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Uhler looked his wife fixedly in the face for some moments after saying this, and then retired from the house without further remark. The change in her husband, which Mrs. Uhler at first tried to make herself believe was mere assumption or caprice, proved, unhappily, a permanent state.
Uhler was a little taken by surprise, when, on being summoned to tea, he took his place at the usually uninviting table, and saw before him a dish of well made toast, and a plate of nicely boiled ham.
From the first of next month, my salary is to be increased to a thousand dollars. Then we will move from this poor place, into a better home." There was a blending of hopefulness and tenderness in the voice of Mr. Uhler, that touched his wife deeply. Overcome by her feelings, she laid her face upon his bosom, and wept.
Uhler returned in a state of mind so different from anything she had experienced for years, that she half wondered within herself if she were really the same woman. Scales had fallen suddenly from her eyes, and she saw every thing around her in new aspects and new relations. "Has my husband really been an exacting tyrant?" This question she propounded to herself almost involuntarily.
Uhler had made any remark, when he found that she was absent at dinner time, she would have regarded as a betrayal to that personage of a sense of accountability on her part. No; she stooped not to any inquiry of this kind compromised not the independence of the individual. The usual tea hour was at hand but, strange to say, the punctual Mr. Uhler did not make his appearance.
Uhler knew that her husband expected of her a degree of personal attention to household matters that she considered degrading to her condition as a wife; and, because he expected this, she, in order to maintain the dignity of her position, gave even less attention to these matters than would otherwise have been the case.
She was also a woman; and her consciousness of this last named fact was never indistinct, nor ever unmingled with a belligerent appreciation of the rights appertaining to her sex and position. As for Mr. Herman Uhler, he was looked upon, abroad, as a mild, reasonable, good sort of a man. At home, however, he was held in a very different estimation.
Uhler states that at present we know but little of the young stages of our species, but the larva and pupa of the Libellulas may be always known from the Æschnas by the shorter, deeper and more robust form, and generally by their thick clothing of hair. For descriptions and figures of other forms the reader may turn to Mr.
Uhler had resisted the better suggestions which, in lucid intervals, if we may so call them, were thrown into her mind. Pride would not let her give to her household duties that personal care which their rightful performance demanded; the more particularly, as, in much of her husband's conduct, she plainly saw rebuke.
Uhler, had not been very prosperous of late; and he had suffered much from a feeling of discouragement. Yet, for all this, his wife's demands for money, were promptly met and she was not inclined to be over careful as to the range of her expenditures. There was a singular expression on the face of Mr. Uhler, as he left his home on that day.
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