange ie always fair.' and instead ef once, he kissed the blushing Mabel twice, which of course gave Dr. Clayton liberty to d,• the same by me. Soddenly now -inhering somethiew which T had left ill my room, 1 went up for it, and on my way back glanc- ed into the puller. oceopeed by Dr Clayton. He was seated ripen the cola by the side of hie vette, around whose waist his arm was effection• ately thrown. while partly nn his lap nnd partly upon that of her step- rnothes was little Reap. her long ey -te F,11[INCORNiJIwp For Every Meall At breakfast with porridge "Crown Brand Syrup" is delicious. Used with plain puddinge.or made II p with pastry, odd scraps of cake, etc., it makes a delightful after dinner dessert. At supper it is just the thing to eat Al h Nvid- and butter, toast or biscuits. "CROWN BRAND SYRUP" is syrup at its best and in its most delicious and wholesome form. It is prepared in a perfect manner from absolutely pure ingredients. It is far ahead of all other kinds in deliciousness of flavor and perfect wholesomeness --- don't you think it's worth while insisting on "Crowe Brand Syrup?" Your dealer has it for you ill 3. 3, mend ao lb. air -tight tins with lift-off lids. Order scuts tosslay e - lashes drooping sleepily ever her eyes of brown. It wee a hearten]] tableau, and whenever I think of Dr. Clayton now, it is se I last saw him, happy and contented. for he has not only won a moat excellent wife, but also secured that el0,000, after all! CHAPTER XXXI1. Dear Reader. Just one year ago to -night the orange wreath and bridal veil were twined among my curls, and with a loving heart I stood up before the man of God and took upon myself the VOWS, which made me Richard's forever. The orange flowers are faded now, and the bridal veil looks 'oiled and worn, but the sunlight of happiness which shone upon Me when first he eallod me hie wife has grown brighter- and brighter as each day has unfolded to me some new virtue which I knew not that he possessed when he becema any husband. No shadow, however slight len et,..a fallen betvreen Ul, for tho i 'ie hies a fiery temper and an is . eitable will, they are both under perfect con- trol, and so much eonfidence have 1 in his love for me, that should I ever 11 any way come in collision will. his temper or his will, I have faith to believe I could bend the one and nubdue the other. Every eomfort and luxury which affection can dictate or! money procure ha PA been rethered. around me. until my home 'seems to me a second paradise. The fervid beet of summer has pain- ed, anti the hazy light which betokens the fall of the leaf has come. On the northern hale. they say, the Novem- ber RDOWS have already fallen, but we are still baekine in the soft sunlight of n most gloriem autumn; and ars I write, the south wind entnee in through the open window. whimperine to rue of the fading flowers. whew - perfume it gathered as it fleetest along Islet opposite me, in a willow chair, with her head buried in c tewerina turban of royal purple, sits Juno, it middle-aged woman, nodding to the breeze, which otuassaionally brindle mud her so fast that she lazily opens her eyes, and with her long-heelea tent given ft jog to the roaewood m -ib, wherein lies owleoping a little tins thing vrhieh was left here five weeks ago to -day. Oh, how n4.1 mid fenny it neerned when Richard first laid on my arm a Itttlei leindle of eambrie and lam, and whiepered in my PAT "Would you Mrs to seri air baby," Sho is 11 treat net, and shenld tie book newer eaeh so far RR Georgie Mts. 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