The Wreck of the South Pole and Other Strange Tales — page 186: what you’re looking at

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THAT DECEPTIVE TELEGRAM. The Rev. Alfred Brown, rector of St. Mark’s, Quincy, was a most exemplary man and husband. He did his duties as a priest, and loved his wife. ‘This did not hinder Mrs. Brown from being insanely jealous. She was one of those uncomfortable women who are always trying to find trouble for themselves and others. As an article of the Athanasian creed she added what was not generally recited—a belief in the absolute depravity of mankind in general and of husbands in particular. The fact that Mrs. Brown never caught her husband sinning was only the more of an incentive for watching him closely. Be- cause he was always good and open and loving, she put him down as artful, and, behind that, she had a shrewd tricky man to deal with. And this, not so much because she was spiteful or unhappy, but because she was jealous of him and of his reputation. One reason for this jealousy may have been that she was eleven years older than her husband and of a plain complexion. She would never allow any one else to doubt or speak ill of him, and she herself would not do the latter to his Cconniclooolk (C@)