Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-07-20
Trapping a artar.

Jealous wife-She never went to bed
till her husband was safe and sound
in his room, and she invariably search
ed his pockets to see if they contain
Jed anything contraband. She was so
very pretty that she might have been
perfectly easy, for certainly few
could approach our fair heroine in
personal appearance. She had been
married about seven years, and had
done her best to annoy her husband
in every possible shape, so far as the
fair sex was concerned. In every
other respect she was a treasure-she
hated Airts, and boldly denounced
them all, both male and female as
something worse than fools in intel
lect, and something still infinitely
worse in morals.
Having brought her husband a
good fortune. she felt that independ-
ence so unpleasant to husbands when
a woman plants her back against her
marriage certificate and defes her
legal lord and master.
Lascelles, who was reallyivery fond
of his wife, was a lawyer in excellent
practice and repute; his sole sorrow
was that absurd suspicion, which de-
Stroyed his mental peace, and some
times seriously interfered with his
profession. This she had carried to
such an extent that he had really
contemplated advertising that no
young or pretty clients would be at
tended to in consequence Of the sensi-
tiveness of his wife.
Their drives in the Bois de Bologne
were the most amusing things in the
world. When Madame Lascelles saw
a carriage approaching which held
any of the fair sex, she would appear
to close her eyes all but a little cor.
ner, out of which she looked with all
her soul. But time is sufficient tC
describe the numerous methods the
fair Julie LascelleS had Of plaguing
her husband out of his life. Some
times client would call upon him a.
his house, whereupon the suspicious
dame would plant herself at the key
hole, and greedily drink in every
word that passed between them
She cross-questioned his clerks, way
laid his messengers, and in line from
becoming the delight Of his life, shC
was his bete noire. 1t was in vail
that he affected a holy horror o
every woman in the world. She de
clared these assurances to be all by
pocrisy, and given with the sole in
tention of deceiving her.
Their household was composed G
the homliest females that could b
scraped together. A menagerie c
orang-outangs would compare favor
ably with their batch Of domestic SCI
wants. Jokes were made by hi
| friends upon this speciality of his, an
when the International Fair was bein
organized, Char1U0i1 gravely propo
ed that the household of NJ Larcellt
should be sent as specimine of a
hat was hideous in the world {
Beauty.
Mons. Lascelles was sitting in h
office one morning when a note We
handed to him. His garcon said thu
a lady closely yelled had left it. Il
-. was accustomed to receive so mar
), letters from ladies, that he opened
! with great equanimity. Despite b
5, GOODNESS, what man of thirty-fve coul
J. be insensible to such billet as this
s. "My friend, [ am a woman Of gre
sensitiveness and impulse. | ha
} seen you'll love you. Casar's t
,e umph was not more immediate th'
p yours. saw you, and | loved. Y
20 see, mon ansie, that I abbreviate tt
dispatch. | shall die, if do not t.
: you to your face, how inextricably 1
- happiness is bound up with yc
Listen-I am married to a man W
% adors me, but | love you-loye 9
only. You are not human if you a
insensible to my homage. If you a
rt- die. | know where you live.
have seen your wife, although ! ha
not the honor Of her acquaintan
- | will be in a carriage at nine Il
evening, at the corner of Rue
I'll Honore. Approach the driver, a
10 10 whisper thrice, gently. Then S
nd "Vendome" If he replies, "St. Clou
in N open the carriage door and you v
ur- find Marguerite. Do not speak
he he me till we arrive at our destinati
ed, which | will leave you to select.
ur- "Adieu, mon annie | only write
by BY truth, when add, | love you tr
: and tenderly."