Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-02-20
LANCASTER WISCONSIN. THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10 1879

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{ | Was 100 mach OF novice in hu
man experience to DO equable 10 m
treatment of human confidence, an
! remember to have suffered many
keen alterations Of feeling abou
Calignla; but from this time thinl
, he advanced upon my interest witt
sad and steady inroads. / did no
call in the fellows to see him now
, | could not, somehow. Caligula die
not converse much with the rest; or
ifhe did, il was on q superficial plano
carefully confined to the area o.
backing, brooms, and coal, Of soar
Of towels, of the weather or ths
wages. There was senior opposite
1.-The ablest man 10 the seminary
and reported to be Of singulariy
spiritual nature, interested 10 the
higher lifs., But CaIigula had never
mentioned Mari to this good man
Az thought more about il, | be.
came At FIRST awed, then humbled
by The confidence Of the sweep.
/! / remember saying, ono day
i 'CaIigula, I'm young fellow, and
cant understand your troubles.
know. But I'd like to. have YOU
know I'm downright sorry FOR them
and for you! hope Mari is ashsmed
of herself before now
/ Caligula lifted his melar choIy eyes
to answer me; but spoke with din
GUILTY, bringing out bis patient Tank
you, sar, without his usual distinct.
ness.
| I'D take it kindly, Mist HUB be
added. 'beih' you've been 80 good,
sar. if you'd speak regardfully Of my
wife. Don't s'pose she done under
stood how lonesome it would make
it, gettin' de divose for dc chillen
too. She was sech q handsome
woman, sighing, and 90 high sperit-
ed. i don't sweep up no grudgin'
feelin's against my wife,
| It was the second term of middle
i year. The examinations on Federal
Headship in Adam were past. The
snow had melted from the Universi-
sity Green /; the ice was breaking on
the Yarmouth River great freshets
were gathering their forces. Our
seminary windows stood open. Cal.
tigula's cod fires burned low. The
Professor had got along az far as
Justification by Faith, Sparrows
twittored IN the bare seminary elms.
Spring was coming.
| So, it seemed, was Caiigula, with
. definite haste 10 his shutting step.
heard it far down the stairs that
day, and listened idly over the notes
on Eternal Punishment and the Nat
ursl Man.
The year had come and gone,
leaving Caligula as it found him-a
patient, melancholy man, with slav-
ish Unborn manners and grand 40.
qnired Christian eyes. Caliqula hsd
ceased to talk of his domestic Attic
tions. He honored me by silent
assumption of my sympathy.
This day have in mind, he pre-.
sented Q remarkable, though per-
fectly indefinable appearance. We
call it TRANSPORTATION in white PEG.
pie. He came directly to my side,
and said:
.Mist' Hub. sar, l done got letter
from her. got letter from my
wife,:
she is not your wifel' 1 exclaimed
thoughtlessly. l was angry for CAL
igula. / do not know but was
angry with him. l should have rel.
ished q touch Of masculine temper in
this long-suffering and long-loving
creature. Caligula waved away my
words with gesture of mnch dig.
nifty.
She writes to say, sar-'
What business has she TO write to
You at alp
IT il ihrreply,' said Caligula, with
good deal OF manner. i wrote de
fust letter: Disis in reply
obi you've been writing to her,
have your
It is as unsafe, we find, for q 50.
perior nature to assume that it has
absorbed the confidence Of the infe-
rior as it would be to establish an
elective affinity between the .wslrus
and the carpenter with whose at
temptsto walk hand in hand CO.
temporary humorist has MAIDS us all
familiar).
What else bad Calignla done, pray,
which be had not condescended to
communicate to me?
Il wrote to her, pursued Caligula,
with increasing independence, in .
tone which. however. lost none of its
gentle and appealing character. Il
wrote that l bad bout made my
mine, sar. to 60 to housekeepin'
again. I'd live alone too long. l
should marry somebody, sar, as de
law allow, an 60 to keepin' house
dis yere season. So | told her I'd
give her de fust chance
Hem! You did, did your
Yes. sar. didn't cringe to her,
ssr. She's high-spirited herself l
jest told her. in high-spirited way,
how it was She could do jest as
she done pleased. But told her I'd
give her de fust chance
Ard what-under these unusual
rcumstances-di the lady sayT
She say she'd come. and be tanK-
fol, sar. But must send hunderd
and fifty dollars to get her and de
chillen on from Nashville
1T is . large sum. Caligula.'
"A large sum, sar, repeated Cali.
gula, cheerfully. But she says she's
done glad to get home again and be-
have like q lady, sar. She says she's
had very dull time in Nashville,
sar.'
/ expect she would added Cali.
guls, modestly.
Justification by faith was strug.
Cling with the natural man in this
model husband at that moment.
Anybody but st. CaIigula would
have said: i told her so!
And how asked, submissively.