A Reconstructed Marriage

ing company of her friends, Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Oliphant; and as the winter passed her health and strength and beauty returned to her. This rene

er Sunday, Robert Campbell spo

t this morning's serv

ugh about the circumstance. There is no

etter not go to ch

am I to be denied the comfort of my Easter sermo

. This time you

d I need no warnings. I am not a creature made

music, Theodora will take you with

, how happy

sit decently in our own pew

, and he laid his hand kindly

and you say the truth,

of his long pastorate. His tall, stately form, his piercing eyes, his thin face-austere but tender-were nev

he dead, and become the fir

ized by his own lively, living faith. He had caught the very spirit of Paul, and was carried by it far b

he dead, and become the fir

re a few moments of profound, sensitive silence. Then, like a lar

t my Redeem

of humanity. The ecstasy of hope, the surety of faith, the glory of man's destiny filled with un

step, that f

orizon's gr

life that kn

at maketh al

music with her own beautiful, happy soul, and the con

ver woman was his wife, and that she loved him. He went to the foot of the gallery stairs and waited there for her. He clasped her hand and looked in

n usual, but he entered his wife's presence with such a plea

lla at Inverkip, and there is another to let a few hundred yards distant. Inverkip is so near Glasgow, I could ru

I should b

no and books and what other things you wish easily shipped the

make me more happy

e near them. There may be some nice families there, and

and Dr. Robertson soon followed her. Inverkip was hardly a fashionable summer resort, but it was pleasant and sec

eceded them nearly a week. So the villa was in comparative order and a perfect little dinner awaited them. Theodora experienced a child's enchantment; her simple, eager surprise, her deep sense of the wonder and beauty of the broo

a

find its

re, lord of th

the sens

and the larches and pines are whispering like a thousand girls. O, it is heavenly! And listen to the waters running and leaping down the mountains! It i

ngtime! the

not kno

tle birds be

uds begin

d the clouds pl

bs are soft

mounts to the

er's tende

me, in the joyo

while I smoke my cigar." And she went gladly, and they walked and talked toget

t six months of it would make him impatient of any intrusion into the sacredness of his home. And she was full of sweet, innocent plans to increase and settle certainly and firmly the treasure of his love. They kept her waking, so she rose long befo

oks and ornaments she had brought down to Inverkip. Robert praised what she had done, vowing she would make

wife visited and helped her friends, and they spent long, pleasant evenings at each other's houses. Theodora said to he

favorable on every side. The social life of Inverkip could not in its present conditions be called fashionable, and that was a good thing, for few women can go into fashionable society without catching i

t purified by walking on them. She was passionately fond of birds, and had the po

that man l

ird with sc

le Engli

in the air, and chattering so amiably; the tiny wren's quick, short song; the fond and faithful bullfinch couples; the honest, respectable thrushes; the pilfering blackbirds; the nightingale's solemn music in the night; the lark's velvety, supple, indefatigable song in the early morning-these, and many more of the winged voices

here had been invasions of the lower man, but in the main he was joyous and amiable, thoughtful for her comfort, and delighted to share all her hopes and pleasures. He had insisted on his mother and sisters going to the Bridge of

ake off her bonnet and shawl. "I hae been thinking things o'er," she said, "and I hae made up my mind to stay wi' you the next four weeks-for

ice, good g

nd they hae no experience. I am going to take car

m in splend

e, and some one to keep people out o' the house that arena wanted near it. I am

y will have to m

all you don't want. I am gey fond o' newborn babies-poor wee things, shipwrecked on a cold, bad world-and if there isna some sensible kind-hearte

ean? You frigh

it in whiskey as soon as it comes into the world, and there is nae doubt in

what a dread

mair that stick to it. If Mrs. Traquair Campbell should be here, I'm feared t

not per

u managed that woman you had to nearly die to do it, a

here, McNab. She

ay, and then she'll proceed to use her son's house as if the de'il had sent her to destroy everything that belongs to other folk;

Campbell is very different. You m

e love you're giving him; the other is like the auld man that tormente

you a holiday until the first of Se

ir holiday tha

e wer

, seeing the world

hink of the wor

'll go now, and give things a bit sort u

t commanding manner, "I am come here on a special invite to keep you and the house in order during the tribulation o' the mistress. But you'll fin

lassie; "the lads! We have not a par

s your

ggi

ke Mistress McNab-that's mysel'-a cup o' tea, and if there

er meat nor pi

d dinner is a fixed fact wi' me, and when I've had a cup o' tea I'll feel mair like Flora Mc

so. "I am delighted," he said. "I have known the woman ever since I can remember. She stood by my father in h

of making those ruled pleased to be so. Thus, for two weeks, Theodora had a sense of pause and rest that was strengthening both to the inner and outer woman. Then in the secret silence of the midnight, her fear was turned into joy,

omary is one of the most common and ungrateful of our blasphemies against the Father from whom all blessings flow. And very soon the beautiful babe became as usual as the other everyday incidents of life, to all e

for the mother to accept this change of attitude with nonchalance, or even cheerfulness. She could not withstand the influence of the dull, gray house, and the toiling, moiling, money-grabbing city, though she felt intuitively that the influence of both was inimical to her domesti

. All Theodora's smiling efforts, all her charms and entreaties had failed to conciliate, or even appease its grudging resentment. It was a piteous thing that the first trouble after her return to Glasgow, should be concerning the child. Robert had been p

the Campbell babies had, as McNab knew right well. And she understood there had not been a single Campbell in the room when he was born-an imp

ttled by the criticism. "He cannot do bette

et been baptized. Seven weeks old and not baptized! I never heard the like. My children we

sure of the name. A boy's name mean

roper for the child, tha

Traquair?"

air-a fine

at Robert, and he understoo

d, "I have a great o

ion! Pr

ame for my father. It is

quair, and he made a

at is different. Traquair is a good family

ora. "Donald is a good name, though I

no David Campbells in this house! I will not suffer my gr

you. I am quite willing my

his opinion was given with that over-decision which

great annoyance to me," continued Mrs. Campbell

as far as it was likely to be reasonable. In a short time Robert

on the name yet, R

N

ll him afte

ed to write 'senior' after my own name. I do not care to

ald, or Dugald, or Duncan, or Angus, or Hector, or Alexander, they are all Christian names and will not subject the little lad when he goes among the boys and men, to mockery. Traquai

will not do. I

l orator. I noticed your speech, and its delivery at Dr. Robertson's dinner, when we were at Inverkip. It was the best speech made. It was finely delivered. You are rich

Dora," replied Robert, but he spok

cide on David? You love your big brother yet. You never speak of him without emotion. He will come back to you,

said it and it shall be so. Mother must give way. She must remember f

er arms and said: "Ducie, the baby is to be called David." Then she kis

entered his name in the large family Bible, which had been the fi

efused. All of the household were present but the infant's grandmother and aunts; and all blessed the child as Theodora put him a moment into the arms of the women present. McNab kissed him, and made a

ny cases it is better than love. Men are not always in the mood to be loved, their minds may be busy with things naturally antagonistic to love; and to show a warmth that is not shared is a grave mistake. But all men are responsive to admiration

ly, by a few admiring or sympathizing words? For though a woman will go through hard work and distracting events without praise or sympathy, a man cannot. If admiration and kindness fail him, he flies to the black door of oblivion by drink, or drugs, or a pistol shot. A man with a wife whose sympathy and admiration can be relied on, is never guilty of that sin. Is th

lways flung themselves into the domestic gulf. They choose to throw away their own happiness in order t