Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-11-22
"HOPE L DON'T INTRUDE."

Mr.. Andrew Frosty CHANGED to reside
in one of a long straight row of houses,
no one of which bore any special mark
on its front by which it could be dis
tinguished from another. Such a row
of buildings it would be very hard
matter to find anywhere else in the
world; or even so alike; all with seven
steps; all with porticoes; one as alike
any other as could possibly be.
Tack on another item. Mr.. Frosty
was as jealous man of his wife as any
person need be. He was terribly jeal-
ous-and that is quite enough for the
happiness or comfort of any family.
Now it is an awful thing for man to
be Jealous of his wife at all; if he have
reason for it, it most certainly is; and if
without cause then it is vastly more So
When either man or wife falls into such
q wretched habit as that, they may as
well draw their cotton caps over their
eyes and say good night to the world.
Living is no sort of an object to them.
But whether Mr.. Frosty had any
reason to ba ajea5bnsrof Aiswife is not
what we are going to settle, And yet
we never thought he could have; for
kinder, gentler, sweeter, more amiable
and devoted wife than she made him,
it would be difficult 10 put your finger
upon anywhere in the street. But Mrs.
Frosty was young and had a good deal
of beauty, too, and was remarkably at
tractivc in her manners. 1t would not
be at all strange if there were reasons
sufficient to excite Mr.. Frosty against
her; though, if there were, he ought 10
have been heartily ashamed of himself
and gone and got y palmer wife to be-
gin with.
Not many doors of, in the same row
of undistinguishable dwellings, lived
Col. Sawyer Now the colonel rather
prided himself on being esteemed q
gentleman. Without assuming to be
what is popularity termed "ladies'
man." he nevertheless was extremely
particular in his carriage toward them,
aiming always to impress them with a
sense of his perfect purity and chiyalry
and truth.
No one in the neighborhood, or in the
underworld either, that | know of, ever
suspected him of being capable of in
sulting any one-least of all 4 lady.
Mothers along the street held him up
before the eyes of their sprouting sons
as an example of the lofty and true.
And fathers spoke of MIN now and then
to their eldest daughters, and hoped
that if they ever thought of marriage
and it is Just possible that some OF
them did-they would be satisfied with
nothing less than q character like his.
This certainly would seem to be praise
enough.
Coming home musingly, and with his
head down, one evening, the colonel
thought no such accident was possible
as that he should mistake his own house,
that way so many times.
Perhaps the very fact that he felt such
a confidence was the greatest reason
why he should make a mistake at all.
But as he was very much occupied with
his reflections, he abandoned himself
entirely to what he knew of the way
home, and thought, of course, he should
reach that pleasant spot all in proper
time.
The consequence was, on this parti-
cular occasion, at least, that he slipped
himself quietly in through Mr.. Frosty's
front door, hung up his hat and coat
in the hall, and started for the dining
room.
As all the houses in the row were so
much alike on the outside, their internal
arrangements were pretty much after the
same fashion likewise, so that the hall
of Mr.. Frosty seemed exactly like his
own hall, and the dining-roona door
opened Just where his own did.
The instant he opened the door, how
ever, he began to awaken TO his error.
The table was spread in the middle of