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MR. HAMILTON BURGESS was a man of limited means, but having married a beautiful and amiable woman, he resolved to spare no expense in surrounding her with comforts, and in supporting her, as he said, "like a lady." "My dear Ammy," said Mrs.
"This is too much!" he muttered, at length, in the bitterness of his heart. "I could endure poverty, without uttering a complaint for myself; I could endure anything but this!" "Why, Ammy, what is the matter?" cried Mrs. Burgess, in alarm. "Nothing only we are beggars!" answered Hamilton, abruptly. "Have you been unfortunate?" calmly asked his wife, affectionately taking him by the arm.
Burgess, to her indulgent husband, about a year after their marriage "My dear Ammy" this was the name she called him by at home " you are too kind to me, altogether.
"Yes, madam, what company?" "Do not speak so angrily, dear Ammy. Why are you so impatient?" "Because I wish to know what gentleman has been favouring you with such a confidential visit!" Hamilton remembered other occasions when, on his coming home unexpectedly, his wife had shown signs of embarrassment; and, added to this, her present equivocation rendered him violently jealous.
And I see in a letter he writ home: "Be sure, Ury, and weed the jardin, specially the onions," and he ended the letler: "Oh revwar, mon ammy." I knowed that it would make Ury crazy as a hen, and Philury, too, wonderin' what it meant, but couldn't break it up. But speakin' of "jardins," we went to several on 'em, the last one we see the most beautiful seemin'ly of the lot.
She appeared to shrink from him in fear, and became alternately red and pale, as she answered "There has been no gentleman here to see me!" "No one?" "No one, dear Ammy!" Mr. Burgess was on the point of demanding to know who was the owner of the cap which he had seen on his wife's table, and which had now mysteriously disappeared; but emotion checked him, and he paced the floor in silence.
"Yes the most unfortunate of men! I am ruined we are beggars but" "Dear Ammy, you must not let this cast you down. Business failures frequently happen, but they ought never to destroy domestic happiness. Come, how bad off are we? Are we really beggars?" "My creditors will take everything," answered Hamilton, gloomily. "They will not take us from each other," said Lizzie. Mr.
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