She was on to Him.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

She was on to Him.

"Alfbed de GaijOßß," said his wife, while her superb bosom heaved like a seasick landsman in his first storm, " I have always tried to be a good and faithful wife to you ; day by day I have flung your bootjack so far under the bed that you had to get on your hands and knees and rake it out with the tongs ; I have carefully arranged the coal scuttle so that you might find it first thing when you came home late at night ; I have done the marketing myself and bought shanksteaks, prematurely aged fowls and oleomargarine for butter; I have piled up your books and tidied up your, room so that yeu oould'nt find anything you wanted for six weeks afterward. All these things have I done, freely and uncomplainingly, but there ia a limit to wifely duty, and I can bear no more. We must part 1 I have loved you so fondly »» Her fair head drooped, and the hot tears welled up into her eyes in an agony of grief such as she had never known since her fair young girlhood, when in Alfred's presence she stubbed her toe and fell over » washtub just when she meant to be graceful and fawnlike. Meanwhile, Alfred had been taking it all in with a dazed, helpless can't-stand-up-for-the-fourth-rouncl expression on his aristocratio South Park" face. When he spoke, his voice w*s husky with corner-grocery emotion, and this is what he oaid : "Why is this my own?"~for Alfred was trying to work^the virtuous-ignorance racket — "What have I <"ddne? vMay I not. know/ the heighthand breadth, of mine ..offence ?' It "fleemeth even" thatf" one rp"f , your "worsi, attacks of new bpfnel^Wjy.this rash4aM,orner§nger V\, __ * ;X^Bscaf«>,|: : ;i phefeMMeSL^ttaOTgh t. he^

olenohed teeth, " beoanse it's a f ool-worn» who hires a pretty nurse girl !" ' ->- >^