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    Mli. ERANKLANJbV MARRIAGE. 4#5

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    I^» I——I Have Passed My Life As A Dressm...

    _sOmg Mrs Interest . Frankland in the had love made affair me of the promise " poor to devils come / the ' as ¦ ' ¦ ¦ lie very calle first d them spare .

    afternoon I should have after her marriage to drink tea in her new house . This was situated in a small row in the suburbs ; I should

    have fixed upon it by the new paint , the fresh muslin blind and geranium in the window , had not the little bride run out herself to

    welcome me . She "was all bright with blushes and smiles , and I seemed to have made her so happy by coming , that a sort of

    comin p did lacent coming she feeling not to show take stole me my over over tea . me her , With as house if what I had the prett done air with y something vanity which and she very deli sty kin g led ht d

    , the little front parlor " the drawing-room , " the tiny lobby "the hall" and the little grass-plot and one flower-bed " our garden . "

    Hemember , , she never had had a home , and this ordinary little house looked to her a palace ! Blissful tears were in her eyes as she spoke

    of her husband , how good , how kind , how clever he was . What an exquisite joy it was both to him and her to be really loved , and

    find themselves of consequence to a single living creature . - home Long before He had we become had finished quite our another conversation person , Mr even . Frankland his lameness came

    . , seemed lessened , he walked erect , his plaintive smile was exchanged for one as briht as his little wife ' s whom he bantered so fondly .

    g sociable Tea having meal been , thoug broug h ht the in cakes by the were one of servan a most t , Betsey extraordin , we had ary a kind very ,

    invented and a shap by ing Mrs wine . Frankland -glass . , Her out husband of dough , thoug by the ht hel they p of came currants from

    the confectioner ' s—what could she do that was not best ? Ah happy little bride , sharing the prerogative of royalty that cannot do wrong !

    After tea , Mr . Frankland showed me a present he said he had made himself the minn , the ow- manuscri fry of poets pt of have his their wife ' s van poetry ityas prettil could y be bound seen . in Even the

    , little woman ' s gratified smile . In her last sonnet upon her new home , I , who was not in love , could not repress a smile at the epithets ,

    " rural shades , " " rosy bowers , " and _" verdant meads , " bestowed on the little pert brick housethe broken ground oppositeand the little

    flower court with its white , -washed wall . Mr . Frankland , , not liking perhaps to seem deluded before a third person , likewise demurred

    here a little . " Well , well ! " he concluded , "it is well that a poor man ' s wife should be an alchemist . "

    Two le a happy promise years of the passed one away only , blessing and then wanting there came : Mrs on . this Frankland united

    coup was about to become a mother . Pier husband's happiness was , at first and , his alloyed manly by protecting some little love care chafed . Theirs at the was fear but of a priv narrow ation income for his ,

    SusaJi . But as , Susan presently cheered away every cloud , it was impossible to be miserable about one who was so perfectly contented

    herself . And then , came the prospect of a possible addition to Mr .

    _frankland ' s salary . It was but ten pounds a year it must be con-

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/45/