The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-11-22

opinion. two or three murders. st least
upon his laundering old head
Two or three murders Wha
nonsense are you talking about =
II No nonsense nj al. perhaps ~
ageeraie the number oi Msnzel'
/ crimes but If be las noi human bloc,
upon bis spotted soal. blood long sine,
shrd. bai which will not sink inio 1 b,
earth, snd aill cries TO Heaven fol
vengeance, J arm q beso,ted IDIOT II
fact, Clarke, there Is a skeleton IN on
house. as they say there is 10 mos
others, which ] should be glad 10 Sc,
laid in tie Red Sea. or. more eiIee
tive riddance, swinging from a gibbet
Come, am going 10 open my mind {,
you, be added, with a kind Of acrid
seriousness 1T Is time ! should to som,
one. Let US go into The next room
we can there talk without danger q
being overheard. I'll not be stiled
with this dreadful mystery any longer
whatever be the consequence.
The change Of manner, OF aspect. in
Pendrell surprised me a good deal
lie bad become all at once a serious,
self-respecting man OF business and the
world. ] should have known, without
reasoning upon it, for / had seen hun
dreds Of such instances, that man
may be very tame snake to his wife,
and confoundedly brisily person for
others to NEEDLE with. Such men
love home peace, and will submit al
most 10 anything for queI life; a fact
which their loving spouses are very
quick 10 discover, and to tune their
tongues accordingly.
j shall be unfeseryel with you,
Clarke, q did not much like his
'Clarking' me in such bumptious fash
ion, bat let that quietly pass) shall
be unreserved with you, Clarke, real.
ly believing as ] do that serious. nay,
solemn, evenlualilies are involved. To
begin with, | have an inyelerate dis.
like of Theophilus Manzel, bitter,
gnawing dislike. No man loves. es.
teens his wife in mild, been married.
ien-years sort OF way, more than | do
mine. She IS an excellent partner.
II is likely enough thai bad | not mar.
ritd her | should have gone through
the bankruptcy court twice at least be-
fore now. Maria is also very. indi.
clous mother, and | love our children.
Ot course she has her ways and whims;
but if two ride one horse, both cant
ride in front, and better for the man
TO let bis wife hold the brilIe than 10
be always fighting and scratching for
1t. That, at least, IS my opinion, and
| suppose that Of all sensible men.
Well, Clarke, its just because should
never have married Maria bur for
Manzel that l bate the fellow. AT
least, that was the original cause of my
hatred
i have no skill for the ;nterpreta.
lion OF riddles
There will he no skill required
when you hear how the marriage was
brought about. A man may relish a
delicate, substantial dinner, but would
not particularly like being kic ed
along Cheapside into the London Tay- |
ern 10 pariake OF il"
That would certainly be an objec.
iionable grace before meat.
'DecIdedly so. This then, was how
thlt ceremonial catastrophe was bro't
about You know very well that when
| started for Reading | was "a blight
ed being. Thanks TO a pretty free
use Of brandy and water and cigars, !
revived sooner than could have been
| scrambled through my
apprenticeship pretty well, and re-
turned TO London in high feather Just
one week before my fathers name ap-
peared in the Gazette. My mother
had been dead between two and three
years. Her husband followed before
the iormalilies OF bankruptcy were
and | was left 10 my own
resources. Ample resources truly.
About five pounds in cash, two suits
Df clothes, both the worse for wear.
and noi the slightest love Of work
not, at all events, for its own sake. Ii
was necessary, however, to seek it
1ut 50 | left Chelsea 10 take lodgings
IN business London. CHANGING 10
stroll along John street, Fitzroy square
met my destiny at No. 6, in one of
lie windows of which rather dingy
lonicile paper informed passers BY
bat "A room was TO be let within for
/ single man | knocked The door I
MAS opened by Maria Kent, now and {
Or over ten years past Mrs. Pendrrll.
Terms, three shiliings a week for The
,arlor next the sky, with turn I'D {
in it. ! agreed, aud slept at !
No. 6 that same night. The house {
sas toler bly, well furnished, and let |
'ul IN lodgings by M. Manner aud bis /
Viie, the wife beng Maria Kents =
mother, rather TOOK a fancy TO Ma I
ia, nothing at all serious, but fancy
Ike TO play a game Of cribbage with e
eS of an evening after ] came home z
ired, dispirited. with yainly seeking Il
1r employment. The grim ogress, q
Iadam Msnzel, as she called herself
-owned severely al our little familiar j
les and as ] ieli a perfect horror of $
be stepiather Zone OF the most gauut, ]