The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-06-14

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| sixteen years without entertaining tha
/ passion, 60 that it was not very likely
however well acted, that that passion
should entertain me. misunderstanding
The thing was impossible, for wheneve
there promised to be "row in the pan
try and every married man will under
stand me when make use of that meta
phorical expression--I brought it to ;
head, and had it out, and off we started
again speaking for self AMI Mrs. r. Oh
the smooth current of our lives, with the
little fracas buried forever in its depths
As for the mother Of eight falling in love
with another man--it is all very well il
a stage play, and particularly with al
Difference to Miss Anna Dickinson where
the husband is a black man, and, as
have said, befitting enough among person,
OF quality; but upon the Noting Hill
side of Bayswater anv such mischancC
would, | felt, be out of place, and ride
ulous-a social presumption as well as q
grave domestic crime. Imagine, therefore,
my astonishment when my opposite neigh
Dor, Peabody, who also calls himself my
friend. did me the honor TO call upon me
few weeks ago, to speak, in confidence,
OF the alarming conduct of my WIFE
Having demanded and obtained nrivate
interview, this scandalous old person.
who was once an INDIGO merchant. and
vet retains the trace Of his cnlling unon
Ills nose. set before me in detail nimbe,
of curious circumstances connccto1 with
the .1qoinrs on" rs he was nleasod tr
call them of nv wife. which he was NOT
indeed prcpared to saw "mirht not NOS.
siblv be only condolences. after all" but
which he felt it his dutv rs a fellow
creature. and one who had been a Inns.
band in his timc-bere his Inns mado q
dumb motion of rratitude-.to let me know
Even as a neighbor. and an inhabitant Of
a common Crescent h;,bortn rorna,l,.,I,
ior ITS respectabilliy, and which, as
douhtiess remembered. had declined tc
permit Mrs Jones to put up apartments
IN her window, lest we should be con
iounueu with the lodging-houSe locali-
tleSi nay winch, by the mere force ot
It's op'hon, mad prevented No. 4S5 from
oLn'z,o,', oL, ,ea 10 u ,'"y-'Glor7-o'eh IN tins
al, - Ii, % ["n. ,"'ouy' .a '., nc "o''p nave
v,hot mao ha;n, ~ so;i I'"1I ,I, u'g aware ', u
c,IsoI,. n,s.oa,?; - tnI-" ''ocD,,'S,
r Uoro .ho,'71 ,'o h,o "L''IsG" ,n'., M VI , ,i's
a,1 ;,c.-.,,"r 'o''i' '''''V 'ooNeo ,"e u"or'
yos cort Ill, onn;~aJ anI ,'t' .I. n'S ','' noui
"'' W. ''',''F "'ii'e.', ana t'la' ne mac
cnt his ,hront t'.0I h"t '" t ,o'ile,'oo pelorI
the nroncr conduct ~ ho aaon,n5 J' ;,,',o -; =. "
o,.aar'.;l, p?rU oo'uuo' : 70 oo "uop'eu IN sncI
from tLo kn",vj"dgs tLot anu ,Lana Pern"p, zap,
,o,h;aa. T "I w.. nav" 80 ''"' 'nere was
y;,h wl,;nh 70 p,pu pa!'ot HI't'o ,"; !" 'ne roo"
isbment onl, hnr.t ,' n,'. I5'l: s,''J ;us pun,
cnIIod him - % m!.d'I,;a Tm;a' on. & T'us"'I,s: "hC
oil G,ol " ''N'5 anu ''"Pe'''''''''
~ cry true" returned he, for he al.
ways makes use OF that form Of words
'very true but still the facts are woril
investlgatng' even from their singularity
DO you know for instance, that at II
O'CLOCK three days Ill the week, your wife
goes out III cab by herself"
'No," said |. 81 do not; though il
she does. il is surely bcttor tb,, s. che
had an ineligible companions; As a mat
ter of fact, however, she docs not do so,
for have offered to 90 shopping with her
twice this week, and she has declined ia
accompany me on the ground of having a
sore throat"
"Upon what days did she give this ex-
cuse 7" inquired Peabody, taking out his
pocket-bcok.
Last Monday and last Thursday re-
turned |.
"Well here's a memorandum :-.Non-
doy, 4H. Suc Mrs. Il. start, as usual, at
IL; ThWMay, 7h. ditto, ditto. She
could not be going to morning concert,
oeo"ps' sue ''hu no white gloves on.
wlN grant 'hat much' quoth sar-
Do'''o',''y' anu ye' NOT oy any means un-
inVrou ,y t"S s'art'lhS intelligence.
my WIG uoeS not so TO morning con-
''''Si "
,.,r, cry 'rue' answered Peabody.-
H. neh 'nc question arlses' where does
,,,e.p ane ~ - NO" aS an ihilaoitant OF the
o'escen'-
"feabody'' interrupted ], severely,
81 acknowledge the right of no man-no
not even the man in the moon himself
to NEEDLE in my affairs on that ground.