Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-02-03
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TRUE-wORTaY GRIP.

1Rb Il W tRId4 GRIP.
A house of fair dimensions, in what is
termed by advertising house agents, a
highly respectable neighborhood, is the
residence of True-v ,rthy Grip, produce
and commission merchant, with double
store down town; warehouses everywhere
that warehouses may prove profitable; di-
rector of two or three banks, of as many
insurance offices, and a man worth hun
dred thousand
The house is no older than the other
houses of the block, but comparatively it
is patriach of bricks and mortar; it is
so wanting in paint and glass, and car
penter's handiwork. Mr.. Grip uses but
two rooms-these for office and what not,
and sleeping chamber Mrs. Widdgery,
the house-keeper, Ga lady of mammoth
dimensions, supposed IN the vicinity 10
have desperate views connected with Mr..
Grip, and in the possession Of a cherub of
ten;) has a peculiar vested right in an
apartment over a remote kitchen. The
rest of the house IS never used, and the
rooms rarely opened, though it is fully
and, indeed, elegantly furnished. Cost
" mirrors, with rich carved on massive
chairs, and sofas, aud divans; dusly paint
ings from Italy and Holland, with lighter
works of the modern English, French and
home schools; sculpture and alabaster
and ormolu; velvet carpetings and gorg-
eous hangings over windows, and copy
canopies of stately bedsteads-all hand
some as the extrayagant desire could
strive Tor when new, now coated thick
with dust, so that nothing but dusty out
line IS seen. These chambers as you
psss them through are like hospital wards
for decayed furniture and upholstery.
There is a tradition connected with all
this. Rumor, among those who have
known Mr. Grip lorgest, says that once,
years ago, he was IL love. The object
was as fair as naughty, and an heiress.-
Il was said that he thought of her gold by
day and night, still that he thought of her
as before all. 1t was the oasis in the
desert of his life, who, it was farther said,
had never loved anything but self. They
were to be married, and this house he
had furnished for her reception: it was
then in the exclusive part of the city where
fashion reigned in its fullest folly and
drove upholsterers and others TO the ex-
tremitv of their inventive faculties to con-
trive new fancies for the bride. But the
dav never came-so the tradition goes
when that bride or any other became the
mistress of the miser.merchant' love fol-
ly. Sprung from q family which had nc
grandfather, she broke off the match, very
properly despising the humble spring OF
Mr.. Grips genealogical tree. The blow
came near killing him, but he sought a
cure in fancy stocks and -four, and three
per cent. a month, and he found it.
! Dark and close and moody before
there was also some story, almost forgot
ten, of dishonorable failure-he became
more dark and moody, until few mel
sought his companionship, except by wa!
of business.
None but the house-keeper and he
heir scarce ever entered that house, am
there was gloom and discomfort and mil
dewed blight over all; alike over tn
house and the master of 1t.
Il is Christmas morning. The storr
. of the night before has passed away, leaE
: ing a bright blue frosty sky and a cris
: snowy earth.
, True-worthy Grip IS sitting in this hous
; al an old worm eaten desk n III is COY