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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1886-10-15, Page 22 ,p.bui,a,a,a'.N'A' .pmt/. vocoramtAvurr -rsr-rad ?em ..� M1F,.nX_ liYtJ A V.A.GB -NT WIFE. 33r 3' WLamm THE BRUSSELS POST �w� OCT. 15, 1885.. FARM. atu O,p BALE B a. wMmerwnma,.n ws.,mstw'!q x°""-"atxu�fmd+n" _�. -� wedded Husband who already negleated and, iu fact, bored her. She was ueoful to him in a way; he was a trills mors orderly in hie mode of life since lua marriage ; she wrote his lettere, or to Author of "Tint notes oN Tun Menem,/ him what to say and how to spell the AT nee Wcarn's Ignitor," Hee, words. She did not caro enough about courteous," said Annie, fearful of being ungracious to a guest—one too who she could not help liking. "I am sure you do not ; therefore I know I must have been guilty of some most unintentional offence to be �lpun- ished with the severe snub I received last week. May I know what I have done ?" He was gently putting her in the wrong, and she felt uncomfortable and inclined to be remorseful. It was Lilian who had introduced him, and she her- self had welcomed his visits. She an- swered deprecatingly— "You have done nothing to offend me; it was on account of Lilian." The words might have been dictated by a feeling of jealousy; but the tone in which they were spoken precluded that idea, Colonel Richardson did not pretend to misunderstand her. " I see,' ho said, after a short pause. "But I think I have been rather hardly dealt with. I am forced by circum- stances to remain in town when most of my friends have left it, and my wife, who is an invalid, is staying at Bourne- mouth. M the house of a common friend I make the acquaintauce of a charming girl, whose relations, being in deep mourning, receive few visitors. She, finding me rather forlorn and friendless, offers to introduce me to her sister•in-law, an equally charming lady. I accept the offer eltgerly—trespass per- haps too much upon the kindness of both ladies in coming whenever I have a chance to see them, am rightly pun. ished when—" " Oh, no, no—forgive mel" cried Annie, overwhelmed with remorse at the apparent strength of the case against her. ' I would not for the world hero risked wounding you but for Lilian, You know how harsh the world is to such a beautiful young girl, and the pleasure we both took in your society has beau already misconstrued in her case and has alarmed her friends. I have been very frank—perhaps too frank ; but I think it was better, was it not ?" she added pleadingly. Of course he foigave her readily enough ; and Annie, who felt that her husband would not he above listening ab the keyhole, if jhe thought anything in - him to put any irksome restraint upon him, having seen early that her re- proaches only made him drink more and spend more of his time with his inferiors; but, on the whole, her iulin- onoe improved his habits somewhat, Sho said to herself, with a hitter smile, that, by marrying, she had taken only a rather harder situation as governess, with novo of the comforts of home and a ttrooarioue salary. She packed up her thaws gloomily for their journey, and her cart souk lower and lower as they neared its end, Harry, on the contrary, grew more and more excited and lighthearted as the train approached Beckham. His happiness at finding himself again on the way to his beloved doge and horses found vent in a burst of affection. He bounced into the seat next to his wife at the last stoppiug station but one, when, two passengers having got out, they were left alone in the carriage. Then he treated her to a rough embrace. " Aren't you glad to have left that smoky holo behind you and come into the air again—oh, Annie ?" But Annie was not, and a furtive tear told him so. He kissed her pretty face which the yachting trip had bronzed. Don't cry, dear. Do you remember our last journey on this line, Annie, when you were so frightened because I jumped in, and wanted me to get out at the next station ? And what a long time it was before I could make you leave off Drying I But you have nothing bo cry about now, you know; and I want you to look your best when we get. to the statioo, that everybody may say what a pretty little wife I've brought home. teresting was going on at the other side of the door, hastened to dkop the confidential tone of their conversa- tion. Lilian being now offended without remedy, there was no reasou to put any further check upon Colonel Richardson's visits. Ho did not call so often as before; but Annie was most grateful for the breaks he afforded in her mono- tonous life. They spent the greater part of hot August in London, for the most hopeless of reasons, they could not afford to go away. Harry got a little money—she did not know how, and was afraid to ask; but even he saw that they must be careful with it. However, in the last days of the month they got an invita- tion to go for a voyage in a yacht, and the five weeks they spent in that way were the happiest Annie had over known. Thera was only one other lady on board, the wife of the owner, and a much older woman ; so Annie was a little queen for the time, and received unlimited attention from every man but her husband, who showed however to greater advantage in her eyes than he bad ever done before, for ho knew how to manage a yacht as well as . he knew how bow to manage a horse, and was, in fact, the beet sailor on board. By the first of October they were again in London, Harry more sulky, hie wife more reserved than ever, This could not last long. One morning at breakfast he threw a letter in a shamefaced sort of way across to his wife. It was from George, and contained a renewal of his offer to receive them at the Grange. The poor little wife had reason to dread this ar- rangement now, for Lady Braithwaite and Lilian, both of whom disliked her, the one for receiving Colonel Richardson and the other for dismissing him, were at tho old home at Garston°. She read the letter and gave it bank. " Are you going to accept ?" she ask- ed simply, Well, I don't see what else there is to be done," he answered, without look. ing ab her. "It is only fair that be should help us ; and perhaps it is true that he can't spare enough just now to give me my duo and lab me go. Wo might go there for a month and try it, There would be some shooting now and some hunting later on, at any rate. And you would bo more comfortable with Lil and mother tbau here by yourself, I'm sure." Ansi° did not try to undeceive him upon that point. She saw, by the eagerness with which he alluded bo the country pleasures ho was going back te, that nothing she could say would alter hie determination to accept his bro. thee.:U-iar, riliohad kuownitmusbcoma to this ; so she hoard his decision quiet- ly, and prepared with a heavy heart to go back to Gersten°, a ploco full of bit. ter memories to her, for it was there she had been dismissed without a kind word by the cold 14iainwarings, and it was theta she had met her husband, to be a butt ddnncrushinshe g down her lib and robbing hor of the career she lead been fond of picturing to hexeol& Por Annie was too high,prinaipled a girl to try to undo her own act by leaving the tliroo.months. But there was nothing in this speech soothing to Annie, who looked anything but het best when they did steam into Beckham Station. Sir George was on the platform to meet them, with a dog. cart waiting outside, and Barry felt disgusted and angry with his wife, when logically he should have felt glad, as he saw by his brother's first glance at her that he thought her; appearance much changed for the worse. George drove, and Annie sat beside him, while Harry got ftp behind with the groom. She was not very entertaining to -day, though she tried hard to be so ; but there was something pathetic to George in her attempts to be lively, and the very tons of her sofb voice had a charm in them. selves to him ; so that he was touched, and listened to her with a quiet kindli. nese in his manlier which made a much greater impression upon her than the compliments and tender tones he had used to hor before her marriage. " I hope yon don't so vary much mind having to come and live at the Grange We will all try to make yon happy,' he took the opportunity of saying whet Harry's voice, in hot argument with the groom, rose loudly enough to drown the tete-u-tete in front. She looked up at bite gratefully, with the too -ready tears in her oyes. "Thank you; 1 am sure you will," she said gently. Words better left unsaid to the heart sore and neglected little wife rose to his lips ; but her straightforwardness and a lull in the conversation at the back checked them—for the present. Sho treasured up those few 'words of kindness and welcome, all the more carefully thatthe greetings she received from the rest of the family were cruelly cold. Lady Braithwaite and her dough - ter held out icy hands to her ; Stephen behind her natural reserve and seem not bo Dare, but there followed a bitter. reaotion wiles she was alone. It was a long time before tho gentle- men camp in to break the silence in the drawing.reels. Lady Braithwaite was dozing, Lilian was ribbing en the hearth. rug, playing wibh a retriever pup, Auni° was softlytryiug over songs at the piano at the other end, Sounds of high voices and loud laughter Dame from time to time morose the hall; at last they heard the dining -room door open, and Harry's voice above the rest in tones of bigb excitement. "I tell you I can prove it, I can prove it t" he was saying to George as bhey two mane in first ; his face was flushed and his gait unsteady, and his manner more dictatorial than over. "How can you prove it?" asks George, who might have been drinking as much, but who showed it less. "By a paper I've got somewhere. Annie," said he to his wife, scarcely turning towards where she sat at the piano, " where is that American paper the Colonel gave me, about the trotting - matches ? " I packed it with your papers. I can find ib if you want it." "Yes, yes, I want it. Then I'll show you I was right," said he triumphantly to his brother. Annie had risen, and was crossing the room to the door. George interposed. " No, no, not to -night. Don't you see she is tired ? You can't ask her to ransack your porbmantean to -night for a paper of no importance. It will do to- morrow." No, it won't do to -morrow," said Harry, who was not in a state to brook contradiction, " I say.I will prove it to you now, to -night. It is of importance, of great importance, very important Yon said I was wrong ; I say I'm right, and I'll prove it." Before the end of this speech, the last words of which were spoken with halt- ing gravity, Annie had left the room, gently insisting upon passing George, who would still have tried to prevent her going. Harry, luckily, did not see his brother's dood•natured attempt to save his tired little wife a tedious search for an old newspaper. She went up to their room; ib was Harry's old room, with a second little bed put up in it. His portmanteau had been unstrapped. She turned out tiro gas in trying to turn it up : so she opened the door and dragged the portmanteau into the corri- dor, under the burner outside. Fatigue had dulled her faculties, and it was a long time before she found what she wanted. She was still searching when she heard heavy footsteps behind her, and, looking round from where she was on her knees, she saw Wilfred loan- ing against tho friendly wall. Let mo help you," said he; and he knelt down beside her, not without dif- ficulty. She thanked him, though his assist- ance was not likely bo prove valuable. " Harry is a brute to yon," he said aolemuly. " Oh,•no : he is only a little thought- less 1 "Yes, he is," said Wilfrid. " He is a brute, because be is a fool. But he will have to treat you better now he has brought you home. We'll see to that." " Oh, T hope you won't interfere ; it would only make it a great doal worse for me 1 He is not Crilel to me, and 1 don't mind his neglect." "I dare say you would rather have his neglect than his attention, and I quite agree with you. And now you have three Moe new brothers, who will give you all the attention you want," said he, looking at her affectionately over the portmanteau, while he sup. ported himself on his elbows on the edge of it. had evidently taken sides with them ; Wilfred was kind, but rather indifferent; and William, the youngest, was res- trained by a very needless fear of exci- ting Harry's jealousy from showing the warmth he really felt towards the sad- lookinglittle lady who had mode such a deligtful play -fellow. The fatigue she felt after such a long journey matted her from talking much. She sat very quiet during dinner, feel- ing scarcely awake, and hardly catching the sense of the talk going on around bee. Lilian did not know very much about the odds for the great races which were under discussion ; but she liked to think she did, and joined in the conver- nation confidently. Lady Btaithwaito listened with interest to the sort of squabbling laying down of the law on their favourite subjects to which her sons bad accustomed her for years. Harry was rampant, rejoicing to find himself ones more able to hold his own in the talk around him; he drank more than usual, eontradieted everybody, and, as George quietly said, did his best to make his unobtrusive pfssenoefelt. Annie alone took no part in it all, but sat dreading the time when she should have to accompany the other ladies into the drawingg-room and be at their mercy. At last the moment came. She fol- lowed them quietly, receiving a parting chill at the coningg-room door from the steady way in which crippled Stephen, who liked to show his activity by jumping up to open tho door for them, though he was not the nearest to it, looked on the ground and not et her, as she passed. It was not so bad as she had expected, after all. Lilian had no pottiness, and did not descend to small persecutions. She did not show much cordiality, but hunted out all the newest songs from amongthe music for Annie to try, and. thon eft hor to amuse herself. Annie was grateful for this; it took her out of the range of Lady Braithwaits's clisap- proving eyes, and the occupation of trying now music kept hor own tears from falling. Sho could defend herself or oven attack boldly in argument 01 dispute, but this armed coldness took all the spirit ant of her; sho could retreat MONEY TO LOAN. Money to Loan cm .Cares Property at LOWEST RATES, PRIVATE AND COMPANY FUNDS, B, DICT{9ON, Solicitor, Brussels, Ont. Money to Loan. FUNDS. ,20, 000 of Private Funds have just been placed iu my hands for Investment AT 7 PEII CENT. Borrowers eau have their loans complete lu threo days if title is satisfactory. Apply to E. £.WADE. 010 ng acres, south part lot It on ld son., coutalnina 45 "claw. Lot 1411 partly cleared, the h%I- °rodeo the ltimbered. b nq"iitta vonever ptedforfarelt m. log or grazing. LOUD is mostly cleared and under good onlbivati0n, the balance well bered With bison dab, Will soli nil together or in Sart ato suit tbo purellasor. Fer iurthor particulars apply to the proprietor on the Premises. This lot is well dniini d. AVERY HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co. 11 CUSTOM TAILORING. The undersigned bogs laevo to intimate to the public that he has opened a tailor shop in the Garfield House blook, over Powell's store, where he is prepared to at- tend to the wants of the public in outtlug, fitting and slaking olothieg in the latest and meet fashionable styles. ltfy bong ex- perience together with a course of instrue. tion under one of the best ostlers in Toren10 is - y work. aguarantee of Satisfaction guaranteed. dtd tis- factorsi.8m 14. A. BEER. This Company i s Loaning Money on Farm Security at LOWEST BATES of Interest. " Thank yen; you won't find me very exacting," said she, turning over some papers in search of the one she wanted. But he would not go. " You may be as exacting as you like to me," he continued, monotonously; "I would do anything for you. You are a sweet, good little lady, and yon may take me to church if you like. She had at last found what sho want- ed, and rose quickly from her knees, while Wilfred slowly followed her ex- ample. She had shut the portmanteau and pushed it book into the room before he had time to do more than offer to do so, As she shut the door and was going down.stairs, he put his hand gently on hor arm, and they went down.stairs to- gether. In the hall he said gently— " You need not think I am offended because you wouldn't lot me help you," 'and went off to the billiard room. Wilfred was the most notorious re- probate of the lot ; but the instincts of a gentleman showed eftsuer inhim than in the others. Annie went on to the drawing xoom, where her husband, reproaching her for being so long gone, seized the paper from her, But his hands and eyes were too unsteady to find what he wanted, and elle had to find and read it out to him. The passage, about the pace of a cele- brated American trotting -mare, proved Harry to be right, and he triumphed loudly, nob remembering to thank his wife for her trouble. Then he asked her to write to her late lodging for a pipe and a pair of spurs he bad left behind, and again she quietly left the wow, am went into the study to do so. This time it was William who inter- rupted her. He knocked softly at the door, and came in rather shyly. I thought I'd show you where the pons and paper are," said ho; and he collected the writing materials for her and hunted for a stamp while she wrote. Then, when she bad directed the en. velope, ho put the stamp on and brought his fist down upon it with an 0005055- sary thumb, " What. se that for ? " MORTGAGES PURCHASED. 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