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He was accompanied by his wife, a stout, resolute matron, in heavy boots, a sensible stuff gown, with a lot of cotton lace fudged about her neck, and a broad brimmed hat with a vegetable garden on top.
She was always going abroad to seek out intellectual affinities, and was one of the group of young women who followed Wagner about in his old age, keeping at a respectful distance, but receiving now and then a gracious acknowledgment that he appreciated their homage. When the composer died, Katarina, then a matron with a family, took to her bed and saw no one for a week.
They descended the hill to Tophet and the King's Garden, and paused in the deep trail furrowed through them by centuries of wayfaring. "I am afraid of the road," the matron said. "Better that we keep to the country among the rocks and trees. This is feast-day, and on the hill-sides yonder I see signs of a great multitude in attendance. By going across the Mount of Offence here we may avoid them."
The new comers woke at the sound; and I presently discovered that it took a very bad wound to incapacitate the defenders of the faith for the consumption of their rations; the amount that some of them sequestered was amazing; but when I suggested the probability of a famine hereafter, to the matron, that motherly lady cried out: "Bless their hearts, why shouldn't they eat?
He glanced quickly from one to the other, the pale girl by his side, the startled young matron in front, and the statuesque soldier, respectfully standing with his hand at the cap visor. "Pardon, madame; the quartermaster sends me to unload these boxes at Captain Truscott's quarters, if madame will designate the room to which they shall be carried."
"Elizabeth Richardson was inquiring if you were coming," said the Matron. "Will you go up and see her?" Elizabeth Richardson was lying in the bed that had been Jane's. She looked less peevish and more tended. Anne glanced at the fireplace as she entered. The armchair had been moved back, and no one sat at the fire. She sighed and turned to Elizabeth. "Yes, it's very comfortable," said Elizabeth.
I am afraid it is not a very dignified confession for an elderly matron to make, but those impromptu gymnastics on forms are amongst the most delightful recollections of my childhood. The little girls of the present day practise calisthenics, and perform wonderful feats with ropes and giant strides; I hope they know something of the delight we used to get out of our deftly-arranged forms.
I always thought Miss Dewhurst had better taste. Rather tawdry, I call it." "I think the moustache is a mistake. It gives quite a common look to the whole thing. I wonder who he's meant to be? Pan, do you think?" uncertainly. "Oh, no, nothing so pagan, I hope," said an elderly matron, horrified. "He's that Brown boy, you know. There always seems to be something queer about anything he's in.
Every society has it chief; and I was about to observe that every circle has it centre, which certainly would have been true enough, but the comparison is of no use to me, as our circle had two centres, or, to follow up the first idea, had two chiefs the chief schoolmaster and the chief domestic the chief masculine and the chief feminine the chief with the ferula, and the chief with the brimstone and treacle the master and the matron, each of whom had their appendages the one in the usher, the other in the assistant housemaid.
"They tell me," said that worthy matron to Alice one Sunday, after church, "that you ain't likely to teach school after this summer." "And why not?" answered Alice, conscious that she was likely to hear a choice bit of gossip; "don't I give satisfaction?" "Oh, 'tain't that," was the answer; "I guess you can imagine the reason and I want to be the first to congratulate you.
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