A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 56: what you’re looking at

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54 A LADY BACHELOR. tribulation, the answer was so man-like. Ordinarily he was calm, but it took but a light breeze to ruffle the calm- ness, and then, at times, there followed a tempest. ‘** A great trouble has come to us, Henry. Do you not suspect it?’’ ** Yes, 1 suspect it; Eloise and George have quarreled, and you two women, woman-like, are making a mountain out of a mole-hill. You must stop it; I can’t stand this worry—there is no occasion for it.’’ The wife looked at her husband in a peculiar manner, even wistfully, and said: ** 1 wish you were right.’ ‘*T am right. Women are always imagining all sorts of mishaps; their sensitiveness is so keen that a man can’t look thoughtful without exciting some weird dread. I suppose there has been a little misunderstanding, and you and Eloise are exciting yourselves about nothing, and it must stop—that’s all.’ The wife thought a moment. There came a suggestion that it might be a good idea, for the present, to Jet her husband rest under the misapprehension. But no, she was too truthful and frank a nature,“ and again the affair might assume a phase that would make it necessary to tell him all. ** Henry,’’ she said, ** you are mistaken; it’s not a lov- ers’ quarrel that has come between Eloise and George. ’”’ ‘* What is it, then?’’ ** He has cruelly and meanly deserted our daughter. ”’ There came to the father’s face a look of blank aston- ishment. Gomichbooks