7. The man's astonishment at reaching thirty was tremendous. He found he
was changing, and that marriage was evidently
THE EXPRESS PREPARATION FOR THIS CONTINGENCY.
He used to go to the theatre a great deal. He did not then notice that
the air in the auditorium was more rotten than the midnight winds that
blow over Chicago from the industrious rendering-houses on her
outskirts. It is now a real hardship to go to an ordinary dramatic
performance, and he thinks theatre-goers are as a class the most
discontented people there are in society. He used to spend his earnings
in various other places which now weary him beyond measure, and are
equally wearisome to those bachelor friends of his who used to keep him
company, and are forced by single life, to still frequent such resorts.
THIS HE FINDS OUT
when his wife goes into the country for a week or two. Those two weeks
are never halcyon days with him. There is a smell about a restaurant
that eloquently pleads the sweetness of home, and there is a lack of
confidence expressed in a pewter spoon and a general disinclination to
believe that anyone is careful molded in with the thickness of the
teacup, which startle him at once into a better conception of his wife's
confidence in him.
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