The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-05-30

bic one OF Common Sense. liy,
wbal is called by ibe intellectual peo
lie a Conventional life / have my
pes IN tie neiahbriug church, ant
sit ID iliwiee every Sunday know
one captain ID The army-jast such i
person as BE- should be- polished, ami
yet ferocioas, gentle to ladies, bal
rather insoleui "a civilian males
boastiul o. his clubs. and giving all
his leisure time, which is eousidtra-
ble, 20 the cultivation o. lis m0ustach.
esi but oihersise / am ignorant
OF the fashionable world and an its gay
doings. have made no enieayor IA
break through the pilded pale that
separates It from tie steady going
middle clssh % which ] belong. do
not understand the feeling that
prompts my superiors 10 be ashamed
10 be seen in an omnibus Once ey.
Try day ! return from the city 10 a
yellow one and IL il is wet, | use
the same conveyance in the morning
10 reach my Office. | pay my trades
men weekly My best sherry is iS..
a dozen; and when the captain talks
OF vintage Wines Gas be will do by the
hour at my table,, often wonder
what he thinks he is drinking. How
ever, with true good breeding, be i'm
bibes il in great quantities as though
il were The best. | do not keep a
servant. Our cook cannot COM
pass an omsieHe couBlee. Ny wife
trims her own bonnels. We have
eight children, who all know the
Church calcchism by heart, except
the baby and the last but one. In
short, a more respectable ard unfash-
ionabe family than our own does not
exist in all Bayswater.
Under these circumstances, it may
easily imagined that we are as free
from the vices Of the great as We are
without their privileges and this
was, ! honestly believe, the case until
within very recent period. When
| nsed 10 read in the papers that the
Lady Lncreia Day Collay Got Nor
man ancestry aud bluest bIood) had
let her husbands root, aud fled with
Major Fluterby o, the Lie Guards /;
Of that il was runored among well
informed circles that tie gentlemen Of
lie long robe would soon fud employ
menl III tie domestic affairs Of lis
Grace thc Duke Of Belgrayia, | used
to give lie prolonged whistle, and re-
mark Here they are again, ia
general reference tc the habits Of the
tast ton. kuew lhat our hereditary
'risiorrtcy We're gwen TO these esca-
I,ades, which IL my own rank Of life
would certainly be crimes, and | pe-
rU>ed such details as the press could
.urnish with an avldity uualloyed, |
an afraid, with much reprobation.--
| see ed TO be reading OF class of
person, whyse way Of life was too far
j, moved from my own TO affect me,
except as a spectator; just as when |
wenl 10 the play found myself in an
atmosphere OF intrigue, and misunder-
Standing, and jealousy, altogether un-
real, aud with which | had not the
ghost Of an experience in common.
Jealousy ! Why, | had been mar
ried sixteen years without entertain
ing that passion, so that it was not
very likely, however well acted, that
that passion should entertain me-
Misunderstanding The thing was
for whenever there prom
sed to be "a row in the pantry
and every married man will under
stand ne when | make use of that
expression--I brought
1 to a head, and had il out, and off we
started again Speaking for self and
Mrs. r. on the smooth current Of
our lives, with the little iracas buried
forever in Its depths. As for the
mother Of eight falling in love with
another man--it is all very well in a
'tage play, and particularly with all
Difference TO Miss Anna Dickinson
where the husband is lack man,
and, as ! have said, beitting enough
among persons Of quality bul upon
he Noting Hill side OF Bayswater
my such mischance would, | felt, be
ut Of place, and ridiculous Ia social
as well as a grave do
nestle crime. Imagine, therefore,
ny astorisbmeni wheE my opposite
leighbor. Peabody, who also calls
himself my friend, did me the honor
o call upon me few weeks ago, 10
peak, in confidence, of the alarming
onduct OF my wife. Having de /
handed and obtained a private inter /
lew, this scandalous old person, who /
gas once an indigo merchant, aud yet /
etains the trace Of his calling upon
is nose, set before me ID detail num-
er of curious circumstances connect.
d with the goings on, as he was
leased TO call them Of my wife, which
g was not, indeed, prepared to say
might not possibly be only CO.
after all, bot which be
ii il bis daiy, as a fellow creature.
nd one who had been a husband III
Is time-bere bis lips made = dumb
lotion Of graiiiude--to let me know.
Ven as neighbor, and an inhabiiant
a common Crescent, hitherto re-
iarkablc for is respectabiIiiy, aud
hieh, as | doubtless remembered,
ad declined 10 permit Mrs. Jones to
VI up apartments in her vindow,
80 We should b coufouaded with the