THEY NEVER GOT OVER IT.
Do you know, my dear, she suddenly • said, as she looked up from her piecework—do you know that next week will be the twentieth anniversary of • our wedding ? Is that so ? By George, how time -flies ! Why, I had no idea of it. Yes we have been married almost 20 long years, she continued, with .something of a sigh. You have been a good husband to me, darling. And you have been a blessed little -wife to me, Susan. Come here till I .kiss you. There. 1 was thinking to-day—l was thinking of—of Of that sickly-faced baboon who ■used to go home with you from the prayer-meeting before I knew you ? he interrupted. Who do you mean ? Why, that Brace fellow, of course. Why, George, he wasn’t such a bad .fellow. Wasn’t he ? Well, I’d like to tknow of a worse one. He didn’t know •enough to chew putty, and there you were as good as engaged to him. Yes, George, but you know you •were keeping company at the same (time with that Helen Perkins. That Helen Perkins ! Wasn’t Miss Perkins -one of the lovliest and prettiest ladies in Liverpool ? No, she wasn’t. She had teeth like a horse! She did, eh ? How about that white beaded Brace ? And such big feet as she had. Why, George, she was the laughing-stock of the .town. Not much she wasn't. She was a young lady who would have made a model wife. Then .why didn’t you marry her and all her moles and warts ana mushroom eyes ? Don’t talk that way to me. Her eyes were as nice as j ours. They were not They were. I believe you are sorry you didn’t marry Brace. And 1 know you are sorry because you didn’t marry that beautiful and accomplished Miss Perkins. I am, eh ? 1 thoughtyou said I bad been a good husband to you. And didn’t you call me your blessed little wife?
Then he plumped down and began to read the mortgage salesand advertisements in the paper, and she picked up her sewing and gave the cat a gentle kick. These old things will come up now and then, and somehow neither side ever gets entirely over them. — Detroit Free Dress.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1069, 4 May 1882, Page 4
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