Part 146 (1/2)

”Has she then repined at the change?”

”Repined! she has been nothing but sweetness and good humor Indeed, she seems in better spirits than I have ever known her; she has been to irl!” exclaimed I, ”You call yourself poor, my friend; you never were so rich--you never knew the boundless treasures of excellence you possessed in that wo at the cottage were over, I think I could then be comfortable But this is her first day of real experience: she has been introduced into an hu its miserable equipues of domestic employment--she has for the first tiant--al down, exhausted and spiritless, brooding over a prospect of future poverty”

There was a degree of probability in this picture that I could not gainsay, so alked on in silence

After turning from the main road, up a narrow lane, so thickly shaded by forest trees as to give it a coe It was huh in its appearance for therural look Just as we approached we heard the sound of rasped , in a style of thesimplicity, a little Scotch air of which her husband was peculiarly fond

I felt Leslie's hand tremble on my arm He stepped forward to hear ravel walk A bright beautiful face glanced out at theand vanished--a light footstep was heard--and Mary ca forth to meet us She was in a pretty rural dress of white; a feild floere twisted in her fine hair; a fresh bloom was on her cheek; her whole countenance beamed with smiles--I had never seen her look so lovely

”My dear George,” cried she, ”I a for you; and running down the lane and looking out for you I've set out a table under a beautiful tree behind the cottage; and I've been gathering some of the most delicious strawberries, for I know you are so fond of the is so sweet and still here--Oh!” said she, putting her arhtly in his face, ”Oh, we shall be so happy!”

Poor Leslie was overcoht her to his bosoain--he could not speak for the tears gushed into his eyes

He has often assured one prosperously with him, and his life has indeed been a happy one, yet never has he experienced a moment of more exquisite felicity than the tie in the country

--_Washi+ngton Irving_

2021

Better a fortune in a wife, than with a wife

2022

A GOOD WIFE

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day, new; as if a gown like a stratageood wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so reets what she is by--oods, the best is a good wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life

--_Simonides_

2024

HUSBAND AND WIFE

Be joined to thy equal in rank, Or the foot of pride will kick at thee; Let no one have thy confidence, O wife, Saving thy husband: Have not a friend more intimate, O husband, Than thy wife